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Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Reviews

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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.

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Science Fiction & Fantasy Interviews

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  • July 7, 2007

The Agony Column interviews Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible.

Wired talks to Kim Stanley Robinson about the future of the planet. [via Bruce Sterling]

Brooklyn Frank interviews Jeff Somers, author of The Electric Church. [via the author]

SciFi Wire talks to Jay Lake about the clockwork solar system of his new novel, Mainspring.

SFF World interviews Gail Z. Martin, author of The Summoner.

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GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: Fox Bunny Funny

fox-4984868Wordless comics are usually considered “kids stuff,” but not in this case. I hope inattentive parents aren’t buying Fox Bunny Funny for their little darlings, since that might lead to a lot of nightmares and uneasy questions. But, for those of us who can handle explicit Fox-on-Bunny violence, Fox Bunny Funny is worth seeking out.

As I said, it’s a wordless anthropomorphic comic, set in a world much like our own populated by Foxes (who hunt, eat, and torment Bunnies) and Bunnies (who hide and try to survive). Our nameless hero starts off as a young Fox with odd urges – he doesn’t want to kill Bunnies, he wants to be one of them. And this causes all sorts of trouble for him.

The story is told in three chapters, presumably “Fox,” “Bunny,” and “Funny.” (They’re titled with little icons: a fox, a bunny, and a mixture of the two.) I’m not entirely sure what “Funny” has to do with anything – this isn’t humorous in any conventional sense – so I think it must be a reference to “funny animals.” Anyone who buys this looking for anthropomorphic humor will be very disappointed.

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F&SF Magazine News

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Interzone #211, a special Michael Moorock issue, will be published in a week, so TTA Press has posted its table of contents. Besides a new Moorcock story and novel excerpt, there are stories from Carlos Hernandez, Aliette de Bodard, and Grace Dugan, among other things.

Ansible has put out its 240th issue, full of the usual stuff – quotes that make people look bad, amusing anecdotes, dates, and so forth.

John Joseph Adams’s article about writing workshops, “Basic Training for Writers,” from the SFWA Bulletin, has been posted on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America website as a PDF.

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SF&F News & Links

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  • July 6, 2007

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Forbidden Planet International previews the very cool-looking new entry in the Penguin Modern Classics line, A Science Fiction Omnibus, edited by Brian Aldiss.

Today’s Harry Potter hoopla: The New York Times reports on Harry-themed conferences, parties and festivals taking place this summer.

Also working the HP beat: The Washington Post has an article about avoiding spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with lots of anecdotes about people deliberately spoiling the last book. It’s hard out there for a muggle…

Del Rey’s latest e-mail newsletter announces a giveaway – they want to send thirty advance copies of Terry Brooks’s new novel, The Elves of Cintra, to ordinary readers for their early review. You can get full details at that link, or sign up for the newsletter yourself. [via Fantasy Book Critic]

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Reviews: Graphic Novels and SF/Fantasy

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  • July 6, 2007

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Since the name of the site is ComicMix, the comics reviews come first. After the break, some crunchy links to SF/Fantasy book reviews, including one for Mike Carey’s novel The Devil You Know.

And, speaking of Carey, here’s a review from Blogcritics for Re-Gifters, by Mike Carey and Sonny Liew.

Blogcritics also reviews Outsiders: The Good Fight by Judd Winick, Matthew Clark, and Art Thibert.

Blogcritics also also reviews Eric Wright’s My Dead Girlfriend, Volume One.

Dana Stevenson (of Comic Fodder) reviews this week’s Marvel Comics.

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Comics News & Links

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  • July 6, 2007

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Greg Burgas of Comics Should Be Good! (and can’t we all agree with that, hm?) dives into the musty longboxes to find Ragman #4, from 1977 by Bob Kanigher and “the Redondo Studio,” and proceeds to review the heck out of it.

Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog presents…Ask Road Rage Venom!

Mike Sterling explains what is the Pieta (Michaelangelo) and what isn’t (Superman nuzzling Wonder Woman’s chest).

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Science Fiction/Fantasy Interviews

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Bookninja interviews Guy Gavriel Kay, author of Ysabel. Then they flip out and kill a whole lot of people, ‘cause that’s what ninjas have to do. [via Locus Online]

Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing’s twenty-fifth podcast features an interview with author Walter H. Hunt, plus publishing news and the first installment of “Ask a Writer,” with Tobias S. Buckell.

SciFi Wire talks to Michael Swanwick about his story “Lord Weary’s Empire,” currently a finalist for both the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Hugo Award. (more…)

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BOOK REVIEW: Soon I Will Be Invincible

invincible-3662675Doctor Impossible is a supervillain; Fatale is a superheroine. They fight, and you know who wins. The end.

OK, maybe that’s not enough.

I haven’t been keeping track, but there seem to have been a lot of novels about superpowered folks lately. I mean, besides the usual licensed products. There was Robert Mayer’s influential Superfolks back in the 1970s, the “Wild Cards” series off and on for the last couple of decades, and then Michael Bishop’s Count Geiger’s Blues in the early ‘90s, but, otherwise, there wasn’t a heck of a lot out there for a long time.

But in the last couple of years, there have been books like Tom DeHaven’s It’s Superman (which was officially licensed by DC Comics, but was a very different kind of book than the usual), Minister Faust’s From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, James Maxey’s Nobody Gets the Girl, and others – on top of the increasing numbers of licensed books, it feels like we’re getting a lot of superheroes in prose these days.

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Science Fiction/Fantasy Interviews

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  • July 5, 2007
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The LA Times profiles “the Dean of Science Fiction,” Robert A Heinlein, in preparation for the 100th anniversary of his birth on Saturday.

Michael Cassutt’s new column at SciFi Weekly is also about Heinlein, and gives more details of the Heinlein Centennial going on this coming weekend in Kansas City (Heinlein’s birthplace).

 

The Globe and Mail lists and profiles Canada’s “best-kept secrets in the arts” – among them, Hugo-winning science fiction writer Robert Charles Wilson.

 

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