• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Jay Lake, author of Mainspring.


• The Agony Column podcast-interviews Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible.


• Wired interviews Kim Stanley Robinson, who talks about our planet's future.


• SFF World interviews Gail Z. Martin, author of The Summoner.


• Yatterings interviews Neal Asher.


• Lewis Shiner (Glimpses) has begun posting all of his short fiction online for free under a Creative Commons license. [via BoingBoing]


• New/Updated on Gutenberg: "Breaking Point" by James E. Gunn.


• Now posted: Ansible #240, July 2007. Be sure to read Ursula LeGuin's piece on Serious Literature.


• It's official: scientists say You Can't Travel Back in Time. Looks like we're stuck with the Star Wars preuquels we have, folks. Oh, while you're there, vote for your favorite time travel tale.


• Michael Moorcock looks a politics in science fiction in his 1977 essay Starship Stormtroopers, which was reprinted in his 1984 collection The Opium General and Other Stories.


• Daniel Abraham has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.


• Fashion designer Marc Ecko has developed a new, limited-edition collection of Star Wars-inspired apparel under license from Lucasfilm Ltd.


• Heroes and Lost have been nopminated for Emmy Awards for Best Drama.


• From Cracked.com: The 7 Most Useless Transformers Ever.

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