• Pyr has posted the first 3 chapters of Killswitch by Joel Shepherd.


• J.K. Rowling has completed a set of handwritten fairy tales she mentioned in her last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There will be just seven volumes of The Tales of Beedle the Bard and they will not be published. Take that, fans!


• The latest Tor podcast has David Gerrold talking about his book, The Martian Child. (See SF Signal review.) The movie based on the book stars John Cusack and opens today.


• James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here's Part 33.


• Adventures in Reading points out that Fantasy Magazine has made the shift to an online magazine.


• Canadians can now buy books at U.S. list prices.


• SF Author Paolo Bacigalupi looks at the short fiction market with a series of posts: Why are the "Big Three" Dying?, Marketing In Meatspace, and Online Marketing.


• Ed Champion also shares some short fiction-ish links.


• Now posted: Ansible 244 for November 2007.


• I'm still loving Avalanche Blog, written by a game development company's employees who post their always awesome illustartions. Here's the latest reason why.


• Steampunk goes mainstream with the Newsweek article Steampunking Technology. [via No Fear of the Future]


• SciFi Chick lists Taglines from 13 Geektastic Shows.


• Line 10: Go to Big Dumb Object; Line 1020: Follow link to Crave's list of Top ten evil computers. Line 30: end;

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday November 02, 2007 at 12:22 AM
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