Comics Links The ACLU has a new online comic to explain its mission: Defenders of Freedom. (I would have used a panel from one of their stories to illustrate this post but – irony of ironies – it’s left-click disabled, locked down tight by proprietary software. So, instead, you get the very first Google image…
Comics Links The New York Times declares that Britain is finally embracing the graphic novel. Well, good for them! Inside Pulse apparently has a story about comics, but some kind of SQL error is preventing me from actually reading it. Perhaps simply knowing it exists will give some readers a tiny bit of pleasure. Publishers…
Comics Links Suspension of Disbelief (which I haven’t seen updated much lately, so I hope it’s back) looks at Spirit #5, and that old bad-plotting standby, beating a guy until he signs a contract/confession/whatever. Think the San Diego Comic-Con is big? It’s only the third largest comics gathering in the world – and number one…
Times Online looks back at the British ‘80s craze for Fighting Fantasy. The Millions has a looooong post (no, really, it’s long) about Harry Potter from a children’s librarian’s perspective. Queen guitarist Brian May has gone back to school — to finish his doctorate in astrophysics. That’s a smart move – you always want to…
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…
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…
The fifth issue of Helix, a free on-line magazine dedicated to publishing stories too extreme for regular print SF/F magazines, has just been published, with new stories by Esther Friesner, Brenda Clough, and others. Locus, the newsmagazine of the SF/Fantasy field, has mailed their July issue, and posted a profile page about it on their…
The Agony Column loves Matthew Hughes’s new far-future philosophical detective comedy The Spiral Labyrinth, and doesn’t care who knows it. OF Blog of the Fallen reviews Tobias S. Buckell’s second novel, the space opera Ragamuffin. Strange Horizons reviews the new Mike Resnick-edited anthology of future police stories, Alien Crimes. Blogcritics reviews Interworld, by Neil Gaiman…
