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Purview, Round 3
OF Blog of the Fallen — ... , 2008: A Year in Reading: Best Short Stories of the Year - For some reason, I tend to overlook Abigail Nussbaum's blog. It's not because I disagree with her choices (often, she and I seem to have similar tastes, and when we do disagree, she has cogent reasons for why a story didn't work for her), but I think it's because she doesn't update as much as others. Regardless, her two lists are full of books and stories (like Bacigulupi and Lanagan's stories) that I've either read and greatly enjoyed or are books/stories that I mean to acquire/read in the near ...

The Best of 2008, Redux
Torque Control — ... Following on from Liz’s two lists of her best 2008 reads, here are some more for you to peruse. Strange Horizons review of the year ReadySteadyBook books of the year symposium; I am particularly taken by China Mieville’s description of this book as a “crossbreed of petro-apocalyptic philosophy and post-genre horror fiction” Abigail Nussbaum’s short stories and best reads of 2008 Big Dumb Object’s picks Martin Lewis’ book ...