• Time magazine's Lev Grossman looks at the "new" Tolkien novel The Children of Húrin


• At Subterranean Press, Mike Resnick talks about his creation, Lucifer Jones.


• SF Diplomat answers a couple of remarks about genre reviewing.


• Tower.com interviews John Scalzi, author of The Last Colony.


• Douglas E. Cohen interviews Jay Lake about editing. [via SFBC Blog]


• The Sci Phi Show podcast-interviews Cory Doctorow.


• In the article Swords vs. lightsabers, Kristin Thompson notes that the current popularity of fantasy films was once the held by sci-fi cinema.


• Jamie Rubin examines why he writes science fiction. "Nearly 15 years have passed and I am still writing science fiction and I am proud of it."


• The Space Review continues profiling the life of a grandmaster. Read Heinlein's Ghost, Part 1 and Part 2.


• The Oxford University Press blog looks at Expletives & Profanity in Science Fiction (an excerpt from Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction edited by Jeff Prucher).


• Chris Roberson has The Airship Link-o-the-Week: Zeppy the pedal-powered airship. I'll put this one list of things I want, right after my jetpack.

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