SF Site's Readers' Choice: Best Read of the Year: 2005 compiled by Neil Walsh
In past years, there has frequently been considerable overlap between the SF Site Editors' choices and the Readers' choices for the best books of the year. This time, however, we were surprised to...
View ArticleThe Translation of Bastian Test by Tom Arden
When fifteen-year-old Bastian Test's eccentric artist mother, Julian, dies in a house fire of suspicious origin, he's sent into the care of his guardian, the Marquess of Drumhallurick, who lives in a...
View ArticleEclipse by K.A. Bedford
"This time tomorrow," thinks James Dunne, newly-minted graduate of the Royal Interstellar Service Academy, "I'll be an officer serving aboard a starship, charting unexplored space!" It's his life...
View ArticleCity of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer
A jobless pilgrim enters Ambergris, the City of Saints and Madmen. Looking through a window inside a house, he sees the woman he resolves to fall in love with. A tattooed dwarf offers him his services...
View ArticleLike a Virgin: A Conversation with Jayme Lynn Blaschke, Part 1
"I don't just show up, no. That's the kiss of death. You learn that early on in journalism as a reporter. If you show up, your ignorance will be on display for everyone to see and snicker at, and even...
View ArticlePlatinum Pohl by Frederik Pohl
His career as a science fiction writer dates back to 1937 with the pseudonymous publication of the poem "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna." In addition, he has been an editor, an agent, and a publisher....
View ArticleGiants of the Frost by Kim Wilkins
Victoria is a well-grounded atheistic meteorologist, who after a messy breakup lands a job on a remote wind-blown Norwegian Island, which just happens to be the Earth side of Bifrost, the mythical...
View ArticleQuiver by Stephanie Spinner
Set in a mythic, ancient Greece, where centaurs are as much of a threat to people as the boars sent by vengeful gods, it tells the story of Atalanta, who, cast out at birth for being a girl instead of...
View ArticleOld Twentieth by Joe Haldeman
Here, the ideas the author juggles are immortality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and a variant on the generation starship. He is also, as the title tells us, concerned with the 20th...
View ArticleClose To My Heart: Dune by Frank Herbert
"The original Dune was published in 1965; its two sequels, completing the original trilogy, followed over the next decade, with Children of Dune making an appearance in 1979. I was two when the first...
View ArticleGenetopia by Keith Brooke: a novel excerpt
"In the day's harsh sunlight the Leaving Hill appeared white with bones. Flintreco Eltarn adjusted his sunhood and scrambled up the last of the rough incline, following the path his sister had taken...
View ArticleA Conversation With Keith Brooke
"I did have fun creating Nick's online presence, though, particularly his monthly journal at www.nickgifford.co.uk, which has turned into a blend of truth and one or two slight fabrications. As Nick's...
View ArticleBabylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood
The appeal of Doctor Who is curious -- somehow cheesy special effects are compensated for by the Doctor's cheeky insouciance, and what started out as a low-budget children's programme has become the...
View ArticleMythic Delirium, Issue 13
Have you ever tried to recommend a brilliant fantasy or science fiction novel to a friend who has never read fantasy or science fiction before? Now, consider, these are obstacles that the avid SF...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKilllip
There is a sense of antiquity about this book -- not that of a dusty obsolescence nor a sliding into oblivion. On the contrary, this is one of those shining complex things that our ancestors seemed to...
View ArticleThe Overnight by Ramsey Campbell
The author does what he does best, write exquisite prose, develop atmosphere over blood and gore, and thereby develops a truly creepy and gloomy mood surrounding the store's staff and the sense of...
View ArticleSF Site's Best Read of the Year: 2005
If you've been an SF Site reader for more than a couple of years, you'll know that our annual Top 10 list is never limited to a mere 10 books. We've never fudged the numbers, which means that we...
View ArticleA Conversation With Conrad Williams
"I prefer writing short stories, because I know how to do it. Novels are still frightening for me, despite having written six since I was 21. I don't think I'm the only writer who frets over books...
View ArticleZanesville by Kris Saknussemm
A naked man awakens in Central Park with no memory of who he is or where he came from. He's blond, handsome, and hugely endowed; on his back is carved the truncated phrase FATHER FORGIVE THEM F. He's...
View ArticleBlackbird House by Alice Hoffman
In Cape Cod, there is a small farm compassing a small house, called Blackbird House. It's called that because of the white blackbird -- perhaps a ghost, perhaps not -- that has haunted the house since...
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