Monday Morning News
Reviews:
- SF Crowsnest reviews issue 2 of the magazine FARthing.
- The Houston Chronicle covers David Marusek's Counting Heads.
- New York Times Book Review on Scott Smith's The Ruins.
- New York Times Book Review also covers Nick Sagan's Everfree and the end of this roundup.
- LA Times covers an interesting nonfiction book called Hollow Earth.
- The Agony Column on David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's mammoth The Space Opera Renaissance.
- SF Signal on George Alec Effinger's classic cyberpunk-noir The Exile Kiss.
- Entertainment Weekly has short reviews -- of A Separate War and Other Stories by Joe Haldeman, Farthing by Jo Walton, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessell, and The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko -- in their current issue, and SF Signal has retyped the important stuff and put it online.
- The Little Professor compares and contrasts David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best SF 11 and Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Third Annual Collection.
- I don't think I've linked to Talebones's review page yet: they've got a long list of stuff reviewed there, including Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer, Naomi Novik's "Temeraire" books, and the new "Star Wars" book Legacy of the Force: Betrayal.
- Bookgasm on the seventh Fables collection, Arabian Nights (and Days), by Bill Willingham and various artists. (Yes, Fables is a comic-book series; it's still some of the best fantasy out there today.)
- Book Fetish on Ray Garton's horror novel Live Girls (which I can probably call a classic; I know I've heard many people praising it).
Interviews:
- The Australian ABC talked to Charles Stross, mostly about Halting State, the near-future thriller he's writing right now.
- The second part of The Agony Column's talk with Vernor Vinge is now online.
- Black Gate has a conversation with Darrell Schweitzer.
Strange Horizons, as usual, has new stuff to brighten up a Monday morning: an article on Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel, a new story by Kameron Hurley, plus poetry and reviews.
The Daily Iowan has an article on Mike Horvat's fanzine collection, which has just been acquired by the University of Iowa's Special Collections.
Brain Parade asks a bunch of people which should be the space-exploration priority: the Moon or Mars?
[several of these links via Locus Online]

