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Tansy Rayner Roberts is also blogging about women and sf this week: so far, on science fictional fantasy and the women of the five Doctors
And another Galactic Suburbanite, Alex, has posted about Bold as Love
Speaking of science fictional fantasy, a Zoo City review round-up: Aishwarya from the Indian Express; Jason at Kamivision; t’other Niall at The Speculative Scotsman; Saxon Bullock in SFX; and John Clute at Strange Horizons
And there’s an interview with Lauren Beukes at Kamivision
Adam Roberts on Arslan by MJ Engh
Paul Kincaid on Kate Wilhelm’s 1975 short story collection The Infinity Box:

Two things struck me very forcibly when reading the Wilhelm collection. First, that the stories were even better than I had remembered. Second, that while I knew these stories were unequivocally science fiction when I first read the collection (probably about 1977), today they would almost certainly not be considered sf.
David Hebblethwaite reviews Candor by Pam Bachorz
Richard at Solar Bridge on Midnight Robber
Michael Levy on Half World by Hiromi Goto, and a suite of guest posts by Goto at Omnivoracious: on romance in dark fantasy, the relationships between fantasy and reality and fantasy and horror, and her inspirations.

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