SF SiteThe new issue of the SF Site is now online.The Incredible Hulk: a movie review by Rick Norwood- July 1, 2008 The Incredible Hulk is a moderately entertaining, by-the-numbers, semi-sequel to Ang Lee's Hulk, lacking the exciting directing but also the murky storytelling of the earlier flick. It is very loosely based on the Hulk stories in Tales to Astonish 90 and 91 (April and May 1967), "The Abomination" and "Whoever Harms the Hulk," by Stan Lee and Gil Kane.http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ih275.htm House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds- July 1, 2008 Space opera is all about scale, the biggest devices, the biggest bangs, the biggest distances. And no-one does size quite like Alastair Reynolds. Here, his (human) heroes are millions of years old and regularly circumnavigate the galaxy, they have the technology to safely enclose a sun that is about to go nova, and they are about to get involved in a conflict whose origins lie eons before and whose resolution will extend to another galaxy.http://www.sfsite.com/07a/hs275.htm In a Time of Treason by David Keck- July 1, 2008 Being the first born son of a Lord is a pretty good deal. You stand to one day inherit a title, land, and loyalty of the people who go along with it. Being the second son is not nearly as good a thing. The latter is the situation faced by a young Durand Col who has found a place as a knight in service to Lord Lamoric. Times are uncertain, and when Lamoric and other Lords are called by the King to journey to his court and renew their oaths of loyalty, they are forced on a harsh voyage which ends.http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ia275.htm |