• Cover Pr0n: Snowbooks shares the awesome cover of The Osiris Ritual by George Mann, the sequel to the steampunky The Affinity Bridge (also awesomely be-covered).


• Speaking of steampunk, check out The Galaxy Express who proclaims that Steampunk Is The New Black. Lots of steampunk titles to explore...(Bonus: features an interview with The Swivet's Colleen Lindsay!)


• The World in the Satin Bag interviews Tobias S. Buckell (author of Sly Mongoose, which now has a MySpace page).


• Strange Horizons asks: "Who Killed Thomas M. Disch?"


• Meanwhile, Texas Best Grok asks: What's Wrong with Greg Egan?


• Michael Cassutt develops the Delta Quotient which lets you know what kind of sci-fi you're watching or reading: "Being able to measure the DQ isn't just a writer's tool or an academic exercise. It's a way of gauging your own reaction to something that looks like sci-fi (it's got robots and spaceships), but somehow doesn't feel like it."


• One for the scientists (...Looks at Peggy...): The Anthropology of Star Trek.


• Free Fiction:
  • Subterranean Press has just posted the last chapter of Mike Resnick's 'Kilimanjaro", the follow-up to his award-winning Kirinyaga stories
  • @Strange Horizons: "Cowboy Angel" by Samantha Cope (Part 2).
  • Audio fiction @PodCastle: "The Fable of the Tyrannosaurus Rex" by Peter S. Beagle, Read by Stephen Eley.
  • Free Excerpts @ Pyr: The Stormcaller: Book One of the Twilight Reign by Tom Lloyd and Going Under by Justina Robson.


• Lists:
  • Several sf/f characters make The Telegraph's list of The 50 greatest villains in literature. [via Lit Lists]
  • @Weird Photo Reports: 10 Amazing Old Pics from Science Fiction World. (Mostly pulp covers.)
  • Lynn Viehl lists 25 reasons to keep writing.
  • @Tor: 5 Things I Don't Want to See in the New Season of Heroes.
  • @Topless Robot: The 10 Villains Who Deserved Better
  • @Digital Spy: Top 10 Star Wars Games.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday September 23, 2008 at 12:05 AM
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