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View ArticleVeniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer
Set within some far distant dystopian future in which human habitation has been confined to isolated and walled city-states, and the natural environment utterly destroyed, life begins in artificial...
View ArticleBlack Brillion by Matthew Hughes
The story opens with probationary policeman Baro Harkless hot on the trail of the notorious con-man Luff Imbry. Harkless gets his man, and a promotion too, but with a surprising twist: Harkless finds...
View ArticleDominion by J.Y.T. Kennedy
Gilna is an apprentice "perfumer" -- an expert in the mixing of medicines, incense and scented oils. After studying in the plains city of Nenaril Jad, she returns to her home village of Rehinau in the...
View ArticleA Conversation With Jonathan Fesmire
"When I wrote Amber In The Over World, I was thinking of all the YA fantasy I've enjoyed. L. Frank Baum's Oz books, the Harry Potter series, and The Chronicles of Prydain are among my favorites. I...
View ArticleAmber in the Over World by Jonathan Fesmire
Amber, if we were to see her, would appear to be a perfectly normal human young woman. Don't be fooled! In her home world, she is not just a dragon, but a princess. An impetuous princess who tries to...
View ArticleInterzone #200
The 200th issue marks a number of important milestones, not the least of which is that it has reached this many issues -- and seems positioned to exceed it -- when not too long ago it seemed teetering...
View ArticleHidden Camera by Zoran Zivkovic
It's the story of an undertaker who comes home to find a mysterious envelope stuck in his apartment door, drawing him into a sequence of increasingly bizarre adventures, which he believes for some...
View ArticleClose To My Heart: New Worlds: An Anthology edited by Michael Moorcock
"I'm still not entirely sure what this book was doing in my school library. That was the original 1983 edition, of course, already ten years old by the time I came to read it. Presumably it was part...
View ArticleHow I Became One Of Dr. Lambshead's Medical Assistants For Three Years by...
"Mentioned in whispers for decades; burned in Manchuria; worshipped in Peru; the only book to be listed on the Vatican's Index Librorum Prohibitorum twice, for emphasis; available again at last, in...
View ArticlePerfect Nightmare by John Saul
John Saul is an author listeners can count on for a chill, but the creep factor here hits a new high. He has tapped into the current out-of-control increase in abductions and ratcheted up the tension...
View ArticleThe Light-Years Beneath My Feet by Alan Dean Foster
Though comfortable and well cared for on a world named Sessrimanthe, Mark Walker and his companions -- a talking dog named George, the squid-like Sque, and gigantic Braouk -- just want to get back to...
View ArticleAll Action Boy: an interview with James Barclay
"Age is critical in mercenary fighting because it doesn't take you very long before you start losing your edge. Even in the first volume, Dawnthief, The Raven had been going for ten years. They were...
View ArticlePay the Piper by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
Jane Yolen is a writing phenomenon of our time, deservedly called the Hans Christian Andersen of our age, a superb storyteller who has a staggering number of books to her credit and a house which must...
View ArticleBabylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood
Rick offers his thoughts on how good ("Thirst") and how bad ("Aqua") episodes of Smallville have been. But it is the only new SF that Rick recommends.
View ArticlePath of the Just edited by James Lowder
This is a small anthology of superhero fiction, short stories, based around the many heroes and villains associated with Empire City. An offshoot of the Silver Age Sentinels RPG, it falls somewhere...
View ArticleThe Dark Ascent by Walter H. Hunt
This unique military SF series has earned enthusiastic praise for its focus on the philosophical as well as the tactical and strategic sides of conflict. That shift in focus adds an intriguing depth,...
View ArticleNew Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh
The latest batch of new arrivals here at the SF Site includes new works from Ken MacLeod, Allen Steele, James Patrick Kelly, Dan Abnett, Terry McGarry, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Zoran Zivkovic, and many more.
View ArticleWho Said Size Matters?!: an interview with Tad Williams
"Books like mine are different from standard novels, but not because of size so much as because they are several consecutive volumes that comprise one story. That means that I'm forced to commit to...
View ArticleKnife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
Those who have been patient, addicted, or simply too far invested to give up will be pleased to hear that most of the ancillary storylines that have bogged down the last few outings -- Perrin's...
View ArticleA Conversation With John Saul
"That's the great thing about teenagers as characters: people tend not to take them as seriously as they ought to, so it's possible for a situation which would be easily controlled if discovered early...
View ArticleThe Onts by Dan Greenburg
Wally and Cheyenne Shufflemuffin are fraternal twins living at the Jolly Days Orphanage, a place that makes the Municipal Orphanage of Annie seem like a day spa. Wally's feet stink and Cheyenne is...
View ArticleAcross the Wall by Garth Nix
The genre of young adult fantasy literature seems alive and well these days, thanks in part to everyone's favorite pre-pubescent boy wizard. Indeed, his adventures have not only drawn in millions of...
View ArticleFantasy Theme Park: an interview with Robert Holdstock
"I believe that hundreds, if not thousands, of individual tales of survival, encounter, heroism and betrayal lie behind the legends as we have them. But time, death, and wastage of all kinds would...
View ArticleNew Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh
This month the new arrivals at the SF Site make a fairly small stack, but there are some much-anticipated goodies, including the latest from George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Carroll, Walter Jon Williams,...
View ArticleSwarmthief's Dance by Deborah J. Miller
Long ago, in punishment for the crime of offering immortality to a human, Aria, one of the six spirits known as the Nulefi, was banished to the underworld -- the realm of the god Rann, whose...
View ArticleOlympos by Dan Simmons
The opening finds the opposing armies of the Trojan war, united. Their common foe, none other than the mighty Zeus and the other angry gods familiar to students of Greek mythology. The plot covers...
View ArticleHeroic Intentions: an interview with David Gemmell
"When I was young, I was arrested several times and once sent for reports. The psychologist said I was a psychopath. I found this mildly alarming. He pointed out that it didn't have to be a bad thing....
View ArticleTesseracts 9 edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman
This is the first in the Tesseracts anthology series that Donna has read in its entirety. The previous ones she looked at felt overburdened with ponderous, somber work that seemed to have been picked...
View Article20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
According to Mario, this is, without any doubt, one of the finest short story collections he has ever read, so much so as it comes from the pen of a newcomer, whose short fiction has appeared so far...
View ArticleHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Based on the strongest book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire suffers yet another patchwork adaptation by screenwriter Steve Kloves. But Mike Newell manages to get out of it something...
View ArticleBabylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood
Now that Aaron Sorkin has been kicked out of television for being too liberal (and too stoned) the best dramatic television writers all work, or have worked, in the science fiction or fantasy genres:...
View ArticleFifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
It's the near future, and chaos is in the air and water; chaos in the form of tipping points, changes in the giant system that determines the Earth's weather that could lead to sudden, severe climate...
View ArticleSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
The author deserves a lot of credit for writing a book like this one, because he could have written an easier book, a tamer book, a book that wasn't so goofy or passionate or so every which way, so...
View ArticleWizardry & Wild Romance by Michael Moorcock
Nobody has ever accused Michael Moorcock of being afraid to express himself. As one of the driving forces behind the New Wave, a renowned editor and prolific novelist and commentator, he has built a...
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