The Half-Made Links (2)

• The SFRA Review have been posting a series of their 101 articles from SFRA Review, including so far Scholarly Research and Writing 101, Science Studies 101, Fan Studies 101, Comic Studies 101, and, for anyone who thought Brandon Sanderson knew what he was talking about, Postmodernism 101. (On that last, see also.)
• Reviews of William Gibson’s Zero History by Scarlett Thomas, Steven Poole, Andrew McKie, James Purdon, James Urquhart, and Ed Cumming
• Nic Clarke on two novellas by Vandana Singh
• At Black Gate, Matthew David Surridge is on a quest to find The First Heroic Fantasy: part one, part two, part three
• Jonathan McCalmont liked Baxter’s Stone Spring, and really liked Adam Roberts’ New Model Army
• Dan Hartland concludes that Ian McDonald has “done it again” with The Dervish House
• Duncan Lawie on Greg Egan’s Zendegi
• And finally, something I have been extremely remiss in mentioning: this year’s Strange Horizons fund drive is underway. I sort of assume everyone reading this knows all about Strange Horizons; but you may not know that this September was Strange Horizons’ tenth anniversary. Susan Marie Groppi writes more about the fund drive here, and you can follow fund drive updates here: I’m lacking inspiration to add much, but if you’ve enjoyed Strange Horizons in the past, please think about chipping in. Thanks.