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Asimovs SF January 2010 Reviewed
Fiction from Robert Reed, Allen M. Steele, Geoffrey A. Landis, Carol Emshwiller & Chris Roberson; columns by Robert Silverberg, James Patrick Kelly & Paul di Filippo
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F & SF January – February 2010 Reviewed
New stories from Kate Wilhelm, Paul Park, Robert Reed, John Langan, Steven Popkes, Marc Laidlaw; reviews by Lucius Shepherd, Charles de Lint & Chris Moriarty.
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Drood by Dan Simmons, Reviewed
Simmons' successor to Arctic adventure The Terror neatly fuses narrator Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone with The Mystery of Edwin Drood, laced with mesmerism and Egyptology
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Interzone 225 From TTA Press, Reviewed
Fiction from Jason Sanford, Jay Lake, Lavie Tidhar; book reviews of Gardner Dozois' Year's Best SF, Greg Egan's Oceanic; film reviews of Up, District 9 and Dorian Grey.
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Joe Haldeman's Forever Free, Reviewed
References from The Book of Genesis through Exodus to Revelations hint at the true nature of this odd conclusion to a triptych that includes Forever Peace.
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Nekropolis by Tim Waggoner, Reviewed
Compared to John Meaney's Bone Song, Charlie Huston's Almost Human and Mike Carey's The Devil You Know, Angry Robot's new novel owes a debt to Dungeons & Dragons.
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Interzone 224 From TTA Press, Reviewed
Reviewed: Transformers 2, Ice Age 3, Harry Potter 6; Stargate Atlantis Season 5 & Dollhouse 1; Fiction by Jason Sanford, Chris Butler, Jeremiah Tolbert, Rachel Swirsky
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Black Static Issue 13 Reviewed
New fiction from Joel Lane, Tim Lees, Kim Lakin-Smith and James Cooper; DVD and Blu-ray reviews - Sleepy Hollow and Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell; Pete Tennant's Case Notes
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Moxyland by Lauren Beukes, Reviewed
Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow and Walter Jon Williams are name-checked, but the influences of the Lucky Strike parties and other South African stories are equally strong.
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Albedo One Issue 36, Reviewed
New Fiction from Mike O'Driscoll, Paul di Fillipo interviewed
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Slights by Kaaron Warren, Reviewed
The new Harper Collins imprint leads with a dark psychological fantasy that mines similar fictional territory to The Wasp Factory and Let the Right One In.
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Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, Reviewed
Serialized in Analog, reprinted in Harrison & Aldiss and Terry Carr's Year's Best Sci-Fi, it was rejected by seventeen publishers before St. Martin's Press published it.
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Guide to Finding Magazines to Write For
Newsagents, desk research in libraries and the internet provide a vast array of magazines, from Angling Times to Zoobooks, via Dr. Who, Star Trek and The X-Files.
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The Interpreter by Brian W. Aldiss Reviewed
Bridging the gap between Non-Stop/Starship and Hothouse/The Long Afternoon of Earth, Bow Down To Nul - as it was also known - is a better novel than Aldiss credits ir wit
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Asimov's SF October/November 2009 Reviewed
New fiction from Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, William Barton, Damien Broderick, R Garcia y Robertson, Ted Kosmatka & Heather Lindsley; non-fiction from James Patrick Kelly
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Fantasy & Science Fiction 60th Anniversary Issue
All-star Fiction by Robert Silverberg, Kate Wilhelm, Lucius Shepherd, Elizabeth Hand, Joe Haldeman, Geoff Ryman, Ron Goulart, M. Rickert, Robert Reed and Carol Emshwiller
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Majestrum by Matthew Hughes Reviewed
By fusing the style of Jack Vance with the humour of PG Wodehouse and a plot worthy of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, an F&SF regular makes an eminently readable debut.
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Black Static Issue 12 Reviewed
Fiction by Tim Casson, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kim Lakin-Smith, Nina Allan, Sarah Totton and T.F.Davenport, interview with Gary A. Braunbeck, columns by Stephen Volk and others
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Asimov's SF September 2009, Reviewed
Fiction by Mike Resnick, Jerry Oltion, Lisa Goldstein, Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Steve Rasnic Tem. Opinion from Robert Silverberg, Paul di Filippo & editor Sheila Williams
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Chris Beckett's Marcher, Reviewed
The long-awaited Shifter novel expands on stories from Asimovs, Interzone and the Year's Best SF, boundaries and mirrors reflecting the complexity of alternate universes
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Interzone 223 Dominic Green Special Reviewed
A Dominic Green Special Issue, with three stories and an interview, plus fiction from Eric Gregory and Suzanne Palmer, with reviews from Nick Lowe, Tony Lee and others
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F&SF August-September 2009 Reviewed
New stories from Bruce Sterling, Matthew Hughes, Sean McMullen, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Nancy Springer, Yoon Ha Lee, Albert E. Cowdrey, Rand B. Lee
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James Maxey's Dragonseed Reviewed
From Le Guin to Lewis, McCaffrey to Pratchett, fantasy abounds with dragons; cunning, devious or wise. Maxey's are as earthy, flawed and rounded as the humans they hunt.
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Black Static Issue 11 from TTA Press, Reviewed
Fiction from Will McIntosh, Daniel Kaysen, Al Robertson, Stephenie Burgis, Gary Couzens and Lawrence Conquest, reviews by Peter Tennant, Tony Lee, columns by Stephen Volk
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Asimovs Science Fiction August 2009 Reviewed
SF by Damian Broderick, Robert Reed, Michael Blumlein, Hugo-winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch, new writers Derek Zumsteg and Mary Robinette Kowal, and Steven Popkes returns
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Zoë's Tale by John Scalzi, Reviewed
The fourth nominee available from Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention is a retelling of The Last Colony from a YA perspective.
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Interzone 222 Reviewed
Fiction from Tim Pratt, Aliette de Bodard, Sean McMullen, Kim Lakin-Smith, Nina Allan and Sarah L. Edwards, Book, Film and DVD Reviews, and David Langford's Ansible Link
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Saturn's Children by Charles Stross, Reviewed
The new book from the bestselling author of Halting State, Accelerando and The Merchant Princes series is dedicated to Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein
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Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book Reviewed
Illustrated by Dave McKean, the Hugo Award nominated novel is an homage to Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and has already won the coveted Newbury Medal from the ALSC
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Reviewed
Marcus Yallow - aka W1n5t0n or M1k3y - becomes a teenage victim of his government's War on Terror after a terrorist attack on San Francisco in this fine YA novel from Tor
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F&SF June-July 2009 Reviewed
Stories by Albert Cowdrey, Robert Reed, John Kessel, Terry Bisson & Carolyn Ives Gilman, classics by John Varley & Gary Jennings, reviews by Charles de Lint & Kathy Maio
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Asimovs Science Fiction July 2009 Reviewed
Fiction from Stephen Baxter, Kit Reed, Michael Cassutt, Sara Genge, R Garcia y Robertson and Ian McHugh, opinion from Sheila Williams, Robert Silverberg & Paul di Filippo
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Black Static Issue 10 Reviewed
Fact & Fiction from Christopher Fowler, Gary McMahon, James Cooper, Stephen Volk, Peter Tennant, Tony Lee, Mike O'Driscoll, Maura McHugh,Shannon Page, Scott Lambridis
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Eon by Greg Bear Reviewed
Volume one of the series including Eternity, Legacy and a story in Robert Silverberg's Far Horizons anthology introduces the asteroid/spaceship Thistledown and The Way
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Polluto Issue 4 Reviewed
The magazine of anti-Pop Culture has stories by Rhys Hughes, Interzone reviews editor Jim Steel, Andrew Hook & Allen Ashley, Dave Migman, Deb Hoag, opinion poetry and art
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Asimovs Science Fiction June 2009 Reviewed
Fiction from Tom Purdom, Chris Willrich & Eric Brown, James Patrick Kelly's silver jubilee story and columns from Robert Silverberg and editor Sheila Williams.
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Brian W. Aldiss Profiled
For over fifty years with novels like Hothouse and HARM, and short stories including one filmed as AI, Aldiss has entertained, confounded and infuriated SF readers
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Interzone 221 Reviewed
Debuts from Al Robertson, Matthew Kressel, and Paul M. Berger, while Alaya Dawn Johnson, regular contributor Will McIntosh and -after two decades- Bruce Sterling return.
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Samuel R. Delany's Nova
The tale of space captain Lorq von Ray and his rivals Prince and Ruby is myth laden, freighted down with both Grail literature and pulp sci-fi imagery alike.
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F&SF April-May 2009 Reviewed
Fiction from Ellen Kushner, Sean McMullen, Jack Skillingstead, John C. Wright, satire from Paul di Filippo with classic reprints from Thomas M. Disch and Edward Jesby
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Asimovs SF April-May 2009 Reviewed
Science Fiction from Kate Wilhelm, Nancy Kress, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Brian Stableford, Damien Broderick, Chris Beckett, Robert Reed, Eileen Gunn and Michael Swanwick
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Nocturnes by John Connelly
A book of ghost stories in the tradition of M.R. James written for BBC Northern Ireland, framed by two short novels set in the modern-day USA more akin to Stephen King.
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Black Static Issue 9 by TTA Press
Aliette de Bodard's Chinese ghost story, and other fiction from Tim Lees, regular Daniel Kaysen, columnist Stephen Volk, Al Robertson and debutant Roz Clarke.
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Staked by J.F. Lewis, Reviewed
This debut novel is chock full of vampires, werewolves and witches in an imaginary city but the style and characterization set it apart from lesser competitors.
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Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
James Blish named it the ultimate hard SF novel; Greg Bear's father-in-law, the sixteenth SFWA Grand Master, never bettered a starship's flight to the end of the universe
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F&SF March 2009 Reviewed
Fiction from Robert Reed, Marc Laidlaw, Daniel Abraham and Yoon Ha Lee, a classic Hugo-winning reprint from Robert Bloch, reviews from Charles de Lint and Michelle West
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Asimovs SF March 2009 Reviewed
Fiction from Sara Genge, R. Neube, Holly Phillips, Benjamin Crowell and Harry Turtledove, and an early contender for the 2009 Nebula Award for best novella by Nancy Kress
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Reviewed
From an Indian born, Australian raised and British educated journalist comes a stunning first novel of poverty, corruption, desperation and murder.
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Interzone 220 Reviewed
Fiction from Eugie Foster, Jason Stoddard, Leah Bobet, Neil Williamson, Gareth Lyn Powell and Rudy Rucker. Jeffrey Ford and Christopher Priest reviewed in Book Zone.
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Asimovs SF February 2009 Reviewed
Fiction from Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Carole Emshwiller, Judith Berman & Steven Utley, Robert Silverberg's column, and poetry from David Lunde & Darrell Schweitzer
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F&SF February 2009 Reviewed
New fiction from World Fantasy Award winner Fred Chappell, Charles Coleman Finlay, Mario Milosevic and Eugene Mirabelli, and a classic Nebula winning Jack Cady reprint.
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Years Best Science Fiction: 24th Annual Edition
Stories from Alastair Reynolds, Greg Egan, David D. Levine, Michael Swanwick, Greg Egan, Bruce McAllister, Ian MacDonald, Mary Rosenblum, Stephen Baxter and Robert Reed
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Black Static Issue 8 by TTA Press
Fiction from Patrick Samphire, Gary Fry, Steve Rasnic Tem, James Cooper, Lynda E. Rucker and Steven Pirie, columns from Stephen Volk, Christopher Fowler & Peter Tennant
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Into Danger by Kate Adie
Kate Adie has faced danger throughout her career as a BBC war correspondent. She now asks other people who routinely put themselves at risk: "Why do you do it?"
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Albedo One From Aeon Press
Interviews with Alastair Reynolds, Year's Best Horror Editor Ellen Datlow, Fiction by Stoker winner Steve Rasnic Tem, Fred Johnston & book reviews from Juliet E. McKenna
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Interzone 219 From TTA Press
Fiction from Jason Sanford, Mercurio D. Rivera, Aliette de Bodard, Jeff Spock, Alexander Marsh Freed, Gord Sellar, and reviews from Nick Lowe, Tony Lee and Sandy Auden
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F&SF January 2009 Reviewed
Fantasy from Jim Aiken, Jerry Oltion, Michael Meddor, Carol Emshwiller, Albert E. Cowdrey, Charles Coleman Finlay & Hugo and Nebula award-winner Barry B. Longyear.
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Asimovs SF January 2009 Reviewed
Contributions from Larry Niven, Nancy Kress, Will McIntosh, Damien Broderick, and the usual non-fiction from Robert Silverberg, James Patrick Kelly and Paul di Filippo.
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Black Static Issue 7 by TTA Press
New fiction from regulars Tony Richards, Daniel Kaysen, Trent Hergenrader, and debuts from Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner Bruce Holland Rogers and Eric Gregory
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The Best of the Year 2006
Excellent fiction from Michael Swanwick, Daniel Kaysen, Susan Palwick, Stephen Leigh, Tom Purdom, Leah Bobet, Robert Reed, Mary Rosenblum, James van Pelt and Wil McCarthy
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Gridlinked by Neal Asher
Hard SF from an emerging British talent in which Dragons and matter-transmitters mix with Artificial Intelligence, Bond-style secret agents and inter-galactic terrorists
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Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Clearly influenced by Marilyn Hacker, a successor to Frank Herbert's Dune, the story of poet Rydra Wong tied with Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon for the SFWA's prize.
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Asimov's SF December 2008 Reviewed
Fiction from Geoffrey A. Landis, Steven Utley, Nebula-winner Jack McDevitt and David Ira Cleary, and facts from Robert Silverberg, Peter Heck and editor Sheila Williams
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F&SF December 2008 Reviewed
Fiction from Eugene Mirabelli, John Langan, regulars Robert Reed and Albert E Cowdrey, a reprint of a 1973 story from Edgar Allen Poe award winner Warner Law, and reviews
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Crimewave 10: Now You See Me
New Crime Fiction from Interzone and Black Static contributors Simon Avery, Daniel Kaysen, Joel Lane and Darren Speegle and American newcomers Lisa Morton and Alex Irvine
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Spider Star by Mike Brotherton
This new novel by a Wyoming based author places him firmly in the tradition of Vernor Vinge and other practitioners of a sub-genre also known as Wide Screen Baroque
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The Time Masters by Wilson Tucker
The success of the 1970 classic The Year of The Quiet Sun clearly called for a quick follow-up, and the SFBC and Lancer Books agreed to an update of an older novel.
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The Holy Machine by Chris Beckett
The Holy Machine shares themes with several Beckett shorts; La Macchina from which it took its central idea, Valour, The Turing Test, Perimeter and Piccadilly Circus
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Islington Crocodiles by Paul Meloy
Dying in the Arms of Jean Harlow, Black Static, The Vague and others have become cult classics among readers of Interzone and The Third Alternative. It's easy to see why.
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Interzone 218 from TTA Press
October 2008 sees one of IZ's regular contributors featured, Charles Stross on Saturn's Children, fiction from Hannu Rajaniemi, Tim Lees, Daniel Akselrod & Lenny Royter
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Nine Princes in Amber
Roger Zelazny's classic fantasy series was the first to bridge the gap between classics like Lord of the Rings and Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar, and the 1960s counter-culture.
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F & SF 59th Anniversary Issue
With the October/November issue, F&SF enters its 60th Year with fiction from Stephen King, Geoff Ryman, Robert Reed, Terry Bisson, Michael Swanwick and Carole Emshwiller
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Asimov's SF October/November 2008
Nancy Kress, Leslie What, Ian R MacLeod and Robert Reed contribute fiction, Mike Allen and Jane Yolen poetry and James Patrick Kelly and Robert Silverberg provide opinion
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2008
Former Analog and Omni supremo Bova edits the SFWA's choices for the best stories of 2006 and picks Elizabeth Hand, Peter S. Beagle, James Patrick Kelly and others.
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Black Static Issue 6 by TTA Press
Offerings from Christopher Fowler, Tony Lee, Mike O'Driscoll, British Fantasy Award winner Paul Meloy, Pete Tennant's fiction debut, Malanie Fazi, Simon Avery and others
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Paradox Issue 12
Published twice a year and edited by Christopher M. Cervasco, Paradox is a handsome large format magazine with glossy cover that specializes in historical sci-fi &fantasy
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Winner of the O. Henry Prize for short fiction and the Pullitzer, Chabon is the most respected author to embrace genre, and won the 2008 Hugo and Nebula for Best Novel.
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F&SF September 2008 Reviewed
Fiction from Paolo Bacigalupi, Amy Sterling Casil, Rand B. Lee, Robert Reed, Michael Swanwick, Eileen Gunn, newcomer Laura Kasichke and returnee Jim Aiken plus reviews.
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Asimov's SF September 2008
SF's leading magazine presents William Barton, Mary Rosenblum, Ian Creasey, Will McIntosh, alternate history from Stephen Baxter and a Silurian Tale from Stephen Utley.
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Interzone 217 from TTA Press
Interzone this issue has fiction by Paul MacAuley, Karen Fischler, Paul G. Tremblay, Suzanne Palmer, Jason Stoddard and M. K. Hobson, plus film reviews by Nick Lowe
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The Scar by China Mieville
A return to Bas-Lang by the winner of the 2001 Arthur C. Clarke and British Fantasy Awards introduces the pirate city of Armada, The Lovers and the mercenary Uther Doul.
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In Exile by Joanne Hall
Owing more to Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar than to Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, the sequel to the EPPIE-Award nominated Hierath is more assured than its predecessor.
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Black Static Issue 5 by TTA Press
From Slipstream to Horror, Fact and Fiction from Christopher Fowler, Gary McMahon, Stephen Volk, Joel Lane, Tim Casson, Tony Lee, Mike O'Driscoll, Daniel Kaysen and more
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F&SF August 2008 Reviewed
This month's fiction is from Campbell-Award nominee Charles Coleman Finlay, Marc Laidlaw, Richard Mueller, Rand B. Lee and Stephen Popkes and humour from Paul di Filippo.
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Asimov's SF August 2008
Science Fiction from Robert Reed, Neal Barrett Jr., and Jack Skillingstead, Grande Dame Carole Emshwiller, newcomers Ted Kosmatka and J. Chris Rock, reviews and columns.
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Perdido Street Station
Winner of Arthur C. Clarke and British Fantasy Awards, Perdido Street Station burst upon the SF world in 2000, making China Mieville an almost overnight success.
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This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
By 1965 A Rose for Ecclesiastes had made Zelazny the hottest property in SF, and his debut novel tied for the following years Hugo Award with Frank Herbert's classic Dune
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F&SF July 2008 Reviewed
July's issue has stories from regulars Matthew Hughes, Lisa Goldstein, Albert Cowdrey, and James L. Cambias, reviews from Charles de Lint, James Sallis and Kathy Maio
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Interzone Issue 216 from TTA Press
Chelsea Quinn Yabro, Lavie Tidhar and Ryman himself contribute, interviews with Greg Egan and Alastair Reynolds, Book and Film reviews from Nick Lowe John Clute et al
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2007
The SFWA's choices include an extract from Camouflage by Joe Haldeman, stories by Nancy Kress, Robert J. Sawyer, two by Kelly Link, and a 'lost' Harlan Ellison novella.
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Asimovs Science Fiction July 2008
Fiction this month from regulars Steven Utley and Briton Brian Stableford, veteran Michael Bishop, Kij Johnson, R. Neube and debutant Gord Sellar, reviews and columns..
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F & SF June 2008 reviewed
Fiction by Rand B. Lee, Robert Reed, Al Michaud, Ted Kosmatka, artwork by David Hardy, reviews by Charles de Lint, Kathy Maio & Michelle West, article by Paul di Filippo
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Black Static Issue 4 by TTA Press
Conrad Williams, Steve Nagy contribute stories, Tony Lee reviews DVDs, Peter Tennant on books, while Stephen Volk offers opinion on Richard Matheson's I Am Legend
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The Colour of Magic
Introducing Rincewind and Death in a pastiche of Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar, Conan the Barbarian, Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away and even Anne McCaffrey's Dragon books.
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Earthlight and Other Stories
The definitive collection of Clarke's work including 'The Sentinel' -the basis for 2001: A Space Odyssey, 'The Nine Billion Names of God, and the Hugo-winning 'The Star.'
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The 2008 Hugo Award Nominees
Nominees include Robert J. Sawyer, John Scalzi, Charles Stross, Stephen Baxter, Nancy Kress, Gene Wolfe, Ted Chiang, Greg Egan, and almost inevitably, Connie Willis.
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Asimov's June 2008
New short fiction from Nancy Kress, James Patrick Kelly, Ian R. Macleod, Lawrence Persson, Forrest Aguirre, and a debut for Felicity Shoulders. Book Reviews by Peter Heck
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Strange Horizons March 2008
Fiction by Will McIntosh, Sarah Thomas, Genevieve Williams and Will Ludwigsen; reviews by John Clute and Bruce Sterling;poetry by Joanne Merriam, Robert Borski and others
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F & SF May 2008 Reviewed
Fiction from Robert Reed, Rachel Pollack, Albert E. Cowdrey, M. Rickert; reviews by Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand and Kathy Maio; and Paul di Filippo and David Langford
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Interzone 215
Greg Egan returns; Patrick Samphire debuts; Mike Carey interviewed; IZ regular Jamie Barras opens the issue
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