Linkspam, 11/9/12 Edition

Jeremy Brett as Dracula. Because WHY THE HELL NOT? Backdrop by Edward Gorey. I may swoon.

A bit light again this week–this time due to the election, the DMV, and the day job eating my life.

• Omni Magazine is online! Woo! I have such fond memories of reading this when I was younger.
• Why We Need Diversity in YA Fiction Summary of a panel on this topic at the World Fantasy Convention held this past weekend in Toronto.
• The Games Media Must Renew the Trust of Its Audience If you think things are bad in book review land, you need to read this. This is something else altogether.
• The Unsympathetic Character Revisited Liz McCausland’s fantastic post digging more into unsympathetic characters with lots of George Eliot. After reading this, I tweeted about how I disliked Causabon from Middlemarch which brought out a whole bunch of Causabon sympathizers from the woodwork. I had no idea.
  
• Help Revitalize Books of Wonder! Fundraiser to help out the iconic NYC children’s bookstore make some much needed upgrades to their space.
• Hippies Wander Into Lions’ Den, Maul Lions The nearly-always-wonderful Ta-Nehesi Coates pretty much sums up my feelings about the election results much better than I ever could.
• RT Book Reviews Announces Their SF/F Reviewers’ Choice Award Nominees! A little bittersweet–these are the last nominations I’ll be involved with as Regina was nice enough to ask me for some input even though she totally did not have to.
• Another Twilight Fan Fic Gets a Publishing Deal Sigh.
• There Was A Country: Chinua Achebe’s Long-Awaited Memoir of Biafra This sounds like an absolutely fascinating book.
• Ken Liu’s “Paper Menagerie” This story made me cry all the tears. Definitely worthy of all the awards.
• Reading Dune, My Junior High Survival Guide “I will not fear, fear is the mind-killer…”
• Why the 2012 World Fantasy Awards are a Triumph Lavie Tidhar’s Osama won best novel–it was first published by PS Publishing, a small UK publisher of SF/F/H. It’s not often that books from small presses win awards such as this one–and small presses are often more willing to take chances on books that push the edges of genre.
• Brilliance Beyond the Grave Two last stories from Ray Bradbury to be published.