You May Have Missed... Links 18/08/08

While everyone is away having fun and real lives, the internet continues its slow process of digestion.  Here are some interesting things that have popped up over the last few days :

• Liz Batty reviews Neal Stephenson's Anathem.

• Niall Harrison reviews Speculative Japan, edited by Gene van Troyer and Grania Davis.

• Smart Bitches, Trashy Books comments upon Lois McMaster Bujold's Worldcon Guest of Honour speech and The Galaxy Express picks up the idea and blending romance and SF and plays with it a bit. (The horror... the horror...)

• io9 have a Point and Counterpoint about Young Adult fiction, which was then picked up by Boing Boing despite the arguments all being quite familiar.  Personally I just don't understand why anyone would want to read a book that is targetted at their age group.

• Paul Kincaid reviews The Best of Lucius Shepard.

• Abigail Nussbaum opines upon many books including Farthing.

• Paul S. Jenkins has a round-up of podcasted fiction.

• Ursula K. Le Guin reviews From A to X: A Story of Letters by John Berger. 

• Rotten Tomatoes have a load of videos about the film-version of Gaiman's Coraline.

• Karen Burnham reviews Before Adam by Jack London.

Comments

[Jason M. Robertson]

Sadly the link to the podcasted fiction round-up 404s, as it does even if one tracks up to the domain's front page and tries to follow their own link to that content.

[Jonathan M]

Hmm... weird. I can't even find Paul S. Jenkin's page over at the fix. Thanks for telling me, I shall add a note.

[Jason M. Robertson]

And the podcast round-up link is live again.

[Jonathan M]

Jason you are my very own link-policeman.

You complete me :-)

[Heather]

Thanks for the linkage, Sir McCalmont! "The horror", indeed! If you loved Love & Politics (and I know you did!), wait till you see this coming Monday's post.

Buhahahahaha!!

p.s. Long Live KRULL!

[Jonathan M]

My pleasure Heather :-)

I must admit, when I first read that Bujold speech, my reaction was physiological. I imagine a similar reaction is prompted when the survivors of a plane crash start discussing whom to eat first.

"Oh nooooooo!"

[Heather]

lol! Funny you mention cannibalism, because I just finished a very excellent book (fiction) in which survivors of a horrific tragedy must resort to cannibalism, but the author had such mastery of craft that I could see how cannibalism would actually be appealing under certain circumstances--er, for the characters, I mean!

So one never knows--romance in SF may become a matter of survival.

(And oops, I meant a week from this Monday. My bad.)