Making Links in Madrid

• Paul McAuley is unconvinced by Paul Kincaid’s latest Bookslut column
• Paul Kincaid also reviews three alternate histories at Strange Horizons
• Nic Clarke reviews Twenty Epics
• Abigail Nussbaum reviews Spaceman Blues
• Jonathan McCalmont reviews The Electric Church by Jeff Somers
• Geoff Ryman’s guest of honour speech from a recent Montreal convention
• Re-reading Madeleine L’Engle
• Forthcoming titles from PS Publishing, who also announce a series of mini-collections
• Adam Roberts on some lesser-known Verne and why Verne deserves better translations
• A Firefly sceptic speaks
• Junot Diaz on rediscovering sf
• Martin McGrath on the death of cyberspace
• Jeff VanderMeer has a conversation with Rachel Swirsky
• Kit Whitfield on that “authoritarianism in The Incredibles question
• Sarah Hall asked about science fiction
• And finally: read this comic