Strange Horizons Reviews

[coalescent]

After a couple of months of behind-the-scenes bustle and preparation, the Strange Horizons reviews department is now back up and running; many thanks to everyone who's helped out along the way. As Susan Marie Groppi says in her editorial:

We're going to be focusing mainly on shorter reviews than we did in the past, but we're going to be running more of them—several a week, posted daily from Monday through Thursday. We encourage you to check in during the week to see what we're up to, but for your added convenience we've also set up an RSS syndication feed for the reviews department. What I'm even more excited about, though, is that we're going to be expanding the scope of the reviews department. Movies, comic books, anime, video games, music, television shows, poetry—if it's out there and it's got some speculative content, we want to be reviewing it here at Strange Horizons.

First up is grahamsleight's brilliant review of the recent series of Doctor Who, 'Take Me To The Fantastic Place'. (Seriously: it almost convinced me that the show is worth watching, and that takes some doing.) Later this week there'll be reviews of Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners, Byron de Prorok's Dead Men Do Tell Tales, and Kate Wilhelm's Storyteller, by Geneva Melzack, Justin Howe and Greg Beatty, respectively. And that's just the start. For your reading convenience, the reviews are also syndicated: Atom, or RSS 2.0. The LJ feed you're looking for is sh_reviews. So go, read, enjoy, comment, link!

(And if you'd be interested in writing reviews, feel free to get in touch; if certain people reading this don't, I'm liable to start hunting you down and 'convincing you' it's the right thing to do, one by one. Just sayin'.)

Comments

[nwhyte]

Me! Me!

well done!

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

*\o/* *\o/* *\o/*

[benpeek.livejournal.com]

ta for the link.

[mattia.livejournal.com]

didyaneedanytvreviewsdonethen?

Probably not, but it is still the field I'm most most familiar with.

Looking forward to Geneva's piece on Link (stories still wandering around my head. Must re-read), and I had a similar reaction to Graham's 'Who' piece. Just finished watching the season, and methinks I'll write up a little LJ post/'My First Dr. Who Season' review at some point soon. If only discover whether anyone anywhere actually thought 'Aliens of London' was even remotely ok TV.

[fba.livejournal.com]

I've had the AoL/WW3 discussion a number of times. Great it isn't, but as a whole story on a second viewing it isn't *actually* as completely irridemable as it seems. I like some of the stuff it does and there are some great performances in there - the trouble is the overwhelming thing you take away with you from the episodes are running pigs and fart gags, which is a shame...

I think the problem with the RTD episodes is that there was noone to say to him - actually Russ, this just won't work...

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

didyaneedanytvreviewsdonethen?

Since you happen to mention it ... yes! I'll catch you on MSN sometime and sort out deails.

[pikelet.livejournal.com]

I'll do telly, or books, since I've started reading again.

Don't expect it to last, though...

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

\o/

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

*bounce*

[zhaneel69.livejournal.com]

Interested, yes. But not currently able. I had to step down from Tangent, but if/when my health is better I'd like to get back to reviews for Tangent and/or SH.

Zhaneel

[adelheid.livejournal.com]

I could review my psychiatry book :-) I've even almost read it cover to cover, which is a first for any textbook. Actually, apart from my anatomy book, but my anatomy lecturer wrote that so I didn't really have a choice. The mere mention of neural tubes and thyroglossal cysts induces in me a nervous tic.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Hmm. We have a generous definition of 'speculative fiction' but I'm not sure it's quite that generous... :)

[neon-epiphany.livejournal.com]

Yay! So glad we finally went live. :)

-eden.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I was starting to wonder if the launch date would just keep on staying a week away. :)

Thanks again for all your help!