Household Management, a marvellous little story by Ellen Klages on Strange Horizons.
Only 2 days left on the Strange Horizons fund drive (see http://strangehorizons.com/fund_drives/2012/main.shtml), a site well worth supporting. They publish quality SF and Fantasy, available on-line for free, but paying their authors pro rates. They are not far ( Read more... )

via SF Crowsnest,
( 54 seconds of YouTube goodness )

Just got an apologetic phone call from the friend I was going to crash with next weekend for Recombination saying I can't stay there after all. This would of course happen after the cons accommodation booking closes. Anyone got any helpful suggestions for places to stay in Cambridge not too far from New Hall before I start hitting the internets?

If like me you did that 50 Most Significant SF Books meme, then you need to check out this excellent and very funny blog post by David Moles which tells you just why those books were significant then and why they are now. (Found via Cheryl’s Mewsings)

Gakked from ffutures
This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club.
( Significant SF books I've read/not read )

You can get a free download of issue 4 of Subterranean Magazine. They usually do a mix of horror, dark fantasy and mystery, but number 4 is a special SF cliché themed issue guest-edited by John Scalzi. Only skimmed a couple of pages so far, but it looks fun, with stories and articles by Allen Steele, Jo Walton, Stuart MacBride, Teresa Nielsen ( Read more... )