Damien Walter on Ted Chiang

"[Ted] Chiang is sometimes described as a literary science fiction writer, but that’s a lazy label in which 'literary' means 'good' – a fairer one would be to say that Chiang is the Platonic ideal of a science fiction writer: his writing displays no particular interest in style, and yet it shines with a brutal, minimalist elegance. Every sentence is the perfect incision in the dissection of the idea at hand."

--Damien Walter at The Guardian

Links

What you'll need an editor for (Billie Sue Mosiman)

Damien Walter on state of SF

New views of microscopy: viruses

SF becomes fact

Christopher Barzak's writing process

Misery & Memoir

Cat Rambo's reading pleasures

Pinball magazine

Philip Pullman reviewed in NY Times, SF Site.  Biased, I tend to think one more informative.

Jerry Seinfeld on standing up for comedy

TV Tropes

Neil Gaiman on ideas

NPR on Grimm's fairy tales

Salon on Edward Gorey

Damien Walter on SF being eager to please -- some good points (in general terms, not on authors named) but surely SF doesn't have any one role to fill.