• Dark Roasted Blend interviews Jeff VanderMeer (Shriek: An Afterword) and also includes some very weird but wonderful illustrations. "I think a really good writer doesn't show you your reflection in the mirror--a really good writer puts you in an alien place with strange people and either makes them familiar, makes you realize they're no different than you, or blows the back of your skull away by not allowing you to escape someone else's reality."


• The SFWA has reprinted a letter from Ursula K. Le Guin which takes issue with Cory Doctorow's posting of Le Guin's short comic piece "On Serious Literature".


• S. M. Duke shares a journal entry for a literature class that addresses the SF-as-Literature/Books-are-Dying perennials: "I think the problem isn't that the novel is dying, because in reality, it's not, but rather that the rigid and sometimes rather close-minded idea of what constitutes as true literature is no longer something that any significant majority of people are interested in."


• TGPO lists The 3 Worst Science Fiction Movie Inventions. (Short version: Computer interface without instructions, Talking Computers, and The Ray Gun/Laser Rifle/Blaster/Phaser.)


• Ben Bova asks: What if phenomena aren't really natural? "Are there some questions, some problems, to which we will never be able to find an answer, no matter how hard we strive, because the matter is beyond our powers of comprehension?"


• The most recent episode of Boing Boing TV is an homage to Blade Runner.


• BBC's 7th Dimension is re-airing an audio version William Gibson's Burning Chrome on October 18th. [via SFF Audio]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday October 14, 2007 at 12:05 AM
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