SF SiteThe new issue of the SF Site is now online.SF Site's Best Read of the Year: 2007 -- compiled by Neil Walsh- March 16, 2008 Come and see what we consider to be the best of what we read last year, on the SF Site's 11th annual Editors' Choice Top 10 List -- our official SF Site Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2007. Last issue we showed you how you voted on the Readers' Choice Top 10; you may be as surprised as we were to compare the two lists. There's so little overlap it almost seems like the SF Site readers and reviewers aren't reading many of the same books. But this just means that when you look at both lists you'll..http://www.sfsite.com/columns/best08.htm Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb- March 16, 2008 If America has an existentialist fantasist, her name is Robin Hobb. Her writing, unique in a genre overpopulated with adolescent sword-and-sorcery epics, avoids tired retreads of the quest format perfected over a century ago through the prose-poetry of Lord Dunsany and the mythopoeic majesty of E.R. Eddison. It earns mention in the small but elite company of writers whose methods -- ranging as wide as the multilayered complexity of Robert Jordan, the bracing realism of George R.R. Martin, and...http://www.sfsite.com/03b/rm268.htm Grimspace by Ann Aguirre- March 16, 2008 Until recently, Sirantha Jax was a superstar. Possessing a rare gene which allows a select few to jump ships through "grimspace," and thus vastly shorten interstellar travel time, she had it made, having made more jumps and discovered more planets than anyone else working for the Corp. But all jumpers burn out sooner or later, so she knew her time was finite. And then came the crash on Matins IV, an accident only which she survived. She was locked away, interrogated and tortured and left to rot.http://www.sfsite.com/03b/gs268.htm New Audiobooks: compiled by Susan Dunman- March 16, 2008 At times, it's more convenient (and enjoyable) to hear the latest in science fiction and fantasty. Recent audiobook releases include works by S.M. Sterling, Frank Herbert, Casandra Claire, Piers Anthony, and R.A. Salvatore.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/audio268.htm Swiftly by Adam Roberts- March 16, 2008 Swiftly by Adam Roberts -- not to be confused with his similarly titled collection from Night Shade Books a few years ago -- is an enormously ambitious novel, a steampunk epic of considerable force and ingenuity. It is also a deeply bizarre book, whose protagonists, sometimes to the detriment of the plot, conduct a love affair based on disgust and the stimulating odor of excrement.http://www.sfsite.com/03b/sw268.htm Torchwood Magazine 1- March 16, 2008 Following the adventures of Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness and his outside-the-law, alien-investigating elite team, Torchwood has become a firm favourite in both the UK and the US. Now, Titan have launched the Torchwood magazine to take you behind the scenes and introduce you to all the who's and how's that make Torchwood tick.http://www.sfsite.com/03b/tm268.htm Postscripts Magazine: by Author -- compiled by Rodger Turner- March 16, 2008 In the spring of 2004, PS Publishing launched a new magazine called Postscripts. Originally, the magazine was to be digest-sized featuring about 60,000 words of fiction, a guest editorial, book reviews, and the occasional non-fiction article in each issue. Fiction includes SF, fantasy, horror, and crimesuspense. The book is produced in two formats: numbered, limited edition in hard cover signed by all contributors and a perfect bound paper cover version.http://www.sfsite.com/lists/ps-author01.htm Saint-Germain: Memoirs by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro- March 16, 2008 Are you sick and tired of vampires Many are but there is one distinct exception, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Comte de Saint-Germain. Created more than thirty-five years ago with the novel Hotel Transylvania, Saint-Germain has been the main character in a long series of novels, the latest of which is Borne in Blood. In addition, the undead has been starring in a bunch of short stories and novelettes, now assembled here for the first time.http://www.sfsite.com/03b/sg268.htm Indigara by Tanith Lee- March 16, 2008 What's so bothersome about this book Is it Jet, the novel's almost totally passive protagonist, whose one self-motivated act in the entire book is to run away from home Maybe it is Otis, her robotic dog -- a character who could have been fascinating but instead exists solely to move the plot along by deducing things periodically (thus keeping Jet from ever figuring something out for herself) Perhaps it is Jet's family and the showbiz caricatures that populate this novel, almost none ever rising.http://www.sfsite.com/03b/in268.htm New Arrivals: compiled by Neil Walsh- March 16, 2008 Some of the spring releases to arrive on our doorstep recently include the latest from Greg Egan, Sarah Zettel, Peter F. Hamilton, Alan Campbell, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Alma Alexander, Barth Anderson, and many more.http://www.sfsite.com/books/new268.htm |