- First up: BSFA members! Time to get your nominations in for this year’s awards, if you haven’t already. Send your nominations for Best Novel, Best Short Fiction, Best Non-Fiction and Best Artwork to the awards administrator forthwith. This will not be your last reminder on this subject, but since you can always send more nominations later if you forget something now, if you’ve read something you think is good enough to be nominated, there’s no point in delaying. OK? Good.
- Over at the Aqueduct Press blog you can read pleasures of 2009 lists from Nisi Shawl, Cheryl Morgan, Rachel Swirsky, Jeffrey Ford, Lisa Tuttle, and others.
- Reviews of Avatar : Alan DeNiro , Annalee Newitz , Peter Watts , Paul McAuley EDIT: and Greg Egan
- Nic Clarke on Fire by Kristin Cashore
- On those Year’s Bests : some other suggestions .
- Anil Menon on Makers by Cory Doctorow
- Gary K Wolfe on The Devil’s Alphabet by Daryl Gregory
- NK Jemisin argues that the gap between new and old urban fantasy isn’t so large after all. Hmm.
- Steven Shaviro has posted an essay on Gamer
- Marcus Chown reviews Geoff Ryman’s science-into-fiction anthology When it Changed for The Guardian
- Adam Roberts’s Lord of the Rings re-read ; also, his review of the forthcoming Wolfsangel by MD Lachlan ; some more discussion about the language of fantasy, with response by Lachlan here
- TS Miller on the film of The Road
- Dan Hartland on In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield and The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
- Jonathan McCalmont on Where the Wild Things Are : ” Lost in Translation with Muppets ”
- Jonathan Strahan’s top ten genre short story collections of the decade
- And last but not least, SFFMeta : MetaCritic for sf and fantasy books.
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