» David Langford’s Ansible 320

» Toronto Star: Alex Good reviews Schroeder, VanderMeer, Peek, Costello & Hautala

» Globe and Mail: Jared Bland reviews VanderMeer’s Annihilation

» Hudson NJ Reporter profiles Jeff Somers

» LA Review of Books interviews Ken MacLeod, with discussion of his new novel Descent

» Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies: George Slusser inteviews Gregory Benford

» Lots of reviews of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation: Laura Miller at Salon; John Domini in Miami Herald; Tara Wanda Merrigan in GQ; Justin Alvarez in Paris Review

» Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reviews Jo Walton’s What Makes This Book So Great

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB reading 19 Feb, with Kiini Ibura Salaam and Felix Gilman

» New York Times on how Books Are Rolled Out Faster, with prime example Jeff VanderMeer, whose new trilogy is coming out in February, May, and September

» Washington Post: Nancy Hightower reviews James L. Cambias, Rachel Bach, Scott Sigler

» Minneapolis Star Tribune reviews Alan DeNiro’s Tyrannia and other renditions

» NPR interviews Marcel Theroux

» LA Times: Elizabeth Hand reviews Marcel Theroux’s Strange Bodies: “a contemporary reimagining of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ with one of the titans of English literature standing in for the monster.”

» Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime includes sf/f/h associated titles by Orwell, Hawking, Snicket, L’Engle, Carroll, Dahl, White, Herbert, Bradbury, Rowling, Vonnegut, Chabon, Diaz, Lowry, Pullman, Atwood, Collins, Riordan, Tolkien, Juster, McCarthy, King, Grahame, Murakami — and 2013′s Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

» Salon: Laura Miller asks, Is the literary world elitist?

» Boom: A Journal of California interviews Kim Stanley Robinson

» Mythic Delirium has posted February content with fiction by Kenneth Schneyer and poetry by J.C. Runolfson and David Sklar

» The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination presents Galileo and the Music of the Spheres, Feburary 21, 2014, with afternoon panels, a reception, and a musical performance

» Sir Terry Pratchett is Author of the Day on the first day of the London Book Fair, beginning April 8

» Andrew Fox blogs about Rethinking the Relationship Between Drinking, Writing, and Depression

» A NYT Slide Show about Book Covers, Before...

» David Langford’s Ansible 319

» LA Times: Lydia Millet reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation

» Entertainment Weekly reviews Pierce Brown’s Red Rising: A-: “Brown’s best move is eschewing some of the more tired tropes of dystopian YA (read: no horrific love triangle), instead creating disarmingly real friendships and high-stakes rivalries.”

» io9: The Best “Entry Level” Science Fiction Books to Convert Your Friends

» Lightspeed Magazine’s Kickstarter campaign has funded a special issue written and edited by women — the June issue, edited by Christie Yant

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB January 15th, with Ennis Drake and Joe Hill

» Jeff VanderMeer is touring for new novel Annihilation, February through April in Seattle, Beaverton OR, San Francisco, NYC, LA, and Little Rock — schedule

» Daily Mail: Harry Ritchie reviews James Smythe, Pierce Brown, Simon Ings

» Studio 360 hosts David Brin and Clarie Evans in a show about the influence of SF in the modern world

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Patrick Ness’ The Crane Wife

» LA Review of Books: Andrea Hairston on Africa SF; Min Hyoung Song on Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea

» SFGate: Ted Gioia reviews Richard Powers’ Orfeo: “with scientific reality getting stranger with each passing year, Powers shows once again in this new book, one of his finest yet, that he can keep up with the pace”

» Toronto Star: Alex Good reviews Jo Walton, Adam Sternbergh, Jeff VanderMeer, David G. Hartwell

» The Spring issue of Cancatenation is up, with news and book reviews

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Schwab, Powell, Lundberg, Simmons, VanderMeers, and McGugan

» Chicago Tribune: Gary K. Wolfe reviews Haldeman, Walton, and Watts

» The MIT Tech: Kristen Sunter reviews Joe Haldeman’s Work Done for Hire and interviews the author

» NPR: Kim Stanley Robinson looks at Three New Wave Classics by Disch, Russ, and Delany

» The West Australian profiles Kim Stanley Robinson

» NPR’s You Must Read This: Amal El-Mohtar on Naomi Mitchison’s Travel Light

» Papercuts interviews Ellen Datlow

» Tangent Online has posted its 2013 Recommended Reading List; also, a 1976 interview with George R.R. Martin

» Kindle Post: Fleetwood Robbins looks at 2013 SF&F titles by Gaiman, Hartwell & Nielsen Hayden, and Schwab

» Andrew Fox is recovering and has a renewed itch

» Author Event: Guy Gavriel Kay appears at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park CA on January 18th, 7pm

» David Langford’s Ansible 318

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB December 18th, with Thomas F. Monteleone and Daniel José Older

» Time Magazine’s Top 10 Fiction Books of 2013 (selected by Lev Grossman and Radhika Jones) are led by titles by Kate Atkinson and George Saunders, and include other titles by Joe Hill, Neil Gaiman, and Max Berry

» Boston Globe: Ed Power writes, Sorry, J.R.R. Tolkien is not the father of fantasy