Reviews:

• Sherwood Smith reviews Crystal Dragon by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller at SF Site.
  
• Sean Wallace reprints reviews for two books (by Theodora Goss and A.A. Attanasio) from Library Journal.
  

An Interview:

• The second half of the Hal Duncan interview is now up at Writer Unboxed.
  

Vera Nazarian reports on the efforts of The Eye of Argon to thwart its own publication. [via Emerald City]

David Louis Edelman makes the case for Alien as a movie about the exploitation of a blue-collar workforce.

Paul McAuley has just posted the beginning of his introduction for Ian Watson's new short-story collection The Butterflies of Memory.

Robert Sawyer politely points out that the homepage for the Heinlein Centennial fails to mention those down-market words "science fiction" anywhere.