Recent Reviews05 January 2009 We asked our reviewers to pick their SF-related highs and lows of 2008—books, films, tv, anything. This is what they said. Queen of K'n-Yan by Asamatsu Ken, translated by Kathleen Taiji 24 December 2008 Did I like it? I'm not sure. I admired it, and am glad that I read it. Should more works by Asamatsu be translated into English, I'd be interested to read them. 23 December 2008 What is most intriguing and impressive about this anthology is the sense of range and breadth it conveys. Other Worlds, Better Lives: A Howard Waldrop Reader—Selected Long Fiction 1989-2003 22 December 2008 Sometimes, what everyone knows is true. Howard Waldrop's body of fantastic fiction is uniquely fascinating and rewarding, and he deserves all the plaudits he's received for it. The Last Book by Zoran Živković 19 December 2008 This is a novel that requires detective work, and ultimately its strength lies in its very un-genre acknowledgement that there is a world beyond its covers. Liberation by Brian Francis Slattery 17 December 2008 The publicity material for Liberation quite understandably makes much of the prescience and topicality of its premise, but in doing so seems to misrepresent the novel's goals and strengths. 15 December 2008 The truth of the matter is that the ending of Half a Crown must be an insult to any reader who thought Small Change was going to have something adult to submit about the matters it purports to address. Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet by Gregory Frost 12 December 2008 Telling tales is what Shadowbridge the novel and its sequel, Lord Tophet, are all about. 10 December 2008 Winterstrike offers up a mixture of gothic fantasy and space opera that succeeds and fails to engage in roughly equal measures. The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum 08 December 2008 So Rosenbaum is a writer not without promise, who from time to time manages to spin all his plates simultaneously. More often, one or other flings itself to the ground, and the audience might understandably drift away. But at least he is trying to perform the trick, which is in no small part the quality which makes a writer worth watching. View older reviews in our Archive, thanks to the kindness of our authors who allow us to keep their material online. |