Margo Lanagan responds to the fuss about “The Goosle” in typically robust fashion:
[L]et me just say that anyone who thinks ‘The Goosle’ is child pornography has their child-porn radar set way too high; that anyone who thinks Hanny for a moment enjoys being buggered simply hasn’t read the story properly; and anyone who thinks the story was written for shock value or because my ‘idea well ran dry’ has very little sense of how stories happen, or how many ideas are constantly beating at the doors of any writer’s brain. Dave’s review says a whole lot more about Dave than it says about ‘The Goosle’ or about my motivations.
Speaking of awards: Gwyneth Jones is the winner of this year’s Pilgrim Award
In case anyone else didn’t know (I only just realised this): the UK edition of Karen Joy Fowler’s new novel, Wit’s End, has been retitled The Case of the Imaginary Detective
Abigail Nussbaum assesses “Journey’s End” and Russell T Davies’ Doctor Who in general
Stephenie Meyer’s The Host: actually good? Perhaps because it “isn’t science fiction so much as dark political philosophy”?
Old news one: SF Signal’s latest Mind Meld is about gender balance in sf, and has a short contribution from me and longer, better contributions from others
Old news two: Jonathan Strahan apologises for Eclipse 2
July 7, 2008 at 11:43 am
Clearly, the only value in that worst reviewer thread is in working out whether you have enough of a profile to be hated by someone.
July 7, 2008 at 1:23 pm
with large sections of Lost Boys resembling J G Ballard’s writings in both subject and style.
Aargh!
July 7, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Aargh!
For new readers, a translation of this exclamation can be found here. (The review itself is scheduled for 23rd July.)
July 7, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Your Richard Morgan link goes to the New Yorker: unless this is some supersubtle joke that passeth over my head …
July 7, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Whoops; copy/paste error there, I think. Fixed now, and here’s the first post.