Ellen Datlow posts Ursula K. Le Guin's Calling Utopia a Utopia in which she calls out the author of a misinformed tribute to J.G. Ballard: "It is shocking to find that an editor at the publishing house that had the wits to publish J.G. Ballard (as well as the Norton Book of Science Fiction) can be so ignorant of what Ballard wrote, or so uninformed about the nature and history of the science-fiction genre, or so unaware of the nature of literature since the 1980's, that he believes -- now, in 2009! -- that to say a writer wrote science fiction is to malign or degrade his work." Go get 'im! [via Books Worth Reading]
Author/Editor/Physicist Stanley Schmidt (The Coming Convergence: The Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape Our World and Change the Future) has an article up at IEET: The Mother of All Sci-Fi Wonders. [via Locus Online]
Frederik Pohl talks about The Lecture Biz: "Fortunately for my career, there was a lot of funny stuff going on in scientific research if you knew where to look for it."
The finalists for the 2009 storySouth Million Writers Award have been announced. To vote for your favorite story, please go to the Million Writers Award website.