The Agony Column reviews Brian Francis Slattery's Spaceman Blues.

SFFWorld reviews Justin Thorne's In the Shadows.

Strange Horizons reviews Kage Baker's new novella-as-a-book, Rude Mechanicals.

Blogcritics reviews Charlaine Harris's All Toghether Dead.

Book Fetish reviews Marked by P.C. Cast with Kristin Cast.

Bookgasm reviews Jody Lynn Nye's An Unexpected Apprentice.

Susan Palwick reprints the Locus review of her new novel Shelter.

Slate tries to pick a fight in their review of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. (The lede is "Michael Chabon has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of the shallow grave where writers of serious literature abandoned it." Um, good for you, Ruth Franklin, you can construct a straw man with the best of them. It would be oh-so-flattering to the literary types to think that "genre fiction" is dead, but there's the small point that "genre fiction" comprises approximately 90% of the fiction published today...so whose corpse is in that grave, exactly? And don't get me started on "serious literature," either...)