• Cover Pr0n:
  • John Picacio shows off his stunning cover for Mark Chadbourn's upcoming book Age of Misrule: The Darkest Hour. [via Pyr-o-mania]
  • Amazon has finally posted the cover for The Year's Best Science Fiction #26 edited by Gardner Dozois. (The Table of Contents post has been updated.)


• Interviews and profiles:
  • @SCI FI Wire: Walter Jon Williams (This Is Not a Game). The book also has a website.
  • @The Dragon Page: David J. Williams (The Mirrored Heavens and The Burning Skies).


• Free Fiction:
  • The Nebula-nominated "Trophy Wives" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman. [The free fiction links on our 2008 Nebula Awards post has been updated.]
  • Audio fiction: @EscapePod: "This Is How It Feels" by Ian Creasey.
  • @Tor.com: "We Haven't Got There Yet" by Harry Turtledove.


• Tim Waggoner on The Making of Nekropolis. [via Angry Robot Books]


• Mike Brotherton tells us why the human batteries from The Matrix wouldn't work.


• Nancy Jane Moore reveals things she didn't say in this week's Mind Meld about taboos in genre fiction.


• The topic of spoilers is jointly discussed as Tor and Suvudu.


• Lou Antonelli remembers paperback spin-racks.


• Dark Roasted Blend looks at Body Snatchers and other Alien Pods.


• Dan Abnett signs with Angry Robot to deliver three original novels: a "ribald historical fantasy" titled Triumph and two books set in the same future-war setting. (Embedded sends a journalist into the frontline of a distant planetary war chipped inside the head of a combat veteran.)


• John Scalzi looks at musicians in SciFi Films.


• io9 lists The 10 Greatest Science Fiction TV Show Endings.


• @The Great Geek Manual: Top 10 Signs you've Watched too much BattleStar Galactica.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday March 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM
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