http://www.sfsite.com/ The new issue of the SF Site is now online. Copyright 1996-2010 SF Site en-us http://www.sfsite.com/images/sfspot1.gif http://www.sfsite.com/ http://www.sfsite.com/11b/aa332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Set a mere handful of years from where Without Warning left off, the story opens with President James Kipper leading the effort to reclaim an America that is now free of the deadly energy wave which erased most of the living things within its borders. Gone, as quickly and mysteriously as it came -- and without any explanation -- what is left behind is a vast country in which most of the cities are burned out ruins. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/cs332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Carnal Sin is the sequel to the first in the series, Original Sin, that was released to great acclaim. Each book has a theme of one the seven deadly sins which have been unleashed by demons who want to control the world. Here, Lust, in demon form, travels to Los Angeles to influence individuals and answer his calling. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/co332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Military SF is a standard subgenre. It's quite a broad subject that has interested a lot of writers for a long time, and one that continues to have resonance for writers and readers. This book includes a pretty good quantity of less familiar names (particularly to American readers) and as such we might hope for some surprises. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/du332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in a local bar and grill in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's a fox by every definition of the word. Great build, blond hair, blue eyes, about 5'7", etc. Something about her blood is special too because every Vampire she meets want a bite. Sookie has never had much of a social life including sex as she has a disability, as she puts it. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/ap332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT It's a strange world -- so says Elijah Snow, and he should know. He has been recruited by a mysterious organization called Planetary to assist in its efforts to uncover Earth's secret history. The pay is not bad at one million dollars a year for life, especially considering Elijah has already lived 100 years, while aging only half that number. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/os332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT John Chandagnac, son of a puppeteer, is still mourning his father's death when he sets out for Jamaica to get back his inheritance from the uncle who stole it. To this end, he charters the Vociferous Carmichael but gets to see another side of sea life when it is attacked by Phillip Davies, privateer and captain of the sloop Jenny. Chandagnac gets on the wrong side of a pirate captain and is offered the choice to either join them or die. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/hw332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Catherine Crawfield is on a mission. Ever since learning that she was conceived when her human mother was brutally raped by a vampire, she has made it her vocation to eliminate vampires from the world -- one silver stake at a time. The score is in Cat's favor when she meets the vampire Bones, a bounty hunter who chases down other vampires for a living. With a common goal of killing vampires, Cat enters into an uneasy alliance with Bones. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/ia332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." The defining quote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote for Holmes is what guides this collection, which explores the improbable and bends the limits on improbability. There are 28 stories in this collection, written by authors whose specialties range throughout the science fiction, horror and fantasy realms. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/wr332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Miles Naismith Vorkosigan was left crippled after a poison gas attack on his mother when he was still in the womb. In reality, he's lucky to be alive at all, but gratitude doesn't always come easy when one's bones might break from a hard push, especially when growing up in a culture that places a high premium on physical prowess in boys. Add onto that a father who is a Count, a high-ranking military officer and former Regent to the Emperor, and you have one young man eager to prove himself. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/wk332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT The powerful Alethi princedoms are held together by an uneasy alliance, but lack the unification of a strong ruler after the infamous assassination of their first king a decade ago. Military power is determined by Shardblades and Plate, magically enhanced weapons and armor that kingdoms battle to possess. Society is divided in a rigid caste system based on eye color. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/db332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT "Crossroads or crosshairs, it's all the same. There's only one way through the pain and that's through the music." That's what the mysterious old bluesman tells Brandt when Brandt learns he has a new musical power. This quote grabbed me and kept hold as Brandt, a burned out musician, begins to play music that can absolve people of their pain. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/dd332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT From its start, everyone from the Malazan Adjunct Tavore to the Letherii King to a group of Elder Gods to the lizard-like K'Chain Che'malle and several other persons and peoples have a plan or plans to pursue. The problem for the reader is that all those plans point to a big conclusion coming up in The Crippled God, the tenth and final volume of The Malazan Book of the Fallen. The problem for the characters is that none of their plans work out the way they expected. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/gs332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT The eponymous opening story of this brilliant collection is a haunting tale of the West Texas sands, a strange triangle between a dementing (but rich) old man, his apparently guileless nephew, and the nephew's young wife. This story was reminiscent of all those J.G. Ballard stories and novels set in imagined landscapes that powerfully reflect mindscapes. The exotic and the eerie is a mirror of ourselves. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/ow332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT For most of the last thousand years, the different threads or clans of elves have lived in harmony and equality under the guidance of Takaar. But ten years ago, Takaar fled to Calaius from a battle with the demonic Garonin (humans), saving the lives of many elves, but leaving thousands to be slaughtered. The past ten years have brought strife among the threads, and Sildaan, of the Ynissul thread, has aligned herself with humans to bring back the old ways. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/gk332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT For Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, our humble narrator, release from samsara is urgent: his six-year-old son Pichai has been killed in a traffic accident, and his wife Chanya has fled to a nunnery in her grief. The beginning of the novel sees Sonchai as a broken man, surviving his despair through liberal consumption of marijuana and the recitation of an ego-annihilating mantra given to him by a Tibetan yogin in Nepal. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/en332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Everyone over sixteen is catching an unknown disease that usually kills them. However, instead of dying or becoming brainless zombies, they become semi-brainless zombies stumbling around in packs, attacking children and eating them. Our story starts with a group of children battling a crowd of adults in a London, YMCA-type community recreation center where they have gone to scrounge food out of vending machines. Upon arrival, they discover the machines have been thrown into the pool. Not having seen a grown-up during their trek, the kids feel it's safe to enter the sickening water. http://www.sfsite.com/books/new332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT New and forthcoming titles this time include the latest from Tim Lebbon, Alan Dean Foster, Jeffrey E. Barlough, Lois McMaster Bujold, Cherie Priest, and much more besides. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/graphica331.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Captain Marvel Jr., introduced in 1941 as one of the earliest crippled characters in comics, revolutionized the burgeoning comics industry as the first youthful counterpart to a main hero, thus spawning the "superhero family" concept. During an aerial battle between Captains Marvel and Nazi, the Aryan villain crashes into a lake, crippling the young Freddy Freeman who happened to be fishing on a small boat. Rick Klaw has some thoughts on how disabilities are portrayed in comics. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/rick332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Rick offers his thoughts on Battlestar Galactica direct to DVD movie The Plan. He also gives us a list of what SF is on TV in November. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/es332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT "Entangled is very different from anything else I've ever written. It's a work of fiction -- a fantasy-adventure, sci-fi, time-slip novel, with strong elements of horror thrown into the mix, set part in the twenty-first century, part in the Stone Age. Brindle is a young Neanderthal man and Ria a young human woman living in northern Spain twenty-four thousand years ago. They're caught up in a cosmic battle of good against evil, and supernatural forces bring them together with Leoni, a troubled teen in modern Los Angeles, to confront a demon who travels through time." http://www.sfsite.com/11b/qt332.htm Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Jean le Flambeur is a thief. As the novel opens, he is sprung from a space-based prison by Mieli, an Oortian woman who hopes to get her lover back by serving a certain goddess -- and the service now requested is to have Jean steal something. And that requires a trip to the Oubliette on Mars, where Jean apparently once lived under a different name, and betrayed a woman, and hid something that Mieli's employer wants. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/sa331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Will Swyfte is part Flashing Blade and part prototype James Bond, with a dash of Captain Jack Sparrow. Swyfte has more luck than a fistful of four leaf clovers, and accomplishes at least as many improbable escapes as Jack Bauer. All for Queen and country, overtly fighting the Spanish, and covertly locked into an endless battle with the supernatural forces of the true Enemy. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/lv331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT In this beautiful limited edition paperback of the author's 1997 collection, these are great stories, ranging over genres and locations with admirable disdain for the artificial boundaries that disfigure literature. To use one of the great cliches, there is something for everyone. More accurately, there are multiple stories to suit multiple tastes. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/fr331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT In the Dells, where Fire lives, she is considered a monster. Not because she is graced to read and control minds but because of her vibrant flame red hair. Even without it, she would be considered an extremely beautiful woman. With it, all men desire her. The king makes a total fool out of himself over her, pawing and bowing and begging her to marry him or coming to her rooms at all hours of the night and day with new proposals of marriage and threats to kill himself if she does not. These are not idle threats. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/ls331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT An enjoyable and very smoothly written recounting of Orpheus's life (or, as Orpheus would have it, one cycle of his ever-recurring life), the book tells most of the familiar stories about him, particularly his musical gifts, his love for Eurydice and his doomed trip to the Underworld to retrieve her, his study in Egypt, his journey on the Argo with Jason, and his final fate at the hands of the Maenads. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/mb331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Katniss Everdeen can stand tall. She's won two hunger games and now finds herself as the Mockingjay. The Mockingjay is a small little bird that has many qualities but perhaps the most important for now is that it draws others to itself through its song. Those in power who would fight the oppressive government of the Capitol and President Snow rally to the standard of the Mockingjay which Katniss has come to represent. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/sb331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT The present volume assembles eighteen tales quite various in genre, content and style. For instance there are: a historical piece ("One"), a vampire story full of graphic violence ("Venus and Mars"), a yarn in the shape of a comic book story ("Lament for Gunwitch"), a funny tale about the human race going crazy ("The Urge"), and a horrific novella running on the edge of plausibility, where a monster destroys the peace of a small sea town ("The Shell Collector"). http://www.sfsite.com/11a/fa331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Star Wars: the Old Republic: Fatal Alliance is a chance for Star Wars fans to read the newest novel and immerse themselves in the characters before the release of Star Wars: the Old Republic video game in 2011. Bioware and Lucas Arts collaborated to make this game a reality, and no doubt there will be a scramble to get their hands on it. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/ts331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Temeraire and Laurence have been transported to Australia. Laurence remains loyal to England, with misgivings, and Temeraire of course is utterly loyal to Laurence. Australia has recently undergone a sort of revolution, with the local landowners deposing the cruel and incompetent Governor Bligh (of the Bounty, yes). But this cannot stand, and Bligh angles for restoration to his seat. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/ju331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT The author's stories have won multiple World Fantasy and Sidewise Awards and his novels have garnered him Clarke and Campbell trophies. This fourth collection provides insight into why his work is held in such high esteem. In many of the stories, he is able to take the time to flesh out a complex setting, familiar, yet quite different from the world in which we live. http://www.sfsite.com/columns/derek331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Damien Walter at the Guardian recently posted an article entitled "Why Hollywood Can't Get the Hang of Science Fiction," in which he stated that, after more than a century of cinema and despite a wealth of source material since the inception of science fiction as a literary form, only two science fiction masterpieces, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Bladerunner, have ever been filmed. Almost immediately after Mr. Walter posted this opinion, comments appeared making a plethora of suggestions to add to his very short list. Derek felt that Mr. Walter's list lacked one movie on his list of masterpieces. http://www.sfsite.com/books/new331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT This time we're looking at the latest from Charles Burns, Joe Abercrombie, Connie Willis, Alan Dean Foster, Dave Duncan, Lois McMaster Bujold, Paul Kearney, Fiona McIntosh, and plenty more. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/hu331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT All the drama started one day in science class when Coach Harvey changed the seating chart to do a little scientific sleuthing as he put it. His plan was to force students to get to know a new lab partner. This paired Patch with Nora and where all the trouble began. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/vo331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT This is the story of NASA's Voyager probes, two spacecraft launched in 1977, and their extraordinary Grand Tour to the outer planets and beyond -- only better, because the author also deftly weaves in the story of the Western world's love affair with great voyages of discovery. http://www.sfsite.com/11a/za331.htm Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT Ann Burden is alone and she is scared. She is also a remarkable woman in spite of her girlish years (not quite 16). The world as we know it has ended by nuclear disaster. We are, appropriately, given little to no details of the war, because that's not what this book is about. It is about the inner strength of women, and how it rises to the surface when faced with horrible adversity and circumstances. 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.