Norm Geras kindly asked me to write a Writer’s Choice piece for normblog. I chose, as you may have already gathered, to wax rapturously about Shaun Tan’s The Arrival.

Justine Larbalestier has made SF Signal’s ten best science fiction and fantasy author blogs, up there with John Scalzi, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Jay Lake and Charles Stross. Talking Squid heartily concurs. Chris Lawson is this week’s profiled blogger on normblog.

I’ve been quoted over on normblog on the subject of Hitchock vs. Wilder as film directors. You can read it here. I would like to add, though, that when I defend Alfred Hitchcock from a rather sweeping charge of not having many quotable lines in his movies, I am defending him against the accusation, not [...]