EW Reviews SF/F
Issue #975 (January 25, 2008) of Entertainment Weekly offers some brief reviews of science fiction and fantasy books.
Here’s a snippet…
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner R. Dozois, and Daniel Abraham
Movie Pitch: Predator meets Camus’ The Stranger.
Lowdown: Classic SF – a tense interspecies battle of wits and tangy atmospherics and a bleak lesson on the meaning of freedom.
Grade: A
by Simon R. Green
Movie Pitch: Sam Spade meets Sirius Black…in The Case of the Cosmic MacGuffin!
Lowdown: Green’s crabby wit and inventively gruesome set pieces make up for a scattershot mystery plot.
Grade: B+
by Adrian Phoenix
Movie Pitch: Interview with the Vampire meets The Manchurian Candidate.
Lowdown: Hard-charging action sequences, steamy sex scenes, and a surprising government conspiracy makes this debut, the first in a series, engrossingly fun.
Grade: B+
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I think trying to make sense of SF/F novels by using “movie pitches” is an incredibly dumb idea–but then again, it is Entertainment Weekly.