Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction
Latest Feature Articles
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Interzone 225 From TTA Press, Reviewed
Fiction from Jason Sanford, Jay Lake, Lavie Tidhar; book reviews of Gardner Dozois' Year's Best SF, Greg Egan's Oceanic; film reviews of Up, District 9 and Dorian Grey.
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Joe Haldeman's Forever Free, Reviewed
References from The Book of Genesis through Exodus to Revelations hint at the true nature of this odd conclusion to a triptych that includes Forever Peace.
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Nekropolis by Tim Waggoner, Reviewed
Compared to John Meaney's Bone Song, Charlie Huston's Almost Human and Mike Carey's The Devil You Know, Angry Robot's new novel owes a debt to Dungeons & Dragons.
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Interzone 224 From TTA Press, Reviewed
Reviewed: Transformers 2, Ice Age 3, Harry Potter 6; Stargate Atlantis Season 5 & Dollhouse 1; Fiction by Jason Sanford, Chris Butler, Jeremiah Tolbert, Rachel Swirsky
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Black Static Issue 13 Reviewed
New fiction from Joel Lane, Tim Lees, Kim Lakin-Smith and James Cooper; DVD and Blu-ray reviews - Sleepy Hollow and Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell; Pete Tennant's Case Notes
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Moxyland by Lauren Beukes, Reviewed
Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow and Walter Jon Williams are name-checked, but the influences of the Lucky Strike parties and other South African stories are equally strong.
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Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, Reviewed
Serialized in Analog, reprinted in Harrison & Aldiss and Terry Carr's Year's Best Sci-Fi, it was rejected by seventeen publishers before St. Martin's Press published it.
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Asimov's SF October/November 2009 Reviewed
New fiction from Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, William Barton, Damien Broderick, R Garcia y Robertson, Ted Kosmatka & Heather Lindsley; non-fiction from James Patrick Kelly
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Majestrum by Matthew Hughes Reviewed
By fusing the style of Jack Vance with the humour of PG Wodehouse and a plot worthy of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, an F&SF regular makes an eminently readable debut.
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Black Static Issue 12 Reviewed
Fiction by Tim Casson, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kim Lakin-Smith, Nina Allan, Sarah Totton and T.F.Davenport, interview with Gary A. Braunbeck, columns by Stephen Volk and others
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Asimov's SF September 2009, Reviewed
Fiction by Mike Resnick, Jerry Oltion, Lisa Goldstein, Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Steve Rasnic Tem. Opinion from Robert Silverberg, Paul di Filippo & editor Sheila Williams
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Chris Beckett's Marcher, Reviewed
The long-awaited Shifter novel expands on stories from Asimovs, Interzone and the Year's Best SF, boundaries and mirrors reflecting the complexity of alternate universes
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F&SF August-September 2009 Reviewed
New stories from Bruce Sterling, Matthew Hughes, Sean McMullen, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Nancy Springer, Yoon Ha Lee, Albert E. Cowdrey, Rand B. Lee
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James Maxey's Dragonseed Reviewed
From Le Guin to Lewis, McCaffrey to Pratchett, fantasy abounds with dragons; cunning, devious or wise. Maxey's are as earthy, flawed and rounded as the humans they hunt.
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Zoë's Tale by John Scalzi, Reviewed
The fourth nominee available from Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention is a retelling of The Last Colony from a YA perspective.
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Interzone 222 Reviewed
Fiction from Tim Pratt, Aliette de Bodard, Sean McMullen, Kim Lakin-Smith, Nina Allan and Sarah L. Edwards, Book, Film and DVD Reviews, and David Langford's Ansible Link
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Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book Reviewed
Illustrated by Dave McKean, the Hugo Award nominated novel is an homage to Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and has already won the coveted Newbury Medal from the ALSC
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Reviewed
Marcus Yallow - aka W1n5t0n or M1k3y - becomes a teenage victim of his government's War on Terror after a terrorist attack on San Francisco in this fine YA novel from Tor
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