• Interviews:
  • Adventures in Scifi Publishing talks with Robert Buettner, author of Orphan's Journey.
  • Physicality of Words interviews Peter Watts (Blindsight).
  • The Book Swede interviews Karen Miller, author of Empress, the first book in the Godspeaker trilogy.
  • Bibliophile Stalker interviews Edward Champion of The Bat Segundo Show.
  • Edward Champion of The Bat Segundo Show, meanwhile, interviews Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku, who is promoting his new non-fiction book Physics of the Impossible.
  • The Fix interviews Sean Wallace, executive editor for Wildside Press and founder and senior editor of Prime Books.
  • SCI FI Weekly interviews Paolo Bacigalupi, author of Pump Six and Other Stories.
  • SciFi Wire profiles John G. Hemry, author of The Lost Fleet: Courageous.
  • I don't speak German, but when this SPEX interview with Cory Doctorow is Google-translated to English, hilarity ensues: " I can through the Internet, people around the world with my books. That I could not, I would have my books only on paper." Spoken truer words never were.


• Free Fiction:
  • Jonathan Strahan points us to some free fiction by Gwyneth Jones, all from her Buonarotti sequence:
    • "TheTombWife"
    • "Saving Tiamaat"
    • "The Voyage Out"
    • "TheFulcrum"
  • Free Audio Fiction: Time Traveler Show has Mike Resnick reading "A Most Unusual Greyhound" and the Hugo-nominated "Distant Replay".


• J.C. Hutchins, creator of the hugely successful 7th Son fiction podcast trilogy, has another ambitious project on the horizon: 7th Son: Obsidian, which "brings together the best storytellers in podcasting for one project, with one mission -- to tell tales that shock, move, and entertain you ... and reveal moments in the 7th Son universe that were merely hinted at in the original trilogy." Contributors include Scott Sigler, Michael A. Stackpole, Tee Morris and others.


• Neal Asher (the Polity books) points us to this comprehensive Polity Encyclopedia (PDF link). [via Peripheral Vision]


• The website for the annual Best American Fantasy anthology announces the 2009 editions' guest Editor: Kevin Brockmeier.


• Mental Floss asks: What Books Can't You Put Down?


• Get Tuckerized! You can win a chance to have your name appear in a science fiction story in Michael A. Burstein's upcoming collection from Apex publishing, I Remember the Future.


• From the world of publishing:
  • "Publisher Dorling Kindersley claims to have printed the most environmentally conscious series of books in the world" by using vegetable inks, 100% recycled card and 'environmentally friendly' glues."
  • Ever wonder why it takes so long to get a book published? One word: Marketing.


• Real Science: Mike Brotherton looks at teleportation and Karl Schroeder looks for the invisibility of advanced civilizations.


• Wired shines some light on God's Failed Sci-Fi Epic.


• SF Universe lists The Top 5 Giant Bug Movies.


• File Under: "If only that time and energy could have been used for the powers of good". Check out this Minas Tirith Matchstick Model. [via Neatorama]


• I mostly approve of Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin' Blog's list of Movies in the Fantasy & Sci-Fi Hall of Shame, but to be fair to Xanadu, Olivia Newton John was a hottie.


• Things I Wish I Had Thought Of: Comparing cute, cuddly E.T. to the alien in John Carpenter's The Thing.


• I'm thinkin' Scotty would approve of this bottle opener in the shape of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

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