sfnal

There are others (and also for "sfnal" without the hyphen), of course.

REVIEW: Hunter's Run by George R.R. Martin, Gardener Dozois, & Daniel Abraham 2008

For each word or phrase listed, the book states the earliest usage the editors have found, and apparently the earliest usage of "sfnal" is by me in Science Fiction Review in 1981!

Archive 2007-05-01 adamosf 2007

It is a more or less non-sfnal thriller (I say "more or less" because it is hinted that the narrator, being of course a Zelazny hero, has special abilities) set in contemporary (ie early 70s) Rome and Brazil.

March Books 24) The Dead Man's Brother, by Roger Zelazny nwhyte 2009

For all that, I hope that future WorldCons keep this as a Hugo category; comics are an important part of the sfnal world, and really this award should have been instituted decades ago.

June Books 29) About Time: The Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who, 1970-1974, 2nd edition, by Tat Wood thette 2009

It's a fairly basic sfnal plot, and Atwood does it competently and coherently; not as good a book as he own The Handmaid's Tale (nor as brilliant a treatment of the theme as this), but I found it engaging, if somewhat grim.

March Books 20) Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood nwhyte 2009

This anthology, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, pulls together 20 short stories by writers of colour, all exploring different aspects of the colonisation experience through an sfnal lens.

July Books 15) So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy nwhyte 2009

I have been suspicions of the Mammoth Books of anything sfnal since the publication of George Mann's pisspoor Encyclopedia (I confess I have no idea if the two are related), so didn't bother even looking inside.

August Books 7) Soul Music, by Terry Pratchett nancylebov 2009

This is regarded as the great work of Belgian fantasy (at least in the novel form: there are loads of Belgian comics and films with sfnal content).

Linkspam for 9-7-2009 cassave 2009

I mistakenly started on this well-known novel under the false impression that it was a classic sf text; it isn't - it is a novel of didactic philosophy, but entirely about architects in New York in the 1920s and 1930s, with no sfnal elements at all.

Froth hells_librarian 2009

Rereading this classic, which combines the horrors of the 1945 bombing of Dresden with the sfnal captivity of the hero by the aliens of Tralfamadore.

Linkspam for 23-12-2009 nwhyte 2009