Yesterday Lavie Tidhar announced that the World SF Blog that he and Charles Tan had run so successfully is closing down. There is a final post here. While I will definitely miss the blog, I know how much work these things take and understand completely why Lavie and Charles need to go on to other things. My thanks to them both for a job well done.

Charles will be one of my guests when Small Blue Planet visits the Philippines shortly. So if you want to know what he’s up to, do listen in. Lavie, of course, has a new book out.

For those of you looking for news of the SF&F scene outside of the English-speaking world, Europa SF provides an excellent window onto the European scene. For fiction, International Speculative Fiction is doing very well. You should also check out Indian SF. I’m sure that there are many other good sites. If you have some you want to recommend, please do so in comments.