
- Interviews:
- Mike Perschon posts an interview with steampunk scholar Rudy Rucker, author of The Hollow Earth, conducted at the Eaton Science Fiction Conference last May.
- Mur Lafferty podcast-interviews Laura Mixon, who talks about Storytron, an interactive storytelling website.
- Prometheus Award Winners, awarded to "libertarian" fiction, have been announced (Science Fiction Awards Watch the scoop!):
- BEST NOVEL: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- HALL OF FAME: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- David Langford has posted the new Ansible for July 2009.
- Adam Roberts reviews The Legend of Sigurd and GudrĂșn by J.R.R. Tolkien: "...Sigurd and GudrĂșn is an exercise in conscious archaism not just in subject matter, and not just in poetic form and idiom. It treats its characters in flat, archaic ways."
- Joseph Mallozzi reviews Blood of Ambrose by James Enge
- Over at the Locus blog, editor Jonathan Strahan invites readers to express their thoughts on the likely table of contents for The Best of Fritz Leiber.
- Cory Doctorow's new Locus column, Cheap Facts and the Plausible Premise, explores what it means for sf "when the cost of knowing something falls to zero, and when the difference between knowing something can be done and doing it narrows away to nothing."
- Irregular Tidbits:
- Orbit Books needs your help in designing the most ridiculously bad high-concept SFF book cover in the universe.
- Nicholas Whyte is running a poll for The Best Doctor Who Book.
- Lists:
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