Given that I would be seeing China in London last week, one thing that I had to do was finish reading his latest novel. I have now written the review. I think you can guess that I will have enjoyed it. Nevertheless, hopefully I have something interesting to say about the book. You can read the review here.

It occurs to me that if there is a trial for a YA Hugo in San Antonio, which of course will have to be voted on by normal Hugo rules, then the winner will almost certainly be Railsea. And I suspect this will make many people in the YA community furious.