A Billion Links

Back from Barcelona, cleaning out the links:

• The Eve’s Alexandrians have been continuing their Clarke reading with gusto: here are Nic and Victoria on Gradisil (which they liked), Hav (which they really liked), and End of the World Blues (which they disagreed on, Nic being somewhat more positive than Victoria). For other (quite different) opinions see here.
• An interview with Richard Morgan. There’s been a bit of debate in the comments to Martin Lewis’ review of Morgan’s Black Man. (Other good stuff at Strange Horizons reviews this week: William Mingin on Kipling, and Adam Roberts on Sunshine.)
• Gwyneth Jones in The Guardian on reality catching up with sf, and on her blog on Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean.
• Reviews from Locus: Gary Wolfe on In War Times by Katheleen Ann Goonan and Faren Miller on Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages.
• Compare and contrast: Abigail Nussbaum on the Hugo-nominated short stories, novellettes and novella list, versus SF Signal on all of them in one post. They don’t have opposite views about every story …
• The paintings of Alice B. Sheldon.
• An interesting discussion developed on the De Lint on Mieville post, if you missed that.
• Kelly Link has a young adult collection coming out next year.
• An interesting response to my review of Specimen Days.
• The May/June 2008 Interzone will be a Mundane SF special, guest-edited by Geoff Ryman, Julian Todd and Trent Walters.
• Farah Mendlesohn on Myth, Symbol and Meaning in Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins, She Wrote: the Life of P.L. Travers.
• Martin McGrath on Ascent by Jed Mercurio.
• Jonathan McCalmont on new mass-market sf magazine SciFiNow.
• The Winter Rose and The Snow Queen.
• Richard Larson on The Crying of Lot 49 and paranoia.
• The Locus Award Finalists and Paul’s comments.
• A recent talk by Ken MacLeod.
• And: this review of The Children of Hurin was actually doing ok until the last paragraph.