- Strange Horizons — which has been bringing you short fiction, poetry, articles, columns, art and reviews, every week, for free, since September 2000 — is having its annual fund drive! Strange Horizons is run entirely by unpaid volunteers (one of whom is me), so all your donations go into paying contributors and the upkeep of the site. And hey, if you donate, you could win a prize.
- The reviews department (which has a feed you can watch; lj version here) has kicked off the month with a set of reviews of John Crowley’s Ægypt sequence. Abigail Nussbaum reviews book one, The Solitudes; Graham Sleight reviews book two, Love & Sleep; Paul Kincaid reviews book three, Dæmonomania; and John Clute reviews book four, Endless Things. (One of the fund drive prizes, as it happens, is a copy of Endless Things.)
- The first chapter of Matt Ruff’s new novel, Bad Monkeys.
- The Fiction Liberation Front: Lew Shiner’s putting his short fiction online for free.
- Christopher Barzak thinks about endings, happy and otherwise.
- Nature hosted a roundtable on biology in sf, with Peter Watts, Ken MacLeod, Paul McAuley, and Joan Slonczewski (pdf; “director’s cut” edition here).
- The results of Instant Fanzine’s Clarke Award polls.
- A conversation with Vandana Singh
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews The New Space Opera.
- William Boyd rereads Lanark.
- Gwyneth Jones on scientific revolutions, feminist sf over the past 15 years, and much else in passing.
- Adam Roberts on The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
- Nic Clarke on The Poison Master by Liz Williams
- Paul Kincaid on Falling Man by Don Delillo
- Martin McGrath and Lou Anders comment on Gareth McLean’s Guardian article on SF TV.
- And I have a feeling I never linked to Martin’s review of Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- And the trade paperback edition of Ian McDonald’s Brasyl is terribly terribly pretty.
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