• Interviews and Profiles:
  • At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Jay Lake, author of Escapement.
  • John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Marjorie M. Liu, author of The Iron Hunt.
  • Matt Staggs, taking a cue from Jeff VanderMeer's list of current favorite fantasists, interviews Kate Bernheimer.
  • The latest The Future And You podcast, hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, features author/physicist Catherine Asaro (Saga of the Skolian Empire).


• HarperCollins just released the first two books of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series in graphic novel form, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. [via Eos Books]


• A first edition of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles sold for $3,900.


• Peter Hodges gives a thoughtful look at Escapism vs. Art in Fiction: "Escapism has always been one of the more attractive aspects of reading, but our recognition of literature as "art" has been slipping lately..."


• Steven Francis Murphy talks about writing novels vs. writing short stories.


• Marginal Revolution offers Survival tips for when you time travel back to 1000 A.D. [via Dolenni Diddorol]


• Well Told Tales shares the new poster the Keanu Reeves version of The Day the Earth Stood Still and wonders about remake overload.


• SciFi Scanner offers some sagely advice on How DC Can Use Superman: The Man of Steel to Catch Up to Marvel.


• io9 lists 12 Books You Should Read at the Beach This Summer which contains both new books and classics.

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