- Reviews of Wyndham’s Plan for Chaos by Leo Mellor in the Independent, Nick Rennison in The Sunday Times, Jake Kerridge in The Telegraph, and M John Harrison in The Guardian; further discussion of the latter here.
- M John Harrison has also republished a review of War Fever by JG Ballard, from 1990
- NK Jemisin on why Racefail was the bestest thing evar for sff
- Jonathan McCalmont on Lem’s Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
- Matt Cheney is comparing sf in 1990 and 2000
- Karen Burnham on George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin
- Two reviews of Lethem’s Chronic City, by Patrick Ness and Thomas Jones; Patrick Ness also not a fan of The Left Hand of God
- Martin Lewis reviews The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood and The Rapture by Liz Jensen; Paul Kincaid also reviews the latter here, and between them I am convinced that I should read my copy sooner rather than later
- Other reviews by the prolific Mr Kincaid: Two New Tales From the Mabinogion, and Avilion by Robert Holdstock.
- And Martin takes on the Kelly/Kessel Secret History of Science Fiction here.
- Gord Sellar on THe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin
- Nic Clarke on We Who Are About To … by Joanna Russ
- Tim Adams on Generosity by Richard Powers
- David Hebblethwaite on Mr Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Abigail Nussbaum: Chuck vs Half the Human Race, and two zombie novels
- Andrew Seal on Yellow Blue Tibia
- Adam Roberts on Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton and Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
- Alasdair Czyrnyj on Babylon by Richard Calder
- Catherynne Valente’s steampunk story, “The Anachronist’s Cookbook“
- A list of neglected books at Tor.com
- A year of YA reading
- Rachel Swirsky’s Nebula recommendations for short story, novelette and novella
- And finally, The Write Fantastic is celebrating their anniversary with a one-day event in Oxford, on 8th May
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The review of Generosity is very good. It’s good in the sense of positive, and it’s good in that it tells us what the novel is about. I can’t disagree with anything Tim Adams writes in it.
But my reaction was different. He describes Generosity as “compulsive.” I wanted it to be, and felt that it ought to be, but… it was easier to put down and take a break from that it was to pick up again. Had I bought it, I’d probably have finished it, but I wasn’t sad to give the library its copy back before I got halfway through.
I should add that I often find Powers hard going. The exceptions so far are Galatea 2.2 and Gain.
He’s not someone who’s really been on my radar until a couple of years ago. But I have both Galatea 2.2 and Generosity in my TBR pile, and hope to get to them sooner rather than later.
Andrew: I liked Generosity a lot, but it had an awkwardness about it, largely in the authorial interjections, that meant it didnt flow as well as it could.
There’s a lot to think about in Generosity, some interesting ideas and an absence of partiality that makes it provocative. What isn’t there is the genuine emotional beauty and sense of wonder that is in The Time Of Our Singing say.