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Earlier 2011 Blinks
 




 

Blinks: World SF Blog, reviews of King, Haldeman

» The World SF Blog shuts down

» Guardian: M. John Harrison reviews Stephen King’s Joyland

» Los Angeles Review of Books: Alastair Reynolds reviews The Best of Joe Haldeman

Blinks: Banks’ last interview; Doctorow on surveillance; Pynchon

Blinks: Neil Gaiman reviews and profiles; Cronin on Percy

» Salon: Laura Miller reviews Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

» Time Magazine: Lev Grossman profiles and reviews Neil Gaiman [subscription required]

» LA Times profiles Neil Gaiman

» NY Times Book Review: Justin Cronin reviews Benjamin Percy’s Red Moon

Blinks: Bram Stoker Awards winners

Breaking News, via Horror.org: Bram Stoker Awards winners include Caitlín R. Kiernan, Gene O’Neill, Lucy Snyder, Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard, and others. News post Monday.

Blinks: Campbell, Sturgeon award winners

Breaking News, via File 770: Campbell and Sturgeon Award winners are Adam Roberts’ Jack Glass and Molly Gloss’ “The Grinnell Method”, respectively. News post Monday.

Blinks: Bi Book Awards, Gaiman, Di Filippo

» Bisexual Book Awards winners include Brit Mandelo and Lethe Press

» Guardian: Neil Gaiman’s Top 10 mythical characters

» Paul Di Filippo’s latest Asimov’s column reviews Hamilton, Hodder, Powers, Stauber, Reed

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni

Blinks: Reviews, diversity, Ellison, SFWA, eBooks, 1984, New Adult

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Pinborough, Percy, Ee, Foyle, Forbeck

» LA Times’ Hero Complex blog explores diversity in SF

» Guardian: Damien Walter interviews Harlan Ellison

» Guardian’s Alison Flood on the current SFWA controversy

» Good E-Reader: The Overwhelming Majority of Self-Published eBooks Are Terrible

» Huffington Post: George Orwell’s ’1984′ Book Sales Skyrocket In Wake Of NSA Surveillance Scandal

» USA Today: a new genre, New Adult

Blinks: reviews of Fowler, King, Australian writers

» New York Times Book Review: Barbara Kingsolver reviews Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, front page review

» LA Times: David Ulin reviews Stephen King’s Joyland

» Guardian: David Barnett reviews Australian writers

Blinks: Ansible; Slate chats with Sawyer

» David Langford’s Ansible 311

» Slate’s Stranger Than Fiction podcast chats with Robert J. Sawyer

Blinks: Ansible; Slate chats with Sawyer

» David Langford’s Ansible 311

» Slate’s Stranger Than Fiction podcast chats with Robert J. Sawyer

Blinks: NYT on Helene Wecker

» Last week’s New York Times Book Review: Susann Cokal reviews Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni, front page review

Blinks: Priest on Vance; KSR; reviews of Aldiss, McIntosh, D’Lacy, Scalzi, Percy

» Guardian: Jack Vance obit by Christopher Priest

» Slate’s Future Tense chats with Kim Stanley Robinson

» Daily Mail: David Bradbury reviews Brian Aldiss, Will McIntosh

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Joseph D’Lacey, Adam Christopher, Wesley Chu; earlier, John Scalzi

» B&N: Bill Tipper reviews Benjamin Percy’s Red Moon

Blinks: Hand on Tolkien; Slate on Reynolds; EW on Beukes

» LA Times: Elizabeth Hand reviews J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur

» Slate’s Stranger Than Fiction chats with Alastair Reynolds

» Entertainment Weekly reviews Lauren Beukes’ The Shining Girls: B

Blinks: Economics and SF; Atwood, Doctorow, Lovecraft, Amis; Guardian reviews; Bova on film

» Several posts recently about economics and SF: io9 overview, Noah Smith, Paul Krugman, Tim Worstall

» Slate’s weekly “Strange than Fiction” podcast has Cory Doctorow and Margaret Atwood

» Salon: Jess Nevins asks Does H.P. Lovecraft belong in the canon? (from LA Review of Books)

» B&N; Michael Dirda provides an introduction to Kingsley Amis’s “The Green Man”

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Beckett, Lord, Baggott, Newman, Scull, and Priest

» Naples News: Ben Bova on Good sci-fi films are few and far between

Blinks: Slates reviews; Starship symposium; Jeanne Beckwith; Paul Levinson

» Slate’s Book Review: Jenny Hendrix reviews three novels by Sjón; Annalee Newitz reviews Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow

» UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination presents symposium Starship Century, May 21-22, with Freeman Dyson, Neal Stephenson, Gregory Benford, Joe Haldeman, and others

» A new play by Jeanne Beckwith, Shot in Baghdad, will be presented in a staged reading in San Francisco, May 14

» Paul Levinson has published Unburning Alexandria, sequel to The Plot to Save Socrates

Blinks: Ansible; Steve Berman; Goldschalger on Joe Hill

» David Langford’s Ansible 310

» Philadelphia Weekly profiles Steve Berman about queer adolescence and science fiction

» Kirkus: Amy Goldschlager reviews Joe Hill’s NOS4A2

Blinks: Neal Stephenson; Di Filippo on Harrison; Terry Pratchett

» Slate’s new Stranger Than Fiction podcast, in which SF writers discuss whether we’re living in the future, begins with Neal Stephenson

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews M. John Harrison’s Empty Space

» South Africa Mail & Guardian interviews Terry Pratchett

Blinks: Reviews; KGB photos; Concatenation

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Jim Steinmeyer’s Who Was Dracula?; Amy Benfer on The Little Prince at Seventy; Paul Di Filippo reviews Paul Cornell’s London Falling

» LA Review of Books: Paul Di Filippo reviews George Saunders’ Tenth of December

» Winnipeg Free Press reviews Robert J. Sawyer’s Red Planet Blues

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB April 17th with Richard Bowes and Alaya Dawn Johnson

» Concatenation‘s Summer edition includes news, columns, articles, reviews

Blinks: Asimov marker; Sawyer; Stephenson; Swanwick; Silverberg

» Sign this petition to dedicate a state historical marker at the 1940s home of Isaac Asimov

» Ottawa Citizen: Robert J. Sawyer says Thanks for nothing, Canada Council

» Slate’s Hieroglyph blog: Help Neal Stephenson Engineer the Weird and Create a New World of Sci-Fi

» Philadelphia Weekly profiles ‘geek’ Michael Swanwick

» Robert Silverberg’s new website

Blinks: Ansible, Sheehan on Kay, LAT on Atkinson, LARB interviews Reynolds, Sawyer op-ed

» David Langford’s Ansible 309

» Washington Post: Bill Sheehan reviews Guy Gavriel Kay’s River of Stars

» LA Times: Carolyn Kellogg reviews Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life

» LA Review of Books interviews Alastair Reynolds

» Ottawa Citizen: Robert J. Sawyer op-ed Thanks for nothing, Canada Council

Kim Stanley Robinson; Le Guin reviews Walton; reviews of Davidson, Oates; Lovecraft microbes

» The Atlantic talks with Kim Stanley Robinson about 2312 and climate change

» Guardian: Ursula K. Le Guin reviews Jo Walton’s Among Others

» LA Times: Charles McNulty reviews Jenny Davidson’s The Magic Circle; also, Wendy Smith reviews Joyce Carol Oates’ The Accursed

» NBC Science: Two new microbes discovered in termite guts have been named Cthulhu and Cthylla

Blinks: Nalo Hopkinson, Cordwainer Smith, ICFA pix

» LA Times profiles Nalo Hopkinson

» The Atlantic remembers Cordwainer Smith

» James Patrick Kelly’s photos from ICFA

Blinks: King reviews Oates; Berry reviews; Ted Chiang

» NY Times Book Review: Stephen King reviews Joyce Carol Oates’ The Accursed

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Stephen Dobyns, Steven Gould, Warren Ellis

» Scientific American’s Neuroscience in Fiction blog highlights Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation”

Blinks: Reviews of Howey, Oates, Barry; Douglas Adams; Mythic Delirium

» Washington Post: Keith Donohue reviews Hugh Howey’s Wool; Ron Charles reviews Joyce Carol Oates’ The Accursed

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Lynda Barry’s The Freddie Stories

» Guardian: David Barnett on Douglas Adams, still the king of comic science fiction, whose 61st birthday was March 11th

» Poetry ‘zine Mythic Delirium is moving to electronic form beginning July, with a final print issue in Spring 2014

Blinks: Guardian reviews

Blinks: Lethem musical; Langford reviews; Shawl reviews

Blinks: Galaxy’s Edge; Ansible; Kay auction; Chiang to speak; Le Guin spoke; Crowley on Aiken; Bisson screenwriting

» New ezine Galaxy’s Edge, edited by Mike Resnick, is live

» David Langford’s Ansible 308

» Guy Gavriel Kay is auctioning the first copy off the press of new novel River of Stars in support of the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation

» Ted Chiang will speak at University of California, Riverside on Monday, March 4th

» The Daily Californian: Ursula K. Le Guin spoke at UC Berkeley on February 26th

» Boston Review: John Crowley: Forget Harry Potter, Adults Should Read Joan Aiken’s Wolves

» Terry Bisson is co-screenwriter of forthcoming film Robeson

Blinks: Di Filippo on Lord and Beauman

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo on the Sophomore Honor Roll, second novels by Karen Lord and Ned Beauman

Blinks: KGB photos; reviews of Doctorow, Lake, Bennett, Russell

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB Reading February 20th, with Cecil Castellucci and Gordon Dahlquist

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Cory Doctorow’s Homeland

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Jay Lake’s Kalimpura

» LA Times: Jeff VanderMeer reviews Robert Jackson Bennett’s American Elsewhere; and August Brown reviews Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Blinks: Karen Russell; Campbell New Writer fiction; audio reviews; Matthew Huges

» Barnes & Noble: Stefan Beck reviews Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove

» Stupefying Stories has released an ebook of fiction by writers eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

» Otherrealms Audio reviews sf/f audio and radio dramas

» Matthew Hughes now has an online bookstore


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