- A few updates to earlier posts:
- Adam Roberts has some thoughts about characterisation inspired by the Swiftly discussion
- Margo Lanagan responds to the fuss about “The Goosle” in typically robust fashion:
[L]et me just say that anyone who thinks ‘The Goosle’ is child pornography has their child-porn radar set way too high; that anyone who thinks Hanny for a moment enjoys being buggered simply hasn’t read the story properly; and anyone who thinks the story was written for shock value or because my ‘idea well ran dry’ has very little sense of how stories happen, or how many ideas are constantly beating at the doors of any writer’s brain. Dave’s review says a whole lot more about Dave than it says about ‘The Goosle’ or about my motivations.
- John Clute’s talk from the Gresham symposium, “Physics for Amnesia”, is now online here; also, SF Signal have found video of Neal Stephenson’s talk
- Richard Morgan will be guest-blogging at Omnivoracious all week
- For anyone voting in the Hugos, tonight is the deadline
- Speaking of awards: Gwyneth Jones is the winner of this year’s Pilgrim Award
- In case anyone else didn’t know (I only just realised this): the UK edition of Karen Joy Fowler’s new novel, Wit’s End, has been retitled The Case of the Imaginary Detective
- Interesting interview with Tim Etchells at Big Dumb Object; The Broken World does sound promising
- And an interview with Sarah Hall
- And an interview with Nancy Kress
- And an interview with Jo Walton
- Roz Kaveney on Battlestar Galactica‘s fourth season; Abigail Nussbaum’s response
- Tracking reviews of The Gone-Away World
- The contents for this year’s Best American Fantasy
- And the contents of the special Worldcon all-sf issue of Postscripts
- Comments from this year’s Locus survey
- Other reviews:
- Nic Clarke tackles several books by Naomi Mitchison, plus Lesley Hall’s literary biography of Mitchison
- Stephen Burt looks at the Library of America volumes of Philip K. Dick, and suggests they do Tiptree next, which sounds like a good idea to me
- John Clute reviews Jeannette Winterson, Walter Jon Williams, Jay Lake and Paul Park
- Maureen Kincaid Speller reviews Lisa Yaszek’s Galactic Suburbia
- James Wood reviews Rivka Galchen’s Atmospheric Disturbances
- Peter Carty reviews Lost Boys by James Miller
- Paul Kincaid reviews House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- Steven Shaviro discusses Paul di Filippo’s “Phylogenesis”
- Adam Roberts reviews Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney
- Greg Bear reviews Damien Broderick’s Year Million
- Abigail Nussbaum assesses “Journey’s End” and Russell T Davies’ Doctor Who in general
- Stephenie Meyer’s The Host: actually good? Perhaps because it “isn’t science fiction so much as dark political philosophy”?
- Old news one: SF Signal’s latest Mind Meld is about gender balance in sf, and has a short contribution from me and longer, better contributions from others
- Old news two: Jonathan Strahan apologises for Eclipse 2
- And finally: who are the worst reviewers in sf?
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Clearly, the only value in that worst reviewer thread is in working out whether you have enough of a profile to be hated by someone.
with large sections of Lost Boys resembling J G Ballard’s writings in both subject and style.
Aargh!
Aargh!
For new readers, a translation of this exclamation can be found here. (The review itself is scheduled for 23rd July.)
Your Richard Morgan link goes to the New Yorker: unless this is some supersubtle joke that passeth over my head …
Whoops; copy/paste error there, I think. Fixed now, and here‘s the first post.