• Interviews & Profiles:
  • LA Times profiles sf legend Robert Silverberg.
  • Mary Robinette Kowal interviews Felix Gilman . [via Charles Tan]
  • @Omnivoracious: Melissa Marr.
  • @Whatever: Michael Z. Williamson.


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • Issue five of Steampunk Magazine is available for free PDF download, featuring fiction and other steampunk.
  • @Kat and Mouse: Part Sixteen of "Easy Money" by Abner Senires.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • 9 Audio Book Short Stories at Barnes & Noble (includes Joe hill and Kurt Vonnegut).
    • @StarShipSofa: "Wings" by James Lovegrove.
    • @Beam Me Up: "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang, read by Ray Sizemore.
    • @PodCastle: "Return of the Warrior" by Laird Long, read by Alasdair Stuart
    • @Pseudopod: "Come to My Arms, My Beamish Boy" by Douglas F. Warrick, read by Phil Rossi.
    • @Escape Pod:
      • "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson, read by Diane Severson.
      • "Chump Change" by Pete Butler, read by Jake Squid.


• John W. Campbell's Who Goes There? (basis for the scifi film The Thing) is now back in print, also in MP3.


• A 1998 article from The New York Review of Science Fiction: "Racism and Science Fiction" by Samuel R. Delany: "Racism for me has always appeared to be first and foremost a system, largely supported by material and economic conditions at work in a field of social traditions." [via Elizabeth Bear]


• Cover Pr0n: Pyr Books shows off Stephan Martiniere's wonderful cover for Kay Kenyon's forthcoming Prince of Storms, the final volume in Kay Kenyon's The Entire and the Rose.


• George R.R. Martin is done with the Dabel Brothers. But those who ordered calendars, they will be mailed. [via Rob's Blog o' Stuff]


• W.W. Norton is planning to publish The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard in September. [via SFScope]


• SF Scope's Ian Randal Strock joins Warren Lapine's new sf/f imprint Fantastic Books as an acquisition editor and announces first purchase: Fantastic Texas, a Texas-themed reprint collection by Lou Antonelli featuring a dozen stories, with an introduction by Howard Waldrop.


• io9 asks: Is "Sense Of Wonder" Just A Code For Returning To Childhood? I say nope.


• John C. Wright on C.S. Lewis, H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke.


• At the Wall Street Journal, Author Steven Johnson asks" How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write? as he outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone. [via Cliff Pickover]


• Bookswim: Netflix for books? [via CNET]


• Paul McAuley reviews the new Star Trek: "But despite the cliches and Bad Science, there's a lot more wit and sass in this space operatic reboot than in most of its too-often ponderous predecessors, and you're left with a sense that the franchise is ready to head off into new and unexpected directions." [via Locus Online]


• Sony has launched a Terminator Twitter game in which you can make contact with the resistance. [via SFX]


• Gallery: The Worst Homemade Star Wars Costumes.


• The film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is being filmed as two movies.


• Real Science:
  • The lightest exoplanet yet discovered -- only about twice the mass of Earth -- has been detected, astronomers announced today. In other news, Pluto is still screwed.
  • Let's Fantasize: Could You Be Batman?
  • Cassini's continued mission.
  • They can send a man to the moon but they can't -- oh, wait, they HAVE created Bionic penguins! [via Michael A. Burstein]


• Lists:
  • Publishers Weekly lists 12 Steps to Better Book Publishing.
  • Top 5 Cool Things In Space.

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