The Links of Ages

Post-bank-holiday-catch-up-edition:

• For those who were busy over the weekend, posts here: this year’s BSFA Award winners, and discussion of Mike Resnick’s Hugo-nominated novellette, “Alastair Baffle’s Emporium of Wonders“
• Eastercon bittercon discussions: continuing classics, and classics that aren’t; sf as protest literature, and pacifism in sf (good to see people can still argue as vehemently as ever about “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”); urban fantasy; and fantasy, history and alternate history
• Other awards news: the shortlist for the new David Gemmell Legend Award. Some reactions here, here and here, Guardian write-up here; I still wish they’d stuck with a juried second stage.
• This year’s Philip K. Dick Award has been jointly awarded to Terminal Mind by David Walton and Emissaries From the Dead by Adam Troy-Castro (i.e. no special citation).
• Jonathan McCalmont’s alternative shortlist for the Best Dramatic Presentation: Long Form category. I note that Let the Right One In is finally released in the UK this week.
• Sam Jordison has reached The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber and Dune in his Hugo winner chronicles
• Paul Kincaid’s final Science Fiction Skeptic columns, here and here
• Discussion of the finale of The Sarah Connor Chronicles (if you haven’t been watching Sarah Connor, shame on you!): one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. My own feeling is that it was very good, but I’m perhaps more impressed by its cleverness than grabbed by its emotions.
• Jo Walton on reading series
• A report from an Octavia Butler symposium
• Publisher’s Weekly focuses on sf
• John Clute reviews The Best of Gene Wolfe; and Graham Sleight on reading Gene Wolfe
• Other reviews:
  • Of Kit Whitfield’s In Great Waters: Nic Clarke for SFX, Roz Kaveney in The Independent, Kari Sperring at Strange Horizons
  • Adam Roberts rounds up his reviews of this year’s Clarke Award shortlist
  • Martin Lewis on Biohell by Andy Remic
  • Paul Kincaid on The Complete Northwest Smith by C.L. Moore
  • Abigail Nussbaum on Mr Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan
  • Graham Sleight on Powers, compiled and edited by John Berlyne
  • Marcel Theroux’s Far North reviewed by M. John Harrison in The Guardian and Tim Martin in The Telegraph
  • Adam Roberts on Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr’s The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
  • My review of Marcher by Chris Beckett
  • A double review of Jedediah Berry’s The Manual of Detection and Rana Dasgupta’s Solo in The Scotsman. I recently read Dasgupta’s first book, Tokyo Cancelled, and was rather impressed, so I’m going to try to get to Solo sooner rather than later. Other reviews of that one: here, here, here and here.
• Interviews:
  • Pat Cadigan
  • Richard Morgan
  • Jedediah Berry
  • Samantha Hunt
  • Kaaron Warren
• And finally … vote in the Locus poll, why don’t you? Yeah, if you’re not a subscriber your vote only counts half, but at least it counts for something. You’ve got until tomorrow, anyway.