Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction
Paul Kincaid
Briardene Books, 2025
Buy:
PART ONE: HISTORIES
A Personal History [My keynote address to a conference to mark the 50th anniversary of Billion Year Spree by Brian Aldiss; subsequently republished in Foundation 149]
The History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts [reviewed for Foundation 98]
The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction by Mark Bould & Sherryl Vint [reviewed for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 23/2]
The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, edited by Gerry Canavan and Eric Carl Link [reviewed for Extrapolation 61/1]
The Big Book of Science Fiction, edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer [reviewed for The Los Angeles Review of Books]
Political Future Fiction, edited by Kate Macdonald [reviewed for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 26/1]
Modernism and Science Fiction by Paul March-Russell [reviewed for Foundation 125]
The New Elizabethans [first published on this blog]
The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu [reviewed for Fruitless Recursion]
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee [reviewed for Science Fiction Studies 46/3]
Mike Ashley’s History of the SF Magazines [Gateways to Forever, reviewed for Fruitless Recursion; Science Fiction Rebels, reviewed for Science Fiction Studies 45/3; The Rise of the Cyberzines, reviewed for Science Fiction Studies 50/1]
PART TWO: TOPICS
Science Fiction Criticism edited by Rob Latham [reviewed for Foundation 129]
Clute Intrudes [appreciation I wrote for Loncon 3 Programme Book; Pardon This Intrusion, reviewed for Vector 268; The Darkening Garden, reviewed for Vector 252]
Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years by Peter Nicholls [reviewed for Foundation 148]
The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. [reviewed for SF Site]
Parabolas of Science Fiction, edited by Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger [reviewed for Strange Horizons]
Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology by Darko Suvin [reviewed for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 22/2]
The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination by Frank McConnell, edited by Gary Westfahl [reviewed for SF Site]
Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction, edited by Mark Bould and China Miéville [reviewed for SF Site]
Utopias [The Anatomy of Utopia by Karoly Pinter, reviewed for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 22/3; Suffering in Paradise by Rebecca Totaro, reviewed for Utopian Studies 17/2; Can’t Get Here From There, published at Nerds of a Feather; Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel by Caroline Edwards, reviewed for Science Fiction Studies 47/2]
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction by John Rieder [reviewed for Foundation 108]
The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel by Nicholas Ruddick [reviewed for Foundation 105]
Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction by Samuel R. Delany [reviewed for SF Site]
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, edited by Jeff Prucher [reviewed for SF Site]
Rhetorics of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn [reviewed for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 20/2]
What Does Not Exist [The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction edited by Rob Latham, reviewed for Los Angeles Review of Books]
PART THREE: AUTHORS
Margaret Atwood [In Other Worlds, reviewed for Sunday Telegraph]
Peter Ackroyd [essay for Supernatural Fiction Writers]
John Brunner [John Brunner by Jad Smith, reviewed for Extrapolation 55/1]
Thomas M. Disch [The American Shore by Samuel R. Delany, reviewed for Extrapolation 58/1]
Alasdair Gray [Alasdair Gray by Gavin Miller, reviewed for Science Fiction Studies 104]
M. John Harrison [‘There Have Been Many Viriconiums’, published in M. John Harrison: Critical Essays edited by Rhys Williams & Mark Bould; Jetsam on the Terminal Beach, review of Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy for Los Angeles Review of Books; Nowt’s Worth Owt, review of Wish I Was Here published in this blog]
Ursula K. Le Guin [review of 80! Memories and Reflections edited by Karen Joy Fowler & Debbie Notkin for Strange Horizons]
Joanna Russ [review of On Joanna Russ edited by Farah Mendlesohn for SF Site]
Bob Shaw & James White [review of Space for Peace by Richard Howard for Foundation 144]
Cordwainer Smith [review of The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith by Karen Hellekson for New York Review of Science Fiction]
H.G. Wells [review of The Annotated H.G. Wells by Leon Stover for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 24/1; review of Maps of Utopia by Simon J. James for Foundation 117; review of Inventing Tomorrow by Sarah Cole & H.G. Wells: A Literary Life by Adam Roberts for Foundation 138]
