Link Grit
- In praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series, by Sady Doyle
- Jonathan McCalmont discusses the link between art house films and video games in his review of the game Last Tuesday.
- The most recent SFSignal Mind Meld asks for Favorite International Authors.
- Charles Tan reviews Karen Lord’s Redemption in Indigo, with interesting comments on World sf/f and Magic Realism.
- Geek Mom compares the word counts of various epic fantasy series–Wheel of Time excluded because it is completely off-the-scale.
- The Atlantic has a great photo series on the final mission of the space shuttle program, from orbiter prep to landing. They also have this great sequence covering the shuttle’s 30 year history.
- Stomping on Yeti asks a bunch of people if they’d be willing to volunteer for a one-way solo Mars mission. My answer (pre-children) would be Yes, in a heartbeat! (Or maybe “Yes, if I can bring Curtis along.”)