- Any shortlist that includes both Chris Beckett and Ali Smith is a good shortlist
- Similarly, good to see Swiftly on the list of Sidewise Award nominees (to be fair, I haven’t read, er, any of the other nominees yet; although apparently some of them are more alternate than others)
- A review and discussion of Patricia Wrede’s The Thirteenth Child prompts another round of discussion about racism and fantasy
- Winner of the Sci-Fi London audience choice award for short film: The Day the Robots Woke Up
- Geoff Ryman on the end of Battlestar Galactica
- Steven Shaviro on JG Ballard’s late novels
- The results of this year’s Interzone readers’ poll
- The latest issue of Journey Planet, guest-edited by Pete Young, is all about Nineteen Eighty-Four and George Orwell [pdf]. (Tangentially, see Ursula Le Guin on calling Utopia a utopia)
- Imogen Russell Williams, at the Guardian books blog, on Diana Wynne Jones
- Gwyneth Jones’ notes to her Buonarotti Quartet stories
- Alvaro Zinos-Amaro reviews Ken Scholes’ Long Walks, Last Flights and Other Strange Journeys in the new issue of The Internet Review of SF
- Jeanette Winterson on The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, in The Times
- Patrick Ness on Genesis by Bernard Beckett, in The Guardian
- John Clute reviews Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts, at Sci-Fi Wire
- Roz Kaveney reviews Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald, in The Independent; see also Holly Phillips’ review at Fantasy Magazine
- Dan Hartland reviews Far North by Marcel Theroux, at Strange Horizons
- Richard Larson and Karen Burnham review UFO In Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo, at Strange Horizons
- Duncan Lawie reviews The Accord by Keith Brooke, at Strange Horizons
- Martin Lewis reviews In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield, at SF Site
- Hugh Lupton reviews Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin, in The Times
- Jane Shilling reviews White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi, in The Telegraph
- Not strictly fantasy, so far as I can tell, but it sounds interesting: Adam Mars Jones and Alex Clark on The Children’s Book by AS Byatt, both in The Guardian
- And finally: not directly sf-related (except insofar as they have published some good sf over the last few years), Sam Jordison wonders what Faber’s name stands for now. Interesting to think about genre publishers in the same way.
