Fast Forward interviews author Bud Sparhawk, author of the very awesome "Bright Red Star" (reviewed here).
SciFiDimensions podcast-interviews M. M. Buckner (Watermind).
Genreville asks publicists: What Do You Think of Book Trailers? Responses come from William Schafer (Subterranean Press), Gavin Grant (Small Beer Press), Jill Maxick (Prometheus Books and Pyr), Vera Nazarian (Norilana Books), and others.
James Enge talks about how the closing of the American frontier gave rise to 20th Century Sword & Planet, and how the accomplishments of the woman's movements now gives rise to urban fantasy. [via Lou Anders]
Jonathan Strahan talks about the books he's looking forward to: Part one & Part two.
At Wet Asphalt, Matt Cheney and Eric Rosenfield discuss the world of critical writing about science fiction. "...the problem as I see it is that science fiction was an interesting publishing phenomenon of the mid-20th century, and most of the forces that created and nurtured that phenomenon have dissipated, metamorphosed, and disappeared, leaving most of the SF of today to be little more than a reiteration of what was done in the '50s." Meanwhile, Nial Harrison responds: "...I do somewhat resent the implication that those not trained in the ways of criticism have no useful contributions to make to critical debate, and I would have thought that attracting people with different sorts of mind to literary studies would be all to the good." Good comments follow Niall's response.