SF SiteThe new issue of the SF Site is now online.Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: a movie review by Rick Norwood- June 16, 2008 The new Indiana Jones movie is the best action-adventure film seen in a long time. You would have to go back to the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie for one as good. But it is not as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, or The Lord of the Rings. For a film to be that good, it has to be a new idea, with new characters.http://www.sfsite.com/06b/ij274.htm New Audiobooks: compiled by Susan Dunman- June 16, 2008 At times, it's more convenient (and enjoyable) to hear the latest in science fiction and fantasy. Recent audiobook releases include works by Lewis Carroll, Laurell K. Hamilton, Simon R. Green, Kelley Armstrong and Philip K. Dick.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/audio274.htm Babylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood- June 16, 2008 Rick has some thoughts on the first half of Battlestar Galactica Season 4. And he has questions that he hopes the writers will address in the second part of the show's last season.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick274.htm Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams- June 16, 2008 The book opens with a swordsman walking across the desert, soon to encounter mysterious priests kidnapping people, and caravan guards led by an ogre. Pure sword and sorcery, right Not at all, as readers of "Womb of Every World," from last year's SFBC anthology Alien Crimes, will immediately realize. That story, moderately revised, represents a bit more than the first third of this novel.http://www.sfsite.com/06b/is274.htm New Arrivals: compiled by Neil Walsh- June 16, 2008 New books are flooding into the SF Site office almost as quickly as we can unpack 'em. The most recent arrivals include the latest from Kevin J. Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, F. Paul Wilson, Timothy Zahn, Gregory Frost, Charlaine Harris, Charlie Huston, John C. Wright, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Mike Resnick, Katharine Kerr, Scott Bakker, Mike Carey, Harry Turtledove, and many, many more.http://www.sfsite.com/books/new274.htm Off On A Tangent: Short Fiction Reviews -- a column by Dave Truesdale- June 16, 2008 Dave Truesdale has returned with a new column looking at short fiction. For his first, he takes a look at two collections: The Guild of Xenolinguists by Sheila Finch which collects the bulk of her Lingster stories and Nano Comes To Clifford Falls by Nancy Kress made up of her recent stories, grounded in science or technology and featuring nano-tech along with its effect on society.http://www.sfsite.com/columns/tangent274.htm Nexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams- June 16, 2008 Regular readers of comics news and reviews already know that Rory Root, the affable, pioneering proprietor of Berkeley, California-based Comic Relief passed away suddenly last month. The scope and breadth of what the store carried, how Rory was an advocatesupporter of lesser-known, or just-starting-out-of-the-gate work, and how well liked he was in the comics community by creators and retailers. Mark London Williams remembers his days growing up in the Berkeley area and how Rory affected his...http://www.sfsite.com/columns/graphica274.htm Timeless Moon by C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp- June 16, 2008 Josette Monier has been living alone, in self-imposed exile for many years, in order to keep her immensely strong psychic abilities under control. To most of her fellow shapeshifters, those known as the Sazi, she's both a legend and a hermit by choice, one of the oldest and most powerful of her kind. Unfortunately, what she's just become is a target.http://www.sfsite.com/06b/tm274.htm Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks- June 16, 2008 A few months following the destruction of the infamous Axis Institute, the university for young villains-in-training created by international mad scientist and all-around bad guy Phineas Darkkon. At present, Darkkon is missing, his nefarious right-hand-man Prosper English is sitting in an Australian jail cell, and their unwilling protege fifteen-year-old computer genius Cadel Piggott, has been dumped in yet another foster home. Adding to Cadel's unstable life, he's living in legal limbo, his...http://www.sfsite.com/06b/gs274.htm The Other Side of Magik by Michael Lingaard- June 16, 2008 The action takes place mostly in Angland, on an alternate Earth on the other side of the mirror, where "magik" is a reality, and physics does not permit the development of electrical power. In Angland, DNA spirals to the left, and people travel in steam-buggies and airships. Geography and history are similar to the world we know, but differ at key points. The story centres on two teenage boys, Danny Royce, a disaffected wastrel from our reality, and Garreth Royal, a budding wizard who has just..http://www.sfsite.com/06b/om274.htm |