You know you’re not enjoying an SF novel when you keep stopping to read a really badly written academic text on international relations.
— Jonathan McCalmont.
A year of reading women:
- Niall Harrison reviews Bold as Love: part I, part II, part III, part IV.
- Fuck Yeah Lady Writers.
- Abigail Nussbaum has a list of books by women sf writers she’s planning to read and asking for suggestions for more.
- The table of comments for volume one of The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller.
More science fiction links:
- “King George’s Mines” – adventures of three Nigerian men on their search for a lost friend through the hostile and exotic landscape of South Yorkshire. and more examples of reverse orientalism.
- Resolute Reader reviews Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals
- Welcome to the anthropocene, the age of humanity. Which for me raises the question of which far far future science fiction novels are set in a world continuously shaped by humans for the past millions of years, other than Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun or Iain M. Banks’ Feersum Endjin?
- Frederik Pohl on Fletcher Pratt.
- Mark Charan Newton on building secondary worlds.
- What do cute versions of monsters tell us about horror?
- The Tolkien estate goes after a button seller for selling buttons with the text “While you were reading Tolkien, I was watching Evangelion.” You can see the problem here; this guy should’ve used Tolkein.
- Who owns Kafka?
- No money for science fiction this month? Look at what Baen Books gives away for free!
Not science fiction:
- This Is Why Your Used Bookstore Clerk Hates You.
- HarperCollins wants libraries to nuke their ebooks after 26 loans.
- Over in the world of comics, they’re not getting digital publishing either.