Cleaning out a fortnight’s worth of links:
- Go vote in the Locus poll (and if you like, the SF Site Readers’ Choice)
- Two New York Times reviews of Joe Hill’s debut novel Heart-Shaped Box: positive and, uh, less positive
- Is horror the next big thing?
- James Lovegrove on aliens and otherness, taking in Air, Richard Morgan’s Black Man, Ken Macleod’s The Execution Channel, and Ian McDonald’s Brasyl
- Fiction: “A Tranquil Star” by Primo Levi
- The Genre Files is looking for your nominations for genre cover of the month
- Ursula Le Guin reviews The Cleft by Doris Lessing
- Jonathan McCalmont reviews Blindsight and interviews Peter Watts
- Micky DuPree on The Second Coming (following up to a usenet post of mine from four years ago)
- Lucius Shepard reviews The Host and Pan’s Labyrinth
- Whither SF, round 362
- On literary perfection
- SFRevu interviews Simon Spanton (of Gollancz)
- Lablit interviews Kim Stanley Robinson
- One man’s quest to bring Olaf Stapledon’s Sirius to the screen
- A call for papers for The Australian Journal for Critical Review of Speculative Fiction
- And finally: Penguin will be happy with their wiki novel project as long as “it manages to avoid becoming some sort of robotic-zombie-assassins-against-African-ninjas-in-space-narrate d-by-a-Papal-Tiara type of thing.” Wusses!
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I’m not sure what to make of the Sirius project–though I guess any attempt to film Stapledon deserves some points for audacity.
Incidentally, congratulations on beating the plague.