Interviews/Profiles

• The Agony Column interviews Ann VanderMeer.
• The Agony Column on NPR Report on Jeff and Ann VanderMeer (podcast).
• Dead Robots Society interviews Deborah Kent, who's running Con-Jour 2.0 (podcast).
• Michael A. Ventrella interviews James Enge.
  

News

• Ursula K. Le Guin Resigns from Authors Guild over Google Deal.  See the letter verbiage here.
  
• Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award Balloting Open.
• World Fantasy Award Judges Announced.
• Speculative Literature Foundation Announces 2009 Gulliver Travel Research Grant Winner.

Articles

• Victoria Strauss on Drewlie and Julia: Or, The Case of the Alias'd Literary Agent.
• Jim C. Hines on The Publishing Lottery and Other Insults.
• Nuno Fonseca on Having It All.
• Jeff VanderMeer on How About Some Raw Dog for the Holidays?
• Jo Walton on What books do you buy to give to other people?
• Margaret Ronald on In the Dead of Winter.
• Editorial Anonymous on How to Tell If Your Sales Rock...or Don't.
• Justine Larbalestier on More on Unhappy Endings.
• Mike Brotherton on A Modest Proposal: Scary School.
• Andrew Wheeler on E-Book Pricing: Attack of the Consultants.
• Janice Hardy on Doing That Author Thing.
• Christi Corbett on A Writer's Space... Ideal vs. Reality.
• Paul Levinson looks at Avatar in Science Fiction Perspective.
  

Lists and Fun Stuff

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter lists Debut Authors To Watch For.
  
• FlickChart Fans pick The Top 20 Films Of The Decade.
• Zikkir posted The 2009 Science Fiction Power List.
• The Best Space pictures of 2009.
• The Signal has posted The First Rule of Flying, a collection of Firefly/Serenity-inspired songs, featuring John Anealio's song "Summer Glau".
  
• Test Your Scientific Mettle in AMC's Fact vs. Fiction SciFi Movie Quiz 2009.
  
• The Retroist reminds us that we can play Atari games online at Atari.com.

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Posted by Charles Tan at Thursday December 24, 2009 at 12:05 AM
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