Okay, after our little break while we waited for our systems to catch up with our scintillating articles, here is another vibrant issue of World Wide Wednesday: your weekly trip through the joys of the Internet!

fantasy and science fiction book reviews1) SFF Masterworks

First up, there is a little project in the works right now. You can find the SFF Masterworks Read blog here: an audacious project to read all of the SF and Fantasy masterworks as issued by Gollancz. The various members of the reading project will be familiar to you from other review blog sites, and have decided to turn their weight of knowledge on all things speculative fiction to the classics. Definitely worth a read!

2) Halfway Through 2010

Incredibly, we’re already over halfway through 2010 (and I’ve been involved with FanLit for six months now!) and a few of our favourite blogs listed their stats and top reads of the year so far — some interesting results and, inevitably, I added to my wishlist again!

3) Whitewashing… AGAIN!

An evil concept. A truly horrible habit. One which the Book Smugglers are true crusaders against. This time Babbling About Books brings us the news that whitewashing is again being used.

fantasy and science fiction book reviews4) A few Angry Robot articles

As you know, while Angry Robot Books have been on hiatus, they’ve used their blog to bring us some great little articles from well-known bloggers. Here is a quick catch-up: The adorable Harry Markov from Temple Library Reviews discusses “Cross Genre: The Rise to Power” while Adam Christopher talks about “The Big Magic Shelf“.

5) Omnivoracious!

The Amazon Omnivoracious blog is pretty decent to read most of the time, but this last week even better because one of the most public-facing authors — Mark Charan Newton — has been guest blogging (yes, yes, I know I mention Mark a lot but he writes a *lot* of interesting stuff! As soon as he gets less interesting, I’ll stop mentioning him!)

6) Beating a Dead Horse

Fantasy and Scifi Lovin’ News and Reviews beats the dead horse of how female “superheroes” are perceived, using television and film as examples. It is an interesting article and might make you reconsider some preconceived notions.

7) Wheel of Time

Adam Roberts — a rather clever and snarky author — turned his jaded gaze on the Wheel of Time, reading through the series and jotting down his thoughts on each of the books. This might offend long time fans of the series, but it is funny and, behind the sarcasm, Roberts does make some good points on Jordan’s magnus opus.

8) The Chylde of the Nyte Chronicles

After Gavin Smith’s attempt at paranormal romance – where he brought us the tale of vampire hobbits – Sam Sykes has jumped right on board this particular bandwagon, and writes about the Chylde of the Nyte!

9) Do you like podcasts?fantasy and science fiction book reviews

I have to confess that I am not currently on board with the idea of podcasts, but I know a lot of people love them, so I’m bringing you a handy link to Steve’s Fantasy Book Reviews podcast, where there is a book club running: so far they’ve tackled many modern and classic reads, including The City and The City. Worth a listen!

10) The iPad

It’s been out for a little while now. I’m tempted. I know that some of my fellow FanLit reviewers have already taken the plunge with eReaders. Here we have a little article on one of the uses (or not) of the iPad. (I would be interested to hear whether our followers have joined the electronic movement where books are concerned!)

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  • Amanda Rutter (guest)

    AMANDA RUTTER, one of our guest reviewers, used to be an accountant in the UK but she escaped the world of numbers and is now living in a fantasy world she creates. She runs Angry Robot's YA imprint, Strange Chemistry. And we knew her when....