• The New Yorker chats with Ursula K. Le Guin about The Left Hand of Darkness. [via Locus Online]


• The Vietnam News interviews the head of the VFSF, biologist and SF writer Vu Kim Dung. [via The World SF News Blog]


• Locus Online has the Scribe Award Winners, honoring the best in media tie-in fiction.


• Peter V. Brett's debut fantasy novel The Warded Man has been optioned for film by the people behind Resident Evil.


• Tolkien's heirs want production of The Hobbit stopped. [via Locus Online]


• Sez Joe Abercrombie: "RPGs have nothing like the wide cultural purchase they used to..." as evidenced by his neighbor's lack of knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons.


• @ThGalaxyExpress: How Science Fiction Romance Can Reinvent Penny Dreadfuls Into Something Wonderful.


• For the nightclubbing geek: Red Shirt Star Trek Cologne. Smell your best on your last away mission.


• Warren Ellis is Scripting King Arthur. "It's NOT an Excalibur remake, ok?"


• MentatJack lists The Chocolate and Peanut Butter of Noir and Speculative Fiction.

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