• The UK SF Book News Network talks to Tim Lebbon, author of the British Fantasy Award-winning novel, Dusk. "I always had quite a strong idea of what I wanted to write about, and also a determination that creatures and other 'created' things would come out of my own head, not be nicked from other books. There are no orcs, elves or dragons in Dusk because someone else made them up."


• Over at NPR, Rick Kleffel audio-interviews Austin Grossman (Soon I will Be Invincible). [via Locus Online]


• Edward Champion jumps in the Death-of-the-Short-Story waters with his post Whither the Short Story?


• Mark Chadbourn says Richard Dawkins Is Killing SF. "...the quality of SF is arguably at an all-time high, a new golden age of speculative fiction. I can name several authors whose books will undoubtedly be read in decades to come, and I'm sure you can name many more. Fantasy - and I'm stating this as charitably as I can - has not produced so many quality works."


• S. M. Duke discusses The Literary Nazis (or Why the Literary Academia Hates SF). (Short version: science, simplicity and lack of thought, failure, they just don't get it and they're hypocrites.)


• New/Updated at Gutenberg: Greylorn by Keith Laumer.


• New at ManyBooks.net: "The Stoker and the Stars" by Algis Budrys, "Gravity's Angel" by Tom Maddox and "Toy Shop" by Harry Harrison.


• The Daily Record interviews Christopher Eccleston. "I think a younger audience is much more exacting than adults actually... they're much fiercer in their attachment once they've taken you to your heart, but they have better detectors than us." [via Outpost Gallifrey]


• AfterEllen lists The Top 11 Lesbian/Bi Moments in Sci Fi and Fantasy. They are mostly from TV...not that there's anything wrong with that.


• George Lucas is (surprise, surprise) looking for a few good writers to work on his Star Wars television show.


• It had to happen: Star Wars zombies!


• Cory Doctorow apologizes to Ursula K. Le Guin after he posted Le Guin's short comic piece "On Serious Literature" in its entirety without her permission.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday October 15, 2007 at 12:27 AM
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