- PS Publishing have released a sample section from John Berlyne’s Tim Powers bibliography Secret Histories (see Graham Sleight’s review), focusing on The Anubis Gates, and including a tribute to the novel by China Mieville; you can get it here [pdf]
- David Hines on the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and on Terminator Salvation
- Vandana Singh has some thoughts on writing (and not writing) the other, and on as others write about India, specifically Ian McDonald
- The new issue of Fruitless Recursion features Karen Burnham on Starboard Wine by Samuel Delany, Paul Raven on Reading Science Fiction, eds James Gunn, Marleen S. Barr and Matthew Candelaria, and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro on Roger Luckhurst’s cultural history of sf
- Nalo Hopkinson on why she writes sf and fantasy: Looking for Clues
- The latest issue of Conjunctions is a sort of follow-up to the “New Wave Fabulists” issue of a few years ago; and as well as the introduction, you can read stories by Elizabeth Hand, Ben Marcus, Jonathan Carroll and Jeff VanderMeer online
- Anil Menon on the first book of Hoshruba
- Nic Clarke on Irons in the Fire by Juliet E. McKenna
- Paul Kincaid reviews The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr at SF Site
- Peter Carty reviews Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui in The Independent
- New group blog, with an enormous number of mostly-British-sf-writer contributors (Andy Remic, Tricia Sullivan, Tony Ballantyne, Juliet McKenna, plenty of others), aims “to celebrate everything positive, funky and exciting in the Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror Universe!” Hmm.
- A women in science fiction reading club; I have been meaning to read the Elgin, Slonczewski and Butler books on that list for ages, so plan to join in when they reach those titles. First up, however, in June, is The Female Man.
- John Crowley interviewed at The Believer
- Reviews of Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger: Sean O’Brien in the TLS, Hilary Mantel in The Guardian, John Preston in The Telegraph
- More on The City & The City: Adam Roberts’ review, and China Mieville on crime novels, writing and ending them
- Abigail Nussbaum and Martin Lewis, on Kit Whitfield’s first novel Bareback/Benighted
- Charlotte Higgins on Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin, in The Guardian
- Martin McGrath on Toby Litt’s Journey Into Space, and some of the responses thereto; maybe one day I’ll even get around to writing up my own thoughts.
- Has anyone seen Fermat’s Room yet? It sounds interesting; here’s a write-up by Philip French that makes it sound interesting (also rounds-up other recent Spanish genre films; Timecrimes had passed me by completely)
- A conversation with Jedediah Berry; for those of you who subscribe to the LRB, there’s a review of The Manual of Detection in the latest issue, here
- Graham Sleight justifies the existence of his column and considers suspension of disbelief at the Locus blog
- Star Trek has been discussed to death by now, but Abigail Nussbaum has two good roundups of links; I particularly recommend Adam Roberts’ review, and indeed Abigail’s own review. Elsewhere selenak has been re-watching some classic Next Generation [unrelated, but see also her comparison of Angel‘s Lilah Morgan and Dollhouse‘s Adelle DeWitt]; I was inspired to rewatch “Darmok” last night, which is exactly the nerdy side of Trek that I missed in the film, and which held up surprisingly well
- And finally: a slightly confused piece by Tim Lott in The Independent, calling for the Great English Novel, notable here for the following: “The writers who have come closest to writing an important work of literature in recent years are simply not naturalists. D B C Pierre, David Mitchell, Scarlett Thomas and Susanna Clarke have all written books that were genuinely fresh voices – but the first was a satire set in America and the other three were verging on fantasy or even science-fiction.” Even, indeed …
Thanks for the pointers to Singh’s posts; I linked them here: http://community.livejournal.com/fight_derailing/6769.html