Torque Control (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... Paul McAuley on arbitrary divisions , and on the film of The Road Jonathan McCalmont and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro on Ark by Stephen Baxter ; Adam Roberts’ take here Catching up on Clute: Excessive Candour columns on The Windup Girl and on The Complete Stories of JG Ballard (the comments on the latter are … numerous); and at Strange Horizons, a review of The Magicians . (And for those...
Strange Horizons Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Jonathan McCalmont: Is Baxter to be praised for his seemingly ever-increasing control over an array of themes and issues that few other authors bother to tackle? Or is he to be condemned for writing and re-writing the same kind of book over and over again? Alvaro Zinos-Amaro: It travels much farther than its predecessor. It takes even bigger risks, and the emotional pay-off is...
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The story, and the comment, starting with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro at The Fix (link to Google cache, since the site seems to be down): “From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7” by Nnedi Okorafor is an inventive tale of exploration in which the pregnant TreeFrog7 and her husband Morituri36 compile entries to upload to the Greeny Jungle Field [...]
