Ben Bova writes about the jobs he's been fired from in the Naples News. [via SF Signal]

Brenda Cooper (co-author, with Larry Niven, of the excellent SF novel Building Harlequin's Moon) is profiled in the Washington Post. [also via SF Signal]

John Scalzi (author of the Hugo-nominated Old Man's War) explains why there isn't a great video-game critic yet.

There's a new issue of Emerald City online, including an interview with Tim (subliminal message: buy Three Days to Never!) Powers and a whole pile of reviews (including Three Days to Never and the deeply swell The Blood Knight by Greg Keyes).

 Locus Online lists a whole bunch of new books they just saw, including Tanya Huff's Smoke and Ashes and the book I was reading today, Queen of Mars by Al Sarrantonio.