The second part of Karen Burnham’s excellent SF Signal Mind Meld feature on non-anglophone SF is now online. It includes material by several of my friends, and also by a bunch of people I’d love to get to meet. Apparently there’s more to come next week as well.

It occurs to me that this is one of those areas in which the Mind Meld format works really well. The topic is so vast that no one person can have more than the briefest glimpse of the whole. However, read together, all of these individual glimpses help us get a idea of just how much is going on that we can’t read.

And talking of things we can’t read, I discover from Tero that the Al Reynolds story in the latest issue of Tähtivaeltaja is actually an exclusive. It is in Finnish, so most of you won’t be able to read it, but if you are a Reynolds completist then you need to get it because there is no English version. No, even Al doesn’t have a copy in English. Details here.

See what can happen when you get drunk in a bar with a bunch of Finns…