Sue Burke (who has a nifty new novel about killer house plants) on translating and Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life.”

Thanx to Tor.com.

Gary K. Wolfe on being an sf critic

Thanx to File 770

Having somewhat convincingly portrayed a successful businessperson on the tube, Dolt45 now wishes to play a Third World dictator, complete with mine’s-bigger-than-yours weapons display and treason charges for those who don’t applaud sufficiently when El Supremo speaks. Even now his aides are trying to dissuade him from borrowing Sheriff Clarke’s collection of CrackerJack prizes to look really spiff as the tanks roll by.