• Interviews and Profiles:
  • SciFi Wire profiles John Meaney, author of Bone Song.
  • Bookgasm interviews Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, editors of the upcoming anthology Steampunk.
  • Editor Jonathan Strahan interviews Tricia Sullivan, who contributes a story to his anthology The Starry Rift
  • The latest Tor Podcast features John Scalzi and David Lubar about "literary weenies, stuffed spaceships, and only-children".


• Free Fiction: Space Westerns is serializing "A Man Called Mister Brown" by A.R. Yngve.


• Scott Edelman has the scoop on the career retrospective collection The Worlds of Jack Williamson: A Centennial Tribute to be published by Hafner Press. [via SF Scope]


• Artist Bob Eggleton looks at the evolution of his dinosaur artwork.


• Meanwhile, John Picacio shows us some of the preliminary artwork for Robert Silverberg's Son of Man reprint.


• Did you know there is a connection between J.G. Ballard and children's television?


• Andrew Wheeler sez J.K. Rowling is wrong regarding her recent legal actions against Harry Potter secondary works.


• Dan Ronco says a new Golden Age of Science Fiction is approaching.


• John Clute review The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton: "So it is good to think we can skip those parts of this introductory volume which seem almost rope-a-dope, as though the author were fending off any pretense he was telling a story until he managed to find out what it was; and that we can skip the punch-drunk I-could-have-been-a-contender bits too, where the tale is finally begun but with so exiguous a loquacity that the content drowns in flannel, much of it consisting of name-check infodumps which reintroduce the reader to interchangeable quasi-immortal heroes and heroines and villains from Peter F. Hamilton's previous sequence--Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained--whose overall venue and macro-story the new sequence re-enters a thousand or so years later, in order, eventually, we assume, to trump it." Yes, I've said that many times.


• Blog of the Day: Zombie Daily, which features a daily zombie drawing by artist Rob Sacchetto.


• SciFi Jungle lists Top 10 Science Fiction Movie Comedies. What, no Waterworld? Hi-yo!


• If Thundercats ever looked like this, I might still be watching it.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday April 16, 2008 at 12:16 AM
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