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[coalescent]

Locus Online has its usual brace of April Fool's articles: I like these two best. Also at Locus Online, but not an April Fool's: extracts from Soundings.

Meanwhile, LJ goes pirate.

Concussion has a provisional programme grid up. Play programme bingo! A prize to anyone who doesn't know and guesses which items I'm on. (Hint: four, plus one things that's not listed on that grid.)

Abigail Nussbaum is back from holiday: here's her overview of the second half of Battlestar Galactica's second season. (Someone else has a theory about the ending here.)

Now, this is really fix-up at the level of criticism.

Jonathan Strahan wonders if we need nineteen (n-n-n-nineteen!) year's best volumes.

Alasdair Gray has a blog.

Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Guardian column rounds up books by Tanya Huff, Adam Roberts, Sarah Micklem and Tom Lloyd.

And because the rest of this post hasn't been gonzo enough: Bruce Sterling's State of the World 2006. jonquil objects; someone who might be Sterling offers a rejoinder.

Comments

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

The trick that Locus missed: an April Fool's story about an anthology collecting the best of the Year's Bests. (Fandom is all about the meta, y'know...)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I almost linked to this, but decided it was just a bit too pred ...

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Also Locus covered it last year.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Of course they did. (Hey, an anthology of Locus April Fool's jokes! Or, y'know, not!)

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

Alasdair Gray has a blog.

Hurrah!
Disappointed to see he's gone with boring old chronological order though.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Locus Online has its usual brace of April Fool's articles

Surely a brace of articles means only two articles? They've got more than that.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Aha, you fell for my cunning trick!

Or, er, I suck.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, it was all just a special April Fool's trick.

I see The Guardian give less review space than Interzone.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Less space in the roundup columns, yes, but they do print proper-length reviews every so often.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I have a related post on this to follow. Have to make some soup first though.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I like potato/leek soup, thanks.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Pretty close: it's leek and mushroom and it's ready now.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Teleportation, go!

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Ooh, or corn chowder. I'll eat corn chowder. When will it be ready?

[mssrcrankypants.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're in New England now. You'll eat clam chowda and you'll like it!