A View From Outside

The latest Strange Horizons has a fascinating (if all-too-brief) interview/conversation between/with Japanese translator/reviewer/editor/writer Yoshio Kobayashi and temporary expat wunderkind Christopher Barzak. Some very interesting perspectives on that whole slipstream thing, the distinctions between humanism/technologism, and the ways in which speculative literature is adapting, or failing to. Lots of food for thought.