John Ottinger over at Grasping for the Wind presents the second edition of the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Book Review Linkup Meme. I know I’m rather late to the party, since I haven’t been doing much blogging of late, but better late than never.
Below you’ll find lots of great resources for all manner of [...]

While stopping in for a cuppa over at Fantasy Café, I learned that Borders has recently launched Babel Clash, a blog dedicated to science fiction and fantasy, which claims to be home to “the greatest debates in the galaxy.” This appears to be no empty claim, as posts aim to spark discussion of speculative fiction’s [...]

A post over at Fantasy Cafe points to an August article by David Louis Edelman, author of Infoquake and Multireal , on what he as a writer expects from a book review. Among his desired criteria are honesty, insight, and accuracy. For a relatively neophyte reviewer like myself, it’s nice to see some guidelines for [...]

I came across this article several years ago when I was studying medieval history. Some academics on the soc.history.medieval newsgroup were illustrating to what extent the fantasy genre flies in the face of premodern history and even of logic itself. While this is surely the point of our genre to some extent, it’s important that [...]

The arcanely hilarious xkcd.com recently posted a line graph of relevance to my recent Anathem review.

Mousing over the image on the xkcd site reveals the following tooltip:

“Except for Lewis Carroll and Tolkien, you get five made-up words per story. I’m looking at you, Anathem.”

I’m not sure if I necessarily agree with this graph’s assertion, but [...]

I haven’t been following TheOneRing.net closely enough of late to know whether this is a regular thread or not, but I came across this post in my RSS reader and thought it was worth sharing.
Today in Middle Earth, 24 September
Falling just a couple days after the Baggins’s joint birthday, this date witnessed some important events [...]