@RozKaveney's poetic obituary.

Indeed.

Strange Maps looks at Westeros.

Nominations announced: 11/18 women in fiction categories!

My two worlds collide.

Glorious (includes suggestive footage from the animated series).

Rowan Williams prefers GRRM to JRRT.

Perhaps the most important place for the history of a genre to begin is with defining its topic.

President mixes up Star Trek and Star Wars, losing geek credibility.

"perhaps I wrong the contributors to this volume by suggesting that half of them were either phoning it in or just bloody bad at writing."

M.C.A. Hogarth's problems with Fames Workshop.

Classic lines. Which is your favourite?

Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy

John Crowley speaks out for Joan Aiken's "Wolves of Willoughby Chase", etc.

Was it generally known that Le Guin declined the Nebula Award that went to "The Bicentennial Man"?

All in one nice graphic.

I hate the @telegraph's line on the EU, but its obituaries are often very good.

It's a point of view.

Flying with Captain Marvel, 1941; arrested by Judge Dredd, 2009.

"I can safely assure you that it's a heartbreaking, bittersweet tapestry of life itself and that you'll promptly re-name your children after the main characters. Also, any copy of the book will cure gout with a touch and can transmute lead into gold once every 24 hours. The eBook version, in any language, has a special feature where…

List of "fiction with third gender and or genderqueer characters".

The current Lord Dunsany: "I think if I wasn’t a film maker, I would have to be a writer. The writer I would be, would have to be Philip K. Dick."

Christopher Priest on Robert McCrum.

#fb "I grew up wanting to be Hari Seldon, using my understanding of the mathematics of human behaviour to save civilisation. OK, economics is a pretty poor substitute; I don't expect to be making recorded appearances in the Time Vault a century or two from now. But I tried."

Julie Philips (Tiptree biographer) on UKLG.

Chiang's writing, like Philip K. Dick's, is often very cinematic.

Now online! For free!

Iain Banks stirring up trouble!

@terryandrob interviewed by @pennyred.