• The latest issue of Clarkesworld Magazine has fiction from Stephen Graham Jones and Alexander Lumans; non-fiction from Richard Bowes; Tobias Buckell interviewing Catherynne M. Valente (available Monday); and really cool cover art by Serj Iulian.


• Apex is having a "Buy a Book, Get a Magazine" sales special in February: For every book you purchase, you get a free copy of Apex Digest. [via Apex blog]


• During the month of February, InterGalactic Medicine Show is going to make one story from each of their first 4 four issues freely available online - Two stories will be set free on February 1st, and two more on February 15th. [via Lit Soup]


• Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: "The Helpful Robots" by Robert J. Shea (1957) and "Agnosis" by Darren R. Hawkins (2008).


• Orbit Books has made the latest Iain M. Banks Culture novel, Matter, available for pre-release download on iTunes UK.


• Jay Lake is collecting representative titles in sf/f sub-genres.


• The Wall Street Journal profiles the late David Gemmell. [via Swivet]


• UK SF Book News interviews Sarah Ash (Tracing the Shadow). [also via Swivet]


• Illusion interviews Mindy Klasky: "My favorite science fiction involves the sociological effects of science on humankind."


• The Telegraph profiles J.G. Ballard.


• Authors reviewing other books: Eric Brown (Helix) reviews Halting State by Charles Stross, Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber, and Debatable Space by Philip Palmer.


• Star Wars is nothing if not an endless source of humor. Here's a long, but funny radio call-in piece with some guy who likes to dress up and role play as Darth Vader. "It's not 'Darth' Vader, it's LORD Vader! Calling him 'Darth' is like calling him 'jerk!'" [via Fazed]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday February 02, 2008 at 1:17 AM
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