- One more day to send in your BSFA Award nominations — they must be received by 23.59 tomorrow (Saturday 16th). And then you could vote in the SF Site Reader’s Choice awards. (You can do that if you’re not a BSFA member, even.)
- An open letter to fans, authors and critics of the male sex, and a related post by Liz Williams
- Sad news: the Internet Review of SF will be suspending publication after the February issue; so enjoy the January issue
- David Ketterer’s introduction to Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham
- China Mieville is blogging
- Kristin Cashore on writing fantasy
- Kari Sperring reviews The Cardinal’s Blades and L’Alchimiste des Ombres by Pierre Pevel
- My review of The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham
- L. Timmel Duchamp on Total Oblivion, More or Less by Alan DeNiro
- Graham Sleight interviews Farah Mendlesohn about On Joanna Russ
- A discussion about difficulty at The Valve
- Patrick Ness reviews Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
- Adam Roberts on Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
- A round table on Australian sf at the World SF blog
- Discussion of cover art, with reference to Lauren Beukes’ forthcoming fantasy Zoo City
- Tony Keen and Tim Phipps on “The End of Time” (and the end of a Doctor Who era)
- More Avatar links: a round-up by Abigail Nussbaum; elsewhere, Roz Kaveney; Caleb Crain; Jonah Lehrer; Andres du Toit
- David Hebblethwaite on Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Nic Clarke on The Road (the book)
- Mark Charan Newton asks: what do people mean when they say “clunky”?
- Realms of Fantasy is having an all-woman issue, which has attracted much comment
- Dan Hartland on Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley, and The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw; on the latter I echo much of his ambivalence, though I was more won over by the book in the end. Also over at Strange Horizons with a review of Sherlock Holmes, with further thoughts back on his blog here.
- New Peter Watts story at Clarkesworld: “The Things“; see Jonathan Strahan’s account of how this didn’t end up in Eclipse 3
- Books-of-2009 lists from Martin Lewis (and films), David Hebblethwaite, Abigail Nussbaum (and worst reads of the year, and best short stories).
- Science fiction is annoying Bruce
SterlingEverett - Guardian books podcast on sf, including interview with China Mieville.
- And finally: so at Worldcon, I was on a panel about the Terminator franchise with Abigail, and James Zavaglia. After the panel, we were approached by a chap from Electric Playground asking if he could interview us. We said yes, and they’ve used the material for this segment. (Also including coments from Russell Blackford.)
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Don’t think that’s a Bruce Sterling article, is it?
Have to admit, I think I just took that accreditation from wherever I picked up the link from. But indeed, judging by the Twitter link it’s not Sterling. Oops.