If you take a look at my sidebar you’ll see I’ve added a new page. It’s heading is exactly the same as on this post and I propose to put my Interzone reviews on that page after a decent interval has elapsed since publication in the magazine.

My first review there, of Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Quantum Thief, appeared a year ago. You can now read it on My Interzone Reviews page.

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.

I see from Jim Steel’s blog that Interzone 230 is out now.
This of course contains my review of Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Quantum Thief.

Gollancz, 2010, 267p

My review of this book has been delivered to Interzone. I’ll let you know the publication date in due course.

Btw, the cover image is arresting and ought to shift some copies.

I’ve been asked through Jim Steel to write a review for Interzone of debutant novelist Hannu Rajaniemi’s forthcoming The Quantum Thief, due in September I believe. I said yes.

This does represent something of a conflict of interest for me as Hannu is a fellow member of the Edinburgh and East Coast Writers’ Group and of course of Writers’ Bloc. But, as Jim reminded me, everybody in British SF knows just about everybody else and the book’s title suggests a Science background might be an advantage in assessing it.

I mentioned Hannu a while back when he got his writing deal. He knows string theory, though, which wasn’t around when I were a lad.

Some of my time in July will naturally be taken up with this project but the review won’t, of course, be appearing here.