A brief note on how I’ve set up my reviews archive:

The tags represent where a review ran the first time around, whether online, or in print. For defunct magazines such as Absolute Magnitude and Science Fiction Chronicle, there’s clearly nothing preventing me from reprinting these reviews as I see fit. For Realms of Fantasy, my policy is to withhold new reviews until the subsequent issue has come out. Once an issue is off the newsstands, I upload the reviews to here. For The Green Man Review and SF Site, reviews will remain on those sites indefinitely, and I will upload them here sometime after they’ve gone live. They’re reprinted here with credit and permission.

The categories, obviously, represent where a particular item falls into the grand scheme of things. This is pretty obvious, but a few things bear a little further explanation. Historical means that the book is set in the past of a world either meant to be ours, or pretty darned close. I’ve applied the Fairy Tales/Folklore/Mythology label to anything which I feel takes inspiration or influence from those themes, and as such, this is both a specific and nebulous category, applied at my whim and discretion. The Zombies, Shapeshifters, Vampires and Superheroes are in place simply because it amuses me to do so. Lastly, I’ve also marked some books as being of greater than usual interest because of LGBTQ themes – featuring a gay or lesbian character, for instance, or dealing with gender issues, or addressing matters of alternate sexuality. In all cases, this is a work in progress, to be fine-tuned and adjusted until I’m satisfied … whenever that might be. More categories may appear, some may vanish. I welcome feedback, suggestions, and comments, especially if you feel a certain book deserves (or doesn’t!) a specific, existing, category that I’ve overlooked.

Enjoy.