The Dream of Perpetual Links

• Con or Bust is fundraising to assist people of colour who want to attend Wiscon: you can browse the auctions, or make an auction offer (bidding opens a week today, ie 24th Feb). I’ve put up several lots of books
• The final issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction has all sorts of good things, and the news that Lois Tilton’s short fiction round-ups will be moving to Locus Online
• The Locus Poll and Survey is online — although if you’re not a subscriber, see Abigail’s commentary
• Iain Sinclair on JG Ballard’s artistic legacy
• Jeff VanderMeer’s best of 2009
• Good news, everybody! PS Publishing will be publishing Ian R MacLeod’s new novel, Wake Up and Dream. No, there’s still no sign of a paperback edition of Song of Time, and that sucks. On the upside, Subterranean were offering a free copy of Song of Time to the first thirty people to pre-order Journeys; no idea if there are any left, but since I already have a copy I’m holding off on my preorder until I can be sure they’re all gone.
• Publisher’s Weekly looks at dystopian YA novels
• Patrick Ness reviews X Isle by Steve Augarde
• NK Jemisin on “Writing a post-feminist character“, and interviewed at length
• Jonathan McCalmont on Ponyo
• Adrienne Martini reviews Connie Willis’ Blackout (although her research doesn’t seem to have been all that it could have been…)
• A very enthusiastic review of Yellow Blue Tibia
• A discussion about gritty fantasy
• Some recent reviews at Strange Horizons: L Timmel Duchamp on The Best with Nine Billion Feet by Anil Menon; Dan Hartland on A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti; TS Miller on Eclipse 3; and David J Schwartz on Avilion
• Graham Sleight on that rare beast, a science fiction play: Really Old, Like Forty-Five
• Judith Woods on Diana Wynne Jones’ Enchanted Glass and Philip Womack’s The Liberators
• Paul Kincaid on the conclusion to David Louis Edelman’s Jump 225 trilogy, Geosynchron; and, relatedly, on the structure of trilogies
• Paul Graham Raven on the marvellously-titled Do Androids Sleep With Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction
• Adam Roberts muses about being interviewed for Newsnight (items starts about 36.05)
• Some thoughts on the end of Dollhouse
• Via James, I am intrigued by Glitch
• Some of Matt Cheney’s books of the decade
• The TV Book Club‘s next pick is The Rapture by Liz Jensen; the relevant episode airs 21st February on More4, and 22nd February on Channel 4
• Finally: I’m off to San Francisco tomorrow, for four days of work and five days of holiday. I’m sure I’ll manage to find some internet access somewhere, though…

EDIT: Actually, finally finally: don’t forget the deadline for applications to this year’s SF Foundation Masterclass in SF criticism is creeping up. (I suddenly realised last night, and sent in my application so that I don’t have to worry about it while I’m away.)