I've officially been on vacation this week (just try and e-mail me at work and see what response you get!), but I still have some time to bang out a few links for you good people. That's because we believe in Customer Service at the SFBC Blog -- we also believe in the divine right of kings and that the spaces between the stars are filled with chocolate pudding, but let's leave those aside for now -- and we will always go that extra mile to be sure that you have a big pile of links to click instead of doing any real work. (Although, if you're still in the office at this point, I think you've proven your point to your personal PHB, and you can slack off now.)

I spent the day with the family at the lovely but waterlogged Land of Make Believe (the second-best waterpark in rural northwestern New Jersey!), but I'm back on the blog beat now, so let me serve up some moderately amusing and/or informative collections of electrons:

Reviews:

• SF Signal on DC Universe: Inheritance by Devin Grayson.
• Visions of Paradise on Poul Anderson's classic The Earth Book of Stormgate.
• Ellen Kushner has posted the starred Library Journal review of her novel The Privilege of the Sword on her LiveJournal. (Plugplugplug: that novel is currently available in handy standalone form, in your favorite online or physical bookstore, but it will also soon be available, in a spiffy hardcover edition, combined with Kusher's earlier novel Swordspoint and three short stories, from the SFBC as Swords of Riverside. Such a deal!)
  

Interviews:

• Mundane SF features Kij Johnson interviewing Pamela Sargent (or possibly vice versa).
• There's an interview with Robert Sawyer somewhere in the middle of this CBC Radio One Definitely Not the Opera podcast. (He says that he comes on about the twelve minute mark.)
  

The new issue of Green Man Review is devoted entirely to the works of Peter S. Beagle. [via Emerald City]

SF writer and gadfly Cory Doctorow has a new article on CBC.ca titled  "Truth and the Net." [via Locus Online]

Australian SF Carnival July collects links to anything and everything in the recent Australian SF world, as compiled by Russell B. Farr. [via Locus Online]

There's a profile of Laurell K. Hamilton (focusing on her new novel Danse Macabre) up at Pages Online. [via Locus Online]

Pyr editor Lous Anders has posted a report on the 2006 Campbell Conference on his blog. (And, as I link to this, I see I've missed mentioning Robert Sawyer's earlier report on the same conference.)

Meme Therapy asks an assorted bunch of people to weigh in on the future of business.

Torque Control takes on the dreaded practice of infodumping.