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Night of Knives by Ian C. Esslemont

The story describes the events that transpired on the night that Surly became the empress of the Malazan Empire and Kellanved and Dancer ascend to the pantheon of shadow realm. The tale is told...

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This is Me, Jack Vance! by Jack Vance

Jack Vance is 93 years old and has retired from writing. But this book represents one last gift to his admirers. Vance has been fairly reticent about his personal life and also about his writing. This...

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Babylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood

Rick, like many of us, spent some time in late September watching the new season of SF on TV for new series and those returning for another year. He looks at Smallville, FlashForward, Heroes and...

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New Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh

Plenty to choose from this time, as our new arrivals feature classic reprints from Edmond Hamilton, Glen Cook, and Steven Brust, some great new horror stories as we approach Halloween, some media...

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Nexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams

Roughly twenty years ago, it was clear that if Rick Klaw wasn't writing comics for children then he produced pornographic stories thus making him a person of questionable character and morality....

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News Spotlight -- Genre Books and Media: a column by Sandy Auden

From the British Fantasy Society Fantasycon, there are new releases from attendees. Mark Chadbourn on tent poles and enduring memories with Destroyer of Worlds; Pete Crowther talks about abducting the...

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Dollhouse: Season One

Dollhouse is about a secret organization with the technology to erase people's memories and personalities, and then implant them with completely new mental constructs, leading to a collection of...

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The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick

Multi Hugo Award-winner Michael Swanwick presents sixteen short stories in this collection, some of which are loosely connected works featuring the same characters. These include the title work, which...

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The Professor was a Thief by L. Ron Hubbard

Remember the days of the pulps? Those small magazines that printed short stories ranging from westerns to pirate adventures to science fiction were a staple for many readers during the first half of...

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Hater by David Moody

The world appears to be tearing itself apart through sheer insanity. Seemingly normal people inexplicably react as if a switch goes off and suddenly, without warning, they try to kill anyone in their...

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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Connie must move into her deceased grandmother's house in order to clean it up and prepare it to be sold. It's a strange old house, with mandrake roots growing in the yard, strange bottles lining the...

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New Audiobooks compiled by Susan Dunman

Recent audiobook releases received by SF Site include works by Charles de Lint, Simon R. Green, R.A. Salvatore, Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood. At times it's more convenient (and enjoyable) to hear...

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Illuminati - 2012 by Nishan A. Kumaraperu

Ethan Swan, a trust fund pretty boy who also happens to be a genius with a photographic memory and black belts in multiple martial arts, goes to a lecture by his surrogate father, who gives a lecture...

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The Child Thief by Brom

The story begins with a young girl whose mother has ended her own life with pills surviving each day in the shadow of a cruel stepfather who abuses her. Her terror ends the night she is rescued from...

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Irons in the Fire by Juliet E. McKenna

For generations the common folk have fled Lescar in search of a better life outside fractious borders contested by ambitious dukes. If the family could not flee then they sent their children away, to...

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Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Omen by Christie Golden

In the scant few years that have passed between Jedi Jacen Solo's decent into the Dark Side as Darth Caedus, the newly formed Galactic Alliance attempts to lick its wounds and return the galaxy to...

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Bring Down the Sun by Judith Tarr

The author has turned her hand to the Greece of antiquity in this particular novel, and her subject is Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great, who was by all (historical) accounts a...

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Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams

Implied Spaces is an exploration of what would threaten a post-singularity humanity. The hero was a computer programmer who helped architect the singularity a thousand years ago. Now going by the name...

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Book of Shadows by Paula Brackston

Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, age 384, has moved once again to start another segment of her nearly solitary life. As Bess Hawksmith, a witch finder condemned her mother to hanging in England in 1628. Bess...

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The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The Riyria. Most thieves steal jewels and coin; the Riyria prefer to focus on the theft of reputation...

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Babylon 5.1: TV reviews by Rick Norwood

Surrogates is a routine but entertaining Bruce Willis vehicle, mundane science fiction about a world where 90 percent of humanity lives through surrogates, pretty robots who transmit their senses and...

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Nexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams

And so arrives the one book -- especially the one "graphic novel-y" type book -- Mark London Williams has been waiting for all year. (Well, he wouldn't mind a look at the latest Umbrella Academy...

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New Arrivals compiled by Neil Walsh

New arrivals this time feature the latest Wild Card novel from George R.R. Martin and others, re-issued classics, plus new works from Iain M. Banks, Michael Chabon, Laini Taylor, Adam Roberts, and...

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Dollhouse: Season Two: a TV review by David Newbert

The second season of Dollhouse has begun, and there is some good news and some bad news. Good news first: the first three episodes out of the gate are everything they needed to be artistically,...

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The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan

The New Space Opera differs from the Old Space Opera mainly in displaying a generally more cynical political attitude, in being better written, and (often) in having slightly more rigorous scientific...

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Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

The story in this first book of the series introduces listeners to the town of Morganville, Texas, home of Texas Prairie University. The town is populated by some strange people and even stranger yet,...

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Sleep Traveler by Marcus Hame

Brenden, a moderately talented musician, has had a series of recurring dreams his entire life, one of a boy in the 1900s and the other of an amazing musical prodigy in the future year of 2020. He...

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Aliens Rule edited by Allan Kaster

The idea of aliens among us has always been an intriguing concept but it's not quite so appealing if the aliens have the upper hand. In this collection of three short stories, humans must cope with...

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Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

A reporter is brutally murdered by someone who had been found dead two weeks earlier. Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast joins forces with NYPD Detective Vincent D'Agosta to solve the crime seemingly...

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Genesis by Bernard Beckett

The book grabs your attention. It's never boring, and its basic questions -- what separates men and machines, how can artificial intelligence be creative, at what point can AI be considered...

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Haze by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

Major Keir Roget is a government operative who works for the Federation, the current government of human civilization. Its strongest roots are in the Chinese government that created the Federation as...

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Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

Eleven years before the novel begins, James Stark was a young magician learning to control and use the power and talent so evident within him. Then another magician and his followers ganged up to send...

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