Tuesday's Links Are Fair of Face
Reviews:
- John Clute on Brian Stableford's Streaking, at Strange Horizons.
- John Clute on Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island, at Sci Fi Weekly.
- Paul Di Filippo gives an A+ to Charles Stross's Glasshouse, at Sci Fi Weekly.
- T.M. Wagner on Dave Duncan's Children of Chaos, at SF Reviews.Net.
Interviews:
- The Agony Column interviews Jasper Fforde.
- Meme Therapy talks to Adam Roberts.
The blogger Jay Tomio is counting down his choices for the top 100 Speculative Fiction Books of the Past Ten years, ten at a time -- he's done 91-100 and 81-90 so far.
There's a new Internet Review of Science Fiction, which I have not read (since one needs to subscribe, and I'm getting more than I can read already online for free). However, Cheryl Morgan of Emerald City is already complaining about a Gary Westfahl essay there , which -- if she's representing it fairly -- claims Locus is leading hordes of new writers into the field with visions of fame and fortune.
[many of these links via Locus Online or SF Signal]
Comments
To quote from the offending essay:
"Am I claiming that Locus is part of an evil conspiracy to lure hapless neophytes into fruitless expenditures of their energy and resources, inspired by unrealistic visions of future riches? Not at all, since that is manifestly not the magazine's intent."
I think the essay is a wrong-headed (clearly the author has never been in a genre where there was no new blood for ages) but he's careful to distance himself from that particular claim, much as Anthony always made it clear that he was no enemy of the honorable Brutus.
I must admit I've always been puzzled about how the whole Brutus/Anthony thing ended, because they seemed like such good friends.
Posted by: James Nicoll | July 11, 2006 11:38 AM