http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/book reviews http://io9.com/tag/book reviews It's been a while since the New York Times Sunday Book Review had a regular science fiction book column. So it's great news that The Third Bear author (and io9 contributor) Jeff VanderMeer has launched a new, semi-regular book column called "Science Fiction Chronicle." The first outing covers a nicely diverse bunch of authors from major and small presses, including Karen Lord, Ian McDonald and Karin Lowachee. More »
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Internecine politics, clan rivalries, and werewolf-posturing serve as the backdrop for World Fantasy Award winner Martin Millar's novel Lonely Werewolf Girl, a story about anxiety and the slow agony of making friends. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5587128&view=rss&microfeed=true Publishers Weekly's Genreville blog is posting a hilarious set of tweets for would-be "lazy book critics," under the hashtag #lazycriticslexicon, and other writers and critics have joined in. If you've ever wanted to know what book critics are really saying when they call books esoteric or controversial, or you're thinking of becoming a lazy book critic yourself, you'll need to check it out. More »
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The New Space Opera, a recent anthology edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, was supposed to testify to the resurgent vitality of the space-opera sub-genre. Instead, it showcases a new space-opera canon that's listless and cut off from the mainstream, argues reviewer Alan DeNiro in Rain Taxi. Find out why the space-opera renaissance doesn't make DeNiro want to sing, and why his review sparked a soul-searching discussion among the authors, below the fold. More »
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