There’s Only Fun Left to Be Had
Ecstatic Days — ... But wait, there’s more! Another addiction developed this year is for discoveries. I have (thanks to Jeff’s blog and Fabio’s blog, and to ...

A few speculations about "scenes"
OF Blog of the Fallen — ... and Jacques Barcia's two Portuguese and English-language blogs and reading in passing their comments on the Brazilian SF scene and their own writing careers has been a true learning experience. Sometime in the next few weeks, I hope to get started on the three anthologies/novella that Fábio sent to me this month, because I am quite curious to see how the themes and story structures will differ and resemble those found in Anglo-American SF anthologies and collections. ...

Fantasy Anthology Review
When Gravity Fails — Well, technically part one of an ongoing review, of The Solaris Book Of New Fantasy, over at the fantastic Post-Weird Thoughts. Due to their very nature, anthologies are a pain to review. They end up huge, but shallow, since each story gets only a paragraph of hurried comments. Worst of all, by the time you end the book you must come back to every title to remember what the story`s about. So I've decided to try another method. Beginning today, I'll review anthologies on a ...

“Terra Incognita” calling for submissions!
Enter the Octopus — ... My friends Fábio Fernandes and Jacques Barcia - you know them from the excellent blog Post-Weird Thoughts - have launched what appears to be an oustanding new online publication devoted to speculative fiction. Called “Terra Incognita,” the ...

Blogger Book Club Reminder: Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, December 8-12
OF Blog of the Fallen — ... I meant to post this one week reminder yesterday, but I was so exhausted after returning to work from Thanksgiving Break that I fell asleep soon after arriving home. Anyways, as per Fábio Fernandes, who chose this book, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus will be the second Blogger Book Club entry, with a scheduled discussion date on various participating blogs the week of December 8-12. ...

Meme: SFF Review Blogs
The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. — John Ottinger, of Grasping for the Wind, is trying to making a list of as many of the people reviewing fantasy and SF online, and he decided to crowd-source the task. His idea was that anyone who does review SFF should repost his ever-growing list, include themselves on it, and backlink to his master list (so he can update it). So, I'll play along. This is the list as I grabbed it at 9 AM EST on Friday, December 12th, with one very special addition: A Dribble Of Ink Adventures in Reading The Agony Column The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, ...

The Meme
Neth Space — So, this little meme has been going around and I'm late to the game. I've added a few - but I'm sure I'm missed some from my own blog roll. Anyway, the meme is below. From John: My list of fantasy and sf book reviewers is woefully ...

Book Reviewers Linkup Meme
SciFiChick.com — Grasping for the Wind has started the daunting task of collecting links of fellow book reviewers. If you are a reviewer and don’t see your name on the list, all you have to do is take the list from his blog , post it on your site, and add yourself to the list in alphabetical order. While you’re at it, might as well check out some of the links that are new to you! A Dribble Of Ink Adventures in Reading The Agony Column The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. Barbara Martin Bibliophile Stalker Bibliosnark BillWardWriter.com Blood of the ...

A book reviewers' linkup meme
Hassenpfeffer Archive — John at the SF book review site Grasping for Wind posts: My list of fantasy and sf book reviewers is woefully out of date. I need your help to fix that. But rather than go through the hassle of having you send me recommendations or sticking them in comments, what you can do is take the following list and stick it on your website, then add yourself to the list, preferably in alphabetical order. That way, I will be able to track it across the web from back links, and can add each new blog to my roll as it comes along. So take this list, add it to your blog, and add a link to your blog ...

Going Viral
Fantasy Debut — John has started what we like to call a phenomenon. He has started a post which has gone viral. This meme was picked up by SF Signal and GalleyCat, among dozens of others. Here is the latest list from John's post, along with his instructions: "My list of fantasy and sf book reviewers is woefully out of date. I need your help to fix that. But rather than go through the hassle of having you send me recommendations or sticking them in comments, what you can do is take the following list and stick it on your website, then add yourself to the list, preferably in alphabetical order. That ...

Four Poster Blog (I wish it were a bed)
The Crotchety Old Fan — Today, I add The Crotchety Old Fan to John Ottinger’s meme list of SF review blogs. It has gotten a LOT larger since it was first reported by SFSignal. But it is an excellent idea and, despite the fact that I do far more commentary than reviews here, I still want to be a part of it. I will have at least three other posts today - one my review (hah!) of The Day the Earth Stood Still and another about re-makes and finally, a poll that examines the concision of science fiction and paintball - or maybe not. Meanwhile, I have a lot of new (to me) blogs to check out and a lot more to add to my own blogroll - including ...

ENtoPee - Bad Attempt at some wordplay with Entropy: Review of the Reviewers - Ns to Ps and Rs
The Crotchety Old Fan — Housekeeping notes: Mulluane noted that I’d missed putting the link in to Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews. That’s been corrected and here it is again, just to cover the bases: http://darkwolfsfantasyreviews.blogspot.com/ ...

Year in Review
Roberson's Interminable Ramble — Over on the Post-Weird Thoughts blog, Fábio Fernandes has been running down his favorite reads of 2008, and this morning he's up to part 5 - The Novels. And hey, look at that! Along with such stalwarts as Gaiman, Gibson, Chabon, and Scalzi (and Pyr stablemates David Louis Edelman, Ian McDonald, and Joe Abercrombie), I'm surprised to find myself cropping up, with The Dragon's Nine Sons and End of the Century both on the list. Thanks, Fábio!

A Book Reviewer’s Linkup Meme
Enter the Octopus — I’m participating in this rather remarkable meme. More details here. Looks like a bit tardy to the party. Apologies. HUGE LIST OF BOOK REVIEWERS AFTER JUMP 7 Foot Shelves The Accidental Bard A Boy Goes on a Journey A Dribble Of ...

Premio Dardo Award
Fantasy Debut — ... pink ;) 2. copy an paste the award picture to your blog 3. write down the regulations 4. link the blog who bestowed you the Award 5. and finally nominate 15 blogs for the Award For my fifteen, I'm going to showcase blogs you may not have heard of. Some of these I discovered through backlinks from the convention post. And some, I have just been sadly neglecting. Best Fantasy Books Library Dad Book-a-Rama Post Weird Thoughts Star Wars Buddies Genre Reviews ...

Fantasy Book Critic on End of the Century
Roberson's Interminable Ramble — Fábio Fernandes (he of Post-Weird Thoughts) has reviewed End of the Century for the Fantasy Book Critic. I'm delighted to see that Fábio has "gotten" what I was hoping to accomplish with this book more than any reviewer so far, it seems. I'll quote more of the review than I would normally do, to point out a few examples. Good writers don´t necessarily try to “make it new”, as Ezra Pound used to say. Pound, alas, is dead, and so is Modernism, for that matter. What good writers do, though, is tell a compelling story mixing and remixing old ...

The Philip K. Dick Award Nominees, Part 1 - Plague War, by Jeff Carlson (review by Fabio Fernandes)
Fantasy Book Critic — ... You can check an interview I did with Jeff Carlson last January here. ...

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Ethics group - a new initiative
Fantasy Book Critic — It looks like initiatives like the upcoming SHINE anthology (which Jetse de Vries is going to edit for Solaris Books next year) are bearing fruits, judging from the press release writer Andy Remic (author of Biohell and War Machine) sent us, announcing the ...

FBC co-editor Fabio Fernandes to edit Indian SFF magazine
Fantasy Book Critic — Kalkion an online Indian SFF magazine has invited our co-editor Fabio Fernandes to work as Fiction Editor!! In Fabio's own words as he was thrilled by the offer: "I was invited to work as Fiction Editor for a SF and Fantasy web magazine... in India!! Some of ...

MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part II)
SF Signal — There's a great big world out there! So we decided to ask folks from all over about the sf/f scene in their own countries/languages. This week we've got responses from the Netherlands, China, Poland, France, Italy, Finland, Russia and India. And the answers kept pouring in, so we'll be finishing up next week, for a total of three weeks! ...

Aural Delights No 92 Allen Steele
StarShipSofa — The Sofanauts Sanatorium Contributors Gallery Contact Forum Submissions Home StarShipSofa The Audio Science Fiction Magazine Jul 08 2009 Aural Delights No 92 Allen Steele Poetry: Heat by Samantha Henderson Flash Fiction: The Boulton-Watt-Frankenstein Company by Fábio Fernandes 4:00 Fact: Writer Workshops by Terry Edge 09:45 Main Fiction: High Roller by Allen Steele . 26:30 Fact: Film Talk by Rod Barnett New Titles: Saturn’s Children , Retribution Falls , Analog , Asimovs , ...

A Travel Schedule, Part 2
In the Plane of the Ecliptic — ... is still listed as a participant, but unfortunately he will not make it. Too bad: I was looking forward to meeting him, as well. ...

2009 Hugo Award winners
OF Blog of the Fallen — I'm snipping this from Fábio Fernandes's Facebook updates that he was receiving via Convention Reporter: Best Novel: Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book Best Novella: Nancy Kress, "The Erdmann Nexus" Best Novelette: Elizabeth Bear, "Shoggoths in Bloom" Best Short Story: Ted Chiang, "Exhalation" Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola Best Graphic Story: Kaja and Phil Foglio, Girl Genius Best Editor, Long Form: ...

I have a very cool announcement to make
OF Blog of the Fallen — I've sat on this for a few days now, but since it's now been made public, I can go ahead and share with you that I've been asked to be an assistant editor (along with Fábio Fernandes) for the Best American Fantasy anthology series, starting with BAF4, which will be published in 2011 and cover 2010. Fábio and I will be working with Latin American (Spanish and Portuguese alike) stories that have been translated into English. ...

SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition
Grasping for the Wind — Welcome to the second edition of the book reviewer linkup meme. Here you will find a list of many of the best speculative fiction review blogs on the internet. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to copy the entire list from the text box at the bottom of this post and post it to your own blog.. Feel free to add your own blog or website to the list if it is not there. Participation will boost everyone's blog rankings and give us new places to find the SF news and reviews we all crave. If you are not on the master list, and wish to be, use the form below to sign up. ...

Ottinger’s Book Review Blog List
The Crotchety Old Fan — John Ottinger has finished the compilation of the Book Review Blog List that started as a meme last year, inspired me to capsule review all the blogs (here) and inspired John Anealio to write a song that included most of the blog names.  Particularly mine. I did my bit this year, suggesting no less that three review blogs - which I see have been added to the list - and am including it a posting (will soon be adding them all to an updated blogroll on my site) as suggested by John.  Here.  What you are reading now.  And perhaps you’ll notice the name of my blog at the end of the ...

"SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition": main list
Variety SF — John has posted the final list to Grasping for the Wind. I reproduce the version as on 21 August 2009; but there could be more additions & latest version will be found in his original post. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Romanian French Chinese Danish Portuguese German A ...

The Genre book review parade
Club Jade — A few months back the blog Grasping for the Wind started a SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme. I didn’t take part at the time, but since we do have book reviews of a sort now, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to toss us into the second round. My reviews are here, but head under the cut for a true smorgasbord of genre book review sites. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...

Speculative Fiction Reviewer's Database Link-Up
Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review — John from Grasping for the Wind has finished the second iterantion of his SF/F Link-up Meme. Take a look below to find some other great reviewers you may not be familiar with. For the collecters out there I would suggest The Ostentatious Ogre and Blood of the Muse. Enter the Octopus usually has some of the most interesting Link posts, but there is something for every taste below. I'll definitely be checking out the ones new to me. A B C ...

SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition
Bibliophile Stalker — A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Romanian French Chinese Danish Portuguese German A ...

SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition
Walker of Worlds — I've been waiting a while before posting the second awesome SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme by John Ottinger from Grasping for the Wind so I can try and get as many blogs on here as possible. If you own a blog that fits the genre but isn't on the list just go here! ...

A galaxy full of SF/F/H blogs
FROM A SCI-FI STANDPOINT — I guess I’m a little late in posting this, but here I am, doing my duty (I’m such a damned procrastinator). John at Grasping for the Wind went to the trouble of compiling this massive list of blogs that include, as at least a portion of their mission, reviews of science fiction and/or fantasy and/or horror. Everyone’s been posting this on their blogs in order to expose people to some new review sources, and to generate a lot of cross-traffic. Here’s John’s master list. Take a look, and enjoy all this literary bloggy goodness. A B C D E F G H I ...

The Ambergris Week - Part 1: City of Saints and Madmen
Fantasy Book Critic — ... through the reading of both Shriek and Finch. (More on that on later posts, though.) The final stories both explain and confound us. They are meant to do so, for the reader is also a visitor in Ambergris, and she/he must experience the same disorientation a real tourist would. Perhaps the same horror. Certainly the same wonder. (This review was first published in Post-Weird Thoughts) ...

The Ambergris Week - Part 3: Finch
Fantasy Book Critic — ... of finality. When we get closer to the book´s ending and we slowly become aware that there will be no more Ambergris stories (paraphrasing Paul Éluard, there may be, but in other worlds), we feel awful. we feel like crying. As if we had lost an old friend. Like Ambergris. This is the last transmission of this insurgent cell (for now, at least). Thank you for staying with us until the end of this long week. Long live Ambergris. (This review was first posted in Post-Weird Thoughts) ...