Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Reviews
I should warn you about these link-lists: Mondays tend to be longer than usual (since there’s a lot of content that goes up on the weekend, or early on Monday), and the beginning of the month tends to be longer than usual. Since we’re just past both of those things, this is going to be a really long one…
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist reviews Dragons of the Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
A.N. Wilson reviews Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go in the Telegraph.
SF Crowsnest reviews a whole bunch of things this week:
- first, here’s a review for Paranormal Borderlands of Science, edited by Kendrick Frazier – a collection of essays by scientists about the plausibility of and evidence for various paranormal claims.
- and there’s a review of Cory Doctorow’s new short story collection, Overclocked
- another review covers Kay Kenyon’s new science fantasy novel Bright of the Sky
- a review of Ian McDonald’s Brasyl
- a review of Eliot Fintushel’s Breakfast With the Ones You Love
- a review of Kage Baker’s new “Company” short story collection, Gods and Pawns
- a review of David Deveraux’s Hunter’s Moon
- a review of a new art book – James Bama: American Realist – about the cover artist best known for his ‘70s Doc Savage series
- a review of Charles de Lint’s Memory & Dream
- a review of Chris Moriarty’s Spin Control
- a review of David Anthony Durham’s first fantasy novel, the epic Acacia
- and several other reviews, too, but my fingers are getting tired.
Jane Jewell, Executive Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, 
Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist 
You’d need to have a very long memory to remember the heyday of the original Planet Stories magazine, since it closed down in 1955. It was a pulp magazine – in both senses of the word “pulp.” But the name has lingered ever since, whispered at last call at convention bars to describe a certain kind of Science Fiction story – one where the science isn’t too complicated, and never gets in the way of the plot. One where the women are gorgeous and scantily clad, where the men are strongly-thewed (and often also scantily clad), and where the villains are black-hearted scoundrels out to rule their worlds. One where the blasters are hot, the ships have fins, and countless alien worlds are just waiting for the right blonde-haired American boy to become their new warlord. You know: the fun stuff.
