SF SiteThe new issue of the SF Site is now online.The Oblivion Society by Marcus Alexander Hart- July 1, 2008 The Cold War suddenly becomes very hot, due to a series of unfortunate events. One such being the liaison of a Slick Willie style President, taking orders from below his waist. This time, when the nuclear buttons are pushed, there's no teenage geek hero to save the world. In the space of a few minutes, it's whoops apocalypse and goodbye to all that we knew.http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ob275.htm Babylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood- July 1, 2008 Rick has been watching The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, now out on DVD. The quality of this series is uneven, depending largely on how much involvement George Lucas has with a particular episode. He also gives us a list of SF on TV in July.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick275.htm The Resurrectionist by Jack O'Connell- July 1, 2008 Told in alternating story lines, this is the tale of Sweeney, a father who has brought his comatose young son, Danny, to the Peck Clinic in hopes of a miracle. Sweeney seems to just exist in his space, as his life revolves around the care and cure of Danny. Working in the Peck's basement pharmacy, Sweeney frequently visits his son's bedside to read from Danny's favorite comic book series, "Limbo." Sweeney floats through his day in a haze of anger and lack of sleep. His forays out into the...http://www.sfsite.com/07a/re275.htm The Fade by Chris Wooding- July 1, 2008 Orna, a member of the elite Cadre, is bonded for life to the Clan Caracassa. Orna's people, the Eskarans, are at war with the Gurta; as the novel begins, she is in battle. Tricked by the Gurta, Orna's husband is killed, and she is captured and taken to the prison-fortress Farzala. At first despairing and aloof (which gains her the nickname of "the fade," a kind of apparition), she gradually forms relationships with a small group of her fellow-prisoners and formulates a daring plan to escape.http://www.sfsite.com/07a/fa275.htm Nexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams- July 1, 2008 Reality plays by its own rules. This tenet, in the form of metafiction, litters the comic book landscape. While this type of self-referential literature was quite common in comics strips, the earliest story of this type that Rick Klaw uncovered, appeared in Captain Marvel Adventures 22, dated March 26, 1943, some eight years after the publication of New Fun, the first comic book of original material.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/graphica275.htm Off On A Tangent: Short Fiction Reviews -- a column by Dave Truesdale- July 1, 2008 Dave has been annoyed in the past, but he is really irked by one particular story in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow. He was primed and ready for this all-new collection of both science fiction and fantasy stories, and hoped it would be another worthwhile addition to a number of others appearing in the past two years.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/tangent275.htm Omega Sol by Scott Mackay- July 1, 2008 In the not-so-near future, mankind has finally established a presence on the Moon, a scientific research station called Gettysburg. It's there, as a team of scientists perform a complicated experiment, that history is made, when a strange silver sphere of giant proportions appears unexpectedly, leaving destruction and chaos in its wake. Utterly ignoring the humans affected by its arrival, it sets up residence in one of the Moon's craters, before creating dozens of even stranger silver towers,...http://www.sfsite.com/07a/os275.htm The Host by Stephenie Meyer- July 1, 2008 Aliens invading the bodies of humans isn't a new plot device, but who ever stops to think about the body-snatcher's point of view The Host gives us the chance to experience this unique switch in perspective: the book opens as the alien called Wanderer is inserted into the body of Melanie Stryder, a renegade human recently tracked down and captured by the Seekers. When an alien Soul is placed into a new human Host body, that's supposed to be that.http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ho275.htm New Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh- July 1, 2008 Some of the most recently received new and forthcoming titles at the SF Site office include the latest from Greg Bear, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novik, Terry Brooks, Robert Scott & Jay Gordon, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Jacqueline Carey, Eric Brown, Kelley Armstrong, David Drake, and many others.http://www.sfsite.com/books/new275.htm Roman Dusk and Borne In Blood by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro- July 1, 2008 The saga of the vampire Saint-Germain, whose adventures across the centuries (he's supposedly 4,000 year old) started with the publication of the novel Hotel Transylvania in 1978, and has now reached its 19th and 20th installment, much to the delight of legions of faithful readers. The author, the prolific Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, keeps jumping across history without following a definite chronological order, moving her creature back and forth from ancient ages to more modern times, so much so that.http://www.sfsite.com/07a/sg275.htm |