» NYT, 21 Sept: Amal El-Mohtar reviews Lincoln Michel, Ryka Aoki, Cadwell Turnbull

» Guardian, 10 Sept: Lisa Tuttle reviews James Kennedy, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Rian Hughes, Guy Morpuss, and Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan

» Wired, 16 Sept: Is Becky Chambers the Ultimate Hope for Science Fiction?, subtitled, “Her gentle, heartwarming stories seek to soothe our troubled souls. They also aim to blow up the entire genre.”

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» NYT: A Century in Stanislaw Lem’s Cosmos

» NYT: When a Fictional Utopia Offers a Pathway Home, by Amy Kurzweil: “Reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Always Coming Home’ after a cross country move to California.”

» NYT: Amal El-Mohtar reviews books by Marissa Levien, Nghi Vo, and editors Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington

» Guardian: Lisa Tuttle reviews Catling, Hendrix, Murphy, Clark, Grant

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey ...Read More

» Guardian: Lisa Tuttle reviews Neil Sharpson, Eli Lee, Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Sara Gran, Chuck Wendig, Max Barry ...Read More

» NY Times: Jeff VanderMeer By the Book: How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block

» NY Times: Amal El-Mohtar reviews Karin Tidbeck, E. Lily Yu, Charlie Jane Anders

» Bloomberg Green: Kim Stanley Robinson on Cities as a Climate Survival Mechanism, subtitled, A future with far more cities, and cities that are asked to do far more. ...Read More

» San Francisco Chronicle: Gabino Iglesias Review: With ‘Hummingbird Salamander,’ sci-fi great Jeff VanderMeer changes direction

» SF Gate: Dan Gentile: Everyone’s reading the buzzy novel ‘Klara and the Sun.’ Here’s why.

» Onion AV Club: Alex McLevy: Jeff VanderMeer’s latest work of bleak eco-fiction is an apocalyptic page-turner ...Read More

» Washington Post: Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar: Let’s talk about the best — and newest — science fiction and fantasy story collections

» Guardian: Lisa Tuttle covers The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup, with titles by VanderMeer, Aristide, Suzuki, and Slatter ...Read More

» New York Times: Ezra Klein: The Author Behind ‘Arrival’ Doesn’t Fear AI. ‘Look at How We Treat Animals.’, subtitled, “The award-winning author and Ezra Klein discuss A.I. suffering, free will, Superman’s failures and more.

» The New Yorker: Ted Chiang: Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter, subtitled, “We fear and yearn for ‘the singularity.’ But it will probably never come.” ...Read More

» Washington Post: Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar: Let’s talk about wonderful Indian science-fiction and fantasy novels

» Slate: COVID-19 Isn’t the Apocalypse We Expected—or the One Some Wanted, subtitled “Recent novels from Don DeLillo and Jonathan Lethem fantasized about turning off screens forever,” beginning with a look back at E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”

» NYT: Kermit Pattison reviews associational book THE ZOOLOGIST’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: What Animals ...Read More

» The New Yorker: Julian Lucas on How Octavia E. Butler Reimagines Sex and Survival, subtitled, The parasites, hybrids, and vampires of her science fiction make the price of persisting viscerally real.

» Wired: Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan, subtitled, As China’s science fiction authors are elevated to the status of oracles, Qiufan’s career—and his genre’s place in society—have gone through the looking glass.

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» The New Yorker: Jonathan Lethem’s story The Crooked House, with an interview with Jonathan Lethem on Robert Heinlein and Other Influences

» Another review of Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, by NPR’s Annalisa Quinn

» Also at NPR, Fran Wilde reviews S.B. Divya: ‘Machinehood’ Upgrades Asimov’s 3 Laws Of Robotics

» Wired’s Jason Kehe asks, Who Is R. A. Lafferty? And Is He the Best Sci-Fi Writer Ever?, ...Read More

» NYT Magazine: Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us, by Giles Harvey

» Reviews of Ishiguro’s new novel Klara and the Sun at NYT, by Radhika Jones; Slate, by Laura Miller; Guardian, by Anne Enright; and Wall Street Journal, by Sam Sacks

» Boston Globe: Frank Pasquale suggests Now that science fiction is reality, it’s time for new laws of robotics

» Wall Street Journal: Tom ...Read More

» Guardian: Lisa Tuttle takes over from Eric Brown: The best recent science fiction and fantasy – review roundup covering titles by Samantha Shannon, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Adam Roberts, Marian Womack, and Tim Pratt

» The New Yorker: Bill McKibben’s The Enormous Risk of Atmospheric Hacking cites Kim Stanley Robinson’s “masterly new novel” “The Ministry for the Future”.

» Seattle Times: Lynnwood’s Greg Bear, stalwart of modern science fiction, starts writing ...Read More

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews CK McDonnnell, Derek B Miller, HM Long, Louise Carey, and Ernest Cline

» NYT: The Essential Octavia Butler

» WaPo: Let’s talk about fantasy and science fiction books that have fallen off the radar, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar ...Read More

» The New Yorker: Harold Bloom on The Strange Friendships of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Left Hand of Darkness”

» Los Angeles Review of Books: Daniel Immerwahr on Heresies of “Dune”

» Washington Post: Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar select Best science fiction, fantasy and horror books of 2020; they’re by Stephen Graham Jones, Zen Cho, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Agustina Bazterrica, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses, and Paul ...Read More

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Christopher Priest, Kate Mascarenhas, Jonathan Sims, Tom Fletcher, Chloe Gong

» New Scientist: Will Heath reviews Micaiah Johnson

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Cixin Liu’s To Hold Up the Sky

» Jacobin interviews Robert Markley about Kim Stanley Robinson

» The Irish Times: Science fiction: Fast forward into a universal future, about Penguin’s new line of SF classics ...Read More

» NY Times: Amal El-Mohtar reviews C.L. Polk, V.E. Schwab, Susanna Clarke

» Slate: Cory Doctorow: The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories: I’m changing how I write fiction—for the benefit of the real world.

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Andrzei Sapkowski, Tony Ballantyne, Peter F. Hamilton, Kate Elliott, Graham Masterton

» Polygon: Andrew Liptak selects 15 recent sci-fi books that forever shaped the genre and other articles in its ...Read More

» LA Times: 5 paths to continue your Octavia E. Butler discovery after ‘Parable of the Sower’

» Guardian: ‘There is no planet B’: the best books to help us navigate the next 50 years, by Kim Stanley Robinson

» Guardian: 25 years of His Dark Materials: Philip Pullman on the journey of a lifetime

» Washington Post, Michael Dirda: Can’t get enough Game of Thrones or Star Wars? New ...Read More

» Slate: Why So Many Readers Are Turning to Octavia Butler’s Apocalypse Fiction Right Now

» LA Review of Books: Rob Latham interviews Robert Silverberg ...Read More

Washington Post, Ron Charles: Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine

Slate, Dan Kios: Susanna Clarke’s First Novel in 16 Years Is a Wonder

Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Carole Stivers, Nydia Hetherington, Andrea Stewart, Garth Nix, SE Lister ...Read More

» New York Times: Amal El-Mohtar reviews Elwin Cotman and Micaiah Johnson

» San Francisco Chronicle: Claire Howorth reviews 3 novels imagine postapocalyptic motherhood, by Lauren Beukes, Carole Stivers, and Diane Cook

» Guardian: Natasha Pulley reviews Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library

» Scott Edelman dines with Farah Mendlesohn ...Read More

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews David Gerrold and Gene Wolfe

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Shaun Hamill, Jeremy Szal, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Tim Lebbon, Devin Madson ...Read More

» The Conversation: Science fiction builds mental resiliency in young readers

» New York Times: By the Book: The Science Fiction Writer John Scalzi Readily Quits Reading

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Nick Martell, Hao Jingfang, Ian Whates, Breanna Teintze, Kat Dunn

» Scott Edelman practices social distancing while answering 95 questions from George R.R. Martin, Sarah Pinsker, Greg Bossert, Barry N. Malzberg, Michael Dirda, and many others ...Read More

» Guardian: David Mitchell on Earthsea – a rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin

» Guardian: NK Jemisin: ‘It’s easier to get a book set in black Africa published if you’re white’

» LA Times: Dystopian fiction has always been real for Ray Bradbury prize winner Marlon James

» Washington Post: Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar on Desert-island books: Science fiction tales set in isolation that feel just right ...Read More

Scott Edelman shelters in place; earlier he dined with Michael Dirda.

Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Mark Lawrence, MR Carey, Veronica Roth, Zoraida Córdova, Christina Henry ...Read More

» Slate: Isaac Butler talked with Kim Stanley Robinson about Three Californias, Infinite Futures

» And at Wall Street Journal: Russell Gold talks with Kim Stanley Robinson: A Sci-Fi Author’s Boldest Vision of Climate Change: Surviving It

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Anne Charnock, Marc-Uwe Kling, AJ Hackwith, Andrew Hunter Murray, Menna van Praag ...Read More

» NY Times: For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past?

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Danny Tobey, Stephen Palmer, Kel Kade, Gareth Hanrahan, AJ Smith ...Read More

» NY Times: Amal El-Mohtar’s Otherworldly column reviews Kacen Callender, Nino Cipri, Naomi Kritzer

» SF Chronicle: Gabino Iglesias reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts

» Slate: All of the Sci-Fi Stories We Published This Year ...Read More

» The New Yorker: How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real

» The Nation: The Rest Is Up to Us: Ted Chiang’s science fiction helps us look past the power of technology

» New York Times Magazine: How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America, about Ken Liu

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey picks his Best Science-Fiction of 2019 by David Walton, Daniel Suarez, Cory Doctorow, Erin Craig, Michael Swanwick

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» Slate: Isaac Butler, The Disappearance of John M. Ford, with news that Tor is bringing his work back into print

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Annalee Newitz, Mike Carey, Claire North, Alison Littlewood, Kim Lakin-Smith

» Recent dining with Scott Edelman: Paul Kirchner, Michael J. Walsh, and Locus Online reviewer Paul Di Filippo ...Read More

» Publishers Weekly’s Best SF/Fantasy/Horror of 2019 are by King, Turnbull, Hurley, Starling, McGuire, LaValle/Adams, and Wendig

» Recently in NY Times: For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet by Naomi Booth, discussing Amitav Ghosh and Jeff VanderMeer and others

» Also, Danielle Trussoni reviews horror by Lovecraft (annotated by Klinger), nonfiction by Kröger and Anderson, a novel by Marente de Moor, and a collection by ...Read More