• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @Rolling Stone: Joss Whedon. [via Whedonesque]
  • @SCI FI Wire: James Morrow (Shambling Towards Hiroshima).


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Tor.com: "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction" by Jo Walton
  • At the autor's website: "Secret Histories: Jake Carmody, 1961" by Chris Roberson.
  • The Terra Incognita sf podcast features previously published Australian science fiction. [via Articulate]
  • The latest Lone Star Stories features fiction from Samantha Henderson, Jay Lake, and Jeremy Adam Smith; and poetry from Shira Lipkin, Sonya Taaffe, and Jo Walton.


• Dark Horse will be publishing The Last Dragon, a graphic novel by Jane Yolen painted by Rebecca Guay: "Two hundred years ago, humans drove the last of the dragons from the islands of May. For two hundred years, they have gone about their lives, fishing and farming, never expecting the great wyrms to return. But now, the last of the dragons has risen, and the islanders must once again band together in the face of a threat greater than any their peaceful lives have prepared them to battle."


• At Locus Roundtable, Gary K. Wolfe and Russell Letson sum up 2008 -- but don't call it a "Best of" list!


• Nancy Kress is not a big fan of The New Yorker's latest science fiction story.


• Dream Cheeky sells a USB-powered VoIP/Skype phone that resembles the classic Star Trek Communicators. [via Tim!]


• John Markley of the blog Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic responds to James Enge's Black Gate post about readers and asks: What aspects of fiction are the primary sources of enjoyment, and what aspects are secondary or in the realm of peripheral details or nitpicking?


• Lists:
  • Apex lists The Best Short Fiction You're Missing Out On.
  • Times Online lists 20 sequels that were better than the original. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
  • @Topless Robot: The 12 Best UFOs That Ever Invaded Movie Screens
  • Wired lists 5 Actresses Who Could Replace Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft.
  • For the writers: Best Colleges Online lists The Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs. SF Signal makes the list! Woot!

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