• Interviews & Profiles:
  • At Tor.com, John Joseph Adams profiles Alexander Irvine, author of Buyout.
  • @The Dragon Page's Cover to Cover: Jim Butcher (Turn Coat).
  • @Neth Space: Alison Goodman (The Two Pearls of Wisdom).
  • @Omnivoracious: Michio Kaku (Physics of the Impossible).
  • Stainless Steel Droppings literally takes a close-up look at the art of Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia.


• Locus is reporting that Greg Bear will write a new Halo trilogy.


• Suite101 profiles SF Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss.


• Brenda Cooper asks: What's After Capitalism?


• Angela Slatter has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. In the meantime, check out her sage advice for:
  • Writers: Stray Thoughts on Long Sentences: "...some of my sentences were the literary equivalents of clown cars."
  • Reviewers: On Reviewing: "I scurried to the OED to assure myself that 'reviewer' does not come from any French or Latin word remotely connected with the sphincter or lower intestine."


• Over at SF Scope, Michael A. Burstein reviews Alien Trespass.


• Cover Pr0n: Pyr shows off John Picacio's way-cool complete wraparound cover for Mark Chadbourn's Darkest Hour.


• Borders May Close Hundreds of Waldenbooks Stores. [via GalleyCat]


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Hairy Green Eyeball: "The Second Shell" by Jack Williamson (1929).
  • @Manybooks:
    • "The Helpful Robots" by Robert J. Shea (1957).
    • "It's a Small Solar System" by Allan Howard (1957).
    • "I Like Martian Music" by Charles E. Fritch (1957).
    • "Flight Through Tomorrow" by Stanton Arthur Coblentz (1947).
    • "Stopover" by William Gerken by (1957).
    • "Bolden's Pets" by Floyd L. Wallace by (1955).
  • Randy Patterson has started publishing 20 years of his science fiction writings online at The Trinadgey Series website. "Trinadgey takes place in a modern day sci-fi world with intergalactic bad guys, big ships and even bigger guns. Prophecies, love, treachery and the possibility of mankind's annihilation are just moments from reality."
  • The Eldritch Dark, a Clark Ashton Smith tribute site, offers many of Clark Ashton Smith stories online. [via Matt Staggs's @ Twitter]


• Locus Online has posted the Locus Magazine April 2009 Table of Contents.


• The April '09 issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction has been posted.


• At SciFi Scanner, Nick Nadel, bless his generous heart, has posted a photo gallery of The Babes of Batman.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday April 03, 2009 at 12:08 AM
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