- Julie Phillips has some new articles (well, some previously published in Dutch, but new in English) up on her website: an Michael Chabon and Daniel Mendlesohn (the “gates are infinitely wide and always open” interview came out of the same conversation), and reviews of sf by Lessing, Winterson and Ninni Holmqvist, The Dangerous Book for Boys, Manliness, and Shakespeare’s Wife by Germaine Greer.
- Two posts about sf at This Space worth disagreeing with: one, two. (See also Larry on why sf is not the literature of ideas.)
- An interesting review of The New Space Opera by Alan DeNiro; also at Rain Taxi, Kristin Livdahl reviews The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick.
- Dan Hartland likes Catherynne Valente, but isn’t keen on Hal Duncan.
- An interview with Ekaterina Sedia.
- Terrence Rafferty on horror by Joe Hill, Laird Barron, Clive Barker and John Shirley.
- Nic Clarke has 4,000 words of thoughts about John M Ford’s collection Heat of Fusion, split into two posts.
- Abigail Nussbaum’s examination of Deep Space Nine continues with a search for Ron Moore.
- Martin McGrath reviews Interzone 214.
- An interesting essay by James Wood! It’s about character: “I think that novels tend to fail not when the characters are not vivid or “deep” enough, but when the novel in question has failed to teach us how to adapt to its conventions, has failed to manage a specific hunger for its own characters, its own reality level.”
- The BSFA short fiction nominee that wasn’t online before, Alastair Reynolds’ “The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter”, now is. [Edit: Tony points out that only the start of Ken Macleod’s story is currently online.]
- Cover art for Ian R MacLeod’s Song of Time.
- The winners of the Aurealis Awards, with judges’ comments; Ben Peek critiques the latter here, and in so doing inspires me to look up the winning novel, The Company of the Dead, only to find it’s not even available for order on Amazon UK.
- And don’t forget that the deadline for applications to this year’s SFF Masterclass is later this week.
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Re your last bullet: are you missing a capital letter here, or words, or more? (This bit of text also seems to break when displayed on my LJ feed.)
Goddammit, not again. There’s at least one whole bullet that’s been swallowed, possibly more. Can’t tell until I get home.
Also I meant to add a reminder that the deadline for applications for the SFF Masterclass is this week.
If only you had a mystery guest poster who could make such amendments for you…
Alas, indeed. The only mystery guest poster I have available claims not to know HTML.
<a href=”http://news.pspublishing.co.uk/2008/01/23/new-artwork-by-edward-miller-ian-r -macleods-song-of-time/#respond”>cover art for Ian R MacLeod’s Song of Time.
cover art for Ian R MacLeod’s Song of Time.
Cock it.
I’ve got to give you points for effort, Martin.
It’s almost like you wouldn’t trust me or Graham with the keys to Torque Control, you know.
I too am astonished and hurt, Liz.
The nominated short stories for the BSFA award are still not online in their entirety, as only the first part of the MacLeod is available.
Right, well that’s all sorted. I think. Eventually.