• Salon interviews Harlan Ellison: “I have, I suppose, a very peculiar love-hate relationship with the human race. As a concept, the human race seems to be a very workable idea. When you get down to the individuals, most of them need a ball-peen hammer to the middle of their forehead to make them move even as a slow pony.”
  • Simon Haynes (author of the Hal Spacejock series) Paul Melko (author of Sungularity’s Ring)
  • Robert J. Sawyer posts a short interview he did regarding his book Mindscan.
  • At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Simon R. Green, author of The Unnatural Inquirer.
  • Cory Doctorow is podcasting the story he co-wrote with Benjamin Rosenbaum: “True Names” (an homage to Vernor Vinge’s famous story).
  • Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “The Woman Who Vowed” by Ellison Harding (1908).
  • The first 3 chapters of Nathalie Mallet’s Arabian Nights-esque fantasy, The Princes of the Golden Cage, are now available as MP3 downloads. [via Night Shade Books]
  • Holy Manga, Batman!
  • Real Science: Bad Astronomy Blog lists Ten things you don’t know about the Milky Way Galaxy.
  • Headline of the day: Killer Tomatoes Ripe For Remake?
  • The adaptation of the final Harry Potter book will be released as two films.
  • SciFi Scanner tells us that Wolfgang Peterson is set to direct Uprising, a movie whose plit sounds suspiciously close to Battlefield Earth. I read Battlefield Earth over a decade ago and I remember it being one of those books that was pretty good for the first half (until the antagonist died) and thereafter was page-by-page struggle to decide whether to stop reading it (when the plot moved from Terran rebellion against alien overlords to business dealing with shark bankers).

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