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/10b/jr234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT Reality's walls have been breached, and the worlds of Earth and Jaarfindor have become fused. Life in the capital of New Jaarfindor, Queen's Lynn (formerly present-day King's Lynn in Norfolk), presents several challenges: humans rub shoulders with insectiants, and you never know if the person next to you is an android; the mysterious shamutants, living beneath the city, may (it is said) erase your memories if you're not careful; the air is so polluted that decontamination is compulsory whenever you enter a building; and nobody knows what's "Out There" beyond the fog. http://www.sfsite.com/10b/sw234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT "The stories that come from Jaarfindor can't be mapped out as a whole, perfect picture. Why? Because I'm in the process of discovering what lurks in the cities and countryside, in the deserts and oceans, meeting new characters in exciting and challenging situations. I'm an artist, and as such I'm obsessed to explore the weird space of my imagination, writing down what I find there, making numerous pen and ink sketches as aide-memoirs. I constantly surprise and worry myself. Every time I venture there I find myself asking a simple yet for me a profound question: are you certain you witnessed that? Much of what I write isn't easy to quantify or label." http://www.sfsite.com/10b/pp234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT This massive retrospective of Farmer's life and work contains a wide variety of his stories and essays. The stories provide a clear insight into why the author is a grandmaster of the science fiction field. The essays give a wonderful look at not only the man behind the stories, but the techniques and thought that went into writing the stories. http://www.sfsite.com/10b/cm234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT Livejournal is a wonderful thing. Say what you will about blogging and how it's shameless wankery on the part of the author and shameful voyeurism on the part of the reader, it remains that blogs spread the word about things that might be easily missed and really ought not to be. Clarkesworld Magazine is one of those things. http://www.sfsite.com/10b/sa234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT The sea, which we have been abusing for years, strikes back under the direction of an unknown living entity previously content to inhabit the trench depths -- the Yrr. Whales begin attacking ships, hordes of jellyfish shut down the beaches of South America, and a strange new marine worm is destabilizing frozen methane in the sea bottom. The scientists are fascinated, the powerful want it stopped at any cost, and the little guy is being overwhelmed by tsunamis and poisoned sea-food. A global ecosystem shift is in the offing. http://www.sfsite.com/10b/tm234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT This novel continues the new fantasy series that began last year with A Princess of Roumania. It opens with Miranda having magically made her way to Roumania, but five years in the future. The Baroness is now the head of Roumania's puppet government after a German occupation. Miranda's two companions, a boy named Peter Gross and a girl named Andromeda who alternates between being a dog and a man are marooned in America but soon find a strange way to Turkey. The Elector of Ratisbon has been confined to his home in Germany, but he still holds Miranda's mother and the Baroness's son, and he remains a powerful sorcerer. http://www.sfsite.com/10b/mm234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT The time is no longer the English Regency. This novel is set in the late 1820s, when it is apparent that there is no direct heir to the throne. George III's many sons haven't managed to produce a legitimate male heir. Steam engines have been making a cautious appearance between town and country, to the distress of horses, dogs, and people living within range of the vast clouds of smoke. Things have been relatively quiet... until a foreign magician goes missing. http://www.sfsite.com/10b/pm234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT The author's concerns extend beyond Gospel mythology to encompass Roman antiquity, Celtic lore, the cult of Isis and goddess worship in general, primarily the notion of whore-priestess as feminist empowerment. This is The Mists of Avalon approach to retelling myth from a female perspective in which the venerated deeds of the male hero could never have happened without a woman's participation, but which role gets erased by patriarchal hegemony. It's also highly entertaining. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT Rick offers his thoughts on SciFi Friday. It begins with Heroes, the hit NBC series echoed on SciFi a few days after it airs the network. Then comes the new new Dr. Who. Then Battlestar Galactica, not the most watched but certainly the most critically acclaimed SciFi original series. And finally, reruns of the cancelled 2005 network series, Threshold. http://www.sfsite.com/10b/gl234.htm Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT As the title suggests, this book is an attempt to explain the enigma and allure of the hit TV show, Lost. To this end, fifteen writers give their views on where the series came from, what it is trying to tell us, and where it's ultimately headed. Some are more successful than others, inadvertently creating an ironic parallel to what happens on the show. Those who go with the flow, in a stream of consciousness approach, not only make more sense, but give the impression of being on the verge of enlightenment. Not unlike fan favourite John Locke. In contrast, the writers who allow themselves to get bogged down with over analysis and clever dickery, do less well. http://www.sfsite.com/10a/dn233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT "The object of those campaigns was to convert people to being Dr Pepper drinkers and the whole four year experience of those commercials really put me on the map and gave me national exposure in the US, because they were successful and aired a lot. I was under a standard contract with Dr Pepper -- which basically meant I couldn't do commercials for other soft drinks -- and I was doing personal appearances for them out on the west coast when this whole werewolf thing came up. Hey, there's a movie being directed by the fellow who did the Blues Brothers and Animal House." http://www.sfsite.com/10a/oq233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT Tamir is now a girl, and a queen -- but she's not left to sit idly on a throne and charm all who see her. Instead, she has to get used to being a girl while coping with the detritus of battle, and of a war-torn kingdom. Under threat from beyond its borders. She also has to deal with Korin, who was once her friend. He cannot believe in her transformation -- a decision fostered by the mage Niryn, who has his own motivations for doing what he does. http://www.sfsite.com/10a/tj233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT In line with royal traditions, young Princess Lia-Va has killed her much despised father. But she holds no interest in the throne that is rightfully hers now: an inner voice drives her onto a journey in search of a legendary root, the last piece of a magic puzzle which has been her sole obsession for years. Unfortunately, the roots that are the pieces of this puzzle are also a highly addictive and sought after drug, and Lia-Va's quest itself is turning more and more into a search for the next fix... http://www.sfsite.com/10a/pb233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT Frank Tanner's wife, Carol, has disappeared. He claims the woman has deserted him and their kids, leaving without notice for who knows where with who knows whom. But Carol's sister, Molly, a former drug addict, thinks she knows better and tries to convince the police that Frank is responsible for the disappearance, hinting that he may have murdered the woman. On the other hand, Molly appears to be so clumsy and unreliable that her accusations remain not only unproven, but very unlikely. http://www.sfsite.com/10a/fs233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT This may be the most self-conscious anthology to come along since Mirrorshades, the definitive cyberpunk anthology. And despite Annie Savoy's self-awareness observation in Bull Durham, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Creative expression requires some degree of self-consciousness, an artist needs at the least an internal idea from which to work. What sets it apart is the proclamatory nature of its self-awareness, the editors and writers contained within are consciously searching to create something new, something that doesn't fit within the usual publishing conventions. http://www.sfsite.com/10a/jr233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT Jack 'Church' Churchill, hero of the Age of Misrule series, has been thrown back in time by the enemy of Existence, to Celtic Britain. He has a sword of the gods in his hand, but no knowledge of how he got there, and only sketchy memories of his past battles. The one thing that is crystal clear, is his enduring love for Ruth Gallagher, who is now 2,000 years into the future from where he stands. Abducted into the Far Lands, Church plans to wait out time there, until the age where Ruth can be found rolls around. Unfortunately for him, but happily for readers, Existence and its enemies have other plans. http://www.sfsite.com/books/new233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT Some of the highlights passing through the SF Site office at the moment include the latest from Raymond E. Feist, Whitley Strieber, Jennifer Fallon, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, plus new editions of classics from Carol Emshwiller, Howard Waldrop, Robert A. Heinlein, and new collections from some of the best anthologists in the business, like Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Stephen Jones, and Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT Rick offers his thoughts on some of the new and returning TV shows for the first part of the 2006-2007 season. He also gives us a list of what to watch on TV in October. http://www.sfsite.com/10a/md233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT In this universe of empirical theology, a small group of colonists wait on an alien planet. They do not know why. They all believe that as soon as the final colonist joins them they will at last discover why they have been sent there. This is not to be. Just like the Telephone Hygiene Officers in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide, the reader is left with a nagging feeling they have simply been selected for this mission because no-one else wants them. http://www.sfsite.com/10a/mr233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT The book, eruditely and seamlessly mixing elements of Arthurian and later chivalric romances, Norse/Germanic myths, Gothic trappings, and Christian-chivalric ethics, is a clear precursor to William Morris' mediaeval romances, George Macdonald's spiritual fantasies, and to Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung. Macdonald's fantasies and particularly his works on literary theory, along with and Morris' early fantasy works are known to have been an influence on Tolkien, and some more extreme views argue that Tolkien's distaste for Wagner and what his work represented led him to write The Lord of the Rings as an cultural antidote to that of Wagner. http://www.sfsite.com/10a/lt233.htm Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:00:00 GMT Thought to have sunk with Fantomas on the S.S. Gigantic, Juve and Fandor suddenly find themselves alive and well in c. 1925 Marseilles. When diplomat Leon de Vautreuil serves as courier for millions in diamonds, strange things begin to happen around Paris, his sister, known to be on a ship to South America, mysteriously returns home unable to speak, and the family's clearly dead dog has come back to life. 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.