Blinks: Grossman on fantasy; reviews of VanderMeer; SF linguistics; Guy Gavriel Kay anniversary

» Time Magazine: Lev Grossman on How Magic Conquered Pop Culture

» Slate’s Mac Rogers reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Southern Reach’ trilogy: These Amazing Novels Are Like Lost, Except You Won’t Be Enraged When You Finish Them

» New Statesmen reviews VanderMeer: “Intricate, complex and surprising”

» Slate’s DS Bigham: One Planet, One Language: How Realistic Is Science Fiction Linguistics?

» NY Times on dystopian novels: The World Is Ending, and Readers Couldn’t Be Happier

» Chicago Tribune posts columns by Gary K. Wolfe like this one, but you need to subscribe to see them

» Guy Gavriel Kay celebrates 30 years of Fionavar at Bakka Phoenix Books in Toronto, September 19th, 7pm