Finding Fantasy and Science Fiction Reviews

Over on Grasping the Wind, John Ottinger is putting out a roll call for all sites Fantasy and Science Fiction. Visit this post for a more up to date list, but here are the ones he has linked in so far:

The Accidental Bard
A Dribble Of Ink
Adventures in Reading
The Agony Column
The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.
Barbara Martin
Bees (and Books) on The Knob
Bibliophile Stalker
Bibliosnark
BillWardWriter.com
Blog, Jvstin Style
Blood of the Muse
Bookgeeks
Bookslut
The Book Smugglers
Bookspotcentral
The Book Swede
Bookrastination
Breeni Books
Cheaper Ironies [pro columnist]
Cheryl's Musings
Critical Mass
Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews
Darque Reviews
Dave Brendon's Fantasy and Sci-Fi Weblog
The Deckled Edge
Dragons, Heroes and Wizards
Dusk Before the Dawn
Enter the Octopus
Eve's Alexandria
Fantasy Book Critic
Fantasy Cafe
Fantasy Debut
Fantasy Book Reviews and News
Fantasy and Sci-fi Lovin' Blog
The Fix
The Foghorn Review
From a Sci-Fi Standpoint
The Galaxy Express
Galleycat
Genre Reviews
Graeme's Fantasy Book Review
Grasping for the Wind
The Green Man Review
Hasenpfeffer
Highlander's Book Reviews
io9
Jumpdrives and Cantrips
Literary Escapism
Michele Lee's Book Love
Monster Librarian
Mostly Harmless Books
My Favourite Books
Neth Space
NextRead
OF Blog of the Fallen
The Old Bat's Belfry
Outside of a Dog
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Piaw's Blog
Post-Weird Thoughts
Publisher's Weekly
Reading the Leaves
Realms of Speculative Fiction
Rob's Blog o' Stuff
Robots and Vamps
ScifiChick
SF Diplomat
SciFiGuy
Sci-Fi Songs [Musical Reviews]
Severian's Fantastic Worlds
SF Gospel
SF Reviews.net
SF Revu
SF Signal
SF Site
SFF World's Book Reviews
Silver Reviews
Speculative Fiction
Speculative Fiction Junkie
Speculative Horizons
Spontaneous Derivation
Sporadic Book Reviews
Stella Matutina
The Sword Review
Tangent Online
Temple Library Reviews
Tor.com [also a publisher]
The Road Not Taken
Un:Bound
Urban Fantasy Land
Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic
Variety SF
Walker of Worlds
Wands and Worlds
The Wertzone
WJ Fantasy Reviews
The World in a Satin Bag
WriteBlack

Foreign Language (other than English)

Cititor SF [Romanian, but with English Translation]

Elbakin.net [French]

Refurbished Kindles surface again

For those who are still searching for an Amazon Kindle (and who were not lucky enough to be at today's taping of Ellen, where the entire audience received a free Kindle and basket of other goodies from Amazon), the refurbished Kindles keep coming back in stock at Amazon. There were several up this morning at 11 am EST (this isn't the first time this was a good time to check - remember that 11 am EST is 8 am PST) and didn't sell out until after 11:30. From the comments on who grabbed one, there must have been at least dozen in stock today.

Be sure to read my earlier post about playing Kindle Lotto, or just remember to check www.tinyurl.com/RefurbKindle on a regular basis throughout the day.

Update, 5:35PM EST - They are back in stock again today. I've checked for the last 10 minutes and there has been at least one available.

New free ebook for Kindle: Secret Vampire

Secret Vampire by L. J. Smith

This is book 1 of the Night World No. 1 trilogy (Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder) (which sells for $7.19). Rather than just a small sample, you can (for a limited time) get the entire first book for free!

So far, the second two trilogies are only available in paperback:
Night World No. 2: Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate
Night World No. 3: Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight

Kindle Exclusive: Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President

Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President, edited by Mark Green and Michele Jolin, is now available for the Kindle and priced at $9.99. It is coming out in paperback, but there is no release date indicated yet and the price will be $16.47.

Amazon Product Description:

The result of a collaboration between the Center for American Progress Action Fund (the advocacy arm of Washington’s leading-edge progressive think-tank led) and the New Democracy Project's Mark Green, this comprehensive volume is written by over sixty leading policymakers, scholars and advocates.

Based on four core values—of democracy, security through diplomacy, opportunity and a greener world—Change for America offers scores of solutions how to repair our broken government and create an enduring progressive era.

About the Editors:

Mark Green is president of the New Democracy Project and also president of Air America Media. The author of numerous books—including the best-sellers Who Runs Congress? and The Book on Bush—he was the elected Public Advocate (1994-2001) for New York City. Michele Jolin is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and previously served for four years at the White House as Chief of Staff for President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers.

Endorsements:
“Mark Green and Michele Jolin look to 2009 as the beginning of an era of renewal and progressive governance in America. Change for America presciently and insightfully offers specific ideas for what our next President can do to revitalize our nation and restore our standing abroad."—President Bill Clinton

“The Center for American Progress Action Fund and Mark Green have assembled some of our nation's best minds, and their best ideas, into a book is packed with innovative, practical, and progressive solutions that will help take America in a New Direction."—Speaker Nancy Pelosi

“These thoughtful essays offer a progressive way forward for the vast majority of Americans who hope their government works for the many, not just the few.”—Senator Ted Kennedy

“We don't just need a transition -- we need a transformation. Mark Green and Michele Jolin's encyclopedia of change offers a brilliant roadmap for the 44th President.”—Senator John Kerry

“This is one of the most important books to be published this year. It's a handbook for restoring the New Deal's social compact with our citizens over the first '100 Days' and the next 1360.”—James Roosevelt, Jr.

“Change for America is brilliant, timely and practical and teems with hard earned wisdom and common sense.”—Michael Eric Dyson

Three books in One

One of the places where the Kindle truly shines is in comparison to the weight and inconvenience of reading very large books. Although there are a number of combined series or trilogy releases out in hardback and paperback, most of them can be a strain on the wrists to read, due to the physical size and weight. On the Kindle, however, one, three or a thousand books all weigh the same 10.4 ounces, the weight of small paperback. Often, another advantage of the Kindle is the pricing on these combined volume books. There are several currently in the Amazon store listed for the same or less than the cost of one volume of the series.

Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

The Harry Bosch Novels by Michael Connelly; $7.96. Contains The Black Echo, The Black Ice and The Concrete Blonde.

The Harry Bosch Novels, Vol 2 by Michael Connelly; $7.96. Contains The Last Coyote, Trunk Music and Angels Flight.

The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker; $9.99.Contains Black, Red and White.

Fantasy/SF

Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks; $7.96. Contains The Sword of Shannara, The Elfstones of Shannara and The Wishsong of Shannara. This one weighs in at 1,200 pages when in print.

The Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton; $7.99. Contains The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God. This is another huge trilogy - over 4,000 pages in paperback.

Romance

Lone Star Rising by Elmer Kelton; $9.99. Contains The Buckskin Line, Badger Boy and The Way of the Coyote.

The Secret Trilogy by Francine St. Marie; $9.99. Contains The Secret Keeping, Fortune Is a Woman (Keeping Mr. Right) and The Stolen Kiss.

Royal Brides Trilogy by Lucy Monroe; $7.96. Contains The Prince's Virgin Wife, His Royal Love-Child and The Scorsolini Marriage Bargain.

Heather Graham Bundle by Heather Graham; $9.99. This one isn't a trilogy and instead contains four novels: The Island, Ghost Walk, Killing Kelly and The Vision.

Classics

These can be had for free from other sources, but for less than a dollar you can get them combined into one volume and wirelessly downloaded.

Queen's Own FBI Trilogy by Mark Phillips; $0.80. Contains Brain Twister (That Sweet Little Old Lady), The Impossibles (Out Like a Light) and Supermind (Occasion for Disaster).

The Caspak Trilogy by Edgar Rice Burroughs; $0.80. Contains The Land that Time Forgot, The People that Time Forgot and Out of Time's Abyss.