The LA Times reviews A Scanner Darkly: A Graphic Novel.

SciFi Dimensions has a new July issue, featuring an interview with Neil Gaiman (author of Anansi Boys), and reviews of Naomi Novik's Temeraire books and Harry Turtledove's Settling Accounts: The Grapple. (Among other things.) [via Locus Online]

SFRevu also has a new July issue, which leads off with an interview with John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly. A long list of reviews follows, including Glasshouse by Charles Stross, Spin Control by Chris Moriarty, and The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde.

Best SF reviews Year's Best SF 11, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.

Meme Therapy interviews new SF author Mary Rayner.

The Observer has decoded blurb quotes for your edification. (This is mostly based on literary novels, but similar adjectives serve similar purposes in our area. Always remember that "This book fills a valuable gap in the literature" is not a compliment...) [via Bookslut]