• Free fiction: "The Man Who Evolved" by Edmond Hamilton. [via Free SF Reader]


• Here's the reason Paul McAuley writes short fiction. "I do it because I like to play with ideas - not just the ideas that form the story's backbone, but with ideas about structure and form, voice and pace. It's a form of play."


• John Joseph Adams is working on a reprint zombie anthology and is interested in story suggestions at the Zombie Fiction Database.


• Justine Larbalestier looks at adult impressions of young adult fiction: "...reviews written by adults are close to collapsing under the weight of their insane expectations about what YA books should do and rigid ideas about what teenagers are like."


• The Swivet examines why mass market originals get no respect.


• Over at Amazon blog, Jeff VanderMeer talks about the Best American Fantasy anthology and Shriek: The Movie.


• James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here's Part 25.


• Don Sakers has posted the latest chapter of his online book, Hunt for the Dymalon Cygnet, the latest in his Scattered World series.


• Rick Kleffel launches The Agony Column Daily News podcast, the first episode of which features Gavin Grant, Karen Joy Fowler, and Kelly Link talking about Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.


• There's a new blog-like website devoted to The Hugo Awards.


• SciFi Weekly let's the cast of Stargate SG:1 look back on 10 years of the show.


• Colors Pretty lists the best and worst TV SciFi opening sequences. [via Freyburg]


• Talk about Beauty and the Beast...Michael Bay offers links to Wonder Woman and Cthulhu.

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