The latest issue of Clarkesworld Magazine (#24) features fiction from Cat Rambo and Eric M. Witchey; a non-fiction article by Alethea Kontis; an interview with Richard K. Morgan; an audio version of Cat Rambo's story. The cool artwork for this magazine continues with "Into the Depths" by Patrick Reilly.
Free music: John Anealio is back with another free SciFi song called "Merithyn's Promise", an acoustic guitar solo inspired by Elizabeth Haydon's Requiem For The Sun. Nice.
Interviews and Profiles:
The Agony Column has part 2 of an interview with Clive Barker.
@Davebrendon's Fantasy & Sci-Fi Weblog: Jo Graham (Black Ships).
The Fix examines the perennial proclamation of The End of Science Fiction: "...there are five big arguments for a bleak view of the genre's prospects that certainly merit consideration."
Edward Champion reviews Matter by Iain M. Banks: "In an Iain M. Banks novel, you will find sour antiheroes sweet-talking corpulent cannibal kings, erratic robot drones so caught up in lending a helping hand that they overlook the telltale traces of emotional breakdown within those they serve, and a febrile zeal for blowing things up which suggests that Banks isn't so much an author of bawdy and exciting adventures as he is a giddy eight-year-old with an elaborate train set scattered across a football field." If I had nickel for every time I heard that...