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SF REVIEWS.NET | SF and Fantasy Book Reviews The Internet Review of Science Fiction -- Issue SF Signal Strange Horizons, a weekly speculative fiction magazine Locus Online: The Website of The Magazine of the Science Fiction Los Angeles Review of Books - The Widening Gyre: 2012 Best Of The Year Anthologies The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. THE OVERWHELMING SENSE ONE GETS, working through so many stories that are presented as the very best that science fiction and fantasy have to offer, is exhaustion. Not so much physical exhaustion (though it is more tiring than reading a bunch of short stories really has any right to be); it is more as though the genres of the fantastic themselves have reached a state of exhaustion. In the main, there is no sense that the writers have any real conviction about what they are doing. Bear is far from alone in this, and I’ll come back to other examples later in the review. An example of how this can be done well is “Silently and Very Fast” by Catherynne M. The problem may be, I think, that science fiction has lost confidence in the future. An example of this latter reality is “Widows in the World” by Gavin J. Of course, one might quibble with the word “best” as applied to these particular selections.

Spiral Galaxy Reviewing Laboratory The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy The Future is Not a Land of Enchantment: On SF’s “Exhaustion” “I do not think I could write SF if I were not disenchanted with large areas of the field. Those areas of disenchantment are precisely the interesting interfaces where I can begin to feel my imagination doing useful work. So in that sense if I would be a bit worried if everything was all right with SF. I don’t think it is – but then, I don’t think it ever has been. Rather than perceiving a particular crisis affecting SF now, I see the field as being in a constant state of stagnation and renewal, constantly exhausting itself, constantly hitting new seams.” – Alastair Reynolds “The problem may be, I think, that science fiction has lost confidence in the future. I think that Kincaid and McCalmont are correct that some stories are not perspicacious or innovative, and the field, however you define it, is filled with struggles between the familiar and the innovative. What has weakened SF is its admixture with other genres. Related Tagged with: the bellowing ogre Filed under: The Bellowing Ogre

Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Overlooked Gems Great Science-Fiction& Fantasy Works science-fiction & fantasy literature:a critical list with discussions "He went to a high glazed bookcase full of vellum-backed volumes; from where he stood Prospero could read titles like Aristotelis Opera and Mysterium Cosmographicum. Standing on a cane-bottomed chair, the man lifted down from the top of the case a huge untitled volume with the Seal of Solomon stamped on the side." --The Face in the Frost, John Bellairs What Is "Overlooked"? This page gives me more conceptual trouble than most of the rest of this site put together. Another issue is the sad fact that of the books, and even just the authors, listed on this site, very few are likely to be known to the general public--even the literate, book-reading public; and not so many more will be known even to those who regularly ingest science fiction and fantasy books. How and why does a book of merit come to be overlooked? So here is my latest attempt at this list. Gems You May Be Missing