• Free Fiction:
  • Via Eos' "Browse Inside" feature, you can read the first 3 stories from Year's Best SF 13 edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer:
    • "Baby Doll" by Johanna Sinisalo
    • "Aristotle OS" by Tony Ballantyne
    • "The Last American" by John Kessel
  • Lewis Shiner has posted a PDF version of his novel Black & White. He has also posted a ton of his short fiction works.


• Interviews and Profiles:
  • Mike Brotherton interviews Nancy Kress (Dogs).
  • Forbidden Planet interviews Alan Moore. [via Ecstatic Days]
  • Waterstones profiles Terry Pratchett. [via "Weez Arps"]
  • SFX interviews Stephen Baxter (Flood).
  • Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews R. Scott Bakker.
  • The Agony Column has part 2 of an interview with Whitley Strieber( 2012: The War for Souls).
  • Hayden Christensen talks about The Clone Wars. No, really...
  • IGN interviews Star Trek: TOS writer D.C. Fontana. [via Trek Today]


• Locus Online has posts Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column from Locus Magazine's June 2008 examining three classic novels by Algis Budrys.


• Tobias S. Buckell is writing Halo: The Cole Protocol.


• John Joseph Adams is editing an anthology of Dystopian fiction slated for a 2010 release. In the meantime, you can contribute story suggestion in the Dystopian Fiction Database.


• Lisa Tuttle has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. [via George R.R. Martin]


• Foreign Cover Pr0n: E.E. knight shows off the cover art for the Czech version of Way of the Wolf.


• Subterranean Press has the scoop on how you can win a chance to appear in A Neil Gaiman book.


• Real Science: Trio of super-Earths found around Milky Way star: "European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well. They said their findings, presented at a conference in France, suggest that Earth-like planets may be very common."


• Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist, asks: What Color is Your Alien?


• SpaceWesterns is holding another poetry contest.


• Flickr Set: Star Wars ABC.


• SciFi Scanner is holding a Superhero Face-Off.


• Telewatcher lists The 12 Greatest Science Fiction Series of All Time.


• SciIF has posted their reader-voted lists of Top Things You Must Read, Watch And Do To Save The World.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday June 17, 2008 at 12:32 AM
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