• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles S.M. Stirling, author of In the Courts of the Crimson Kings.


• UK SF Book News interviews Joe Abercrombie (the The First Law trilogy).


• The Guardian interviews Terry Pratchett about Alzheimer's, his books, and the movie adaptation of The Colour of Magic. [via Grasping for the Wind]


• Also check out the trailer for The Colour of Magic.


• Gary Westfahl's essay Tunnel Vision and the Unfarmed Sky: Columbia, and the Dreams of Science Fiction, Five Years Later discusses the space program. And the Mundanes say....


• Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net:
  • "The Premiere" by Richard Sabia (1959).
  • "The Great Potlatch Riots" by Allen Kim Lang (1959).


• Random House has published a spoiler for Brisingr, the 3rd book in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance trilogy.


• Solaris will be publishing Heart of Veridon by Tim Akers.


• Tobias Buckell briefs us on The Novel Synopsis Project, where authors submit the proposals they used to get their books published.


• /dev/null/kevin lists The 7 Most Annoying Sci-Fi Kids. No, Wesley Crusher is not #1...but he does make the list.


• Kevin Maher serves up another fun SciFi Dept: A Children's Guide to the Apocalypse, a "definitive instructional video for children on how to survive with minimal death and dismemberment in a post-apocalyptic future."


• Two words: Lego Futurama.

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