SF SiteThe new issue of the SF Site is now online.Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley- November 1, 2007 The story begins when Jake is fourteen, and at first the reader might assume that he's writing of very recent events. Jake reminds the reader repeatedly that the idea of a preserve for dragons is a fairly tense controversy. Some, including in the government, insist that dragons are dangerous, expensive, and should be wiped out. Environmentalists, scientists, and dragon-lovers remind everyone that there are no records of them eating humans, even though they're a hundred feet long, fly, and...http://www.sfsite.com/11a/dh259.htm Hurricane Moon by Alexis Glynn Latner- November 1, 2007 In science fiction, one of the most difficult feats to accomplish is a simultaneous appeal to both the romance of the intellect and the romance of the heart. Hard SF writers are all used to invoking a sense of wonder that thrills the imagination, it's what that particular game is all about. Fewer are able to at the same time involve the reader's emotions in a story that evokes the character's personal emotional attractions.http://www.sfsite.com/11a/hm259.htm HARM by Brian W. Aldiss- November 1, 2007 Paul Fadhil Abbas Ali is a young writer. His family is Moslem but he sees himself as wholly British (he has an Irish wife), and his novel, The Pied Piper of Hamnet, is conceived as being a light comic fantasy somewhat in the very English tradition of P.G. Wodehouse. Suddenly the nature of the work is transformed. The authorities, in their rigid proto-fascism, are blind to the humour, to the fantasy, to the very fictionality of the work. In their blinkered way they see only a Moslem advocating...http://www.sfsite.com/11a/ha259.htm New Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh- November 1, 2007 This time we're looking at the latest from Terry Pratchett, Paul McAuley, Charlaine Harris, Alan Dean Foster, new YA fiction from George R.R. Martin, some of the annual short fiction anthologies you've been waiting for, plus other new and forthcoming works.http://www.sfsite.com/books/new259.htm Dispatches From Smaragdine: October 2007 -- a column by Jeff VanderMeer- November 1, 2007 It is that time in the Smaragdine four-year cycle to commemorate their great military leader Saloment III so things are quiet. During this hiatus, Jeff takes some time to interview Peter Crowther of PS Publishing on what he has in store for us and how his publishing house has evolved.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/jeff259.htm Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt- November 1, 2007 When Marla Mason, sorcerer overlordguardian of the East Coast city of Felport, travels to San Francisco in search of a magical artifact, she expects it to be a quick trip. Get in, get what she needs, get out with a minimum of threats, intimidation, violence, andor magical persuasion. She certainly doesn't expect to get involved in some major trouble involving San Francisco's local sorcerers and a mysterious threat picking them off one by one.http://www.sfsite.com/11a/be259.htm |