Randall Mann, a poet much influenced by Thom Gunn, remembers Thom Gunn.

Adam Roberts at Strange Horizons, which I should read more often, turns in a fine review of a fine academic book, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr's, The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, which I've just reviewed for a reliable but slower-moving academic journal. Anyone with any interest both in academic lit-crit matters and in sf as a literary genre pretty much needs to stop whatever he or she is doing this morning, find Csicsery-