BSFA Mailing
Posted in BSFA, BSFA Awards, My Interzone Reviews, Reading Reviewed, Science Fiction at 22:00 on 5 March 2011
The latest BSFA mailing dropped onto my doormat today.
As well as the usual review magazine, Vector, which (unusually, since I’m normally slow at catching up with the latest thing) contains reviews of three books I’ve already read – Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Quantum Thief which I reviewed for Interzone, Ken MacLeod’s The Restoration Game and Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House – the envelope also spilled forth the A4 magazine of those short stories on the ballot for the BSFA Awards for 2010 and an A5 booklet published as a memorial to Robert Holdstock.
Apart from the book reviews this edition of Vector is a special Stephen Baxter issue.
Much of my reading for March is now more or less scheduled. As well as the short stories mentioned above, I have one more of the five novels shortlisted in the BSFA Award novel category in my to be read pile. I’ve just finished Paolo Bagicalupi’s The Windup Girl – review to come. For my thoughts on Ken MacLeod’s The Restoration Game and Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House see previous posts. Tricia Sullivan’s Lightborn awaits. Only Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City will escape my attention.
In addition Interzone has sent me Dominic Green’s Smallworld to review by the end of March. Busy, busy.
Tags: BSFA, BSFA Awards, Hannu Rajaniemi, Ian McDonald, Ken MacLeod, Lauren Beukes, Lightborn, Robert Holdstock, Science Fiction, Stephen Baxter, The Dervish House, The Quantum Thief, The Restoration Game, Tricia Sullivan, Zoo City
