A few links before this blog goes darrk for the holidays, below. (See you on the other side...)

The second issue of Rudy Rucker's webzine Flurb is now available. [via BoingBoing, so you probably all know this already]

Hey, it's not just me! Galley Cat thinks the designated SF reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, Dave Itzkoff, is, to put it gently, "flawed." 

Reviews:

• The Flint Journal liked John Scalzi's The Android's Dream, even the fart jokes.
• Locus Online has posted the latest "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column by Graham Sleight, which reviews old SFF works.
• Niall Harrison continues reviewing Salon Fantastique story-by-story with an entry on "The Guardian of the Egg."
• Marianne Plumridge reviews a different anthology edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, The Green Man.
• Marianne Plumridge also reviews Jess Nevins's The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana.