• Interviews and profiles:
  • @Reality Break Podcast: Bruce Sterling (The Caryatids).
  • @io9: Neal Stephenson (Anathem).
  • @Baen: The 1st in a series of military sf interviews, Tom Kratman (A Desert Called Peace).
  • @SciFi Wire : Dave Duncan (Ill Met in the Arena) and Gary Phillips and Christopher Chambers, editors of The Darker Mask.
  • Tobias Buckell (Sly Mongoose) gets some interview love at The Nebula Awards and Crucial Pop.
  • Television producer (and avid sf book reader/promoter) Joseph Mallozi has a great lineup of author guests in the coming weeks:
    • Week of September 15th: Justina Robson (Keeping It Real).
    • Week of September 22nd: Glen Cook The Black Company.
    • Week of September 29th: Sarah Langan (The Missing).
    • Week of October 27th: John Twelve Hawks (The Traveler)
    • Week of November 3rd: David Anthony Durham (Acacia).
    • Week of November 10th: Brian Lumley Necroscope (I've been wanting to read this one for years).


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • Mary Robinette Kowal reads he story "Evil Robot Monkey". [via SFFaudio]
  • @Manybooks: The Crack of Doom by Robert Cromie (1895).
  • Audio Fiction@ PodCastle "It Takes a Town" by Stephen V. Ramey, read by Bill Ruhsam.
  • @Byzarium:
    • "The Mistman" by Michael John Grist.
    • "An Occurrence at Oakpost Sundries" by Jacob P. Silvia.


• Now blogging: Artists Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. [via Irene Gallo]


• Cover Pr0n: Prime Books shows off the covers of their Years Best anthologies for SF & Fantasy.


• Heinlein's Fan Mail Solution: A form letter. [via Cynical-C]


• Speaking of Heinlein, Jerry Pournelle reveals that Baen will release an eBook version of Take Back Your Government, Heinlein's nonfiction book about practical politics. [via File 770, who offers more juicy Heinlein links]


• Cory Doctorow has a new collection of essays called Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.


• "The difficulty of writing near-future sf has to do with the complexity of the world and the way that things develop in a very unpredictable way...," says Jetse de Vries.


• Colleen Lindsay gives the "cold, hard economic facts of the bookstore signing". [via Andrew Wheeler]


• The Fly: The Opera has a website. Heeelp meee..... [via File 770]


• GeekAlerts shows us an $18,000 Darth Vader Bronze Statue.


• Lists:
  • @io9: The Greatest Concept Album Adaptations of Classic Scifi Tales.
  • @Eyrie of the Arch-Anarch: Essential Science Fiction and Fantasy for Libertarians.
  • @Popular Mechanics: The Best Neal Stephenson Characters.
  • @Topless Robot: The 10 Most Annoying Post-Apocalyptic Worlds.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday September 10, 2008 at 12:10 AM
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