Marginalia

So nothing can make as good a headline as the Serenity trailer would have done, but this comes close: Doctor Who reviewed by a two-year old.

Tonight's BSFA London meeting features Susanna Clarke being interviewed by grahamsleight. The Star Tavern, SW1X 8HT, interview starts around seven. There are some interesting excerpts from her recent Locus interview here.

Ariel has posted a long essay about the marketing of books, and the usefulness of genres.

The Orange Prize has announced a new writers award, which will consider short stories as well as novels. I'm not sure that I'd like to be responsible for comparing a collection to a novel and picking a winner, but I suppose the Whitbread compares more diverse books than that every year and gets away with it.

yhlee writes about Angel S4 in terms of shortcuts.

For tinyjo: The hug shirt.

Jeff Vandermeer is collecting manifestos, rants and polemics about sf.

And finally: This is bad on ... so many levels. (I prefer my science/arts intersections more like this.)