- Kazuo Ishiguro goes into the history of his novel Never Let Me Go and compares it to his latest novel Klara and the Sun, at Goodreads. (1 May)
- E. Lily Yu’s personal ‘A Love Letter to Libraries’ at Uncanny Magazine. (4 May)
- Gary K. Wolfe reviews E. Lily Yu’s first non-genre novel On Fragile Waves and assesses the minimal fantasy therein, at Locus. (10 May)
- “Is there such a thing as Indian science fiction?” Sumit Bardhan assesses Suparno Banerjee’s Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity, at Scroll.in. (16 May)
- Sean Wilsey in conversation with Haruki Murakami, at InsideHook. (25 May)
- Kerry Dodd reviews the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Doomed City, at the BSFA Review. (29 May)
Category: Kazuo Ishiguro
ICYMI: Links round-up, January–March 2021
- Desirée Custers on Arab and African Science Fiction: (re)claiming the past, reflecting on the present, and envisioning the future. (26 February)
- Ziya Jones interviews Zeyn Joukhadar about her new novel The Thirty Names of Night: “It’s Powerful to Let People Love You with a Name that You Chose for Yourself”, at Hazlitt. (2 March)
- Okuma Yuichiro interviews Liu Cixin on Humanity, Crisis, and Changes at Chinese Literature Today. (5 March)
- Aliette de Bodard at LocusMag: excerpt from the interview ‘Where Is It Written?’ (15 March)
- Ng Yi-Sheng at Facebook on Zen Cho’s 2020 novella The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water ... some useful commentary. (21 March)
- Emad El-Din Aysha interviews Dr. Csicsery-Ronay Istvan on The Golden Mean Between Local and Global SF, at The Levant News. (25 March)
- Marc de Faoite’s review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun at The Vibes.com. (27 March 2021)
- Jaideep Unudurti reviews the latest tome from J. Furcifer Bhairav and Rakesh Khanna, Blaft Publications’ encyclopedic Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India at Open Magazine. (26 March)
- The latest Strange Horizons issue is a Palestinian Special. (29 March)
Arrivals: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
Things You Don’t Expect to Find in Your Local Supermarket, #267. Just published, discounted from £20 to £11, and straight to the top of the TBR pile.