February 06, 2005

Couple of sf links

Suzette Haden Elgin has a number of posts about science fiction poetry, and Matthew Cheney offers his picks for sf poems of the year.

Locus's Best of the Best Short Stories of 2005 (at Notes from Coode Street).

Matthew Cheney on the difficulty of picking the best fantasy story of all time, an addendum to the annual Locus survey.

"And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon" by Paul Di Filippo — one of my favs — at SciFi.com. About "blebs" — composite gadgets made by the spontaneous merging of smart household objects.

Letter from Sri Lanka: Arthur C. Clarke on the tsunami's aftermath and the roles of science fiction and technology in predicting future disasters, in Wired (link from BoingBoing).