If Jon Fasman’s review of Riddley Walker (posted in the Backlist section today — follow the fiery photo of nuclear destruction) puts you in a sci-fi mood, I recommend the Guardian’s list of the best books in the genre. (In a note he sent me this morning, Jon wrote, “my point was that even if [Riddley Walker] is science fiction, it still is literature. I’m not arguing for its removal from the former category; I’m arguing that the category boundary is altogether undesirable.”) Hoban’s novel is included on the Guardian’s list, which comes in three parts — first here, then here, and finally here. It’s actually a subset of the paper’s longer list of 1,000 novels. Good for browsing…