I was going to suggest that everyone should go read John Clute’s really quite interesting review of Andreas Eschbach’s The Carpet Makers, and you still should. But…I’ve just read the latest post from Ken Macleod over at Early Days of a Better Nation, where he queries the accuracy of his own recollections about the history of SF. It’s a subject I find fascinating because I think we are subject to the ‘collective wisdom’, do sign up for the consensus view of things, and don’t usually have time to go back and check that our facts are straight. Read it.

Oh, and another fascinating piece here, which ties up with the Macleod piece above, from Charlie Stross, about sf and the cultural zietgeist.