I really need to be like Gwenda and just have one uniform name for my link posts. I also want to note that these links aren’t really intended to be breaking news, but just stuff I just got around to reading. Speaking of being like Gwenda, she heads the list today:
- Gwenda Bond reviews Catherynne M. Valente (stealing the thunder of my own review and interview), Mary Rosenblum, Peter Watts, and Elizabeth Bear at the Washington Post. The Post does a pretty admirable job covering SF/F already, but we need to take the next step (I.E. give me an inch, I want Rhode Island) - lets make it a regular feature, email those dudes and let them you know that’s what you want. I have always dug Gwenda because she just does her thing and puts a hold on the cheese and wine, that just seems to run rampant in our community. Not to mention she has given me the idea idea for my very own column (now all I need is a paper, an offer, and some talent) called ItzkWhat?
- SFSite’s Editor Choices for 2006. I love SFsite, but did R. Scott Bakker piss in somebody’s cookies (or is he not eligible).
- Cory Doctorow on Youtube.
- Jeff VanderMeer talks about the forthcoming anthology, Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories.
- Interesting discussion on Elitism (which is only one step above discussing idiocracy) at The Lotus Lyceum. Mirroring what I have said several times: Calling out Literary Elitism is a personal attack - often a last resort in argument that has nothing else to use as a platform. Don’t get me wrong, snobbery is bullshit - but snobbery is not the same thing as not practicing anti-intellectual behavior.
- Over at the Guardian they ask a question I always ask myself.
- Pretty interesting opinions (and links to more) on cover over at Galley Cat including some thoughts by Paul Witcover (whose books you should read regardless of cover)
- John Sclazi’s New Comprehensible.
- John C. Wright offer his New Space Princess Movement
- Jay Lake highlights a quote that’s a Bodhisattva early favorite for best quote of 2007.
- John Picacio interviewed. (via SF Signal)
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I want to highlight some peeps I know with blogs who offer opinion on SF/F who I haven’t mentioned before. A lot of these people inhabit forums that I inhabit (or used to habit on some of them). So here are some blogs:
Although it could only go downhill after featuring your’s truly - Steve is still kicking ass with his web comic My Elves are Different.
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1 // Feb 22, 2007 at 2:20 pm
< ![CDATA[I'm laughing. For the right price, I'll even spill the attribution to that quote.
Book off to you soon, btw, per our email discussion. All I need is to find the time to do the packaging. Prolly tomorrow's mail.]]>
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