• Suvudu has 5 Questions for Alan Campbell, author of Scar Night and Iron Angel.


• Mike Brotherton interviews Jim C. Hines, author of The Stepsister Scheme.


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • The Winter 2009 issue of Subterranan Online has begun posting fiction, starting with "Clinic" by Kris Nelscott.
  • @Project Gutenberg: "A Fine Fix" by R. C. Noll (1955).
  • @Best SF Presents: "Bean There" by Jack Skillingstead (2005).
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @The Internet Archive: Thuvia Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, read by Skippy.
    • @Beam Me Up: "The Evangelist" by Colin Davies, read by Paul Cole.


• The National Space Society and Baen Books announce the 3rd annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest. [via Fred K.]


• Go ahead...ask Jo Walton anything. Anything at all...


• Lou Antonelli has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.


• Ten Ton Hammer asks: Can the sci-fi genre succeed in gaming? when they interview Trion's Rob Hill and Kevin Beardslee, two developers working on their science fiction-based, SCI FI Channel MMO. [via Massively]


• In a 1998 Star Wars vs. Star Trek essays, How to Analyze Sci-Fi, stardestroyer.net offers up a comparison between "the literary approach" and "the scientific approach" to SciFi.


• Galactic Binder lists Top 20 Reasons to Love Lego Star Wars.

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