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• As a response to William Sanders’ recent behaviour, a group of Helix authors have put their stories and poems online at Transcriptase, along with some commentary. The current list of authors involved: Jennifer Pelland, Rachel Swirsky, Yoon Ha Lee, Elizabeth Barrette, Beth Bernobich, Maya Bohnhoff, Eugie Foster, Sara Genge, Samantha Henderson, Janis Ian, N.K. Jemisin, Vylar Kaftan, Ann Leckie, Vaughan Stanger, and Margaret Ronald
• Michael Cisco isn’t happy with Prime. Further commentary here, here, here, here, and in the links from those posts, with a statement from Prime here.
• The new issue of Fruitless Recursion has reviews of Barry Malzberg’s Breakfast in the Ruins, by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Roz Kaveney’s From Alien to the Matrix, by Martin Lewis, and David Hajdu’s The Ten-Cent Plague, by Paul Kincaid, as well as a report from the last BSFA London Meeting, and links to other writing about sf non-fiction
• The latest Broadsheet has interviews with L. Timmel Duchamp and Catherynne M Valente, among other things
• Gary Wolfe reviews Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
• Adam Roberts reviews Paul McAuley’s The Quiet War and discusses the Booker longlist
• M. John Harrison reviews Night Work by Thomas Glavinic
• Abigail Nussbaum on The Dark Knight, Wall-E, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Amelia Beamer reviews Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
• Karen Burnham on The Issue at Hand by William Atheling Jr, and the mundane Interzone
• Publisher’s Weekly has a new genre blog, genreville, which opened with a short interview with Ellen Datlow
• Mark Kelly is seeking feedback on a potential redesign of Locus Online
• Sam Jordison’s Hugo reading has reached Starship Troopers
• An interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Two posts about Dr Horrible’s Singalong Blog
• A bit more discussion of the Locus Awards
• Andrew Wheeler handicaps the Hugos
• James Nicoll is looking for suggestions for good review blogs
• And finally: the cover for Scott Pilgrim 5.