BestSF.net reviews Peter Crowther's new anthology Forbidden Planets.

Green Man Review really liked Jess Nevin's The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana.

Other things Green Man Review looked at:

• they liked Robert A. Heinlein's classic Time for the Stars (which you can find in the SFBC's exclusive omnibus Infinite Possibilities)
• but they weren't quite as keen about Variable Star, a new book Spider Robinson wrote from an old Heinlein outline (though they did come down on the positive side)
• they were also quite happy about Cherie Priest's Wings to the Kingdom
• then there was this review of Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Scion
• and this one for Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• and a number more, but I'll end with this review of Elizabeth Bear's Carnival.

From Monsters & Critics:

• a review of The Becoming by Jeanne C. Stein
• a review of Dragon Avenger by E.E. Knight
• a review of Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
• and a review of Hinterland by James Clemens

Sci Fi Weekly chimes in:

• Paul Kearney's This Forsaken Earth gets an A
• 1824: The Arkansas War by Eric Flint is also generally liked
• and The Android's Dream by John Scalzi is also given the shiny skiffy seal of approval

SF Signal reviews Vernor Vinge's The Witling.

SF Signal also reviews the YA novel Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen.

John Clute claims that Thomas's Pynchon's new 1120-page novel Against the Day is "pure science fiction." I'm not planning to read it just to try to contradict him...

Gregory Feeley reviews Gene Wolfe's Soldier of Sidon in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Bookgasm reviews James M. Ward's Dragonfrigate Wizard Halcyon Blithe.

Jeremy Lassen reprints the Publishers Weekly review of Matthew Hughes's Majestrum.

Roz Kaveney reviews M. John Harrison's Nova Swing.