Nader Elhefnawy’s essay, “ The problem of belonging in Robert A Heinlein’s Friday“, first published in Foundation, summer 2006. Adam Roberts asks, “ Is sf handwritten?”. Tim Holman’s graphs of the commercial rise of what we are now calling urban fantasy see also Paula Guran’s notes on the origins of the label. The women in sf reading club reaches Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time. AMBERLIGHT BOOK SYLVIA KELSO HOW TO
Paolo Bacigalupi in discussion at the Borders Babel Clash blog: “If you don’t have a model or archetypal pattern of a highly functional society that deals with drought or peak oil or global warming it makes it difficult for a rational dialogue to commence about how to create an adaptable society.”. More on The Year of the Flood: Jane Shilling in The Telegraph, Robert Macfarlane in The Times, Philip Hensher in The Observer and, most punchily, Fredric Jameson in the LRB: “Atwood can now be considered to be a science-fiction writer, I’m happy to say, and this is not meant to disparage”. More District 9 views, mostly negative: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Nnedi Okorafor, Jonathan McCalmont. Reviews of Iain Banks’ Transition: James Walton in The Telegraph, Doug Johnstone in The Independent, and David Hebblethwaite and there’s an interview in The Guardian today. Matt Cheney interviews Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, author of The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction (which, remember, you should all read). I’m disappointed that nobody’s responded to this one I’d like to see more discussion of these books. Abigail Nussbaum reviews Sylvia Kelso’s Amberlight and Riversend. Graham Sleight reviews Mike Ashley’s much-discussed Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF. (I should note that if there are any authors who meant to respond but haven’t yet, there’s still time! I can integrate a few late responses without trouble. So it’s going to take a large chunk of my time over the next few weeks. I have 60,000 words of responses from 82 authors, and I need to write the whole thing up by mid-October. 
Second, I have started collating and analyzing the responses to the survey. First, per Jed’s suggestion, I’ve updated the short story club schedule with links to the discussions that have taken place so far. Sylvia Kelso is a master of world-building, beautiful prose, and sheer romance. If some writers' prose sings, Kelso's is an opera.” Lois McMaster Bujold, Author of Paladin of Souls “Sumptuous, sensuous, and passionate, Amberlight is completely delightful. “Amberlight is peopled with vivid characters that stormed up off the page into permanent residence in my mind and memory, in a unique world, and driving an original plot. But intrigue and insurrection and brutal warfare threaten any future for their love. What she means to him changes his own life.
So why should it matter, if he dies? What he's forgotten could be the city's deadliest danger. He's an amnesiac mugging victim, found bleeding to death on the street. AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE AFFAIR … She leads the most powerful House in Amberlight. Amberlight's unique possession, whose mother-lodes keep Riverworld rulers on their thrones. A MYSTERY … Qherrique, the foundation of Amberlight's wealth. A CITY … Amberlight, the ruler of the Riverworld.
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