• Shurtugal interviews Christopher Paolini (Brisingr ). [via Suvudu]


• Bibliophile Stalker interviews Jay Lake (Escapement).


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Fantasy Magazine: "The Plagiarist" by Alex Rose.
  • @Strange Horizons: "Nine Sundays in a Row" by Kris Dikeman.
  • @Hairy Green Eyeball: "The Shadow On the Sky" by August Derleth (1931) in scanned JPEGS
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  • Abyss & Apex has new fiction by Ruth Nestvold, Cat Rambo, Patrick Thomas, and S.K. Richards.
  • @Manybooks: "The Day Time Stopped Moving" by Bradner Buckner (1956).
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Librivox: Short Story Collection. Vol 034 featuring stories by Poe, Dunsany, Irving, and others, genre and mundane, read by many readers.
    • "The Creature from Cleveland Depths" by Fritz Leiber (Part 1).
    • And Listening Booth has a collection of Halloween appropriate Old Time Radio shows including the infamous Mercury Theater version of "War of the Words."


• Free Non-Fiction: Robert J. Sawyer points us to this free download of The Atlas of Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin


• Ursula K. Le Guin will never sell another book to Hollywood again. [via SciFi Scanner]


• Pyr Editor Lou Anders is guest-blogging at The Swivet. In his first post, he gives some writerly advice: Don't Be Good; Be Brilliant.


• Gail Z. Martin is guest-blogging at When Gravity Fails, where she talks about her latest book Dark Haven


• In his review of Strange Horizons, Jason Sanford says science fiction is written for sf science fiction insiders.


• Guardian Books Blog sez: Walter M. Miller Jr's A Canticle for Leibowitz is a direct ancestor of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. When I reviewed The Road, I said "Nothing new for fans of post-apocalyptic sf, but a very good read nonetheless."


• BookNinja has an awesome post about "popularized" book covers.


• io9 looks at posthumous sf novels.


• B&N launches a social networking site. Anyone in a hurry to go register?


• In case simply liking SciFi isn't enough to get the babes, how about trying your hand at Star Wars and Star Trek origami? [via TheForce.Net]


• Fake Science: New Scientist lists 7 of the greatest scientific hoaxes.


• Because it needs no introduction: Slave Leia Pillow Fight! [via The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent]

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