Jonathan Strahan celebrates the best books he read this year with the Coode Street Awards, including The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross as Best Novel (coming soon to the SFBC in a 2-in-1 with The Atrocity Archives).

Visions of Paradise gives a quick quide to the fiction (and importance) of Samuel R. Delany.

Holly Black has posted an excerpt from her upcoming novel Ironside.

Reviews:

• Desicritics covered Tanya Huff's A Confederation of Valor. (The same review is also available on Blogcritics.)
  
• SkullRing looks at the anthology Aegri Somnia, edited by Jason Sizemore.
• SF Signal reviews Jeff Patterson's Solstice Chronicles.
• Fantasybookspot has a review of Julio Romano's Escape from Innocence and a review of The Alien Mind by Virginia Lori Jennings.
• Bookgasm reviews Richard Matheson's The Twilight Zone Scripts, Volume Two.
• CA Reviews looks at the very game-based Witches' Forest by Mishio Fukazawa.
• Writing in The Weekend Australian, Terry Dowling reviews Margo Lanagan's Red Spikes. [via Jonathan Strahan]
  
• New SF Site Reviews:

1. this one for The Hickory Staff by Robert Scott and Jay Gordon
2. one here for Urban Fantastic by Allen Ashley
3. this one for Threshold Shift by Eric Brown
4. this one for The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #17 edited by Stephen Jones
5. this one for Viriconium by M. John Harrison
6. this one for Robert A. Heinlein's classic juvenile novel Time for the Stars (available in the SFBC Omnibus Infinite Possibilities)
7. this one for To Be Continued, the first volume of a new series collecting the best short stories of Robert Silverberg
8. this one for Icarus by Roger Levy
9. this one for Lisa Tuttle's The Silver Bough
10. and this one for I Was Probed by Aliens and Lived to Tell the Tale by Barry J. House

Interviews:

• Pat's Fantasy Hotlist talks to Orson Scott Card, author of the new novel Empire.
• AustGate interviews M. John Harrison.
• SF Site has a chat with Scott Westerfeld.
  
• The Sci Phi Show interviews Paul Levinson.
• Dugald Steer talks about his book The Dragon's Eye on video at Meet the Author USA.