SF SiteThe new issue of the SF Site is now online.New Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh- November 16, 2007 New this month are the latest from Chris Wooding, Laurell K. Hamilton, Janny Wurts, Stephen Donaldson, and many others, plus some classic reprints from Gene Wolfe, Robert Holdstock, Frank Herbert, Michael Moorcock, and -- you guessed it -- yet still more. It's a busy time of year for publishers.http://www.sfsite.com/books/new260.htm Human Is by Philip K. Dick- November 16, 2007 It's not difficult to get hold of the short stories of Philip K. Dick, if you're of a mind to do so. However, doing so usually involves unearthing anthologies old and new in which his work has appeared, or going instead to the Complete Works -- four hefty volumes, which allegedly contain a fair amount of filler in between the killers. So it should come as no surprise that a publisher decided to package a selection of Dick's "greatest hits" into a single paperback volume -- especially...http://www.sfsite.com/11b/hi260.htm Babylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood- November 16, 2007 Nothing new on television so RIck has turned to film with thoughts on The Dark is Rising, Martian Child and Star Trek, The Menagerie.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick260.htm The Battle For Azeroth edited by Bill Fawcett- November 1, 2007 "My name is Michael, and I am a World of Warcraft addict. I started playing the game in early 2005, a few months after it was officially released to the public. My main characters include a level 70 restoration-specced night elf druid, and a level 70 holyretribution-specced human paladin. I've played every class and every race, at least for a little while, and my (real life) wife plays the cutest, sweetest, most destructive gnome mage I've ever met."http://www.sfsite.com/11a/ba259.htm The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: by Title -- compiled by Rodger Turner- November 1, 2007 In 1988, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling collected together what they thought was the best short fantasy and horror from the previous year. They went through as many of the magazines, collections and anthologies published in 1987 that they could find and chose those stories which they decided best represented the fantasy and horror field. Jim Frenkel arranged for its publication by St. Martins's Press and it has been produced every year since then. In 2003, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant took...http://www.sfsite.com/lists/yb-fh-title01.htm Splinter by Adam Roberts- November 1, 2007 Following on from Jules Verne's Off on a Comet, Hector Servadac, Jr. comes home from France to California to visit his father, with whom he has not been on good terms. Hector Jr. is an art historian. His father is a rich man, and his mother died some decades earlier. He finds that his father has holed up at his ranch in rural California. He is convinced that he is in contact with an intelligent space being, in the form of an asteroid of sorts that is going to collide with the Earth and send...http://www.sfsite.com/11a/sp259.htm The Elves of Cintra by Terry Brooks- November 1, 2007 The story splits into three strands, beginning with a trek across the urban wastelands of post-apocalyptic America, continuing adventures of Knight of the Word Logan Tom, and a ragtag young band of survivors named the Ghosts. Running parallel and equal to this is the tale of another Knight of the Word, Angel Perez, and her mission to help the Elves of Cintra. The final element of this mixed bag concerns the emergence of Hawk, a young man from the previous novel, as a major power and living key..http://www.sfsite.com/11a/ec259.htm Babylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood- November 1, 2007 Rick has some thoughts on what he's enjoying on theis year's TV season. He also gives us a list of SF on TV in November.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick259.htm New Audiobooks compiled by Susan Dunman- November 1, 2007 At times it's more convenient to use ears rather than eyes to experience the latest in science fiction and fantasy, Recent audiobook releases include works by Orson Scott Card, Charles de Lint, Ursula K. LeGuin, Ray Bradbury, Terry Pratchett, Joe Hill, Neil Gaiman, Max Brooks, and Kevin J. Anderson. Forthcoming titles include works from Terry Brooks, George R.R. Martin, Terry Goodkind, and Warren Ellis.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/audio259.htm Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 30th Anniversary Anthology edited by Sheila Williams- November 1, 2007 Since 1977 the former Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (somewhere along the way they dropped the Isaac) has published something like 3,000 stories. With this many candidates to choose among, Sheila Williams's task in selecting the contents of a retrospective anthology was mainly one of coping with an embarrassment of riches. She came up with a book of seventeen stories, the great majority of which range from excellent to absolutely breathtaking.http://www.sfsite.com/11a/as259.htm |