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Locus Online has posted the first "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column by Graham Sleight, reviewing classic SF works. This one covers Alfred Bester's classic novels The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man.

The Galveston County Daily News reviews the Eric Flint-edited anthology The Grantville Gazette III.

SFF World reviews Lou Anders's anthology Fast Forward 1.

SF Signal reviews John Birmingham's Final Impact.

Final Impact

New stuff at Fantasybookspot:

  • a review of The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh
  • a review of Soul in a Bottle by Tim Powers
  • a review of Kino no Tabi by Keiichi Sigsawa
  • a review of The Warrior-Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
  • a review of Jack Vance's classic Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden
  • a review of The Steam Magnate by Dana Copithorne
  • a review of Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan
  • and a review of Margaret Wander Bonanno's classic Star Trek novel Strangers from the Sky.

The New York Times Book Review had a horror column this past weekend, in which Terrence Rafferty reviewed a number of books, including In the Dark of the Night by John Saul and The Burning by Bentley Little.

In the Dark of the Night The Burning

The Guardian reviews Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek, Kevin Brockmeier's The Secret History of the Dead, and Michael Moorcock's The Vengeance of Rome. [via Locus Online]

Bookgasm looks at Jack Ketchum's collection Closing Time.

Critical Mass has been rounding up reviews for all of the nominees for the various National Book Critics Circle awards, and today they posted about Julie Phillips's James Tiptree, Jr. (And yesterday they had two posts to talk about Cormac McCarthy's sweet and uplifting The Road.)

The Road

Tim Pratt links to and reprints a Publishers Weekly review of his collection Hart & Boot & Other Stories.

The San Antonio Express-News reviews John Scalzi's The Android's Dream.

Android's Dream

Roz Kaveney reviews a number of books, including the new Aurealis winner The Plio Family Circus by Will Elliott.

James A. Owen quotes from the Realms of Fantasy review of his novel Here, There Be Dragons.

Rich Horton posted a review to the Usenet group rec.arts.sf.written covering three recent Canadian hard SF novels: Peter Watts's Blindsight, and two Robert J. Sawyer novels: Mindscan and Rollback (coming soon as a SFBC Selection).

Blindsight Mindscan

Velcro City Tourist Board looks at Interzone's issue #208.

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing liked Justine Larbalestier's Magic's Child (soon to be available from the SFBC in a 3-in-1 of the entire trilogy entitled The Magic of Reason).

BestSF.net has new reviews of Analog's January/February issue and Asimov's February issue.

Green Man Review glances at a lot of things, including:

Heir of Autumn Strange Candy Rainbows End

Sci Fi Weekly reviews John Birmingham's Final Impact.

Sci Fi Weekly also reviews Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

Tangent reviews the March issue of F&SF.

The Agony Column reviews Adam Roberts's Gradisil.

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