Speculative Fiction 2012: The best online reviews, essays and commentary (Volume 1)

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2307449.html

I am easily pleased sometimes. This is a collection of online commentary on sf which was published in 2012, pulling together the sorts of essays I always like reading and wish I could write more often. All the usual suspects are here - in-depth examinations of race and gender as they are manifested in the genre, but also simple critiques of writing as writing. It's not perfect - the internal ordering of the pieces seems half thought through (is it alphabetical by author's first name? Not quite, but if not, then what?) and I would have dropped most of the shorter pieces in favour of some more long ones - but I was pretty sure from an early stage that I would give it a high place on my Hugo show more ballot. Then I reached page 297 and found my own name in the first line. Yep, I'm easily pleased. show less

This is a series of reviews and blogs from the year 2012 about speculative fiction--reviews of specific books and authors and fantasy and science fiction in general and a few controversies that I hadn't actually heard about.
As all anthologies, the quality varies, but on the whole this was very engaging and interesting to anyone who enjoys SciFi/Fantasy.