Seen all over, this list I found more interesting than most lists. In fact, these days I usually don't click on lists, especially "best novels of the year," as there's just no way to filter out "best hype ( Read more... )

I was really surprised once when someone who looks down on the sf and f genre insisted that fictional and literary continuations of classics is metafiction but sweaty stories about Kirk and Spock 'doing it' is all faaanfiction. (Insert lofty tone for first, dismissive tone for second.)

I thought, you don't understand the difference, but then I ( Read more... )

Today's riff is about the problem of chasing literary greatness.

Over here, Athena Andreadis posted a discussion springing from some of Ursula K. Le Guin's latest blog posts. So far, I've found the comments as interesting and thought-provoking as the article.