PLANETES: Volumes 1-3

Makoto Yukimura Tokyopop ($9.99 each) by Robert Boyd Science fiction comics, like science fiction movies, differ drastically from literary science fiction. In the best science

TRANSMETROPOLITAN: ONE MORE TIME

Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, et al. Vertigo/DC Comics ($14.95) by Rudi Dornemann A comic about a gonzo journalist in a grim but not-quite-dystopian

ILIUM

Dan Simmons EOS ($25.95) by Allan Vorda Dan Simmons's first foray into science fiction since his epic Hyperion saga Ilium stretches across over four thousand years

OBLIVION

David Foster Wallace Little, Brown ($25.95) by Scott Bryan Wilson One of the great things about Oblivion, the new collection of stories from David Foster Wallace,

CHECKPOINT

Nicholson Baker Knopf ($15.95) by Andrew Palmer When Knopf belatedly added Nicholson Baker's latest novel, Checkpoint, to its summer list, the announcement generated as much controversy

JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL

Susanna Clarke Bloomsbury Books ($27.95) by Kelly Everding It all begins with a simple question—"Why was there no more magic done in England?" —and a

Postcard from Paris: Frank

by Linda Lappin It's a rainy day in Paris as I step off the chilly street into a bright cafe near the Duroc metro station.