Around the Web: Interviews with Jeff VanderMeer, reviews of Absolution, and VanderMeer on Hurricanes; Le Guin, Ballard, Stephenson, Liu; review columns by Iglesias and Tuttle

» LA Times, 12 Oct: Lorraine Berry: What happens when humans confront a form of nature with no rational order?, reviewing Absolution

» Boing Boing, 8 Oct: Thom Dunn: Jeff VanderMeer’s “Absolution” is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy

» NY Times, 20 Oct: Interview with Jeff VanderMeer by Alexandra Alter

» The Verge, 21 Oct: ‘I woke up and had the whole idea in my head’: returning to Area X with Jeff VanderMeer

» NY Times, 27 Sep: Jeff VanderMeer: I’ve Lived With Hurricanes for Years. The Decisions Keep Getting Harder.

» NY Times, Koren Shadmi, 18 Oct: J. G. Ballard, Secret Agent in Suburbia, a graphic tribute

» Scientific American, 15 Oct: Alan Scherstuhl: Book Review: Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novel about Utopian Anarchists Is as Relevant as Ever

» NY Times, 15 Oct: Dan Fesperman: Neal Stephenson’s New Novel Traces the Making of a Spy, subtitled “‘Polostan’ sets up a historical fiction series about espionage and revolution in the early 20th century.”

» Big Think, 30 Sep: Ken Liu on Why the ancient power of the Dao De Jing is more important than ever

» NY Times, 28 Sep: Gabino Iglesias on 4 New Horror Books Filled With Eldritch Terrors and Other Frights

» The Guardian, 13 Sep: Lisa Tuttle: The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup covering Chandrasekera, Barnett, Ballingrud, Kitasei, and Gammon