http://www.sfsite.com/ The new issue of the SF Site is now online. Copyright 1996-2007 SF Site en-us http://www.sfsite.com/images/sfspot1.gif http://www.sfsite.com/ http://www.sfsite.com/07b/ps228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT This anthology has a mouthful of a subtitle -- "Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction - Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories." It reflects the latest categorical gyrations, although, to their credit, the discussion the editors offer is actually quite straightforward. Essentially, their position is "that there are really at least three different kinds of fiction: genre, literary (in its realistic, character-based sense), and a third type of fiction that really has no commonly accepted name, which does have cultural meaning and artistic value and therefore does not fit well in the escapist formula genres, but which has non-realistic elements that exclude it from the category of literary fiction." http://www.sfsite.com/07b/pg228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT As the war between the White Council and the vampiric Red Court rages on with ever-higher casualties, Harry is tasked to find out what the Summer and Winter Courts of the Fae have up their sleeves. He's got some history with the two Courts, which makes him ideal for the task. Find out why the Fae haven't acted in response to earlier slights. Find out why the Red Court has gotten away with blatant acts against the Fae. Discover what it will take to bring the Sidhe to bear against the vampires, and not the mages. Oh, and by the way, all evidence supports the existence of a traitor within the White Council. http://www.sfsite.com/07b/br228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Elena Michaels used to think she had problems when a wolf bit her and she started turning into a werewolf. But that was nothing. Now she's a pregnant werewolf -- something even other werewolves have never heard of before. And the simple job her pack has agreed to -- stealing a letter from a sorcerer -- has backfired badly. It's hard to plan a nursery when you're being chased by unkillable zombies and investigating whether Jack the Ripper is roaming the streets of Toronto. http://www.sfsite.com/07b/gh228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Set in the Invisible Republic, a splinter-polity recovering from the Censorship Wars, Robin, who may have been a tank regiment or a counter-intelligence agent (he's not sure -- his memory isn't what it used to be), meets Kay. They both sign up for an experimental historical-roleplaying project, which has the stated objective of recreating one of the historic Dark Ages, c.1950-2040 AD. You shouldn't be surprised to learn that things are not as they seem to be. http://www.sfsite.com/07b/pm228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT In this sequel to The Princess Pawn, Willow is still trying to cope with her old-fashioned and determined grandmother, with her mischievous little brother, with her mother being struck down by a suspicious illness, and most absorbingly, with Sir Brand, her boyfriend. Relationships for teens are tough enough without the added hassles of being a princess, a mage still struggling to master magic, and a girl with Earth attitudes. Or should that be Attitude? Her grandmother certainly thinks so -- and sometimes, it seems, so does Brand. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT "The pilot for The Flash is so lame and listless that the only way I could sit through it was to rewrite it in my head. In the pilot, we get a full screen shot of thunderclouds, lightening and thunder simultaneous, ominous music. Then a quick cut to the Barry Allen in the lab and the most famous scene in the entire story of The Flash. Lightning hits a shelf of chemicals and spills them all over Barry. Only the way it is presented is deadly dull." http://www.sfsite.com/07b/ne228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Saying that Christopher A. Zackey's fictional writing has the whimsey of a L. Frank Baum, uses language in a manner akin to Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, and carries, like the Narnia books, a subtext of a mythology which originates in Roman Catholicism, but incorporates numerous other philosophical elements doesn't entirely circumscribe why his work is original, appealing and even laugh-out-loud entertaining. http://www.sfsite.com/07b/ls228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT The premise features a Living Monolith character, the Alpha, who intends to destroy all inferior life forms in the universe, just as soon as it has collected the last sons of those races that have already perished. The purpose of this collection is to drain their emotional energies to use as a weapon. Thus do we find J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter and last son of the red planet, teamed with Superman, the last son of Krypton, and the cosmic bounty hunter Lobo, who is the last son of Czarnia. http://www.sfsite.com/07b/tt228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Tiernay West's father travels the globe doing research for his adventure novels. Tiernay Markovitz's mother lives a useful live in a small northeastern town as mother to a daughter she intends to raise as responsible and practical. Tiernay is trying hard to be a good daughter to both her parents, who are now separated, but she really wants to be Tiernay West, Professional Adventurer. http://www.sfsite.com/books/new228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Our latest new arrivals include much anticipated continuations to popular series from such authors as Greg Keyes, Katharine Kerr, Kevin J. Anderson, Paul Kearney, Kate Forsyth, and Harry Turtledove. Of course that's not all; you'll also find the latest from Alan Dean Foster, Laurell K. Hamilton, Anne & Todd McCaffrey, Tom Piccirilli, plus much more. http://www.sfsite.com/07b/dh228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT It seems like everyone's got a war story inspired by their days serving in the front lines of the hell called dating. Now, four authors well-known for their explorations of the crossroads of supernatural and romance turn their attentions to those war stories. In four very distinct stories, they explore just how bad, or weird, it can be when your date isn't even human.... http://www.sfsite.com/07b/cd228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT This is the second half of the Great Migration Duology. Readers should realize that this is not a sequel so much as the second half of the story began in Crystal Soldier. In that book we met Jela (full name M. Jela Granthor's Guard), the burned-out soldier who was a genetic experiment, and Cantra yos'Phelium, the burned-out smuggler pilot. Jela, stranded for a time on an empty planet, finds a single living tree, and rescues it. This second book opens with a vastly strange prologue that makes sense only if you've read the first book. http://www.sfsite.com/07b/sr228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT The worst thing about Superman Returns is the actor, who has a variety of facial expressions similar to that of the plastic Aurora Superman model -- except on two or three very brief occasions when he looks so much like Christopher Reeve that he may have had a little help from CGI. http://www.sfsite.com/07b/pc228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT This is the best new Roadrunner and Coyote cartoon since Chuck Jones passed away. Chuck Jones -- the man who discovered that the laws of physics can be funny. Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio have learned that lesson well. Everybody LEAN this way. Good. Now everybody LEAN that way. Good. Lean this way. Lean that way. This way. That way. Grab. Oops, missed. Again. Lean. Lean. Lean. http://www.sfsite.com/07b/cs228.htm Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Jayme has seen the future of speculative fiction art, and its name is John Picacio. Except, if he's being honest with himself and readers, that's not true. You see, to be the future would imply that he has yet to come into his own. Anyone who even casually thumbs through this book knows full well that this young artist has arrived. The question isn't how good he is, it's how much better can he possibly get? http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ei227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT This is the second volume of short stories from Jeffrey Ford, the first being the award-winning The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories. He is one among a rare breed, a writer's writer who still knows how to connect with the reader in the manner of a friend telling good tale. Even Jonathan Carroll is a fan. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ee227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT In this third volume of the Vatta's War series. Stella is made captain of Ky's original ship, and sent to trade. Stella finds herself hop-scotching system by system after Ky, dealing with the troubles Ky has stirred up in various ports. Meanwhile, unknown to the cousins, their tough old Aunt Grace, back on Slotter Key, is spying on the turncoat President -- and watching the assassins who are watching the survivors of her family. Everyone thinks Grace is a doddering old woman, an impression she works to foster -- until she is forced to take on an ally and then to act. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/rp227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT A bit of imagination, a lot of action and a gripping narrative style: those were the ingredients of the so-called pulp fiction which has filled the pages of many old magazines, delighting more than one generation of avid readers and shaping up the creative minds of many future writers. This anthology bring back to life that beloved, although often underestimated genre, challenging a group of distinguished authors to produce new material using the atmospheres, the themes and the time-frame of the old pulp tales. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/gg227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Nathan Ward, a young boy of approximately 13 years and his mother Annie are the central characters. The circumstances surrounding Nathan's conception have given him the power to dream himself into other worlds. The grail, in this adaptation of the grail saga, is actually a holy and mythical relic from one of these other worlds. Nathan and his mother, with the help of some friends (from this world and beyond), must uncover the mystery of the grail before someone gets killed. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/km227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT K-Machines starts off in much the same style as its prequel, mixing enigmatic conversation with literary stylings and rampaging monsters. It's when August Seebeck, whose life changed so dramatically in Godplayers, begins questioning what has happened to him that K-Machines starts to change its focus. The adventure is still there, but it now moves more to the background, and the main story becomes a series of conversations all brought about by August's questions. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/to227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Bareneed is a small fishing village on the Newfoundland coast, and, what part of the community the loss of the cod fishery hasn't killed, modern technology is finishing off by distancing people from their long held traditions. The recently separated Joseph Blackwood, a fisheries officer, returns to his family home, bringing his young daughter. When Davy Jones' locker begins to spew out albino fish, and the long ago dead-at-sea, there's clearly something up. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ms227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT In 2020 an American government dominated by the religious right bans homosexual acts. Thanks to mandatory testing for the "Scarpetti gene," the government identifies all gays and evacuates them to an island off the coast of California. For 35 years the two societies are isolated from each other. Heterosexuals born on the island of "Cali" are sent to the US, and homosexual babies from the US are sent to the island; otherwise the two populations never meet. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/kr227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT "I've always been a visceral writer, as in, I don't have an intellectual approach, twelve steps or twelve things you need to put in to make a story, any of that; I sit down in the morning most days and do what I have to do, whatever that is. I do think the computer has made life better for me. Instead of ripping, say, seventeen unsatisfactory pages out of the klunky typewriter before hitting the right one, I can go over a file from the top sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph as many times as it takes to get it right." http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ps227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Once upon a time, Tess was Princess Contessa of Costenopolie. Then she learned she was really just a decoy princess, a target for would-be assassins. Now, her sister, the real Contessa sits on the throne, along with her new husband, a prince of Misdev. Tess acts as an advisor, lending the knowledge she picked up in her years as a princess, all the while trying to keep the royal couple from killing one another. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick227.htm/ Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT What's on TV in February? Rick offers a list of what to watch. He also has some news about Battlestar Galactica and The Ghost Whisperer. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/te227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT During 2006 there has been an alarming increase in the incidence of measles in the UK. This follows on from an increase in mumps noted during 2005. The return of childhood diseases that had declined to almost negligible levels before now is a result of mass technophobia. Earlier this century it was claimed that the standard MMR vaccine (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) could cause autism. This claim remains unproven. Technophobia wins the day. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/vl227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT The documents a young student finds in the belongings of his grandfather unroll a story that spans all of human history and several universes. They send him on a journey into the Vellum: the timeless meta-reality of all worlds. Throughout the Vellum, the unkin, demigods whose battles and truces have governed the rise and fall of civilisations, are mobilising for the final war between heaven and hell. Between the grinding stones of history, some of the unkin desperately try to avoid the recruiting forces of both sides. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/ds227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT This is the first in the series featuring protagonist Owen Deathstalker and the story of his rebellion against the evil Empire. We meet Owen at a turning point in his life -- a historian by profession, he lives the languid life of the lazy aristocracy. However, in a flash all this is stripped from him, for he has been outlawed, which basically means everyone is suddenly looking either to capture or to kill him. http://www.sfsite.com/07a/tr227.htm Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:00:00 GMT Maya is trying to escape her past. Throughout her childhood her father trained her relentlessly as a warrior, spy and assassin. At twenty-six, she has twelve passports, is an expert at disguise and can kill a man in seconds, but she wants a normal life and she has been trying to build one in London. When her father is murdered, she reluctantly shoulders the responsibility he has passed to her -- to travel to Los Angeles and protect two brothers who are being hunted by members of a secret organization. The odds are against her. http://www.sfsite.com/rssfeeds01.htm Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:00:00 GMT After constructing our first RSS feed, it soon became apparent that the size of files could grow quickly. We decided to separate them into smaller ones, breaking them up by month. On this page you will find RSS feed files for all of our content beginning with January 2005.