• Free fiction:
  • Recently-free fiction at ManyBooks.net: "The Penal Cluster" by Randall Garrett (1957) [Giggles uncontrollably]
  • F&SF points us to free fiction from Daryl Gregory: "Free, and Clear," "The Continuing Adventures of Rocket Boy," and "In the Wheels".
  • Shadow Unit episode 1x05, "Ballistic," co-authored by Sarah Monette, Amanda Downum, Emma Bull, and Elizabeth Bear.
  • "Small Magic" by Jay Lake.
• Interviews and Profiles:
  • USA Today profiles Michael and Jamie Bishop, as does St. Petersburg Times. [via Locus Online]
  • A Dribble of Ink interviews Michael Swanwick: "I'm the only one who can write certain stories which I very much want to read."
  • Fast Forward has posted the video of their interview with Catherine Asaro (The Saga of the Skolian Empire).
  • David Brin is looking towards the future: "We live at a time when change is the foremost, most reliable thing that we know will happen. The most reliable prediction anyone can make is that things won't stay the same."
  • Fantasy Book Critic interviews Kate Elliott (Shadow Gate).


• Jed Hartman is wondering about the best methods for writing made-up words in science fiction and fantasy and why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.


• After reading Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Casey Samulski asks: Can Space Opera be Cyberpunk?


• Matt Jarpe comes to his senses about time travel stories when he is visited by his future self. That'll teach him.


• Speaking of which, Gerry Canavan takes us back to a page of Time Travel Tropes. (I'm looking at you, Jarpe.)


• Alex Holden has built this awesome-looking Steampunk Dalek. [via Neatorama]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday April 14, 2008 at 12:05 AM
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