The Habitation of the Linked

For perhaps the final time, at least here (once again, I’m shifting over to the Strange Horizons blog):

• 2010 in review, according to Strange Horizons‘ reviewers, including me; I still hope to write a full review of my 2010 reading, but I’ve got a bunch of other things to do first, unfortunately
• More reviews of Who Fears Death, by Matt Hilliard, Jonathan McCalmont (discussion) and Farah Mendlesohn
• Maureen Kincaid Speller has relaunched her critical blog, Paper Knife, and among other things posted a lengthy analysis of Sarah Moss’ Cold Earth that I really must respond to
• A call for papers for an sf conference to be held at the University of Liverpool in June
• You can now get Locus electronically, and their Roundtable blog has relaunched under the guiding hand of Karen Burnham; of note this week, a roundtable on sf aesthetics
• Steven Shaviro on Black Swan, a film I’d like to see; Martin Lewis on Monsters, another film I’d like to see; and Abigail Nussbaum and Adam Roberts on Tron: Legacy, a film I have seen, and on which I basically agree with Adam
• Dan Hartland on The Best of Larry Niven
• Richard Larson on In the Mean Time by Paul Tremblay
• Kev McVeigh ponders which sf novels by women should be added to the Gollancz Masterworks list
• Matt Cheney’s syllabuses for gender and science fiction and some other courses
• Paul Kincaid on The Secret History of Fantasy, ed. Peter Beagle
• More thoughts on Super Sad True Love Story from Aishwarya Subramanian and Nader Elhefnawy
• Adrienne Martini on Yarn by Jon Armstrong
• Matt Hilliard on City of Pearl by Karen Traviss
• A labor organizer’s review of Cory Doctorow’s For the Win
• An English-language review of the German-language edition of Murakami’s IQ84, to be published in the UK next autumn
• The Pearls Are Cooling has been blogging about Steph Swainston’s Castle novels: The Year of Our War, No Present Like Time, and The Modern World
• The latest Salon Futura
• Jared at pornokitsch dissents about The Quantum Thief
• Thoughts on the finale of Caprica at Coffee & Ink
• David Hebblethwaite on the latest two volumes of Seren Press’ “new stories from the Mabinogion“, by Gwyneth Lewis and Niall Griffiths
• Richard at Solar Bridge has tackled The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
• Adam Roberts on The Windup Girl in prose and verse
• Tor.com is running a poll to determine the best sf/f novels of the last decade, although apparently decades last eleven years now. Meanwhile, you can also vote in the SF Site Readers’ Poll, nominate for the Hugo Awards (note: Abigail Nussbaum thinks you should consider Connie Willis’ Blackout and All Clear as two books), and, of course, for the BSFA Awards (deadline in one week!)
• Nic Clarke on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
• Strange Horizons is also recruiting; we’re looking for articles editors, webmasters, and an accounts manager, so if you’re interested, please get in touch
• And finally, Lavie Tidhar is having some fun with The Science Fictional Dictionary of New Criticism; see entries for Leguinian jump and dystopalyptic. And of course it has its own definition of science fiction