Stuff
that caught my attention on the internet.
Yet
more contributions to the ongoing discussion about the ‘exhaustion of sf’, this
time from Karen Burnham, at Locus and a response from Jonathan
McCalmont.
Still
not quite sure why John Gray was talking about Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast
novels on Radio 4 last week, but he was, and this is a transcript of the broadcast.
“To
celebrate the release of [The Aylesford Skull, James] Blaylock has put
together a list of forgotten or ignored works of literature that have inspired his own writing, and should be must-reads
for anyone interested in science fiction or the fantastic.” Ignore the overly
prescriptive title: the selection of titles, however, is well worth checking
out.
New story from
Steven Millhauser in the New Yorker: Thirteen
Wives
From David M
Barnett, in the Guardian, When
Horror Stopped Being Supernatural
