Alexandrians Abroad

Shameless Self-Promotion, or: in lieu of actual content...

As if maintaining this blog wasn't enough, Victoria and Nic also occasionally write reviews for other online venues. Here's a selection. (This will also function as an archive post, updated whenever there's a new review).

At Strange Horizons, an online SF-focused magazine of fiction, columns, and reviews (free to read, supported entirely by donations - and, it would be remiss of me not to mention, having a fund drive at the moment):

• Short story collections
• Victoria on the Tiptree Award anthologies: volumes one, two, and three 
• Victoria on Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu
• Victoria on The Best of Lucius Shepard
• Nic on every best-of-2005 short fiction anthology ever (or that's how it felt)
• Nic on Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's Salon Fantastique
• Nic on Sean Wallace and Paul Tremblay's Fantasy
• Novels
• Victoria on Cormac McCarthy's The Road
• Victoria on Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel
• Victoria on Lionel Shriver's The Post-Birthday World
• Victoria on Adam Roberts' Splinter and Land of the Headless
• Victoria on Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora
• Victoria on Jim Crace's The Pesthouse and Sarah Hall's The Carhullan Army
• Nic on Mary Gentle's Ilario: The Lion's Eye
• Nic on Jay Lake's Trial of Flowers and Mainspring
• Nic on Ellen Kushner's The Privilege of the Sword
• Nic on Ekaterina Sedia's The Secret History of Moscow
• Nic on Rhiannon Lassiter's Bad Blood
• Nic on JV Jones' A Sword from Red Ice
• Nic on Sheri S Tepper's The Margarets
• Nic on Ken MacLeod's The Night Sessions
• Nic on Stephen Deas' The Adamantine Palace
• Award shortlists
• Victoria on the 2008 Crawford Award: part one, part two
• Others
• Nic on Naomi Mitchison

At Emerald City, an online SF fanzine, sadly folded as of October 2006:

• Novels
  • Victoria on Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
  • Victoria on David Marusek's Counting Heads
  • Victoria on Susan Palwick's The Necessary Beggar
  • Victoria on Brandon Sanderson's Elantris
  • Victoria on Sophia McDougall's Romanitas
  • Victoria on Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself
• Short stories
  • Nic on a variety of short fiction magazines: April, May, June, July, August, September
  • Nic on Elizabeth Bear's The Chains That You Refuse

And from Fantasy BookSpot (all by Victoria):

• Novels
  • Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver
  • Neal Stephenson's The Confusion
  • Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale
  • Jennifer Stevenson's Trash, Sex, Magic
• Short story collections
  • Theodora Goss' The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories
  • Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen

Comments

[Amber]

Ooh! Thank you so much for these links! I LOVE Strange Horizons so far!

[Zahra]

You might be interested to see that your blog was mentioned at the US-based website AfterEllen.com this morning, in the midst of an article about the treatment of books with lesbian and bisexual content:

http://www.afterellen.com/Print/2008/9/coveringqueerfiction

[Nic]

Zahra: Wow! I read AE semi-regularly, but hadn't seen that article. Thanks for the link :-)