• INTERVIEWS & PROFILES:
  • Frederik Pohl remembers Cyril M. Kornbluth.
  • Jo Walton interviews Lois McMaster Bujold.
  • @Bibliophile Stalker: Paul Di Filippo.


• REVIEWS:
  • Paul DiFilippo reviews Supermen! By Greg Sadowski.
  • Lou Anders revisits Batman.
  • Joseph Mallozzi reviews Poe - 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow.


• FREE FICTION [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Subterranean Online: "The Ascendant" by Ted Kosmatka.
  • @PulpGen: "The Chalice of Circe" by Willard Hawkins. (1950)
  • @Strange Horizons:"As He Was" by Kit St. Germain.
  • @Fantasy Magazine: "Early Winter, Near Jenli Village" by J. Kathleen Cheney.
  • The 52nd issue of Raygun Revival is out with fiction by Andy Heizeler, L. S. King, Justin R. Macumber, Keanan Brand, Jodi MacArthur, Martin Turton, Darrell B Nelson, and M. Keaton.


• EVENTS:
  • Ellen Datlow tells us that "The Shirley Jackson Awards will hold an online auction of a rare book to benefit the award. Peter Schneider has kindly donated a first edition of the 1899 publication of The Alleged Haunting of B----- House. Persons may bid on this item from Tuesday, April 21 through midnight on Thursday, April 30, 2009."
  • Pinchbottom, a science-fiction themed post-apocalyptic burlesque show (!), will be playing Off-Broadway in May 2009.


• Alan Cambell has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.


• @7Touch: Science Fiction Throughout the Ages and Into the Future: "The evolution of science fiction movies over the last 50 years can be attributed to much more than the advances in special effects and movie-making technology...the biggest influence on scifi during this time period are the events that occurred in the real world."


• Theodore Sturgeon's solution to the Battle of the Sexes: "I can't buy Sturgeon's premise that [sexism] is the primary source of all the ills in the human world, or the suggestion that if that problem could be eliminated, utopia would be the natural result."


• Travel By Thought has a lengthy but thoughtful response to Ted Gioia's essay 'Notes on Conceptual Fiction' "because it represents bad criticism, even if its heart is in the right place."


• Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire is a comic with "a noir sensibility".


• Orbit US has just hired Jack Womack as Publicity Manager, working on both Orbit and Yen books. Congratulations to both. A win-win!


• @NME: Why JG Ballard Is Rock's Favorite Novelist


• Where Do You Go With 40k Readers? Answers from John Scalzi, Tobias Buckell, and Patrick Neilson Hayden.


• There are not enough of these in the world: Perry Rhodan cover gallery (Part 1) at Bear Alley.


• Real Science: How To Deflect Asteroids And Save Earth.


• LISTS:
  • @Fantasy Magazine: Top Ten Miscastings in Fantasy Movies.
  • @TheTorchOnline: Fantasy's Ten Coolest Moments in Fantasy. [via The World in the Satin Bag]
  • Can you guess which genre titles make the list of The Top 10 most stolen books? [via Lit Lists]

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