Here. Certainly the best comment on the subject I have seen.

Martin McGrath and Jonathan McCalmont on John Scalzi, me and criticism.

One of the fun bits of the episode for me was the commenter on Scalzi's website who accused me of lynch mob tactics because I had said I wouldn't put the book very high on my Hugo ballot. I replied that he had clearly been very fortunate in his experience of lynch mobs.

I am fortunate enough to read many interesting things on my friends list. Here are some of them from the last week to share with you all:

John Scalzi is right (about Catcher in the Rye).

homais in Yemen.

wyvernfriend finds wisdom in MASH.

peake on mild fame, and on online vs printed reviews.

rozk's TLS review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (spoilers ( Read more... )

John Scalzi puts me 35th out of the top 51 blogs on science fiction and fantasy. That's very nice of him, considering the things I said about his book! Of course, you don't have to believe him; you just have to believe in the power of Technorati.

Well, my post on Old Man's War pulled in 23 comments, and the related discussion thread on John Scalzi's blog is up to 29, which is something of an Event. My thanks to John Scalzi for engaging with this reader's comments as thoughtfully as he has done, and to (most of) those others who have chipped in ( Read more... )

6) Old Man's War, by John Scalzi

After reading Robert Charles Wilson's Spin, I declared that I knew which novel was getting the top vote in my Hugo ballot. I now know which of the nominees is getting the lowest vote, though the middle three will need a bit of sorting out ( Read more... )

Thanks to pnh's generosity and a mishap with the Belgian postal system, I have an extra copy each of John Scalzi's Old Man's War and Robert Charles Wilson's Spin, both of which are Hugo nominees this year.

Anyone interested? Especially people who are within range of Brussels or Leuven, and who are likely to write about them on their own lj's?