• Elbakin.net interviews Alan Campbell, author of Scar Night. [via Pat's Fantasy Hotlist]


• The Agony Column interviews Jonathan Lethem.


• Locus online has interview excerpts from Kim Stanley Robinson and Mary Rosenblum.


• Jo Walton (Farthing) has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.


• L.E. Modesitt weighs in on E-Books and Print Books.


• The Phnom Penh Post interviews Geoff Ryman, author of the Hugo-nominated "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter".


• Heavy Reading: Popular Perceptions and Political Economy in the Contrived World of Harry Potter.


• Light Reading: The Star Wars Chibi Alphabet by Joe Wight. [via Club Jade]


• Pete Tzinski looks again at The Pantheon of Super-Heroes. "One of the trickiest thing to balance in a super-hero comic book is keeping your character toeing the fine line between being mythic and being human."


• Wikipedia has a list of books that won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.


• Liz Williams has sold a new book to Macmillan titled Winterstrike, set in the same 'Martian' solar system as Banner of Souls but hundreds of years earlier. It's scheduled for publication in August 2008.


• Free fiction: "Europe" (PDF) by Alexander Irvine. [via author]


• LA Times Books launches a monthly web-only SF column by Ed Park, this week's covering Brian Aldiss (Harm) and Nick Mamatas (Under My Roof).


• Monday YouTube: A Family Guy/Star Wars compilation. [via ShowMeSciFi]

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