Blinks: Amazon’s Best of 2018; NYT on Shaun Tan, YA fantasy; Alec Nevala-Lee essay and review; LA Times review; Scott Edelman dines

» Amazon’s Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2018 are led by Christelle Dabos’ A Winter’s Promise

» NYT Book Review: Hugo Lindgren’s Everyday Weirdness reviews Shaun Tan, including his new book Tales From Outer Suburbia

» NYT Book Review: Marjorie Ingall reviews YA fantasies by Nova Ren Suma, Neal & Jarrol Shusterman, Alex London, Kendra Fortmeyer

» NYTRB last week: Alec Nevala-Lee on What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future, keying off his new book Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews that Alec Nevala-Lee book

» LA Times: Antony Jones reviews Richard K. Morgan’s Thin Air

» Scott Edelman dines with Vina Jie-Min Prasad, with links to earlier meals with Rebecca Roanhorse and Steve Rasnic Tem