http://www.sfsite.com/ The new issue of the SF Site is now online. Copyright 1996-2010 SF Site en-us http://www.sfsite.com/images/sfspot1.gif http://www.sfsite.com/ http://www.sfsite.com/01b/sw264.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT The work is a new, vibrant take on superhero fiction, aimed at savvy fans who want something that has all the buzz of the classics, but also a gritty real-world depth. It's like Wild Cards for a new generation, with its own distinctive blend of characters, dark comedy, and an updated enemy which everyone loves to hate. http://www.sfsite.com/lists/greg2007.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Here we are again, time to dig through a year's worth of reading and try to decide which books belong on the list of personal favorites. All in all, Greg would say 2007 was a very good year, good enough so that the main problem was not in finding enough titles to make the list, but instead the problem was cutting titles that in many other years would have been automatic inclusions. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/over264.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT With the Great Reckoning behind him, Neil decided to start 2008 fresh with something he has been meaning to read for about 20 years now, 1984 by George Orwell. And to balance this long-awaited classic, the other book is one he discovered in his stack, a copy of The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle. He figured, what the hell, let's follow the bear over that mountain. http://www.sfsite.com/01b/sb264.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT All lovers of short SF and Fantasy have been missing a regular series of unthemed original anthologies, in the mode of Frederik Pohl's pioneering Star, Damon Knight's Orbit, Terry Carr's Universe, Robert Silverberg's New Dimensions, and most recently, Patrick Nielsen Hayden's all too short-lived Starlight. So it is delightful to see in 2007 the beginnings of no fewer than four such series: Jonathan Strahan's Eclipse, Lou Anders's Fast Forward, and two separate books from Solaris, edited by George Mann: The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy. http://www.sfsite.com/01b/ei264.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT After a near-epic journey halfway across the world to China and back, surviving adventures, treachery, and battles galore, Captain Will Laurence and his dragon companion Temeraire thought they could settle back into something resembling a normal life. Normal, that is, for life in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars. Unfortunately, they've returned to a nightmare: the dragons of England's Aerial Corps lay sick and dying from a mysterious disease. http://www.sfsite.com/01b/be264.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Marla Mason is the sorcerer who runs the Rust Belt town of Felport. But her rival, Susan Wellstone, plans an intricate spell to overturn her, and Marla's only hope to foil her plans is to find a magical object called a Cornerstone. The only one of which she is aware is in San Francisco, guarded by her old friend Lao Tsung. So she and her sidekick, a not quite human young man called Rondeau, rush across the country -- only to learn that Lao Tsung has been killed, by a horde of South American poison frogs. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/audio264.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT At times it's more convenient to use ears rather than eyes to experience the latest in science fiction and fantasy. Recent audiobook releases include works by Kevin J. Anderson, Catherine Asaro, Kim Harrison, Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/neil262.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of the annual SF Site Readers' Choice Best of the Year Awards. For the past 10 years, this has been the season when we solicit you, our faithful readers for your input on what you thought were the best books you've read in the past year. We'll grind your votes through our top-of-the-line super-secret vote-counting software, and post the results in February or early March. If you've forgotten what you chose in previous years, you can find them all linked at Best Read of the Year including The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch which was the top choice last year. http://www.sfsite.com/01b/mf264.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT This first collection is either an introduction to or a rediscovery of a writer who has firmly established herself as a first-rate teller of tales ranging from humorous looks at life in medieval times to future military adventures, and even a side-trip or two into just what makes an artist create, and how that creative process fits into a society that doesn't always appreciate what's presented to it. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick264.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT With the dearth of SF on TV, Rick has some thoughts on Sunshine, a movie directed by Danny Boyle along with the first two episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and how it fits into the branches of the Terminator saga. http://www.sfsite.com/01b/dx264.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Eerie, yet melodic, the original score to Showtime's hit series Dexter is as complex as the character himself. The CD selection features a wide range of musical tracks from various versions of the main title theme to Michael C. Hall's character interludes. There are some nice local musical numbers, featuring the Mambo All-Stars and even an Andy Williams piece. http://www.sfsite.com/01a/hb263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT The Cuban Missile Crisis was, of course, a major event in the United States and Soviet Union in 1962, but it also affected other countries in the world. The book is a young adult time-travel/alternate history novel that looks at the crisis from the point of view of a fourteen year old girl in Liverpool. Laura Mann has newly arrived in Liverpool and must deal with the typical relocation issues, as well as an absentee father and parents going through a divorce when her world is really turned upside down. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/neil262.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of the annual SF Site Readers' Choice Best of the Year Awards. For the past 10 years, this has been the season when we solicit you, our faithful readers for your input on what you thought were the best books you've read in the past year. We'll grind your votes through our top-of-the-line super-secret vote-counting software, and post the results in February or early March. If you've forgotten what you chose in previous years, you can find them all linked at Best Read of the Year including The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch which was the top choice last year. http://www.sfsite.com/01a/ns263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Many have always regarded space opera as science fiction's guilty pleasure. It's not the sort of stuff you'd recommend to a non-SF reading friend, because they'd just not get it. There's something almost juvenile in it, the sort of loud, garish, wide-screen pleasures that turned us on when we were younger and busy discovering the illicit thrills of SF. You certainly don't turn to space opera for literary respectability, for fine honed characters, for searching insights, for any sort of subtlety. http://www.sfsite.com/books/new263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Some of the highlights from our latest new arrivals to the SF Site include new and forthcoming works from Richard Morgan, Gregory Frost, Anne & Todd McCaffrey, stories from Greg Egan, and a new Shannara story from Terry Brooks in graphic novel format. Also, several series are continuing or concluding, with new works from Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, S.C. Butler, David Gemmell, Terry Goodkind, Shana Abe, William Nicholson, David Zindell, and Mike Resnick. All this, and much more... http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Rick has some news on new episodes of Smallville and Torchwood along with reviews of Battlestar Galactica: Razor and The Water Horse, Legend of the Deep. http://www.sfsite.com/01a/ta263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT In the depths of the Asteroid Belt, many years from now, the aftermath of a short but brutal war for the resources of the asteroids leaves a number of lingering repercussions. One family is torn apart by an unprovoked attack, while an entire space habitat is destroyed, its inhabitants slaughtered. The perpetrator, soon afterwards, undergoes traumatic changes and sets out on a new path, one of attempted redemption. http://www.sfsite.com/01a/bg263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Once you've opened the book you'll be mesmerized by the adventures of Jakabok Botch, a demon from the Ninth Circle of Hell. Botch lives next to one of the rubbish tips that his father patrols to keep the trouble-makers out, when he's not beating Botch or his mother to a bleeding pulp in a drunken frenzy. When Botch is hideously burned, it sets off a series of events that sees the young demon on a century-long journey, chasing across the face of our earth with a companion older than time. http://www.sfsite.com/01a/rl263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Is it so hard to print a number on a book cover? Honestly, it can't be. Children's series have had numbers on the volumes for decades, and probably long before that. You may remember there were 54 Nancy Drew novels in your school library, and you were able to read them in order because they were so easily sequenced. http://www.sfsite.com/01a/tg263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Howard is a fairly typical boy in a small village. One day, for what he thinks is a prank, he steals the eggs of a goose -- one of a flock of goose protected by the local "witch." The "witch," it turns out, is a real witch, and she responds by turning Howard into a goose. He won't become a boy again until he performs three good deeds. http://www.sfsite.com/01a/mr263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Seventy-two angels fell with Samael, the Son of Morning, cast out of Heaven for rebellion. Then another angel, who had the task of assigning power and function, grasped the enormity of its own ability. So the angel sundered another of its unkillable kind and fashioned the bones into instruments that contained its great gift of Form and Power. It scattered these instruments across the Earth, to safeguard them in case its plan failed, then attempted to ally with the Fallen One. But Samael rejected the angel. http://www.sfsite.com/01a/lc263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Zines have been around almost as long as there has been fandom in science fiction. The compulsion to print your own thoughts and throw them out into the world seems to be strong among SF fans. Occasionally a publication itself has risen out of the ranks, establishing itself with a level of quality that equals the pros and changing its perceived status from fanzine to full-fledged magazine. Such is the case with Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. http://www.sfsite.com/01a/ch263.htm Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:00:00 GMT Originally published in 1999, A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television covers the quintessential BBC television series from before its debut on November 23, 1963 through its final airing on December 6, 1989. In addition to examining the individual story lines that the seven incarnations of the Doctor and his companions lived through, the author provides a context for the television series. http://www.sfsite.com/rssfeeds01.htm Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:00:00 GMT After constructing our first RSS feed, it soon became apparent that the size of files could grow quickly. We decided to separate them into smaller ones, breaking them up by month. On this page you will find RSS feed files for all of our content beginning with January 2005.