Glenn Harlan Reynolds at TCS Daily looks at Orson Scott Card's new novel Empire, which he claims isn't science fiction. Um, Glenn, I hate to break it to you, but a book about a near-future civil war is science fiction. And that means a bunch of other things you like are probably SF as well...ew! genre cooties!

Locus Online pointed me to some review of Michael Crichton's Next (another book that couldn't possibly be SF, uh-uh, no way):

• Janet Maslin in the New York Times
• Michael Harris in the L.A. Times

SciFi Chick had some problems with Linnea Sinclair's Finders Keepers.

Book Fetish on Stephanie Rowe's Must Love Dragons.

CA Reviews on Lilith Saintcrow's Dead Man Rising.