• Orbit Books has posted the first chapter of Devices and Desires by K.J. Parker.


• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Kristine Smith, author of Endgame, the latest and final book in the series that began with Code of Conduct.


• Stanislaw Lem calls Philip K. Dick A Visionary Among the Charlatans: "...fans are attracted by the worst in Dick--the typical dash of American SF, reaching to the stars, and the headlong pace of action moving from one surprise to the next--but they hold it against him that, instead of unraveling puzzles, he leaves the reader at the end on the battlefield, enveloped in the aura of a mystery as grotesque as it is strange."


• Locus Online has excerpts from Locus magazine's October Issue interviews with Bruce Sterling ("These days I'm like a gypsy scholar figure.") and Walter Jon Williams ("SF has changed dramatically in the last half-century.")


• The Guardian Book Blog has an appreciation of J.G. Ballard. "To put it simply: Ballard understands that modernity has left us to our own basal needs - and we're not coping too well."


• Jed Hartman is talking about anti-technological sf. "I'm sometimes surprised by how often sf stories are all about the evils of technology, and how much better unmodified humans are than technologically aided humans."


• Anyone else getting stoked over the new I Am Legend trailer? I loved the book and although this seems to differ greatly from that, the core concept is there. And it looks cool.


• New at ThinkGeek: Battling Remote Control Daleks!


• Star Wars humor: Optical Popitude points us to a deleted dinner scene from The Empire Strikes Back.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday October 26, 2007 at 12:15 AM
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