• EDGE-Boston interviews Bruce McAllister, author of the newly released collection The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories.


• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Matthew Hughes, author of The Spiral Labyrinth and Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner, authors of Fleet of Worlds (a prequel to Niven's Ringworld.


• SFFWorld interviews Brian Ruckley (Winterbirth) and Karen Miller (The Awakened Mage).


• Here are 10 Reasons why Jeff VanderMeer rarely reads young adult fiction. "8 - Turning 40 soon and can't identify with anyone who has good knees and all their teeth."


• Here's Paul Kincaid on What Won't Sell: "Today, of course, there is evidence to support the claim that short stories don't sell: the steady decline in sales of the sf magazines. Except that the long slow death of the sf magazine has been going on for as long as I've been reading science fiction, yet they have lasted far longer and sold far more than magazines in any other genre."


• Here's L.E. Modesitt's take on F&SF short fiction. "There are some gifted short fiction writers in F&SF, and so far as I know, not a one of them can make a living purely off short fiction."


• It's award nomination season and Ellen Datlow is urging folks to nominate the short fiction they love.


• The Sf Commonwealth Office in Taiwan offers an interesting Reading List of History and Criticism, from a 2003 science fiction course.


• James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here are Part 29 and Part 30.


• Borders Books has a prelimary website up. [via Juno Books]


• The website for I Am Legend is now live.


• Pixar is developing a John Carter of Mars trilogy.


• Over at SciFi Scanner, Kevin Maher lists 11 SciFi Songs He Loves, M. Faust objects to that lists exclusion of William Shatner's "Rocket Man" and so Kevin counters with a video of Chris Elliott singing "Rocket Man". Game set and match.


• Alan Haft lists 6 Things 'Star Wars' Teaches Us About Our Money.


• Best of the Web Buzz lists 31 Best Movie Monsters.


• Cinematical lists Great Low-Budget Sci-Fi.


• Keep yourself from looking like Jabba the Hutt - start yourself on The Jedi Workout!


• For a mere $800, you can own your very own animated life-size Princess Leia monument. Sorry..metal bikini not included -- which is to say that she's in her white robe, perv. [via TheForce.net]

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