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Years Best SF 14

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Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Year’s Best SF 14
Authors: Eds. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
Publisher: EOS Science Fiction
ISBN-10: 0061721743
ISBN-13: 978-0061721748
Rating: 6/10

As we’ve noted earlier, anthologies are a (The Dimension Next Door) tricky thing. Especially in a market, er, genre that’s gotten the teeth knocked out of it over the last few years. Yet despite all obstacles economic and otherwise, the editors of Year’s Best Sci-Fi 14 have done a tremendous job sifting the wheat from the chaff, all while maintaining the same humble attitude that’s made the books accessible and fun.
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Categories : Reviews: Books

Tags : sci-fi book review, science fiction

The Secret History of Science Fiction by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel

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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

The Secret History of Science Fiction
Authors: James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel
Publisher: Tachyon
ISBN-13: 9781892391933
ISBN: 1892391937
Rating: 6/10

There are anthologies, and ‘anthologies’. The Secret History of Science Fiction is the latter. As such books go there is hardly anything to recommend against it, at least at first. A crop of crème de la crème authors both mainstream and not. Expert commentary from the editors and a book cover that is equal parts mysterious and alluring. Yet to ape a phrase from Top Chef, it’s all in the presentation. To put it kindly, The Secret History is long on presentation, but too much of a good thing can kill a dish-and it certainly is the case with this tome.
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Categories : Reviews: Books

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Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

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Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Unseen Academicals
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Harper
ISBN-10: 0061161721
ISBN-13: 978-0061161728

Ever since Terry Pratchett first burst on the scene in the early 1970s, he’s rarely disappointed. The Discworld series is still considered one of the best in the fantasy genre and his satirical novels Good Omens is still highly regarded. Disappointment, simply, is not in his nature. Unseen Academicals is no different.
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Categories : Reviews: Books

Tags : sci-fi, science fiction, terry pratchett

Dragoncon - Give Us A Shout Out

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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

We are vending at this weekends Dragoncon 2009. (Atlanta G.A.) Come drop by our tables F 9,10,11 in the dealers room and give us a shout out. Greetings and warm welcomes will be handed out freely.

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Categories : Obscuria

Tags : dragoncon, sci-fi, science fiction

An Interview with RUSSELL T. DAVIES

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Thursday, August 20th, 2009

An Interview with RUSSELL T. DAVIES
Creator of TORCHWOOD, QUEER AS FOLK, and producer of DOCTOR WHO
By Abbie Bernstein
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Russell T. Davies, creator of TORCHWOOD and QUEER AS FOLK, producer of DOCTOR WHO for the Christopher Eccleston/David Tennant years of its current revival,

Doctor Who, RUSSELL T. DAVIES, Tocrchwood

is at a Television Critics Association press tour party for BBC America at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena. He and David Tennant have already done the big Q&A panel for their mutual final season of DOCTOR WHO, which will go on with a new Doctor and a different showrunner. Davies asks his assistant to bring him a glass of orange juice while he talks to several journalists, including yours truly. The others, who’ve been talking to him for awhile, detach themselves to talk to other BBCA talent at the party, leaving me to converse with Davies solo.
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Categories : Science Fiction & Fantasy Actor and Author Interviews

Tags : Doctor Who, Russell T. Davies, sci-fi, science fiction, Torchwood

The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R. Green

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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

The Man with the Golden Torc
Author: Simon R. Green
Publisher: RoC
ISBN: 99780451462145
Rating: 7/10

Science Fiction has always had a playful or humorous bent, going back to the pulp dramas of the 1930s and beyond. Even dark, dystopian epics have been known to have some gallows humor here and there. Read More→

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Categories : Reviews: Books

Tags : sci-fi book review, science fiction, Simon R. Green, The Man With The Golden Torc, urban fantasy

The Dimension Next Door by Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes

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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

The Dimension Next Door
Author: Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes, Eds.
Title: The Dimension Next Door
Publisher Daw Fantasy
ISBN: 9780756405090
Rating: 7/10

Anthologies are a tricky lot. Either the stories are all good or they all suck, and everybody has their favorites. “The Dimension Next Door” is no different. Within its pages, there are sleepers, and then there are stories that tingle the spine and encourage the reader to plow through the book even further. Fortunately, there are more of the latter than the former.
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