- Abigail Nussbaum on the unaired episodes of Dollhouse, “Epitaph One” and the original pilot; another take on the former of those two here.
- A short film of Joe Hill’s story “Pop Art”, which I haven’t had a chance to watch yet.
- The Human Genre Project, conceived by Ken MacLeod
- Steven Shaviro’s essay “The Singularity Is Here“, about “imaginings of the Singularity and especially Charles Stross’ novel Accelerando”, from Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction, edited by Mark Bould and China Miéville.
- Marty Halpern: twelve stories do not a collection make, and the putting-together of Alastair Reynolds’ short fiction collections
- Andrew Wheeler reads Wireless and concludes that Charles Stross is all about the pessimism. Martin Lewis disagrees.
- Gwyneth Jones on Daniel Abraham’s Long Price Quartet
- Catherynne Valente on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Nick Hubble on The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
- Kyra Smith reads Arthas: Rise of the Lich King so the rest of us don’t have to.
- A dismantling of the first and second chapters of Cory Doctorow’s Makers, currently being serialised at Tor.com.
- Not content with having Sam Jordison reading past Hugo winners, the Guardian books blog now has Alison Flood reading winners of the British Fantasy Award, starting with The Knight of the Swords by Michael Moorcock.
- Paul Kincaid on Charles Coleman FInlay’s Traitor to the Crown series
- Nic Clarke on The Graveyard Book
- Matt Denault on The Painting and the City by Robert Freeman Wexler
- Tony Keen on predictive dreams, or why many historical novels are science fiction really
- A series of interviews with the “writers to watch” identified in an SF Signal Mind Meld last year.
- Andy Sawyer on Spook City and Liverpool’s sf tradition.
- A final Torchwood link: Selenak on the women of Children of Earth.
- Babel 17 and the problems of reading from awards shortlists
- Mentioned in the Hugo discussion of doom last week, but possibly lost in the shuffle there: in the wake of last year’s shenanigans, participation in the Locus Awards dropped quite dramatically.
- Paul Kincaid has been re-reading Dhalgren
- The New York Times on Jack Vance.
- Jonathan McCalmont on Duncan Jones’ Moon.
- Mike Glyer explains his reasons for voting “yes” on the motion to remove the Best Semiprozine Hugo category; I’m coming around to his view.
- David Hebblethwaite on Tender Morsels and the attendant fuss.
- And finally: In defence of Syfy.
