Marginalia

[coalescent]

I was going to link to blog posts by Ken Macleod and Charles Stross, but ninebelow beat me to it, in this post on instant_fanzine (and threw in some comments from M John Harrison to boot). Interesting perspectives on the state of sf and the state of sf criticism; go take a look.

On a similar note, I've been able to finally read Andrew Butler's article 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom', thanks to its reprinting in Steam Engine Time. For context, also reprinted is Paul Brazier's strongly negative review of the article (and the rest of the issue of Science Fiction Studies in which it appeared), which I am currently mulling over.

The Tom plan for Higher Education.

There's an official livejournal community for the Arthur C Clarke Award: clarke_award.

Now all interviews until the end: Lou Anders at the Agony Column ("I would like to come forward and confess that, yes, I am a Campbellian editor"); Stephen Baxter at Strange Horizons ("The universe is an active character in a hard SF story. That's what makes hard SF unique"); and Margo Lanagan and Sean Wallace at benpeek's place. And speaking of interviews, I owe some of you questions, don't I? Dang.

The Amazing Adventures of Lethem and Chabon.

And finally: a film of The Sparrow ... starring Brad Pitt?

Comments

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

I love Su, too.

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

It's a thin line, isn't it dude?