British science fiction of sixty years ago.

Ursula Le Guin on "Among Others", among others.

"Game of Thrones falls into the pitfall of soap opera storytelling. It is enormously, addictively, compulsively watchable, but also easily set aside."

Adrian on "Alien".

Brilliant speculation!

How the Rowling / Warner machine treats translators.

#fb Hooray!

Partial defence of the shortlist (winner announced tonight).

A comparative and thorough look at the Clarke shortlist.

Christopher Priest on the Clarke shortlist, again

Kinder than me to Bear and Mieville. (Agree on Magary.)

Dave Langford on the Titanic's SF connections.

Hooray! A Freddy read-through! (Nobody else will understand this.)

"The committee would like to issue a broad and unreserved apology"

Excellent commentary from the deputy program head of #Eastercon.

Brilliant piece.

A response from a BSFA person.

A description of the awful opening speech.

Saladin Ahmed on GRRM.

Gwyneth Jones: "For a long time, I used to enjoy frightening children..."

Another Priest / Clarke Award roundup.

SFWA President Scalzi on Priest on Clarke Award

Why the Arthur C. Clarke shortlist is WRONG.

@nine_below gives me marks for prediction (4/6).

I am on three panels. What about you?

Alternate Asimov!

75th anniversary. "It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive..."

Only 49 years since the second volume was published!