• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Whatever: Christopher Barzak (The Love We Share Without Knowing).
  • @The Nebula Awards: Kij Johnson (The Fox Woman and Fudoki).
  • @Eldritch-Infernal: Thomas Ligotti (The Nightmare Factory). [via Bibliophile Stalker]
  • @Suvudu: Five Questions for David Farland (The Wyrmling Horde).
  • Star Wars Books interviews Karen Miller (Clone Wars: Wild Space).
  • @The Sci-Fi Genre Review: Five Questions for Barbara Romo
  • @Fusion Despatches: Charles Tan (co-editor of Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler).
  • @BlogCritics: Orson Scott Card (The Lost Gate).
  • @Bibliophile Stalker: Pat St-Denis of Pat's Fantasy Hotlist.
  • @SF universe: John Noble (Fringe's crazy Walter Bishop -- still the best character on television)


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Tor.com: The Buried Pyramid by Jane Lindskold.
  • @Monsters and Critics: a free download of Six Bad Things (in glorious PDF) by Charlie Huston. (OK, not sf/f but Huston's done great stuff with his Joe Pitt vampire series, so there.) [via Charlie Huston]
  • @Grantbridge Street & other misadventures: Comic book scans of The Trial of Adam Link, adapted from the sequel to Eando Binder's I, Robot, first seen in Weird Science-Fantasy # 28.
  • The Daedalus Transfer by Huw Langridge is free online with a new look.
  • @QD2:"Moon Monster" by Jack Anthony (1940).
  • @Fantasy Magazine: "When I Was A Witch" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1910).
  • @The Scientific Indian: "21 Minutes" by Rahul Jaisheel. [via Variety SF]
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Transmissions From Beyond: "Pseudo Tokyo" by Jennifer Linnaea, read by Ben Phillips.
    • Zombie Astronaut has the NBC University Theater version of 1984, along with more Deep Night and Johnny Chase: Secret Agent Of Space.
    • @Maria Lectrix: Part 4 ,the conclusion, of "The Risk Profession" by Donald E. Westlake, read by Maureen O'Brien.


• School Library Journal's list of the Best Books of 2008 includes Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, Coraline: Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman adapt. & illus. by P. Craig Russell, Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan, and Nation by Terry Pratchett. [via SF Canada]


• Cover Pr0n: Planet of Mystery by Terry Bisson, available from PS Publishing.


• Kathryn Cramer, Ellen Datlow and Ian Randal Strock


• have posted photos from this week's SFWA Authors & Editors Party


• Cory Doctorow: willing science fiction into fact. "The activist-novelist explains to Damien G Walter how he hopes his writing will change tomorrow's world."


• Mike Brotherton weighs in on the "Science Fiction" vs. "SciFi" debate.


• Pyr has posted their forthcoming sf/f books.


• Meanwhile, Pyr Editor Lou Anders is dreaming of a Batmobile Christmas. Anyone else think that BatBeetle reminds them of Courageous Cat's car?


• The website Star Wars: A New Heap, or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Death Star highlights connections between architecture, design, movie SF and art. [via Futurismic via Ken MacLeod]


• TheForce.Net notes the option of purchasing a personalized edition Star Wars: Millennium Falcon by James Luceno. Customization includes a personalized photo and printed dedication.


• Andrew Wheeler knows what authors really mean when they talk about genre boundaries.


• Fantasy Magazine asks: Why Don't Readers Comment On Fiction?


• Peggy at Biology in Science Fiction is compiling response links to her Ask a Scienceblogger meme.


• Lindsay Wagner knows what went wrong with Bionic Woman remake.


• Empire points us to this cool (but brief) Terminator Salvation Promo.


• Lists:
  • Holy Hancock , Batman! @SciFi Scanner lists 5 Original Movie Superheroes That Will Smith Should Study.
  • The Los Angeles Times lists 12 upcoming remakes of Hollywood sci-fi classics.
  • @The Crotchety Old Fan: The Top Ten Collectible SF Magazines.
  • Discover Magazine lists 5 Offbeat Ideas For The Next Doctor Who. Jason Bateman as the Doctor? Awesome.

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