• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @BookSpotCentral: Hal Duncan (Escape from Hell!): "...I grew up on all those old SF novels that were 150 pages max. I love that stuff, but it's hard to find a book these days that's not at least twice that length."
  • Locus Magazine has posted and interview excerpt with editor Gardner Dozois: "Although SF is leaking into mainstream fiction and mainstream is leaking back, you can still tell whether or not something is core science fiction, if you care to make that distinction in the first place."


• Free Fiction [courtesy of the ever-vigilant QuasarDragon]
  • @Book View cafe, Pati Nagle is serializing her story "Glad Yule", a fantasy novella with strong romantic elements which originally appeared in An Armory of Swords edited by Fred Saberhagen.
  • Ray Gun Revival #48 features fiction by Scott Davis, Mike Duran, D. Thomas Mooers, R. J. Walker Miller, M. Keaton, Keanan Brand, Sean T. M. Stiennon, and John M. Whalen.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @PodCastle: "Bury the Dead" by Ann Leckie, read by Tina Connolly
    • @Dunesteef: "Überman" by John Medaille.


• Over at SciFi Scanner, Mary Robinette Kowal asks Why Do Fantasy Movies Always Kill the Parents?


• S.M. Duke is talking about Werewolves and Misconceptions About Science Fiction: "Since when have science fiction and fantasy been at all synonymous?"


• Over at SF Gospel, Gabriel Mckee names his choices for the Asimov's and Analog readers' polls.


• There's a discussion on Asimov's forum about The Best SF Novels of 2008.


• One for the writers: The Importance of Story-World [PDF link] by Gary Reynolds takes an introductory look at story-world creation.


• The Washington Post ran a contest for the worst ending of a novel. Here are the "winners". [via Edward Willett (who lists his own endings) via Scott Edelman]


• io9 lists Ten of the Kinkiest Science Fiction Books You'll Ever Read. (Note to self: move Saturn's Children higher up in the reading pile.)

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