• Interviews & Profiles:
  • SciFiDimensions podcast-interviews Lou Anders (Fast Forward 2).
  • Tobias Buckell is interviewed at Cult Pop and BookSpotCentral. He talks about Sly Mongoose, his Halo novel, his short story collection Tides From the New Worlds, and METAtropilis.
  • Orson Scott Card talks about Ender in Exile.
  • Robert J. Sawyer is interviewed in a video from the World Fantasy Convention.


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Feedbooks: A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany (1910).
  • @Manybooks: "The Raid on the Termites" by Paul Ernst (1932).@Big Pulp: "Save Tomorrow With A Smiley" by James Bloomer.
  • Audio fiction: "The Trouble with Superman" by Chris Roberson, via Matthew Bey and Steve Wilson of Space Squid fame.


• "When is a mainstream publisher also an anti-authoritarian propagandist? When it publishes science fiction," says Katherine Mangu-Ward in her profile of sf publisher Tor and their Libertarian titles.


• Over at Tor, Jane Lindskold talks about The Problem of Series: "Fantasy and SF series are too often an excuse for writing one novel that spans several volumes. Unlike Mysteries or Thrillers, which have a set goal, Fantasy and SF series can go on and on without closure. Why did this become acceptable?"


• Over at Sci Fi Songs, John Anealio has posted his original electronic instrumental song inspired by The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.


• Borders has enabled Google Preview on their site. [via Publishers Weekly]


• Geeks are Sexy (duh) posts a gallery of H.R. Gieger's Alien in Lego.


• Lists:
  • @Omnivoracious: The Best Science Books of 2008.
  • Lisa Paitz Spindler lists 13 Extrasolar Planets.
  • @Vectortuts: 10 Lessons From Comic-book Illustration Legends.
  • 8 of the 10 movie releases that can save Blu-ray are genre titles.

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