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• Gene Wolfe's next book, An Evil Guest is billed as "Lovecraft mets Blade Runner." [via Claw of the Conciliator]


• At Time magazine Lev Grossman & Matt Selman remind us about The Return of Neal Stephenson, specifically via his upcoming book Anathem. [sent via Fred K.]


• The Art Department gives us a sneak peek at John Scalzi's repackaged Agent to the Stars with it's shiny new cover.


• Now posted: Dave Langford's Ansible 249.


• John C. Wright has posted the first four chapters of Null-A Continuum.


• The World in the Satin Bag interviews Paul Melko.


• L.E. Modesitt, Jr. is thinking about science fiction predictions: "...the failings of later SF writers to anticipate the future rest on three factors..."


• On for thewriters: E.E. Knight talks about creating compelling characters.


• The latest issue of Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly features fiction from Robert Reed, A.M. Dellamonica, Ann Leckie and others.


• The latest issue of Clarkesworld Magazine features fiction from Jeffrey Ford and Jeremiah Sturgill, an article by Tim Pratt, Jeff VanderMeer's interview with K.J. Bishop, and a spectacular "Floating Fish" cover by artist Mats Minnhagen.


• Speaking of VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer will be writing a column for io9 about SF/fantastic art. Congratulations, Ann & Jeff!


• Topless Robot is making me hungry. Check out this Battle of Hoth wedding cake. Mmmmm...Imperial walkers...


• The April Fool's Award for Funniest Prank goes to....Edward Champion's Return of the Return of the Reluctant for this oh-so-funny post called Harriet Klausner Gives 3-Star Amazon Review. Could you imaging such a thing? Out of all the thousands of reviews she's done, how would you like to be the author who wrote a book to which Klausner gave only 3 stars. I'm just sayin'...

Share: | Posted by John on Wednesday April 02, 2008 - 12:20 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2008 SF Signal

From E.E. Knight: "Of course there's more to character creation than up-dos and/or sack-shaving."
Truer words have rarely been spoken (in polite company).

Posted by General X on Wednesday April 02, 2008 at 4:38 AM

Whoops. Every once in a while our prelims end up on Amazon. Here is the revised EVIL GUEST cover.

Posted by Irene on Wednesday April 02, 2008 at 9:16 AM

Thanks, Irene.

We use script to display our images, so when the Amazon image is updated this post will pull it down. For now, it's interesting to see the evolution of the cover - as much as two data points can be considered as such.

Posted by John on Wednesday April 02, 2008 at 10:55 AM