- Over at SciFi Scanner, John Scalzi asks: What Are the New SciFi Classics?
- Free Fiction:
- Interviews:
- Joseph Malozzi has his book club picks for July: Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (sf), The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (fantasy), and The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns.
- Great Idea of the Week: Mindy Klasky has created the totally free Book Groups Wiki, where book groups can enter meeting info and authors can enter information about their availability.
- A New Chapter in Bookselling: Social Networking Sites.
- Norilana Books is publishing Vera Nazarian's The Duke in His Castle, a "dark, lush, erotic fantasy novella in the vein of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast".
- Speaking of whom: Nebula-nominated author Vera Nazarian has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
- The nominees for the Janusz A. Zajdel Awards, honoring the most prestigious Polish science fiction, have been announced. (Thanks, Pawel!)
- Wired offers a gallery of the Best Robot Love Stories, From Wall-E to Weird Science.
- QuasarDragon lists Top Ten Films Available For Free Online (near the bottom of the post).
- Regularly Expressing lists 13 Things Learned From Reading Sci-Fi.
- The Onion A.V. Club lists A Summer Reading List for Nerds. [via Locus Online]
- Several genre titles made Cool Tools' list of Life-Changing Books.
- Digital Plague author Jeff Somers lists Top Ten Reasons My Dystopian Vision of The Future Is Better Than Your Dystopian Vision Of The Future.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday June 27, 2008 at 12:11 AM
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