Plans are being concocted and are starting to take interesting shapes. I'm going to be shaking up the way I work at some point in the next few weeks, re-examining the nature of my output as well as my online presence. I also have a great idea for my next
Blasphemous Geometries column giving me a full month in which to think about and research the topic, so I'm looking forward to that.
- Alvaro Zinos-Amarro reviews Damien Broderick's new non-fiction anthology Year Million for Strange Horizons and does a fine job of it.
- John Self at Asylum reviews the new Richard Price novel Lush Life. It's not SF, but Price is one of the guys (along with George Pelecanos) who wrote for The Wire and as The Wire gets much love on this site, I thought I'd link to decent review of his latest work.
- Matthew Belinkie at Overthinking It reports on something almost Lovecraftian in its hideousness... that's right! The Sex in the City woman is moving into YA! A new book shop opened near me recently taking the place of the gone-but-hardly-missed Pan Bookshop and not only is there no SF section but about a third of the shop is devoted to YA and Kids' books. Regardless of what you might think of it artistically, there's no denying that YA is a great big money pie upon which authors and publishers are gorging themselves, which is great news because crass commercialism that panders to the tastes of children is definitely my favourite kind of crass commercialism.
- Andrew Osmond at the Daily Graun attends the screening of Osama Tezuka's anime shorts that is currently running at the Barbican.
- Jason Sanford at The Fix reviews Strange Horizons' short fiction output for the month of August.
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