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.