• SCI FI Wire profiles R.M. Meluch, author of Strength and Honor


• Suvudu has 5 Questions for Ken Scholes (Lamentation).


• David Louis Edelman is interviewed by Fast Forward and Post-Weird Thoughts.


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Subterranean Press: "Thousandth Night" by Alastair Reynolds, read by Sam A. Mowry. [via SFFaudio]
    • Zombie Astronaut has two Ray Bradbury stories, "There Will Come Soft Rains" and "Usher II" read by Leonard Nimoy.
    • @The Classic Tales Podcast: "The Goblins and the Gravedigger" by Charles Dickens, read by B. J.
    • @Pseudopod: "Blood, Snow, and Sparrows" by Joshua Alan Doetsch, read by Ben Phillips.
    • @The Time Traveler: "Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas" by R.A. Lafferty, read by Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard. [via SFFaudio]
  • @Mindflights: "Gaming Real Life" by K.C. Shaw.
  • @Afterburn SF: "Ismay's Run" by Joanne Hall.
  • "Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire" is a new, weekly web serial by Abner Senires about a pair of guns-for-hire trying to eke out a living in the 2042 in the California Free State metroplex of Bay City.


• Jo Walton reviews C.J. Cherry's Cyteen.


• Paul Cornell looks at Marvel Essentials.


• Forest J. Ackerman did coin the term "sci-fi" and not Robert A. Heinlein, as detailed at File 770


• Cheryl Morgan On Genre and Literature: "The real issue here is confusion of tropes with genre. There is a (perhaps understandable) tendency for people to assume that if a book is set in the future, has spaceships in it, or whatever, then it must be a generic science fiction novel with a hackneyed plot and poorly defined characters. Not only is this an unwarranted generalization, it also misses the fact that science fiction itself is not a genre." [via Jay Lake]


• David Gerrold's long-suppressed gay Star Trek episode finally sees the light of day today. [via io9]


• Jeff Somers shares a random musing about Battlestar Galactica and romance in sci-fi. [via Orbit]


• Happy Birthday to Best Science Fiction Stories!


• Ellen Datlow is looking for a "strong, catchy, evocative, serious title" for her upcoming horror anthology.


• Lou Anders really likes Mark Hamill's Joker.

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