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Originally Posted by nekokami
Would you mind providing a few links to review sites?
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The best ever review site in my opinion has been Emerald City run by Cherryl Morgan. It has not been active for a while - Cherryl now has a blog at Cherryl Musings with occasional reviews - but it got nominated and even won a Hugo I think, but it has the archive online and I bought lots and lots of books, especially from the UK based on that.
For current what's up in sff, the best site is Robert Fantasy Book Critic whose monthly new releases and various spotlights are just awesome - I get to check them every month and I do my best to find a new book to add, and I rarely manage. After commenting on his site for a while, I got co-opted as an occasional reviewer especially of more sf-nal and weird mainstream titles but for me that's just a hobby
Larry Of Blog of the Fallen is a more offbeat site, with lots of cool stuff, foreign authors, but I got lots of book recommendation from it and of course added mine too. He is one of the few people I know that read more than me, since this year I managed maybe 170 new (for me) novels so far, while Larry managed over 200 till now. The occasional "list 5 authors that wrote in this or that language that you like" - for 15-20 languages - challenge to the readers produced many new interesting finds for me and Larry is a big fan and connoisseur of Spanish language literature, so I found about extraordinary authors like Robert Bolano, the new CR Zafon novel which is related to Shadow of the Wind but of a more fantastic and darker bend - read it in my slow Spanish since the US translation is not yet available - and some more sfnal ones.
Jonathan McCalmont of SFDiplomat is not diplomatic but hard-hitting and while reviews come and go, links and opinions there are very useful
Of course each of those sites has tons of links to other sites, including more pro ones like Strange Horizon, Niall Harrison Torque Control and so on - so you can just explore from there until you find what fits your taste.
For forums I contribute to sffworld since I find it the most broad based and interesting and lots of authors drop by
And SFSignal has current sfnal links every day so I check it every morning
Hope these will help you.
Links:
http://www.emcit.com/
http://www.fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/
http://ofblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.sfdiplomat.net/sf_diplomat/
http://sffworld.com/
http://sfsignal.com/