Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 9 • Introduction: Close to Critical • essay by David Langford
• 11 • In the Beginning • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 14 • Covenant Revisited • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 17 • The SF Awards • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 20 • Hugos and Horrors • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 23 • Zapping Uri Geller • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 26 • Wolfe at the Door • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 29 • Downbelow Expectations • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 32 • From Gentle to Gorey • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 35 • After the Battle • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 38 • Spock in Manacles! • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1983) • essay by David Langford
• 41 • Seasonal Spirit • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 44 • The Golden Years Return • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 47 • Awful Secrets • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 50 • Machines and Magic • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 53 • Bonfire of Dragons • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 56 • Brain Death • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 60 • Solitaire Games • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 63 • From the Sickbed • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 66 • The Hard Line • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 69 • Into the Jungle • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 73 • SF Stars! • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 76 • Luxury Goods • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1984) • essay by David Langford
• 79 • After 1984 • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 82 • Sequels Anonymous • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 85 • The Dead Time • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 88 • No More Niceness? • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 91 • Spring Fever • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 94 • The Fantasy Explosion • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 97 • Aldiss at Sunset • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 100 • Bicuspid of Doom • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 103 • Into the Abyss • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 106 • Son of Reprints • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 109 • Blockbusted! • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 112 • Bah! Humbug! • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1985) • essay by David Langford
• 115 • The Great Hardback Famine • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 118 • Newts That Never Were • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 121 • Publisher's Lore • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 124 • O America • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 127 • Starting Points • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 130 • A Dollop of Evil • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 133 • Reviewquest! • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 136 • To Be Continued • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 139 • The Door Deliquesced • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 142 • The Book Mountain • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 145 • Zero Summer • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 148 • Fifth Foundation • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1986) • essay by David Langford
• 151 • Good Stuff • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 154 • Demand the Impossible • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 157 • Bad Dreams • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 160 • Jubilee Month • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 163 • A Critical Alphabet • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 167 • Show & Tell • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 170 • Out of the Closet • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 173 • Holiday Reading • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 176 • Nasty Futures • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 179 • Sucking Them In • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 182 • Dreamlands • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 185 • Overload • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 188 • Something Different • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1987) • essay by David Langford
• 191 • Forbidden Fruit • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 194 • Ghost Stories • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 197 • Back to Work • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 200 • 100,000 Millidwarves • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 206 • Twice-Told Tales • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 209 • Another Mixed Bag • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 212 • On the Beach • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 215 • Enthusiams • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 218 • The Entropy Circuit • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 221 • From A to Zombie • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 224 • Now Read On • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 227 • Conventional Aberrations • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1988) • essay by David Langford
• 230 • The Omnipresent Pratchett • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 233 • Gut Loathing • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 236 • Loaded Dialogues • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 239 • Megalomania! • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 242 • Clarke Award Guilt • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 245 • Secrets of Publicity • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 248 • More and More Clarke • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 251 • Bladder of Doom • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 254 • Diabolus Ex Machina • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 257 • The Critics' Mafia • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 260 • The Greasy Stockpot • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 263 • Page-Turners vs Slow Reads • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1989) • essay by David Langford
• 266 • Various Magics • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1990) • essay by David Langford
• 269 • While I'm Away • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1990) • essay by David Langford
• 272 • Cults & Oddments • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1990) • essay by David Langford
• 275 • Me, Whitley & My UFO • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1990) • essay by David Langford
• 279 • Jug Jug Jug Jug Jug Jug • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1990) • essay by David Langford
• 282 • Words Words Fail Fail Me Me • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1990) • essay by David Langford
• 285 • Seven Languages at Once • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1990) • essay by David Langford
• 288 • Successful Sequels? • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1990) • essay by David Langford
• 291 • Horror and Ultimate Evil • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 294 • Memory Aids • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 297 • Fix-ups • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 300 • Dream Parks • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 303 • Overdose? • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 306 • In Search of Anthony's Brain • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 309 • The Foot Is a Gland • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 312 • Endless Bloody Universes • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 315 • Great British Hopes • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 318 • Party Time • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1991) • essay by David Langford
• 321 • The Unpublished Column • [Critical Mass/Critical Hits] • (1992) • essay by David Langford
• 324 • Afterword (The Complete Critical Assembly) • essay by David Langford