From GalleyCat and SF Signal: John Ottinger from Grasping for the Wind is doing some community-building and compiling a list of SF and Fantasy blogs across the net—and he’s making it interactive! See below.
[T]ake the following list and stick it on your website, then add yourself to the list, preferably in alphabetical order. That way, I will be able to track it across the web from back links, and can add each new blog to my roll as it comes along. So take this list, add it to your blog, and add a link to your blog on it.
JasonB @ Galleycat makes a good point that “too many publicists, authors, and other reviewers are unaware” of all these great genre sites. And this “genre” is one hot potato, so what’s the hold-up??
So, meet old friends, link to new friends, and join the gathering. And maybe somewhere, somehow, some of these folks can figure out whether or not it’s worth seeing the new The Day the Earth Stood Still in IMAX…
The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.
Dave Brendon’s Fantasy and Sci-Fi Weblog
Fantasy and Sci-fi Lovin’ Blog
[Musical Reviews]
Tor.com [Also original short fiction and art]
Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic
Foreign Language (other than English)
[Romanian, but with English Translation]
[French]
Thanks for posting this Dot!
I wonder if following this appeal would fit into their literary conceit but I’m missing the Green Man Review there…
http://www.greenmanreview.com/index2.html
Addendum: Aw, I see on the original site it has been added.
John Ottinger is the man. And so is John DeNardo, I might add.
Dot, thanks for doing this post!
Eh. My blog is just weird. I do the occasional review of SF&F, but not enough to really do this.
Although I am looking forward to my Julian Comstock review.
My blog’s weird, too–I’m a print reviewer, so while I mention the reviewing once in a while, that’s not the primary focus. The primary focus tend to be: “Oh crap, I haven’t updated in two months! I suck! Have some screenshots of my video games!”
I’m kind of lame, because I just enjoy seeing my name / blog linked places. :)
For what its worth, Matt Staggs put together a huge list like this a while back, though Matt’s list also includes author blogs and I see some on John’s list that aren’t on Matt’s.
John’s list, though, seems to have hit some nerve and is getting picked up in a whole lot places and getting a lot of people exposure. Which is cool.
it’s great to see all these people I know (and new people, too! looking forward to that julian comstock review..).
Oh man, yes, Matt’s “Enter the Octopus” is a great site (as is yours, Joe). I KNEW there would have been other SF lists in the past.. maybe there should be some sort of “list refresh” every several months? Sort of an “SF Icebreakers Redux!”
Matt used to be great for his link roundup posts (can’t remember what he called them) which he spent an hour or two a day putting together, but those got a bit too much for him between his day job, his publicity jobs, and family…which, selfishly, stinks.
He’s been updating more frequently again, though.
And, thanks, fangirl. :)
That’s an awful lot of blogs! Is anybody doing carnivals?
Fritzom – no carnivals as yet, though that idea is on my to think about doing list. Of course, I would be glad to work with someone on getting such a thing set up.
Sfrgalaxy – thanks for the compliment. I never imagined it would go this far. I thought at best it would add five to ten new blogs to my outdated list. You guys have made this so fun, thank you for all your work!
Strange Horizons do a fair few I think?
Subterranean Online?
This meme certainly has some legs — congrats John. Great promotional idea.
Now to actually visit all those sites . . .
Using back-links is very cute, but it sort of assumes that reviewers are using blog software. MITSFS, err, has an HTML file that gets edited by hand periodically. Yes, yes, leading technical university mumble. We like our flat text files, thank you. (And we’re too hosed with classwork to switch to something better. ;-)
So, Mr. Ottinger, since you seem to be watching this comment thread, here’s MITSFS’s review site.
Kevin, I think most online reviewers are using blog software. :)
You can just comment at the original home of the list to be added; it’s what I did.
MITSF, you got your own update on Ottinger’s site ;) And nice to see at least one YA sf site .. if we open this up to Young Adult sites who also review SF .. will the list explode?? ;)
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