Here, in a vaguely organised format, are many of the critical pieces I've written since 1992. The Reviews are formal reviews, almost exclusively of science fiction novels, for a variety of publications: the Recommendations are more subjective pieces, mainly written for the APA Acnestis, about books that I've especially enjoyed.

Recent additions are marked *

NB: As of January 2002 I've removed the amazon uk links for individual books. You are probably quite capable of finding the books yourself, online or in a real shop: maintaining the links isn't really a cost-effective exercise.

Go straight to Critical Essays or Interviews. 

All documents linked from this page are © Tanya Brown, 1992 - 2004, and may not be quoted from or used except by express written permission. If you link to anything on this page, I'd be grateful if you let me know. Thanks!

The reviews (except where otherwise noted) have appeared in Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) , since 1992. In retrospect, some seem uncomfortably naive, and there are a couple which remind me that my tastes have changed over the years ... for example, I'm now a devoted admirer of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga, but ... ahem.

I'd also like to press a few recommended novels - not all science fiction - into your eager hands. (I do this in what we laughingly term 'real life', too). The Recommendations are less formal pieces, written in response to books which I've especially enjoyed: these appeared in the APA Acnestis. Some of them may contain minor spoilers.

Update: I'm not writing many formal reviews any more, but I am producing capsule reviews on my LiveJournal.

Essays

The Music of 2001

        published in Vector #215 (January / February 2001) - the critical journal of the BSFA

Classical Music & Science Fiction

published in Vector #204 (March/April 1999) - the critical journal of the BSFA

'Enter these enchanted Woods...':

- a critical comparison of Diana Wynne Jones' Hexwood and Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood: published in Meredith McArdle's Charmed Lives, #2)

This Immortal: An Obituary for Roger Zelazny 1937 - 1995

published in Vector #184 (Summer 1995) - the critical journal of the BSFA

Interviews

Pat Cadigan - interviewed for The Hardcore, 1993

Neal Stephenson - interviewed for Vector, 1995

I also interviewed Stephen Baxter at Seccon, a small British convention, in May 1999: here's a transcript

Tricia Sullivan - interviewed at the British Science Fiction Association meeting, April 2000

Martin Millar - interviewed at the British Science Fiction Association meeting, October 2000

Philip Pullman - transcript of an interview that took place at Lexicon, Oxford, in August 2000. An edited version appeared in Locus, issue 479, December 2000. 

Cherith Baldry - interviewed at the British Science Fiction Association meeting, January 2001.

Geoff Ryman - interviewed at the British Science Fiction Association meeting, March 2001. 

Gwyneth Jones - interviewed at the British Science Fiction Association meeting, September 2001

Justina Robson - interviewed at the British Science Fiction Association meeting, October 2001

Liz Williams - interviewed at the British Science Fiction Association meeting, November 2001

Chris Amies - interviewed at the British Science Fiction Association meeting, January 2002

Why not come along and see real live authors at the BSFA?! 

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