Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Reviews
SF Signal reviews the novelization of the Transfomers movie by Alan Dean Foster.
Fantasy Book Critic reviews The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks.
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist shamelessly plugs Tad Williams’s Otherland series.
Strange Horizons continues reviewing John Crowley’s AEgypt novels this week with a look at the second book, Love & Sleep.
Book Fetish covers Marjorie M. Liu’s paranormal romance Soul Song.
Clare Light does quick reviews of Laurie J. Marks’s Water Logic and Walter Mosley’s 47.
Interzone reviews Marianne de Pierres’s new space opera Dark Light.
Wordless comics are usually considered “kids stuff,” but not in this case. I hope inattentive parents aren’t buying 
Every weekend, when I walk by the newsstands, I see cover stories in gossip magazines about Brad and Angelina, Jennifer, Reese, Lindsay, Britney and others. Although I only read these magazines at the hairdressers, I am fascinated by the lifestyles of people I will likely never meet. On Sunday, I enjoy the Real Estate section of The New York Times, looking at pictures of homes that can cost tens of millions of dollars. 
(To his credit, my son wanted to do the right thing. “Don’t worry,” he assured me when he was five years old. “If you’re ever gunned down by criminals, I promise to avenge your death.”)
