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Future Americas
Author: John Heller and Martin Greenberg, Eds.
Publisher: Daw Books
ISBN-13: 9780756405083
Rating: 8/10


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Ten Things you Need to Know about DragonCon
But Don’t Know to Ask

From all over the world fans come, pooling together like massive armies combining their strength and acting as one to invade the city of Atlanta and partake in not a common three day convention but rather a wondrous four day extravaganza known far and wide as the all mighty DragonCon! If you have never been to DragonCon you must go, now, this very year. Beg or borrow the necessary funds but please find yourself there Labor Day weekend for never before has such a celebrity line up been gathered together. This is the con where between 30 and 50 THOUSAND people will attend, it will have hundreds of guests, a dealer’s room the size of a regulation Little League base ball field, another hall dedicated to nothing but celebrities ready to sign autographs for their adoring fans and yet a third hall filled with row after row of art work hung upon walls arranged in a maze like pattern to ensure that you see every selection at least once. Short of your own personal demise there is no reason you should not go to the con this year.
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The Three Companions of the 10th Doctor Who
Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble
By June K Williams, ©Buzzy Multimedia

For those of you who have never watched Doctor Who or who haven’t watched it since you were a kid, the Doctor’s companion is a human who travels with the Doctor through time and space and shares in his exploits. These assistants or helpers weren’t always called companions in the earlier series but my guess is that the writers have acknowledged the need of a 914 year old Time Lord to have someone to share his existence and for that person to have a designation recognizing this fact.
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New Amsterdam
Author: Elizabeth Bear
Publisher: Far Territories
ISBN-10: 1596061634
ISBN-13: 978-1596061637
Rating: 8/10

An unforgiving eye and a damned disinheriting countenance.

That describes Elizabeth Bear’s “New Amsterdam” to a T. From its opening pages, the vampire-detective-sorceress novel of scandal and intrigue pulls no punches, and delivers plenty of them in return. The result is a neo-Victorian (or Edwardian rather) alt-history novel that is as gritty as any set in the present.
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