… but some of these are pretty old. Still, that only means you’ll be able to find something to read, right?
- Abigail Nussbaum has been rewatching Deep Space Nine and writing all about it. Three posts so far: an introduction, “the two DS9s“, and thoughts about the various alien races
- Michael Dirda on John Crowley’s Aegypt sequence
- Paul McAuley’s (anti-mundane) credo
- Nic reviews Ian R MacLeod’s wonderful The Summer Isles
- “Clang“: John Clute reviews Peter Hoeg’s The Quiet Girl
- Scott Edelman is annoyed by Martin McGrath’s review of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
- Martin McGrath’s thoughts on Michael Chabon, The Gentlemen of the Road, and Jewishness
- Jason Sanford’s much-criticised essay about “The U.S. Literary Establishment’s Need-Hate Relationship with Speculative Fiction” is now online
- Paul Kincaid’s two most recent SF Skeptic columns at Bookslut: “Where’s the sense in sensawunda?” and “Time … and Again … and Again“, the latter of which makes a nice complement to the latest Vector.
- M. John Harrison’s further notes on worldbuilding
- An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson at Bldgblog
- And an interview with Ken Macleod at Canadian Dimension
- Philip Palmer on why The Stone Gods isn’t science fiction
- reviews from Locus: Mark R Kelly on Best American Fantasy, Gary K Wolfe on One for Sorrow and Graham Sleight on James Tiptree, Jr
- Reviews from SF Site: Paul Raven on Land of the Headless, Paul Kincaid on Cowboy Angels and on The New Space Opera.
- Reviews from the Guardian: Keith Gray on Malorie Blackman’s new book, The Stuff of Nightmares, and James Buchan on Flight by Sherman Alexie. Also at the Guardian, Sam Jordison is re-reading Hugo winners from the start; here he is on The Demolished Man, and on retro Hugo winner Fahrenheit 451
- Reviews from Strange Horizons: Dan Hartland on Ink and In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Victoria Hoyle on The Pesthouse and The Carhullan Army, Martin Lewis on The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua, Abigail Nussbaum on Till Human Voices Wake Us, and William Mingin on Gateways to Forever
- Gollancz will be publishing Cyberabad Days, a collection of River of Gods-related stories by Ian McDonald, later this year.
- Micole links to some fanfic that rewrites the canon
- Saxon Bullock on “Voyage of the Damned”
- Micole’s thoughts on the first two episodes of The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Rereading Colin Greenland’s Take Back Plenty
- Yet more Paul Kincaid! This time on Zeroville
- The rather fine cover for Paolo Bacigalupi’s forthcoming collection Pump Six and Other Stories
- And finally, as a reward for reading through all that: an extract from Matter by Iain M Banks
The Bacigalupi link isn’t working for me — I think you forgot the href.
Yeah, me either David.
Could you squeeze in a bit more Paul Kincaid, please?
Adam: there’s a resonant sentence…
David, BT: Thanks. I’m impressed that there was only one I messed up, to be honest …
Adam: Well, I could have linked to this or this as well. But that would have just felt gratuitous.
… could I tempt you with some bonus Clute instead?
I see your Clute and I raise you a Bond.
Yep, that’s where I saw it linked …
Buchan’s characterization of Sherman Alexie’s Native American ancestry as “privilege” is… interesting. But I suppose a baron’s grandson married to a marquess’s daughter knows privilege when he sees it.
…baron’s son, I should have said.