I’ve been doing very little writing lately (and obviously I won’t manage ten posts this month) but I wanted to check in with a couple of interesting links:

• Gary Westfahl on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 series, and
• Abigail Nussbaum on The Hobbit and its relation to The Lord of the Rings.

I read these essays within a day of each other and realized that both were doing the same thing: looking at the worldviews and assumptions of the first books in two familiar SF/fantasy series, and then examining how those assumptions changed as the authors wrote later books in the series.