Visions of Paradise reviews the SFBC original anthology Forbidden Planets, edited by Marvin Kaye.

Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, the e-magazine with the title that never seems to end, has a new column reviewing SFF for younger readers, including Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer.

Some of the many reviews in SF Revu's December issue are:

• this review of 1635: Cannon Law by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis
• a review of Dead End Dating by Kimberly Raye
• a review of Land of Mist and Snow by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
• a review of The Sharing Knife: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold
• and a review of Polity Agent by Neal Asher

BestSF.net reviews Alastair Reynolds's new story collection (well, one of his two simultaneous new story collections -- the man apparently has transcended the need to sleep), Galactic North.

SciFiDimensions had a few new reviews to start off the month:

• this one for Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith
• this one for the little-known H.G. Wells novel Star Begotten
• and this one for Eric Flint's 1812: The Rivers of War.

Green Man Review also has a whole passel of new reviews (including music and non-SFF titles); notable among them are:

• a look at Laurell K. Hamilton's Mistral's Kiss
• a review of Jeanne C. Stein's The Becoming
• a review of Geraldine McCaughrean's Peter Pan in Scarlet
• and a review of Glen Cook's Lord of the Silent Kingdom

SciFi Weekly's recent reviews include:

• this one for Elizabeth Bear's Carnival
• this one for Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker
• and this one for This Forsaken Earth by Paul Kearney

The State (a newspaper from South Carolina) reviews Julie Phillips's James Tiptree, Jr.

SFReviews.net looks at S.M. Stirling's The Sky People.

Fantasybookspot's recently posted:

• a review of Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Allegiance
• a review of Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
• a review of The Burning Land by Victoria Strauss
• and several more

The New York Times Book Review looked at the recent (unrelated to each other) sequel and prequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan: Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean and Peter Pan and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry and Riddley Pearson.

Gavin Grant of Small Beer Press reviews Julie Phillips's James Tiptree, Jr. for the L.A. Times. [via Locus Online]

Black Gate reviews short fiction from Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, and Heliotrope. [also via Locus Online]

Farah Mendelsohn reviews the upcoming YA SF novel Shanghaied to the Moon by Michael J. Daley.

Velcro City Tourist Board reviews Electric Velocipede's issue #11.

And the Decmber issue of SF Crowsnest has an immense pile of reviews, including:

• a review of Margo Lanagan's Black Juice
• a review of Raymond E. Feist's Flight of the Nighthawks
• a review of Master of Dragons by Margaret Weis
• a review of Star Trek: Captain's Glory by William Shatner
• a review of The Space Opera Renaissance
• and many, many more