The SF Site: Featured Reviews Archive

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Lost In Transmission by Wil McCarthy
reviewed by Rich Horton
Third in a series, this is the story of a journey to Barnard's Star and the effort to colonize one of the planets of that star. The main character is Conrad Mursk, the First Mate of the Newhope. His lover Xiomara Li Weng, or Xmary, is the Captain. Bascal is the leader of the expedition and will be King once the new planet is reached. Conrad himself is a rather stolid young man, though perhaps not so stolid as he seems to think.

The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
reviewed by Rich Horton
One of the time-honoured SF themes is the exploration of what we might call "edge science": ideas that are current in the scientific world, but far from established, often very speculative, sometimes even close to kooky. This novel is built wholly around such wacky scientific speculations.

The Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
reviewed by Peter D. Tillman
Our hero, wealthy super-scientist Bruno de Towaji, is experimenting with collapsium, a dangerous, metastable material made of proton-size black holes, when he receives a Royal Summons: the new near-solar collapsiter ring is unstable, and will fall into the sun (and eat it) unless something is done...

Bloom by Wil McCarthy
reviewed by Peter D. Tillman
It has been 20 years since humanity was driven from Earth and the Inner System by a runaway Bloom of mycora that has eaten all of Earth's life, and most of its crust. Humans have retreated to the moons of Jupiter and the asteroids where constant vigilance is required to keep the Mycosystem at bay. The mycora are generally thought to have been created in an industrial accident, but human malice -- or an extrasolar origin -- can't be ruled out.

Murder in the Solid State by Wil McCarthy
reviewed by Greg L. Johnson
Nanotechnology in the near future forms the background for a tale of homicide and political oppression. Research has been slowed mainly by the achievements of one man who holds patents for the development of microtechnology, a step on the way to real nanotech.

Bloom by Wil McCarthy
reviewed by Mark Sumner
Guest Reviewer Mark Sumner thinks nothing in the SF / fantasy field stirs more excitement than the emergence of a new, honest-to-Asimov science fiction writer who aspires to the mantle of a Clarke, or seeks a place among the "Killer B's." In his earlier work, Wil McCarthy hinted (strongly) that he was a contender for the pantheon of the hardware gods. With Bloom, he assures his ascension.

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