Reviews:

• The Washington Post reviews Alastair Reynolds's Pushing Ice, The Baby Merchant by Kit Reed, Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson, and Daughters of Earth edited by Justine Larbalestier.
  
• CA Reviews awards an "8" to Glasshouse by Charles Stross.
  

Interviews:

• I got nuthin. 

Sean Wallace thinks it's tacky for editors to include their own work in anthologies or magazines they edit, except in very specific cases. Most of the commentors agree, and so do I.

Worldcon has an "officially unofficial" cookbook this year, called The Official Manual for Spice Cadets.

Lou Anders is so interested about the state of science fiction, that it's taken up two long (and interesting) posts so far: one and two. (I have to admit to a certain deeply conflicted ambivalence on the subject: I wish SF was more popular, that there was more good "entry-level" stuff, and that the really dense, gnarly SF like River of Gods or Counting Heads could be accessible to general readers somehow.)

James Nicoll (Live Journal legend and crack SFBC book reviewer) is annoyed about some common ideas in fantasy. And several writers are responding by pledging to avoid some over-used ideas in response. (I will point out that Diana Wynne Jones's The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is the definitive guide to fantasy cliches -- either to avoid them or to cynically add them to one's work -- as well as being one of the funniest books ever written. Any writer thinking of commiting trilogy must own a copy.)

Meme Therapy asks whether SF gets respect or not.

Mundane SF has notes from a panel on "Mechanics of Writing" from somewhere (I think the Campbell Conference). By the way, is there an explanation anywhere why Mundane-SF is posting such odd, telegraphese accounts of random convention panels?