Reviews:

• Bookgasm didn't much like Horror: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition edited by John Gregory Betancourt and Sean Wallace.
• CA Reviews did like Kevin J. Anderson's Of Fire and Night.

Interviews:

• Meme Therapy talks to the ubiquitous John Scalzi.
• Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld talk to Little Willow.

There's a new issue of Locus coming in the mail to some of you, and the Locus Online website has a sneak preview of it.

Sci Fi Wire has an article about Greg Bear winning the Heinlein Award.

Lou Anders thinks the general public is finally giving up on thinking of SF as "that Buck Rogers stuff," as evidenced by Hollywood. (And he's got a good case for it.)

Jonathan Strahan's Poode Street Podcast is back for a second edition, featuring Tim Pratt reading his story "The Third-Quarter King."

Kevin Murphy has a long Comic-Con report from a SFnal point of view at DeepGenre.

The latest installment of what I think of as "Jim Macdonald's Things That Can Kill You" series is up at Making Light, and it's about Heat Stress. It has nothing to do with SF, unless, perhaps, you're a writer and using it for research. But, as usual, Jim will entertain and frighten us all with all the things that can go wrong with a biological system.