Round-Ups, Reviews: OF Blog, Bibliophile Stalker, SF Site
Larry Novel at OF Blog of the Fallen has a pretty comprehensive look at anthologies, along with discussion of some story collections and novellas. He liked The New Weird and Steampunk, but lots of other stuff, too.
There’s also just now this review of Steampunk on SF Site, which Paul Raven liked conditionally, having issues with the variety contained therein. I have no issues with those issues (in fact, there’s some interesting stuff there for further discussion)–negative, positive, and indifferent reviews only bother me when they have factual errors in them or ascribe motivations to the participants that are false or speculative–but we did not include the Blaylock just to include it, as he indicates, and the comment I made on the SH comments thread does not say that. I think they’re fixing that little bit–and the review otherwise has much to recommend it. (You can also vote for your favorite books of 2008, here.)
Charles Tan also has some year-end wrap-ups, including this one. Charles sent me some great Phillipines-published books last year and I hope to blog about some of them soon.
January 1, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Nice links there, Jeff, but my last name…you changing it for me? ;)
January 1, 2009 at 12:46 pm
yes. you are no longer nolan. just as I am now known as jeff “brain fart” vandermeer. can’t change it until back on computer tomorrow. commenting from my phone.
January 1, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Or Nolen? :P It’s okay, as that certainly was the most “novel’ misspelling of my last name ever, and you would think that five letter names wouldn’t be misspelled over a dozen different ways! :D Found it to be quite amusing.
By the way, I had to revise that post just now, as I too committed my own brain fart, leaving off the Extraordinary Engines anthology by mistake. D’oh!
January 1, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Novel’s fine Larry. People call me Satan because my middle initial is A.
Thanks for the links Jeff!
January 1, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Well, Satan certainly is more “novel” than Novel, I suppose ;) By the way, thanks for the kind words on your blog, Charles. Have a Happy New Year!