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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Albedo One Issue 36, Reviewed
New Fiction from Mike O'Driscoll, Paul di Fillipo interviewed
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.
The Interpreter by Brian W. Aldiss Reviewed
Bridging the gap between Non-Stop/Starship and Hothouse/The Long Afternoon of Earth, Bow Down To Nul - as it was also known - is a better novel than Aldiss credits ir wit
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
Fantasy & Science Fiction 60th Anniversary Issue
All-star Fiction by Robert Silverberg, Kate Wilhelm, Lucius Shepherd, Elizabeth Hand, Joe Haldeman, Geoff Ryman, Ron Goulart, M. Rickert, Robert Reed and Carol Emshwiller
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.
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
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
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
Interzone 223 Dominic Green Special Reviewed
A Dominic Green Special Issue, with three stories and an interview, plus fiction from Eric Gregory and Suzanne Palmer, with reviews from Nick Lowe, Tony Lee and others
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
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.
Black Static Issue 11 from TTA Press, Reviewed
Fiction from Will McIntosh, Daniel Kaysen, Al Robertson, Stephenie Burgis, Gary Couzens and Lawrence Conquest, reviews by Peter Tennant, Tony Lee, columns by Stephen Volk
Asimovs Science Fiction August 2009 Reviewed
SF by Damian Broderick, Robert Reed, Michael Blumlein, Hugo-winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch, new writers Derek Zumsteg and Mary Robinette Kowal, and Steven Popkes returns
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.
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
Saturn's Children by Charles Stross, Reviewed
The new book from the bestselling author of Halting State, Accelerando and The Merchant Princes series is dedicated to Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein
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
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