- Annalee Newitz offers an insightful review of Karen Joy Fowler’s Wit’s End at io9: "Karen Joy Fowler’s unsettling, wistful new novel Wit’s End offers us a present-day world that is science fictional in the same way William Gibson’s recent present-day novels are: Her characters’ lives are so deeply bound up with technology that it’s hard to tell where human connection ends and internet connectivity begins." See also: Reuters q&a.
- CSI as science fiction. (Via Jenny D.)
- An excellent review of Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army/Daughters of the North. (Via Niall.)
- Fall in: The Fraenkel Gallery. (Via Sara Ryan.)
- Liz Hand on Toby Barlow’s Sharp Teeth in the WashPost.
- Midori has some good links about Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia.
- Travel books without the travel?
- Evil Monkey’s Guide to Kosher Imaginary Animals.