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

» Amazon.com’s Best Books of 2011 include titles by Haruki Murakami and Laini Taylor among the top 10; Best SF & Fantasy titles are by Cline, Grossman, Paolini, Martin, Miéville, Walton, Okorafor, Corey, Rothfuss, and Wilson

» Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011 includes SF/F/H titles by McHugh, Beukes, Frey, Gregory, Kiernan, and Tuomala

» Ellen Datlow’s World Fantasy Con photos

» Scott Edelman has posted YouTube videos of WFC opening ceremonies, the awards ceremony, and readings by Goonan and McHugh

» Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Books of 2011 includes Maureen F. McHugh’s collection After the Apocalypse [due Nov 8th]

» David Langford’s Ansible 292

» Ann Van­der­Meer and Jeff Van­der­Meer’s Weird Fiction Review debuts, with interviews with Kelly Link and Neil Gaiman, fiction by Lucy Clifford, Leah Thomas, Thomas Owen

» Omnivoracious profiles World Fantasy Award winner Nnedi Okorafor

» CBS News covers steampunk

» B&N: Jonathan Liu reviews Murakami’s 1Q84

» Telegraph: Peter Ingham reviews SG Browne, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, James SA Corey

» University of California profiles its Eaton Collection at UC Riverside

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» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Gregory Maguire’s Out of Oz [due 11/1/11] – it concludes “one of the most audacious and successful fantasy series of the past few decades”

» NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews Stephen King’s 11/22/63 [due 11/8/11] – “a sustained high-wire act of storytelling trickery”

» NY Times: Dana Jennings reviews Geoff Ryman, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tim Powers, via small presses

» NY Times: Glen Duncan reviews Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, with this opening line: “A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star.”

» NY Times: Jennifer Schuessler’s Inside the List – the Bestseller List – thinks about Colson Whitehead

» The Daily Beast: Horror Goes Highbrow, a review by Josh Dzieza of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One

» LA Times: interview with Ally Condie about Crossed; Chris Barton reviews Whitehead’s Zone One – “a rich mix of wartime satire and darkly funny social commentary”; David L. Ulin reviews Muramaki’s 1Q84 – “Try to read Haruki Murakami’s ’1Q84′ in as close to a single sitting as you can”

» Washington Post: Yvonne Zipp reviews the World Fantasy Award novel finalists

» Salon: Jeff VanderMeer reviews Colson Whitehead’s Zone One (B&N)

» San Diego Union: Crown Books returns, sort of, three in former Borders stores

» Haaretz.com: long Salman Rushdie interview disses the “Game of Thrones” TV series, among many other topics

» Small Beer Press has started a podcast: Episode #1 is about Delia Sherman and The Freedom Maze

» NY Times: Dana Jennings reviews Geoff Ryman, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Tim Powers

» Guardian: Why is dystopia so appealing to young adults?

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Vernor Vinge’s The Children of the Sky

» FEARnet chats with Al Sarrantonio

» Telegraph has Paul Kincaid’s review of Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds

» The Atlantic: Jo Fassler on How Zombies and Superheroes Conquered Highbrow Fiction

» SF Gate profiles the new owner/publisher/editors of Weird Tales

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84

» SF Signal interviews Barry N. Malzberg about the Galaxy Project

» Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing: K.V. Johansen explains Five Things You Should Never Do in Epic Fantasy

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey on The Future of Science Fiction, reviewing Margaret Atwood and three year’s best SF anthologies

» Slate’s Torie Bosch explains How Margaret Atwood taught her to love science fiction

» The A.V. Club interviews William Gibson

» Sydney Morning Herald interviews Richard Morgan

» There’s still time to enter the Blow the Top of Scott Edelman’s Head Off Really Cool Zombie Filmmaking Competition

» David Langford’s Ansible 291

» The Atlantic profiles Richard Matheson (on the occasion of Real Steel)

» NY Times Book Review: Stacey D’Erasmo reviews Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Ernest Cline, Daniel Polansky, Brian Keene & Nick Mamatas

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Tim Powers’ The Bible Repairman

» Telegraph: Paul Kincaid reviews Priest, Tidhar, Kennedy, Hamilton

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews MacLeod, Lovegrove, Hamilton, Melton & Dunstan

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Tim Powers

» Omnivoracious interviews Cherie Priest, Scott Westerfeld, and Carrie Vaughn

» The Official Philip José Farmer site has posted an interview with Charles R. Saunders

» Gregory Benford blogs on The First Hard Science Fiction Convention

» Robert J. Sawyer predicted this year’s Nobel Prize winner in physics