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View ArticleThe Last Song of Orpheus by Robert Silverberg
This is Robert Silverberg tuning into his melodic voice to retell the myths surrounding this character. Those familiar with Greek myth can anticipate Orpheus' dive into Hades to retrieve his beautiful...
View ArticleLimbo by Bernard Wolfe
In the middle an atomic war (pre-ICBMs) waged by fleets of bombers directed by a Soviet and a Western EMSIAC, Dr. Martine, a neurosurgeon in an airborne MASH plane, has had enough of the murderous...
View ArticleBabylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood
The Doctor Who Christmas Special was the best sf Rick has seen on tv this year, and is a likely winner of the 2011 best sf drama Hugo, short form. While he's waiting for something else good to show up...
View ArticleWatching the Future: a column by Derek Johnson
The future used to be a destination. It used to be The Future. And like a Zeno paradox, the closer we got to it, the more unattainable The Future seemed... until we realized that the destination had...
View ArticleJupiter, Issue 34, October 2011
Rich has long characterized it as a distinctly old-fashioned magazine. By this he refers to both its focus on pretty much pure science fiction, but also its fondness for tropes and plots that hearken...
View ArticleAfter the Collapse by Paul Di Filippo
Stories with a similar motif or concept tend to rub off on one another when gathered in one place, often conferring more power to each. In rock, these would be the concept albums of Pink Floyd and...
View ArticleA Conversation With Paul Di Filippo
"I used to plot things out in much more detail than I do now. Of course, I was never someone like Poul Anderson or Hal Clement who created immense binders of background info and character sheets for...
View ArticleRavensoul by James Barclay
James Barclay has created two series of books thus far, The Chronicles of the Raven and The Legends of the Raven, but essentially "The Raven" books are one long series of overlapping stand-alone...
View ArticleAll About Emily by Connie Willis
Claire Havilland is an acclaimed actress, perhaps just a bit past her prime. Her agent inveigles her into an interview with the niece of the Grand Marshal of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade -- said...
View ArticleThe Hobgoblin Bell Strikes Twelve by X. Trevelyan
The craft of writing short stories is a very different skill to that of a novelist, and being able to accomplish one is never a guarantee that the other will be its equal. In this case, however, X....
View ArticleThe Cold Commands by Richard Morgan
In the second of A Land Fit for Heroes series, our story involves Ringil's efforts against slave traders and the rescue of one of its victims from a fate that goes beyond indentured servitude....
View ArticleRaven Cursed by Faith Hunter
In this adventure, Jane starts out as a bodyguard to the envoy that Leo Pellissier has sent to Asheville for a parlay with a North Carolina vampire who seeks to become master of his own city. A fanged...
View ArticleThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume 22 edited by Stephen Jones
Now in its 22nd year, this anthology remains one of the few opportunities, for those unfamiliar with the secrets of the genre magazines and of the small, specialized press, to enjoy some good horror...
View ArticleVote for SF Site's Readers' Choice Awards for 2011
Here we are again, offering you your annual chance to let the world know what you thought was the best of all the speculative reading material you encountered from the past year. If you've been a...
View ArticleNexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams
So as with his column about continuity -- which was engendered by a review of Stan Lee's how-to-write-comics book last year -- Mark London Williams is embarking on another of his "meta" discussions...
View ArticleThe Best of David Farland: Volume 1 and 2 by David Farland
Although David Farland/Dave Wolverton is a best-selling fantasy and SF writer known primarily for his novels, he also has a pair of story collections available in both audio and Kindle and other ebook...
View ArticleNexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams
Nearly one hundred years ago, Edgar Rice Burroughs, under the nom de plume of Norman Bean, created the seminal planetary romance. "Under the Moons of Mars" from the February, 1912 All Story Magazine...
View ArticleNew Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh
New and forthcoming books this time include the latest from John Birmingham, Alan Dean Foster, Nancy Kress, Robert McCammon, John Meaney, Elizabeth Moon, Alastair Reynolds, and many more.
View ArticleThrough Darkest America and Dawn's Uncertain Light by Neal Barrett, Jr.
Over one hundred and fifty years ago there was the Great War, which wiped out most of humanity, brought down all the old cities and technology, and eliminated just about all animal life. But humanity...
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