Description

This retrospective collection of in-depth reviews and essays looks at sf between 2005 and 2014. It includes discussions of work by authors as varied as Stephen Baxter, Liu Cixin, Bernadine Evaristo, and Kelly Link, painting a portrait of an increasingly international and diverse community of writers grappling with technological, political, social and ecological issues that in most cases remain only too relevant today.

Niall Harrison is a former editor of Strange Horizons and Vector: The Critical Journal of the BSFA. His work has appeared in those venues as well as The New York Review of Science Fiction, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, and others. He was a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2006 and 2007.

Published in association with Beccon Publications (beccon.org).

Praise for All These Worlds:

“Frankly, we need all the reviewers like Niall Harrison that we can get.” – Paul Kincaid, Interzone

“A rich retrospective of Harrison’s criticism … each review an opportunity to engage, to start a conversation” – Ian Mond, Locus

“Thought-provoking and erudite” – Steven French, BSFA Review

“The best non-fiction SFF book of the year … a brilliant critical intelligence, attentive both to the particularities of the books he discusses and to larger questions of the evolving nature of the genre across the twenty-first century” – Adam Roberts

“It was reading Niall Harrison’s reviews and commentary that made me start to become passionate about science fiction criticism. How wonderful then, to have such a generous selection of his best work to date available in a single volume” – Nina Allan

“All These Worlds is a big book but seems short. It is so good to see things so clearly, through these eyes, at this time” – John Clute