• Marvel Comics is offering the full, free digital comic Ender's Game: Battle School 1. [via Tor]


• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @SCI FI Wire: Nick Gevers (Extraordinary Engines) and Andrew Stanton (director of WALL*E).
  • @Bibliophile Stalker: Walter Jon Williams (Implied Spaces).
  • @Fantasy Book Critic: Tobias S. Buckell.
  • The Agony Column podcast-interviews Cecilia Holland.
  • Author Mur Lafferty podcast-interviews Benjamin Rosenbaum.
  • Ghost in the Machine, hosted by author Gail Z. Martin, podcast-interviews Adam Roberts and David Talon.
  • @Neth Space: Daryl Gregory (Pandemonium ).


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Manybooks: Mind + Body by Aaron Dunlap (2008).
  • @Fantasy Magazine: "The Summoning of Spirits Too Far From Home" by Deb Taber.
  • @Strange Horizons: "Return" (part 1 of 2) by Eric Vogt.
  • @Polu Texni: "The Slaying of Winter", Part III by Vera Nazarian.
  • Audio Fiction @Maria Lectrix: Part 1 of "The Risk Profession" by Donald E. Westlake, read by Maureen O'Brien.


• Jane Lindskold tries defining young adult: "...how to define the line between what is Young Adult (YA) fiction and what is not?"


• SpaceWesterns has posted 22nd Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction (Part I).


• Recetly posted: David Langford's Ansible #256 for November 2008.


• At Bookslut, Paul Kincaid looks at The Genre at the End of Time: "Science fiction has always been dying. That's how it reinvents itself."


• Smallville humor at Great White Snark: The Supporting Characters Who Couldn't Handle the Pressure. Or the Head Trauma.


• At Mighty God King, there's an awesome gallery of literal sf/f book covers. For what it's worth I foresaw Eragon as "Star Wars Minus X-Wings Plus Dragons". But wait! There's More! [via Keith R.A. DeCandido]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday November 04, 2008 at 12:05 AM
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