• Free Fiction:
  • Fantasy Book Spot offers "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls" by Nancy Kress. [via Locus Online]
  • ManyBooks.net has Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton (1923) and
  • ManyBooks.net also has The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton (1962).
  • Cosmos has "Not Enough Stars in the Night" by Brendan DuBois (2008). [via Locus Online]


• Interviews and Profiles:
  • At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Matthew Hughes, author of Template.
  • The Los Angeles Times interviews Joss Whedon.
  • The Dragon Page podcast-interviews L.E. Modesitt, Jr, author of Viewpoints Critical. [via SFFaudio]
  • Grasping for the Wind interviews Scott Mackay, author of Tides, Phytosphere, and Omega Sol.


• Solaris previews the cool Bob Eggleton cover art for an upcoming Brian Lumley book.


• Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the recent KGB reading with Ekaterina Sedia (The Secret History of Moscow) and Jack O'Connell (The Resurrectionist).


• Kate Elliot joins Beyond Reality's June discussion to talk about her book The King's Dragon.


• The Guardian looks at why do vampire novels have such lasting appeal: "...the reason the vampire novel will continue to endure is because words have the power to capture and sustain the allure and mystique that surrounds them in a way that films, despite their more visceral properties of sound and image, do not."


• Sir Arthur C. Clarke and William Gibson make the list of Top 50 Tech Visionaries. [via Shadowrunning]


• Michael Blumlein, author of The Healer, has a website. [via Pyr-o-mania]


• At Solar Flare, Eoghann says critics should stop slamming book for not being original, it's the execution that matters.


• George Takei has announced his intention to marry his partner, Brad Altman.


• SciFi Scanner's latest SciFi Dept. looks at the weirdness that is Fantastic Planet.


• Another big screen version of Flash Gordon is in the works. (Ah-Aaaaah!)


• Den of Geek lists The 7 very best Star Wars parodies ever! [via TheForce.Net]


• Wired lists Five Gadgets That Will Make You a Superhero.

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