USA Today stalks the elusive Fanboy. Locus Online lists new paperback editions of SF/Fantasy books that they saw in June. Matthew Cheney thinks about the latest eruption of the what-is-SF-and-what-isn’t discussion. A highly scientific investigation into the age-old struggle between pirates and ninjas. [via Chris Roberson] tSF Diplomat thinks hard about online book reviewing and…
Well, it’s a book, now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows went on sale at the crack of Saturday, and the world will never be the same. (Or something.) For this link round-up, I’ll corral the stories into groups, by theme, proving that there are only about a dozen potential Potter stories, each of which…
I may have to do another one of these round-ups on Monday to get the post-publication stuff (and the reviews that won’t annoy Rowling by their very existence), but, after that, I never want to hear the words "Harry Potter" in my life again. (Above, Mr. Potter illustrates my mood.) CNN just realized that Deathly…
We’re at something of a cultural crossroads. On July 21, Saturday, the last new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows, will be published. With this, J.K. Rowling completes her story and a literary phenomenon is completed. Yes, I know there are two more movies and scads of related tie-ins still to come…
The Agony Column reviews Ibrahim S. Amin’s The Monster Hunter’s Handbook. Fantasybookspot reviews David Bilsborough’s first novel, the epic fantasy The Wanderer’s Tale. Fantasybookspot also reviews Julie E. Czerneda’s Survival. SFF World reviews The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks. SciFi UK Review also covers the June issue of Hub magazine. Strange Horizons reviews Scarlet…
Now that the movie’s been released, the articles are slowing down a bit, so Harry Potter Mania! will probably go on hiatus for a week or so — but you can be sure that local papers all over the country (and around the world) will be ready to run inane local stories on the 21st,…
More Harry Potter news and links for those whose eyes are starting to wander… The Whittier Daily News uses the release of the Order of the Phoenix movie as a hook to talk to a bunch of local librarians about their preparations for Deathly Hallows. SaukValley.com epitomizes the small-town paper approach to the Harry Potter…
Neth Space reviews Tobias S. Buckell’s first novel, the alien-planet adventure novel Crystal Rain. The Agony Column reviews Paul McAuley’s Cowboy Angels. Monsters & Critics reviews an anthology called Many Bloody Returns, though I can’t quite read who the editors are. SciFi Weekly reviews Emma Bull’s new Wild West fantasy novel, Territory. SFF World 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…
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…
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…
Doctor 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…
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