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View ArticleThe Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer
The back cover text for Jeff VanderMeer’s short fiction collection The Third Bear makes it very clear that this ain’t your daddy’s short story collection. The contents are explicitly called out as...
View ArticleFour New Australian Anthologies
Baggage, Belong, Legends of Australian Fantasy & Scary Kisses: four 2010 anthologies, three from small presses and one from a major publisher. Not all of the books are restricted to Australian...
View ArticleAres Express by Ian McDonald
SF master Ian McDonald knows that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic realism. And, with humor, poetic grace, and an abundance of Big Ideas, he embodies that truth in...
View ArticleThief Eyes by Janni Lee Simner
Choosing a setting rarely seen in English-language YA fiction, Simner brings the remote, quake-racked island vividly to life. She inhabits her Iceland with complex, sympathetic characters who pay steep...
View ArticleThe Bird of the River by Kage Baker
Kage Baker's The Bird of the River is an elegant novel from the late Kage Baker that manages to simultaneously focus on the most intimate details of character while taking advantage of all the...
View ArticleFeed: Book One of the Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant
The "twin"-protagonists are entertaining company, their thoroughly extrapolated post-apocalyptic world is a terrific setting, the SF zombies are skillfully rationalized, the body count is high, and the...
View ArticleThe Extra and Copping Squid by Michael Shea
Whether exploring the horrors of the Lovecraftian universe or of the future, Shea doesn’t fail to deliver a sense of wonder along with a delightful shudder that fans of horror, dark fantasy, and...
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Urban fantasy is busting out of its contemporary settings, and Alaya Johnson's cleverly titled novel, Moonshine, is set in a time and place—Jazz Age Manhattan—that seems especially well suited to...
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