SF SiteThe new issue of the SF Site is now online.New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear- September 1, 2007 This book is presented as a series of loosely connected novellas, centred around the crime solving adventures of Lady Abigail Irene Garrett, and Sebastian de Ulloa. Garrett is a flint hard, caustic tongued, forensic sorceress, and de Ulloa is a thousand year-old wampyr, something like a bisexual Hercule Poirot. Beginning separately, but eventually combining talents and causes, the pair make their unique way through six stories, set at the turn of the 20th century. But this is a world in which...http://www.sfsite.com/09a/na255.htm The Intruders by Michael Marshall- September 1, 2007 Jack and Amy Whalen, a former policeman turned writer, and his wife who works in advertising, are living the quiet life tucked away in small town America. Until Gary Fisher, an old high school friend of Jack's, turns up with circumstantial evidence which suggests Amy might have a connection to the Anderson murders. Running parallel with this is the story of nine-year-old Madison, a girl who goes missing while walking on a deserted beach. Madison is suffering from odd blackouts, during which she.http://www.sfsite.com/09a/in255.htm Babylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood- September 1, 2007 September is a busy month for television watchers. There is a lot to see. Whether any of it is worth seeing remains to be seen. Best bet: Heroes.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick255.htm Precious Dragon by Liz Williams- September 1, 2007 In the third of a series of fantasySFdetective novels, the story involves a young chorus boy who makes money on the side as a rent boy. Someone who hires him has a nastier desire -- they send him magically to hell. This attracts the attention of Inspector Chen of the Singapore Three police force and his colleague Zhu Irzh, a demon from Hell, but at first they can't do much -- missing rent boys, alas, are only too common. But Chen and Irzh have another assignment -- they are sent to Hell on a...http://www.sfsite.com/09a/pd255.htm TWOC by Graham Joyce- September 1, 2007 TWOC is British police shorthand for Taken Without Owner's Consent, and it's what British juveniles get charged with when they are nicked behind the wheel of somebody else car that they've stolen for a joyride. It's what sixteen-year-old Matt was done for after being involved in the taking of a silver-grey Ferrari Testarossa that wound up unhappily for all concerned.http://www.sfsite.com/09a/tw255.htm Undertow by Elizabeth Bear- September 1, 2007 The author does an extraordinary job of juggling a dozen balls -- political mayhem, exotic tech, ethical dilemmas, probability magic, cultural milieu, social interactions between both HUMAN friends, enemies and rivals and ALIEN ones. She creates a beautifully coherent world, and exhibits the true storyteller's gift of creating truly alien aliens -- because she understands humans so well.http://www.sfsite.com/09a/ut255.htm New Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh- September 1, 2007 The most recent stack of books to arrive on the doorstep of the SF Site offices has quite a few exciting treats, including the latest from William Gibson, Stephen Baxter, Kelley Armstrong, and Terry Brooks, as well as a first novel from Christopher Barzak, a good selection of genre magazines, plus advance copies of forthcoming books from Stephen Donaldson and Terry Pratchett, and much more besides.http://www.sfsite.com/books/new255.htm Splinter by Adam Roberts- September 1, 2007 "I have not read Jules Verne's Hector Servadac. That's not particularly remarkable; I've not read A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu or Les Particules Elementaires or any number of other works of French literature. The reason for mentioning this is that Splinter is a sort of riposte to Hector Servadac (published in English as Off on a Comet), a novel Adam Roberts freely admits is 'not one of Verne's well known titles.'"http://www.sfsite.com/09a/sp255.htm Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles de Lint- September 1, 2007 T.J. is a fourteen-year-old whose family has had to sell their farm, and T.J.'s horse, and move to the city. The city is a foreign place to T.J. who maintains her sanity by texting with her friend Julie. Even that bond is threatened, however, when Elizabeth comes into T.J.'s life. Elizabeth is a Little, an eighteen-inch-tall girl whose family lives in the walls of the house T.J.'s family has bought. Just as T.J. feels her parents don't understand what she's going through, Elizabeth also feels...http://www.sfsite.com/09a/ll255.htm |