Issue #936 (June 1, 2007) of Entertainment Weekly offers some brief reviews of science fiction and fantasy books. Here's a snippet...

Harm by Brian W. Aldiss
For Fans of... 1984; A Bug's Life.
Bottom Line: Aldiss' dystopian chops - his 1969 story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" - inspired Steven Spielberg's A.I. - falter in this unsubtle vision of a paranoid West that persecutes Muslim minorities and anthropods alike.
Grade: B-

Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg
For Fans of... George R.R. Martin; Anne Bishop.
Bottom Line: Moments of colorful intensity highlight the workmanlike coming-of-age adventure.
Grade: B

Brasyl by Ian McDonald
For Fans of... Philip K. Dick's paranoid philosophizing; City of God's urban squalor.
Bottom Line: Packing his pages with local color and big-picture speculation, McDonald conjures three equally vivid worlds.
Grade: B+

In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan
For Fans of... Dick's Man in the High Castle; Quantum Leap.
Bottom Line: Goonan weaves experimental jazz, particle physics, and biochemistry into a compelling adventure through alternate universes. But her interdisciplinary mystery unravels as theory gives way to sentimentality and antiwar hokum.
Grade: B-

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