• Grasping for the Wind interviews John Joseph Adams (Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse). “…post-apocalyptic fiction seems to be part of the zeitgeist right now. I mean, you’ve got Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road not only winning the Pulitzer Prize, but appearing as an Oprah Book Club selection! If that’s not a sign of the apocalypse, I don’t know what is.”
  • This I Believe has Robert A. Heinlein reading his essay Our Noble, Essential Decency. “I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb–this animal barely up from the apes–will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets–to the stars and beyond–carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.” [via Locus Online]
  • Penguin continues its look at the sub-genres of speculative fiction with this post on Military SF.
  • Here’s a 2006 Guardian article beginning a series on how to read a book. [via Hipster Book Club]
  • Real Science: Hey! Who the heck squashed my solar system?
  • Orbit books is posting The Science Fiction and Fantasy Twelve Days of Christmas, one post at a time.

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