• Amazon blog interviews Matt Ruff, author of Bad Monkeys. (Also: Matt Ruff has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.)


• Here's a video of Terry Brooks talking about The Elves of Cintra, second book in the Genesis of Shannara trilogy. There's also a written interview.


• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Margo Lanagan, author of Red Spikes.


• From The Globe and Mail: China loves Robert J. Sawyer, author of Rollback.


• SFF World interviews Scott Lynch, author of Red Seas under Red Skies. "I like to have it both ways -- beauty and grandeur and mystery piled on top of a grounded sense of the muck and hardships of actual life, especially in this sort of archaic age."


• As per Publisher's Weekly, science fiction author/editor Charles N. Brown (co-founder and editor of Locus magazine) won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards. [via Jonathan Strahan]


• Matt Cheney rounds up all the linkity goodness to be had on Christopher Barzak Day.


• Wyrdsmiths looks at Why Books Fail.


• Blue Moon Rising points us to the fantastic (and amusing) artwork of Michael Dashow.


• Science fiction writer and environmental consultant Nina Munteanu looks at the possible dystopian outcomes regarding the unethical use of AI in her post Cyborgs & Evolution.


• Elvis has left the filming... Bruce Campbell will not be part of Bubba Nosferatu, sequel to Bubba Ho-Tep.

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