Monday, April 16, 2007

The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, ed. George Mann

Solaris Books is the new science fiction and fantasy imprint from Games Workshop's publishing arm. This anthology is their "book-sized calling card." It's heartening to see a company with Games Workshop's clout investing, as it were, in the field; so one wants to wish Solaris well -- provided, of course, that they publish good fiction...

Continue reading at SF Site.

Further links:
Stephen Baxter
Mike Resnick
David Gerrold
Eric Brown
Adam Roberts
James Lovegrove
Mary A. Turzillo
Ian Watson
Keith Brooke
Solaris
Solaris editors' blog

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Breakfast with the Ones You Love by Eliot Fintushel

Sixteen-year-old Lea Tillim is a girl with a talent. Well, maybe "talent" isn't the most appropriate word. An ability, let's say. A power. The power to make people ill with a thought, even to kill them if she wants. But there's one boy who considers it a talent: Jack Konar, who says he is one of the God Tetragrammaton's Thrice Chosen, and is building a "spaceship" in a forgotten part of a Sears and Roebuck store, in readiness for the coming of the Meschiach. And he needs Lea's help...



Continue reading at SF Site.


Further links:

Eliot Fintushel

Random House