Reading

Book Reviews

The N3F Review of Books N3FReview202206
Incorporating Prose Bono
Professor George Phillies, D.Sc., Editor
June 2022

Fiction

2 … Contact: Book One by Hank Quense … Review by Jim McCoy
3 … The Family Business by Mike Kupari … Review by Graham Bradley
6 … Hell Spawn by Declan Finn … Review by Ginger Man
7 … Infernal Affairs by Declan Finn … Review by Michael Gallagher
9 … Into the Real by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer … Review by Declan Finn
12 … Minister’s Shoes by Celine Rose Mariotti … Review by Will Mayo
12 … Monster Hunter Files edited by Larry Correia and Bryan Thomas Schmidt
… Review by Declan Finn
14 … Monster Hunter Vendetta by Larry Correia … Review by Declan Finn
16 … Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer … Review by Graham Bradley
18 … Omim by Michael McGruther … Review by Trevor Denning
21 … Primordial Threat by M.A. Rothman … Review by Jim McCoy
22 … Primordial Threat by M.A. Rothman … Review by Graham Bradley
24 … Red Rising … And Falling by Pierce Brown … Review by Graham Bradley
27 … The Revenant and the Tomb by Herman P. Hunter … Review by Trevor Denning
28 … The Romanov Rescue by Kratman, Ezell & Watson … Review by Declan Finn
31 … Stand Against the Dark by Denton Salle … Review by Becky Jones
31 … The Talisman by Stephen King And Peter Straub … Review by Will Mayo
32 … TIER 1000 by Jason Anspach and Doc Spears … Review by Graham Bradley

Prose Bono

34 … Writing Death Cult A How-To Look by Declan Finn

FINIS

Reading

Forthcoming Books for July

Locus List of Forthcoming Books July

JUL 2022

  • A.C. WISE • Hooked • Titan Books US, Jul 2022 (tp, eb)
  • A.C. WISE • Hooked • Titan, Jul 2022 (tp)
  • ANYA OW • Ion Curtain • Rebellion/Solaris, Jul 2022 (eb, tp)
  • BECKY CHAMBERS • A Prayer for the Crown-Shy • Tordotcom, Jul 2022 (na, hc, eb)
  • BLAKE CROUCH • Upgrade • Penguin Random House/Ballantine, Jul 2022 (hc, eb)
  • BRIAN ATTEBERY • Fantasy: How It Works • Oxford University Press, Jul 2022 (nf, hc)
  • C.T. RWIZI • Primeval Fire • Amazon/47North, Jul 2022 (tp, hc, eb)
  • CATHERINE ASARO • The Jigsaw Assassin • Baen, Jul 2022 (tp, eb)
  • CHARLES STROSS • Ghost Engine • Little Brown UK/Orbit, Jul 2022 (hc)
  • DARRELL, ed. SCHWEITZER • Shadows Out of Time • PS Publishing, Jul 2022 (hc)
  • DEAN KOONTZ • The Big Dark Sky • Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, Jul 2022 (h, hc, eb)
  • DONNA, ed. SCOTT • Best of British Science Fiction 2021 • NewCon Press, Jul 2022 (hc, eb, tp)
  • EMMI ITÄRANTA • The Moonday Letters • Titan Books US, Jul 2022 (tp, eb)
  • EMMI ITÄRANTA • The Moonday Letters • Titan, Jul 2022 (tp)
  • ERIC BROWN • Kon Tiki Quartet Coda (with Keith Brooke) • PS Publishing, Jul 2022 (na, hc)
  • FOZ MEADOWS • A Strange and Stubborn Endurance • Tor, Jul 2022 (hc, eb)
  • GEORGE MANN • The Albion Initiative • Titan, Jul 2022 (tp)
  • GREG KEYES • Realms of the Deathless • Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, Jul 2022 (tp, eb)
  • HARRY TURTLEDOVE • Three Miles Down • Tor, Jul 2022 (hc, eb)
  • JONATHAN MABERRY & JUSTIN CRIADO, EDS. • Weird Tales: Best of the Early Years 1923-25 • WordFire Press, Jul 2022 (an, tp, hc, eb)
  • JONATHAN MABERRY & KAYE BOOTH, EDS. • Weird Tales: Best of the Early Years 1926-27 • WordFire Press, Jul 2022 (an, tp, hc, eb)
  • LUCINDA ROY • Flying the Coop • Tor, Jul 2022 (hc, eb)
  • MICHAEL, ed. COBLEY • Night • Rain, and Neon, NewCon Press, Jul 2022 (hc, eb, tp)
  • NEAL ASHER • Jack Four • Skyhorse/Night Shade Books, Jul 2022 (1st US, hc)
  • NEIL CLARKE & XIA JIA, ET AL., EDS. • New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction • Wyrm Publishing/Clarkesworld Books, Jul 2022 (oa, tp, hc, eb)
  • PAUL KINCAID • Brian W. Aldiss • University of Illinois Press, Jul 2022 (nf, b, tp, hc, eb)
  • PAUL TREMBLAY • The Pallbearers’ Club • HarperCollins/Morrow, Jul 2022 (h, hc, eb)
  • PAUL TREMBLAY • The Pallbearers’ Club • Titan, Jul 2022 (h, tp)
  • RAYMOND E. FEIST • Master of Furies • Harper Voyager US, Jul 2022 (1st US, hc, eb)
  • RICH LARSON • Ymir • Orbit US, Jul 2022 (tp, eb)
  • SARAH GAILEY • Just Like Home • Hodder & Stoughton, Jul 2022 (h, hc)
  • SARAH GAILEY • Just Like Home • Tor, Jul 2022 (h, hc, eb)
  • SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau • Penguin Random House/Del Rey, Jul 2022 (h, hc, eb)
  • SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau • Quercus/Jo Fletcher, Jul 2022 (hc)
  • T. KINGFISHER • What Moves the Dead • Tor Nightfire, Jul 2022 (na, h, hc, eb)
  • TAD WILLIAMS • Into the Narrowdark • DAW, Jul 2022 (hc, eb)
  • THEODORA GOSS • The Collected Enchantments • Mythic Delirium Books, Jul 2022 (c, hc, eb)
  • TIM LEBBON • The Last Storm • Titan Books US, Jul 2022 (tp, eb)
  • TIM LEBBON • The Last Storm • Titan, Jul 2022 (tp)
  • TJ KLUNE • Heat Wave • Tor Teen, Jul 2022 (ya, v, hc, eb)
Fanzines

More zines to share!

Zines to share, Enjoy!

From the N3F, Films Fantastic FF16

From Joe Major, Alexiad Alex123

From Guy Lilian, Trip Reports

THE ICONIC ROUTE

The Iconic Route U.K 1

The Iconic Route U.K. 2

From Bill Burns, added at https://efanzines.com:

Nic Farey’s This Here…#54

Alan White’s Meanwhile in Sin City #3

Andy Hooper’s CAPTAIN FLASHBACK #43

Octothorpe #60, a regular fannish podcast by John Coxon, Alison Scott and Liz Batty, is now on line

Opuntia #527, edited by Dale Speirs

 

Fanzines

More zines! Probe, e-fanzines, Origin, & Fanac Gazette

From Bill Burns, new zines at e-fanzines:

Just added at https://efanzines.com:

  • Leybl Botwinik’s CyberCozen – June 2022
  • New page for the Octothorpe Podcast transcriptions archive – includes subtitle files.
  • Henry Grynnsten’s Wild Ideas #24
  • David Grigg’s Through the Biblioscope #24 and new title The Megaloscope
  • R Graeme Cameron’s Great Galloping Ghu! #1

    —
    Bill

From South Africa: PROBE192X Stunning cover art!!

June 2022
3. Editorial
4. Chairman’s Note
6. Magazines Received
6. Books Received
6. Blast from the past
7. Book Review
8. 3rd Place Nova 2021 “Contaminated” by
Martinus Stander Conradie
28. Nova 2021 Finalist “Planet of Boulders” by
Gary Kuyper
42. L.O.C Gary Kuyper
43. “Are we dead before we are born?” by
Hubert Haensel & Martin Munsonius
49. “A Reinterpretation of the Milky Way’s
Evolution and nature” – from The Daily
Galaxy.

With this mailing, we are sending you your issues of Origin and of the FanActivity Gazette.

Origin contents ORIGIN 52
Editorial: The Times are Favorable for Increase, by John Thiel, page three
What I Did, by Will Mayo, page five
Jeffrey Redmond, photographs, page seven
David H. Keller, by Jon Swartz, page eight
Overcoming Anxiety and Achieving Hope, by Judy Carroll, page fifteen
Afterthoughts, by John Thiel, page nineteen

Fanactivity Gazette contents FanAct13

Editorial: George Phillies writes.
Letter of Comment (Lloyd Penney)
Science Fiction Club News by Heath Row
Fanzines: Fanfaronade from Justin E. A. Busch
Television: Rabid Ears: Ravings of a TV Fiend by Cathode Ray
FANAC Fan History Project FANAC Newsletter 18
Motion Pictures: Celluloid Sentience By Cathode Ray
Conventions: Forthcoming Conventions by Mindy Hunt
Science Fiction Pro and Fan Birthdays from Heath Row
April 2022 SF Calendar and Cover Illo from Bob Jennings

Fanzines

Zine to Share: CyberCozen

CyberCozen, from Israel CCJune-2022-v02

This month’s roundup:

• More Yiddish-related SF material dedicated to my dear departed father, David Botwinik (o”h – ע”ה )

• Book review: “More Zion’s Fiction” Part 5: Hila Benyovits-Hoffman’s “Five Four Three Two One”

  • Our usual, interesting tidbits from the Web.
  • Readers reacted very well to Sheldon Teitelbaum’s reprinted article in our last issue. We’d love to see more of his articles regarding SF. – Your editor, Leybl Botwinik
Astronomy News

Video of yesterday’s CME

Space Weather News for June 13, 2022
https://spaceweather.com
https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com

MAGNIFICENT CME: Earlier today, an unusually slow solar flare hurled a magnificent CME into space. The explosion and its afterglow lasted nearly 8 hours. The CME could sideswipe Earth’s magnetosphere later this week, producing minor geomagnetic storms. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.

Don’t miss the next solar flare: Subscribers to our Space Weather Alert Service receive instant text messages when strong solar flares are underway.
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Above: Visit Spaceweather.com to watch a movie of today’s CME

 

Fanzines

Zines to share!

From Bill Burns:

Added today at https://efanzines.com are:

Guy H. Lillian III’s Spartacus #56

Octothorpe #59, a regular fannish podcast by Liz Batty, John Coxon and Alison Scott, is now on line

Guy & Rosy Lillian’s 2022 trip report The Iconic Route UK Parts 1 & 2

Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #17

From the n3F: Tightbeam333

Table of Contents
Front Cover … In Outer Space by Jose Sanchez
Back Cover … N3F Recruiting Poster by Alan White
Letters of Comment
4 … Will Mayo, Jeffrey Redmond, Jose Sanchez
Anime
4 … Girls’ Frontline by Jessi Silver
Cartoons
6 … Will Mayo Reviews Johnny Quest
Comics
6 … Will Mayo Reviews Alley Oop, The Archies, Richie Rich
Conventions
7 … Convention Report – Anime Central 2022 by Jessi Silver
Movies
11 … Madelines Twists the Time Travel Tropes by Jason P. Hunt
12 … Will Mayo Reviews Swamp Thing, Angelflesh, Maximum Overdrive, Field of Dreams
Radio
13 … Will Mayo Reviews the CBS Mystery Hour
Sercon
13 … Robert W. Lowndes Bio-Bibliography by Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D., N3F Historian
Song
16 … Will Mayo Reviews America’s Sandman, The Rolling Stones’ 2,000 Light Years, Roky Erickson’s If You Have Ghosts, Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child
Verse
17 … Will Mayo Reviews ee cummings’s Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind
Video
17 … Will Mayo Reviews Tales From The Crypt, Lost In Space, Nimoy’s Mystery Show
Food of Famous Authors
18 … Eat This While You Read That: William Joseph Roberts … Cooking by Cedar Sanderson

Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association