December 10, 2008
A Book Reviewers Linkup Meme
My list of fantasy and sf book reviewers is woefully out of date. I need your help to fix that. But rather than go through the hassle of having you send me recommendations or sticking them in comments, what you can do is take the following list and stick it on your website, then add yourself to the list, preferably in alphabetical order. That way, I will be able to track it across the web from back links, and can add each new blog to my roll as it comes along. So take this list, add it to your blog, and add a link to your blog on it. If you are already on the list, repost this meme at your blog so others can see it, and find new blogs from the links others put up on their blogs. Everybody wins! Be sure to send the list around to others as well. There is an easy to copy window of all the links and text at the bottom of this post to make it even simpler to do.
I would be ever so grateful if you would help me out.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A
7 Foot Shelves
The Accidental Bard
A Boy Goes on a Journey
A Dribble Of Ink
A Hoyden's Look at Literature
Adventures in Reading
The Agony Column
Andromeda Spaceways
The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.
Ask Daphne
aurealisXpress
Australia Specfic In Focus
Author 2 Author
AzureScape
B
Barbara Martin
Bees (and Books) on the Knob
Best SF
Bibliophile Stalker
Bibliosnark
Big Dumb Object
BillWardWriter.com
The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf
Bitten by Books
The Black Library Blog
Blog, Jvstin Style
Blood of the Muse
The Book Bind
Bookgeeks
Bookrastination
Bookslut
The Book Smugglers
Bookspotcentral
The Book Swede
Book View Cafe [Authors Group Blog]
Breeni Books
C
Cheaper Ironies [pro columnist]
Cheryl's Musings
Critical Mass
The Crotchety Old Fan
D
Damien G. Walter
Danger Gal
It's Dark in the Dark
Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews
Darque Reviews
Dave Brendon's Fantasy and Sci-Fi Weblog
Dear Author
The Deckled Edge
Dragons, Heroes and Wizards
The Discriminating Fangirl
Dusk Before the Dawn
E
Enter the Octopus
Eve's Alexandria
F
Falcata Times
Fan News Denmark [in English]
Fantastic Reviews
Fantastic Reviews Blog
Fantasy Book Banner
Fantasy Book Critic
Fantasy Book Reviews and News
Fantasy Cafe
Fantasy Debut
Fantasy Dreamer's Ramblings
Fantasy Literature.net
Fantasy Magazine
Fantasy and Sci-fi Lovin' Blog
Feminist SF - The Blog!
Feybound
The Fix
The Foghorn Review
Follow that Raven
Forbidden Planet
Frances Writes
From a Sci-Fi Standpoint
Fruitless Recursion
The Future Fire
G
The Galaxy Express
Galleycat
The Gamer Rat
Garbled Signals
Genre Reviews
Graeme's Fantasy Book Review
Grasping for the Wind
The Green Man Review
Gripping Books
H
Hasenpfeffer
Hero Complex
Highlander's Book Reviews
Horrorscope
The Hub Magazine
Hyperpat's Hyper Day
I
I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away The Ending
Ink and Keys
io9
J
K
L
Lair of the Undead Rat
League of Reluctant Adults
The Lensman's Children
Literary Escapism
M
Mad Hatter's Bookshelf and Book Review
Marooned: Science Fiction Books on Mars
MentatJack
Michele Lee's Book Love
Missions Unknown [Author and Artist Blog Devoted to SF/F/H in San Antonio]
The Mistress of Ancient Revelry
MIT Science Fiction Society
Monster Librarian
More Words, Deeper Hole
Mostly Harmless Books
Multi-Genre Fan
My Favourite Books
N
Neth Space
The New Book Review
NextRead
Nuketown
O
OF Blog of the Fallen
The Old Bat's Belfry
Only The Best SciFi/Fantasy
The Ostentatious Ogre
Outside of a Dog
P
Paranormality
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
Piaw's Blog
Post-Weird Thoughts
Publisher's Weekly
Q
R
Random Acts of Mediocrity
Realms of Speculative Fiction
Reading the Leaves
Reviewer X
Revolution SF
The Road Not Taken
Rob's Blog o' Stuff
Robots and Vamps
S
Sandstorm Reviews
Science Fiction and Fantasy Ethics
Science Fiction Times
ScifiChick
Sci-Fi Blog
SciFiGuy
Sci-Fi Fan Letter
The Sci-Fi Gene
Sci-Fi Songs [Musical Reviews]
Scifi UK Reviews
Sci Fi Wire
Self-Publishing Review
The Sequential Rat
Severian's Fantastic Worlds
SF Diplomat
SFFaudio
SFFMedia
SF Gospel
SFReader.com
SF Reviews.net
SF Revu
SF Signal
SF Site
SFF World's Book Reviews
Silver Reviews
Slice of SciFi
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Solar Flare
Speculative Fiction
Speculative Fiction Junkie
Speculative Horizons
The Specusphere
Spinebreakers
Spiral Galaxy Reviews
Spontaneous Derivation
Sporadic Book Reviews
Stainless Steel Droppings
Stella Matutina>
The Sudden Curve
The Sword Review
T
Tangent Online
Tehani Wessely
Temple Library Reviews
Tor.com [also a publisher]
True Science Fiction
U
V
Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic
Variety SF
W
Walker of Worlds
Wands and Worlds
Wanderings
The Wertzone
With Intent to Commit Horror
WJ Fantasy Reviews
The World in a Satin Bag
WriteBlack
X
Y
Z
Non-English Language
Cititor SF [Romanian, but with English Translation]
Elbakin.net [French]
Mythologica [French]
Foundation of Krantas [Chinese (traditional)]
The SF Commonwealth Office in Taiwan [Chinese with some English essays]
Yenchin's Lair [Chinese (traditional)]
Interstellar [Danish]
Ommadawn.dk [Danish]
Scifisiden [Danish]
Aguarras [Brazilian, Portuguese]
Fernando Trevisan [Brazilian, Portuguese]
Human 2.0 [Brazilian, Portuguese]
Life and Times of a Talkative Bookworm [Brazilian, Porteguese]
Ponto De Convergencia [Brazilian, Portuguese]
pós-estranho [Brazilian, Portuguese]
Skavis [Brazilian, Portuguese]
Fantasy Seiten [German, Deustche]
Fantasy Buch [German, Deustche]
Literaturschock [German, Deustche]
Welt der fantasy [German, Deustche]
Bibliotheka Phantastika [German, Deustche]
SF Basar [German, Deustche]
Phantastick News [German, Deustche]
X-zine [German, Deustche]
Buchwum [German, Deustche]
Phantastick Couch [German, Deustche]
Wetterspitze [German, Deustche]
Fantasy News [German, Deustche]
Fantasy Faszination [German, Deustche]
Fantasy Guide [German, Deustche]
Zwergen Reich [German, Deustche]
Fiction Fantasy [German, Deustche]
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Categories: Blogging
Done!
~Aidan
Posted by: Aidan from A Dribble of Ink at December 10, 2008 12:46 PM
Let the good times roll!
Posted by: John at December 10, 2008 8:44 PM
I'll put this up tomorrow.
Posted by: Theresa Lucas at December 11, 2008 2:31 AM
Added here.
Posted by: kev at December 11, 2008 12:17 PM
Done and Done.
John, you were mentioned on Galley Cat a terrific publishing industry blog!
Posted by: Rob B at December 11, 2008 2:39 PM
Rob- Saw that. Pretty Awesome huh? :)
Posted by: John at December 11, 2008 2:51 PM
Added here
Posted by: Charles Tan at December 11, 2008 3:48 PM
SF Site: http://www.sfsite.com
Silver Reviews: http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/reviews.html
The Fix: http://thefix-online.com/
Posted by: Steven Silver at December 11, 2008 4:53 PM
My question is: what about reviewer in language other than English ? Coz I'm French :o)
Posted by: Luigi at December 11, 2008 5:29 PM
Luigi - why not? We'll just make sure we mark your site as being in French. Some Canadians, Carribean Islanders, Africans, and of course, the French, will appreciate it. Heck - some Louisianans might like it.
Posted by: John at December 11, 2008 5:49 PM
Wow; John! This meme is making it onto big-time blogs! Congrats! I'll be doing this on Saturday morning.
Posted by: Tia at December 11, 2008 5:51 PM
Post on my review blog.
Posted by: Tonya at December 11, 2008 8:10 PM
What a brilliant idea. I love all the great new reads, including your own. Methinks I shall be busy for a bit.
Posted by: Smirking Revenge at December 11, 2008 9:59 PM
Cool! I added me, even though I do all sorts of books in addition to SF, fantasy and horror -- hope that's okay.
Posted by: Terry at December 11, 2008 10:02 PM
Added, although I do several different types of books.
Posted by: WriteBlack at December 11, 2008 11:10 PM
Hehe, as an added bonus, we all join in on this and our google page ranks are going to shoot up!
Thanks for doing this John.
Posted by: Mulluane at December 12, 2008 12:18 AM
John, thanks for this meme, it is a very nice idea.
I posted the meme on my blog and added a few blogs :)
Posted by: Dark Wolf at December 12, 2008 5:00 AM
On a side note, there's this blog that compiles The Book Bloggers but it's not limited to SF&F.
Posted by: Charles Tan at December 12, 2008 7:23 AM
WriteBlack and Terry - not a problem, I have been known to stray into other genres on occasion as well.
Charles- thanks for the link, however, I think we will shoot to stick with just SF/F. But for anyone looking to go out of genre, Charles' link is a good one.
Posted by: John at December 12, 2008 7:27 AM
added here!
Posted by: Anna at December 12, 2008 10:54 AM
My sff review blog is Outside of a Dog. (I don't post non-book-reviews there any more, which is why I'm just leaving a comment here.)
Posted by: Kate Nepveu at December 12, 2008 12:43 PM
Not a problem Kate, happy to add you.
Posted by: John at December 12, 2008 1:00 PM
Thanks!
Posted by: Kate Nepveu at December 12, 2008 1:42 PM
I've posted the list and linked back to you. Glad to be a part of it, nice work!
Posted by: Jay Franco at December 12, 2008 4:02 PM
SF Diplomat is defunct so you might want to remove it.
Posted by: Jonathan M at December 12, 2008 6:14 PM
Jonathan,
I know that there is no new material at SF Diplomat, but folks might want to check out your old stuff. Besides, they might want to see the new blog you've got.
Posted by: John at December 12, 2008 6:25 PM
Great idea! Added the Book Smugglers
Posted by: Ana at December 13, 2008 6:32 AM
Mine own of course:
Posted by: Paul at December 13, 2008 10:42 AM
Done.
Speculative Fiction
Posted by: Mike Ray at December 13, 2008 11:29 AM
Hi, wanted to add Genre Reviews to the list. Linked to this post from here.
Posted by: Anna at December 13, 2008 1:27 PM
It is incredible. So many blogs which I don't know so far. My holiday begins on 19th of December. Then I will start to discover....
Anyway this meme is phantastic.
Posted by: edifanob at December 13, 2008 2:17 PM
Thanks edifanob. We do aim to please here at GFTW. :)
Posted by: John at December 13, 2008 2:22 PM
Done - linked in here.
Posted by: Karen at December 13, 2008 5:08 PM
Hey John,
I'm not sure if I should add my blogs or not. I'm a librarian who specializes in readers' advisory (helping patrons find their next good book based on what they enjoyed before) so my blogs don't review books, I summarize them and talk about the appeal factors -- things about the story might appeal to a reader or turn him or her off. Its not as exacting as a review.
So I leave it up to you. Should I add them or not?
Posted by: Greg Fisher at December 13, 2008 8:15 PM
sure, go ahead. It's not like my reviews are much more than that either.
Posted by: John at December 13, 2008 8:48 PM
Hi,
thanks for the meme. I've posted here
please add The SF Commonwealth Office in Taiwan in the list, it is a Taiwan blog written in traditional Chinese with several longer English sf essays.
Posted by: Daneel Lynn at December 13, 2008 11:30 PM
Two more for you:
www.SpiralGalaxyReviews.com
www.FruitlessRecursion.com
Thanks for compiling this!
Posted by: Karen Burnham at December 13, 2008 11:38 PM
John, four more from Brazil:
P�s-Estranho [Brazilian, Portuguese]
Human 2.0 [Brazilian, Portuguese]
Fernando Trevisan [Brazilian, Portuguese]
Life and Times of a Talkative Bookworm [Brazilian, Portuguese]
Great job! Thank you!
Posted by: F�bio at December 14, 2008 9:41 AM
Here are a few for you. All of them are mine save for Mistress which is run by a fellow librarian.
The Lair of the Undead Rat (Sf/Fantasy Summaries)
...With Intent to Commit Horror (Horror/Dark Fantasy Summaries)
The Mistress of Ancient Revelry (Fantasy Summaries)
The Sequential Rat (Graphic Novels summaries) (Coming 2009)
The Gamer Rat (Sf/F/H Role Playing Games) (Coming 2009)
Thank you for all your work.
Posted by: Greg Fisher at December 14, 2008 11:05 AM
Three I'd love to see included:
http://youngadultsciencefiction.blogspot.com
http://sandstormreviews.blogspot.com
http://scififanletter.blogspot.com (Canada)
Posted by: Mulluane at December 14, 2008 11:58 AM
Hello,
I'm a friend of Daneel Lynn and also a SF/F reader blogger in Taiwan. The site is in traditional chinese.
Foundation of Krantas
http://blog.yam.com/krantas
Thanks very much! The list is really useful.
Posted by: Alan at December 14, 2008 12:30 PM
Posted by: Liz at December 14, 2008 1:47 PM
Hi, thanks for the list.
I'm a sf blogger from Taiwan and my site is in Traditional Chinese as well.
Yenchin's Lair
HTTP://BLOG.YAM.COM/SPIDEY
Posted by: Yenchin at December 14, 2008 8:50 PM
Great post!
Added: http://bittenbybooks.com
Paranormal Fiction Review Site
Beautiful Reads
http://beautifulreads.com/
Link to the post is:
http://bittenbybooks.com/?p=2991
Thanks!
Posted by: Rachel at December 14, 2008 9:26 PM
Rachel - Beautiful Reads has no content. Are you sure you gave me the right web address?
Posted by: John at December 15, 2008 7:19 AM
Awesome idea!
Posted by: Lisa at December 15, 2008 9:14 AM
Great idea. Have added to my site.
Posted by: Patrick Shepherd at December 16, 2008 12:47 PM
Hi
This my blog about Brazilian SF (in portuguese). The name is Ponto de Converg�ncia
www.romeumartins.blogspot.com
Thanks and congratulation for the great idea :-)
Posted by: Romeu Martins at December 16, 2008 4:33 PM
Thanks so much John :) !
And great idea to let foreign websites join as well !
Posted by: Luigi at December 17, 2008 4:34 AM
Luigi, you are welcome. But I wouldn't have thought of it without your suggestion. So I'm thanking you instead.
Posted by: John at December 17, 2008 7:23 AM
Hi!
I'm used to writing reviews for a Brazilian Portal of Art called Aguarr�s: www.aguarras.com.br In the book area I cover sci-fi, fantasy and mainstream, published or not in Portuguese.
I also maintain a site called Skavis where I post book covers and write my first impressions of the stories. (www.skavis.wordpress.com)
See ya! Eric.
Posted by: Eric Novello at December 17, 2008 10:40 AM
My blog, The Billion Light-year Bookshelf is also associated with a regular website by the same title, on which I collect reviews and essays, at www.billionlightyearbookshelf.com.
Posted by: Leigh Kimmel at December 17, 2008 7:00 PM
This was an uber-excellent idea!
And of course I've added it. I'm actually going to each site on the list and doing a "mini-review".
Posted by: steve davidson at December 19, 2008 7:26 PM
John, thank you for doing this meme. There are a group of us who are trying to promote the Science Fiction Romance genre, and every bit helps. Merry Christmas. Best wishes for the New Year.
Posted by: Frances Drake at December 24, 2008 11:59 PM
please add the following:
The Lensman's Children
http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/
SFReader
www.sfreader.com (more review site than blog, but you've already got several of those on there)
thanks
Steve
Posted by: steve davidson at January 2, 2009 8:06 AM
A couple more, in Danish:
http://www.ommadawn.dk/design2.php?fkt=tag&id=83
Focus: the good life. And as SF often is about the good life ... Old and new, long and short, texts and movies ...
http://scifisiden.dk/content.php?page=bookindex
Reviews of books. Several reviewers.
All sorts of stuff, including reviews.
Posted by: Lise A at January 2, 2009 1:42 PM
One more:
Gripping Books - http://grippingbooks.blogspot.com
Posted by: Maria at January 8, 2009 2:44 AM
you may want to check out the BBAW Directory: http://www.greencritter.com/bbaw/
Posted by: lys at January 8, 2009 9:16 AM
Added!
http://kingofthenerds.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/book-review-link-meme/
Posted by: Mike at January 8, 2009 12:48 PM
I added it to my blog today. Thanks for the listing.
Posted by: Jim Black at January 28, 2009 5:43 AM
This is a great resource. I found this from selfpublishingreview.com, and I'm glad I did. It is now reposted on my site. Thanks!
Posted by: John Garrett at May 22, 2009 5:33 PM





