The Gone Away Links

And now, to Wales!

Which is to say that having finished inflicting 12,000 words about various fantasy novels on you (and sent all the content for the next issue of Vector off to be laid out), I’m going to spend a week in a house near here with a bunch of friends, reading books, eating large meals, and going for the occasional walk. Liz is one of said friends, so it’s going to be pretty quiet around here for the next seven days. Hence: some links.

First, things that have been posted here recently, for ease of reference:

• Heroic fantasy definitions and Fritz Leiber
• The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
• Elric: the Stealer of Souls by Michael Moorcock
• The Adventures of Alyx by Joanna Russ
• The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan
• A double review of The Quiet War by Paul McAuley and Song of Time by Ian R MacLeod
• A discussion about Flood by Stephen Baxter
• Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
• Discussions about optimistic sf and space opera

And now, things of interest elsewhere:

• Abigail Nussbaum on The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Rich Horton has started posting his end of year short fiction summaries; so far, Realms of Fantasy, Zahir, Chairoscuro, F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, Helix, and Fantasy
• Bloggers who don’t blog, blogging, part one: Geoff Ryman at Omnivoracious, with a three part essay on Cambodia, and a piece about teaching in San Diego
• Bloggers who don’t blog, blogging, part two: Vandana Singh at Ecstatic Days, on paradigm shifts and the reading/writing life, decolonization of the mind, searching for Indian sf, women writing in India, thoughts on the animal other, and science fiction and the end of the world
• An old column by Gregory Feeley on novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, Ursula Le Guin, John Clute and Greg Egan
• Martin Lewis has finished reading Feeling Very Strange
• M John Harrison on that Turbine Hall exhibit
• Reactions to the Gollancz space opera covers at Caustic Cover Critic and Next Read
• A new story by Daryl Gregory: “Glass“
• An in-depth profile of Algis Budrys together with his 1959 story “The Distant Sound of Engines“
• Karen Burnham reviews Egan’s Incandescence
• The latest story up for discussion at A Curious Singularity is Kelly Link’s “The Specialist’s Hat”; posts so far, one, two
• Ian Sales on Gwyneth Jones’ Escape Plans
• And Martin McGarth is excited about Joe Ahearne’s next project

When I return: a review of The Knife of Never Letting Go, a discussion about The Ant King and Other Stories, and quite possibly some polls. Have a fun week, everyone!