Jeff VanderMeer’s latest column is up at Huffington Post. This month he enthuses about Brian Francis Slattery’s Liberation, which will be one of the first books I’ll want to buy when I get back home. I loved Spaceman Blues for the language. Liberation is more to do with economic collapse than alien invasion, and unusually Slattery actually knows what he’s talking about in this regard, being an economics journalist himself.

Meanwhile over at Fantasy Magazine Naamen complains about stereotyping of black super heroes. It is an entirely justified rant (I never understood the Storm – Black Panther thing either), and it also gives me a good excuse to remind you all to read the very wonderful From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust.