Tsk, lazy blogger than I am:

– People have known for a long time that animals seem to have some sort of sixth sense when it comes to earthquakes. Slowly but surely, we may be beginning to understand how it works.

– At The Guardian Book Blog Alison Flood considers the Clarke short list and David Barnett looks for real fear.

– Peter Murphy recycles an old review of the wonderful Godspeed You Black Emperor. (Can you imagine how bad music journalism would be if people like Peter had to put up with the same po-faced, self-righteous nonsense about “how to write reviews” that we get in science fiction?)

– I was going to nominate Greg Bridges for a Hugo next year because of this, but now he’s gone and done this as well.