• Interviews and Profiles:
  • Paul Levinson interviews Robert J. Sawyer about FlashForward in his latest Light On Light Through podcast.
  • At Joseph Mallozzi's blog, Matthew Woodring Stover answers readers' questions.
  • Guests this week on the Sofanauts are: Jeff VanderMeer, Jeremy Tolbert, and Amy H. Sturgis.
  • @Sci-Fi Fan Letter: John Ringo.
  • io9 interviews Paolo Bacigalupi, author of The Windup Girl.


• The Guardian tells us that Kim Stanley Robinson accuses the Booker prize judges of ignorance, referring to the article in New Scientists in which KSR says: "...it seems to me that three or four of the last 10 Booker prizes should have gone to science fiction novels the juries hadn't read."


• Shaun Tan and Diana Wynne Jones are finalists for the Astrid Lindgren Children's Literature Award. [via File 770]


• Jeff VanderMeer offers a John Clute Translation Guide.


• Omnivoracious looks at the first lines of J.G. Ballard.


• At The World in the Satin Bag, S.M. Duke post part 5 of his article series Punking Everything in SF/F: The (Closer) Past (Cyberpunk C).


• SCI FI Wire explores Cool video: The best TRON references from pop culture.


• On his blog mispeled, Luke Bergeron is running a 5-part series of posts on Self-Publishing, E-books, and Legitimacy. "The traditional publishing system has become a vile backwater of internal handshaking, intensely gated communities, and lottery-styled odds." [via TeleRead]


• SFX lists SF and Fantasy's 20 Most Irritating Characters.

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