» Blog Arcfinity previews New Scientist’s upcoming SF zine Arc

» Time Magazine: Lev Grossman reviews Elizabeth Hand’s Available Dark

» Library Journal’s SF/F Reviews for Feb 15th give stars to Elspeth Cooper, Melanie Rawn, Walter Jon Williams

» Ben Bova explains how he owes his editing career to George Burns

» LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews Matt Ruff’s The Mirage, comparing it unfavorably to works by PKD; “It’s not a world Ruff is creating so much as it is a high concept…”

» LA Times: Margaret Wappler reviews William Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor

» Quebec Writers’ Federation is offering an 8-week Workshop on writing fantasy and science fiction stories, led by Claude Lalumière

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Michael Saler’s As If

» Seattle Post Intelligencer: Richard Marcus reviews Saladin Ahmed’s Throne Of The Crescent Moon

» LA Times: William Gibson talks to Wired

» Huffington Post: Brave New World Turns 80

» Analog’s Readers’ Award Ballot is online through February 14

» Ann VanderMeer has issued a call for submissions for Steampunk Revolution, to be published Fall 2012

» StarShipSofa is running an Online Writers Workshop on 31 March 2012 with guest speakers Ann VanderMeer, Peter Watts, and Nancy Kress

» Wired’s GeekDad offers 102 Essential Science Fiction Books for Your Kindle

» Seattle Times: Nisi Shawl reviews Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic from Small Beer Press

» Washington Post: Ron Charles reviews Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child; Slate’s Lydia Kiesling also reviewed it

» Scientific American’s Aaron Shattuck and Gary Stix interview William Gibson on “Cities in Fact and Fiction”

» PW’s xyz blog reveals 8 Laws Named for Writers, including those by Gaiman, Sturgeon, Clarke, and Asimov

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews The Hellstrom Chronicle on its 40th anniversary

» Joel Shepard blogs about real female action heroes

» David Langford’s Ansible 295

» Reason Magazine: Gregory Benford on Science Fiction Facing Facts

» Salon: William Gibson: I really can’t predict the future

» Edge.com’s annual question, What is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation?, has 192 responses including those from Gregory Benford, Rudy Rucker, Bart Kosko, PZ Myers, Brian Eno, Freeman Dyson, and many, many others

»: NY Times Book Review: J. Robert Lennon reviews Ben Marcus’ The Flame Alphabet

» Austin Chronicle: Roberto Ontiveros on South-of-the-Border Speculation, a review of Mexican SF anthology Three Messages and a Warning

» AdviceToWriters interviews Harlan Ellison

» NY Times Book Review: Pagan Kennedy reviews William Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor (front page review)

» Library Journal’s Science Fiction/Fantasy Reviews, January 2012 gives stars to titles by Saladin Ahmed, John R. Fultz, and Paula Guran

» Guardian: Stuart Kelly reviews Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden

» Salon interviews Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

» The Week presents Elizabeth Hand’s 6 favorite books

» The Independent’s Neela Debnath interviews Peter Nicholls, founder of ‘The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction’

» Asimov’s SF’s Readers’ Awards Ballot is online until February 1st

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews William Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor; earlier, Di Filippo reviews Boudinot’s Blueprints of the Afterlife

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Alastair Reynolds, Paul McAuley, Ian Whates, Will Elliott

» LA Times: Susan Carpenter reviews Beth Revis’ A Million Suns

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Maureen F. McHugh’s After the Apocalypse

» John Joseph Adams is soliciting recommendations for new anthology Epic

» Publishers Weekly profiles Elizabeth Hand (subscriber only)

» Theaker’s Quarterly issue #39 [free download] interviews Matt Hughes and reviews his three Henghis Hapthorn novels

» Dave Langford’s Ansible 294

» January Author Events include Adam Christopher, Rudy Rucker, Whitley Strieber, Jo Walton, James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, and others; see Complete list for details

January conventions are Chattacon, Chattanooga TN (20-22), Epic Confusion, Troy MI (20-22), and COSine, Colorado Springs (27-29)

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews John C. Tibbetts’ The Gothic Imagination

» The Nation: Charles Taylor’s You Can’t Always Get What You Want: On Stephen King, considering 11/22/63‘s approach to history

» Salon: Anne Serling on How I found my father in the “Twilight Zone”

» The Economist: Rejoice for Utopia is nigh! – about Hugo Gernsback

» Cultpop has a video interview with Anne & Jeff VanderMeer

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from the KGB reading with Ekaterina Sedia and Gemma Files

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry’s Best SF and F books of 2011 are by Bennett, Cline, Goldstein, Grossman, King, Leicht, Morrison, Scalzi, Walton, and Wilson

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews The Weird, Tanith Lee, Storm Constantine, Kim Lakin-Smith

» Slate: Independent Bookstores Are Not Doomed

» Omnivoracious: 2011 Overlooked Books? Unique Fantasy, SF, and Horror You Might Have Missed

» Boing Boing: James Patrick Kelly’s free Xmas edition of Strangeways

» Locus Online’s editorial blog: Fie Upon Song Ticketing

» NY Times Book Review: Charles Platt reviews The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

» LA Times: Susan Carpenter reviews Ian McDonald’s Planesrunner; also, David L. Ulin’s Year in Review: Books includes titles by Murakami and Lethem

» Barnes & Noble’s Year’s Best Reading 2011: Editor’s Picks includes titles by Jo Walton and Jeff VanderMeer; the Best Science Fiction Releases of 2011 include Cline, McIntosh, Ziegler, Rajaniemi, Stauber, Cox, Kasai, Sawyer, Vinge, and others

» Entertainment Weekly’s Best Novels of 2011 includes Murakami, Karen Russell, and Ernest Cline

» Salon: Laura Miller reviews Maureen F. McHugh’s After the Apocalypse

» Salon: What Slate doesn’t get about bookstores

» Omnivoracious interviews Haruki Murakami

» NPR: Lev Grossman’s year’s best SF and fantasy are books by Martin, Valente, Stross, Abercrombie, and Oliver

» Washington Post’s Best Books of 2011 includes Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84; its 50 Notable Fiction includes Stephen King, Lev Grossman, Felix J. Palma, Erin Morgenstern, Eoin Colfer, Karen Russell

» Time Magazine’s Best of Books 2011 [subscriber only] is led in fiction by George R.R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons

» Time Magazine: Seven Books Lev Grossman Is Looking Forward to in 2012 include titles by William Gibson and Paolo Bacigalupi

» Slate’s Farhad Manjoo: Buying books on Amazon is better for authors, better for the economy, and better for you

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Will McIntosh, Kathleen Ann Goonan, John C. Wright

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Margaret Atwood, Kate Beaton, Erin Morgenstern

» LA Times: Elizabeth Hand surveys Stephen King on TV, from ‘Salem’s Lot’ to ‘Bag of Bones’

» NY Review of SF probably to go digital after July 2012

» James Gunn’s Ad Astra is open to submissions

» Financial Times’ Favourite Fiction 2011 includes SF titles, selected by James Lovegrove, by Eric Brown, China Miéville, and Adam Roberts

» BBC: Robert J. Sawyer offers some perspective on the discovery of Kepler-22b

» Boston Review: John Crowley reviews Ben Katchor

» Slate: Ed Finn on What Ridley Scott’s otherwise-wonderful Prophets of Science Fiction gets wrong about the future

» Harlan Ellison Books is offering four new Ellison titles, including volumes of essays, teleplays, and his never-before-reprinted second novel from 1960

» Fantastic Literature‘s December booklist is now posted

» LA Times’ Holiday Books & Gift Ideas include, in the thriller/fantasy/sci-fi category, titles by Martin, Kadrey, McHugh, Oates, Crichton/Preston, and Stephenson; in fiction & poetry, titles by DeLillo, Maguire, Whitehead, King, and Murakami; and in children and young adults, titles by Barker, Paolini, and the VanderMeers

» Also, LA Times’ Susan Carpenter reviews Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Prince

» David Langford’s Ansible 293

» The Telegraph: Paul Kincaid reviews Margaret Atwood – “A writer’s equivocal appreciation of the world of science fiction fails to impress”

» Inkpunks interviews Lou Anders

» Audible.com’s best SF and fantasy of the year: Lem, Stephenson, Scalzi, Sawyer, Wilson; Rothfuss, Martin, Mead, Grossman, Corriea

» Orbit Short Fiction

» The NY Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year includes, for the first time, a title by Stephen King

» The New Yorker: Adam Gopnik on The Dragon’s Egg: High fantasy for young adults, discussing Tolkien and Paolini

» LA Times: Jeff VanderMeer reviews Michael Crichton & Richard Preston’s Micro

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

» LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews Don DeLillo’s The Angel Esmeralda; Nick Owchar reviews Atwood’s In Other Worlds; and Michael Hiltzik explains the copyright controversy over Philip K. Dick’s “Adjustment Team”

» NY Times: Christopher Buckley reviews Charles J. Shields’ book about Kurt Vonnegut; Robert Christgau reviews Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence

» NY Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2011 include titles by DeLillo, King, Duncan, Murakami, and Russell

» Amazon UK’s Top 10 SF and Fantasy Books of 2011 [scroll down] are by Martin, Abercrombie, Pratchett, Cline, Harris, Rothfuss, Canavan, Ward, Aaronovitch, and Taylor; their Best Books of 2011 ranks Jennifer Egan 2nd and George R.R. Martin 3rd

» The World SF Blog is open to fiction submissions

» Guardian: Damien Walter reviews Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer’s anthology The Weird

» Odyssey Writing Workshop’s 17th Summer Session from June 11 to July 20 2012 is open to applications

» The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards is now updated with all available 2011 results to date

» NY Times Book Review: Liesl Schillinger reviews Don DeLillo’s The Angel Esmeralda

» LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews Stephen King’s 11/22/63

» NPR interviews John Kessel about Kafkaesque

» Seattle Times: Nisi Shawl reviews Margaret Atwood, Ken MacLeod, Richard K. Morgan

» Guardian: Damien Walter reviews Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

» Library Journal’s Best SF/Fantasy of 2011 are titles by Anderton, Bova, Corey, Goldstein, Gregory, Martin, Orullian, Rajaniemi, Sullivan, and Vinge

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB reading with Jack Womack and Claude Lalumière

» Salon interviews Jonathan Lethem – “The literary world is like high school”

» Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction of 2011 includes Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, and Lev Grossman among its top 25, with SF and Fantasy titles by Morgan, Miéville, Brennan, Bledsoe, Rajamiemi, Stross, Modesitt, Pratchett, Charlton, and Duncan

» Austin Statesman profiles new literary/SF ‘zine Unstuck

» Slate examines Haruki Murakami’s success – “Hint: It’s not great writing” – earlier, Terrence Rafferty’s review advises Don’t let the Byzantine plot of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 deceive you

» SFGate’s Michelle Richmond and John Scalzi both compare the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky scandal to Le Guin’s short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

» Financial Times: James Lovegrove reviews Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds

» Odyssey announces Online Writing Classes in January and February 2012

» Lightspeed Magazine / Fantasy Magazine is hosting a reader survey

» The New Yorker’s Thomas Mallon examines “fiction of alternate history” [abstract; full article subscriber-only], covering King, Turtledove, PKD, and the Sidewise Awards

» Salon: Laura Miller’s If Tolkien were black profiles N.K. Jemisin and David Anthony Durham

» New York Times: Janet Maslin is none too keen about Murakami’s 1Q84

» Goodreads has nominees for best books of the year in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other categories

» Commentary Magazine: D.G. Myers’ Literary Commentary column has several recent pieces on SF/F, including “The Difference Between Fantasy and Science Fiction” and “Fantasy is a Genre of Christianity”

» Open Salon: David Brin’s recommended science fiction for young adults