SF SiteThe new issue of the SF Site is now online.The Wit & Wisdom of Discworld by Terry Pratchett- February 1, 2008 When an author has published "roughly four million words," as Stephen Briggs notes (in the introduction to this volume) Terry Pratchett has done, you certainly have reason to hope that some of them will be quotable. When the author is the inestimable satirist Terry Pratchett, you know for certain that many of those words are worth repeating, which is what this nicely constructed compilation does.http://www.sfsite.com/02a/ww265.htm A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear- February 1, 2008 The authors, with a degree of apparent effortlessness that is astonishing, have pulled off not one but several very difficult things in this book. The first, and by no means the least, is the sometimes vexed collaboration issue. You I have read co-authored books in which you could have chopped out and parceled into neat little piles the bits that belonged to the various authors because the voices simply never gelled enough to produce perfect seamlessness. Here, it just doesn't even matter. It...http://www.sfsite.com/02a/cw265.htm New Arrivals: compiled by Neil Walsh- February 1, 2008 Some of the new and forthcoming titles we'll look at this time include the latest from Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Joe Abercrombie, Christopher Golden, Barth Anderson, Terry Goodkind, Greg Keyes, Kelley Armstrong, Sherri S. Tepper, and many more.http://www.sfsite.com/books/new265.htm Queen of Candesce by Karl Schroeder- February 1, 2008 At the end of Sun of Suns, the first book in the Virga series, most of the major characters were either missing or presumed dead. Two, a young man who had been the hero of the story, and a woman who, while not an out-and-out villain, was definitely not a pleasant person, were left drifting off in the free-fall atmosphere that fills the artificial world of Virga. It would be understandable if book two were to continue the story of the young man's adventures. Instead, it follows the plight of the.http://www.sfsite.com/02a/qc265.htm |