Some of these are things I think I lost in an editing kerfuffle last night, so there is a slim but non-zero chance that they actually were posted before. You have been notified.

Reviews:

• Sherwood Smith is reading Ellen Kushner's The Privilege of the Sword (and, someday in the future, I'll actually be able to link to the SFBC omnibus Swords of Riverside that includes both this and Swordspoint. Not today, though.)
• Bookgasm on David Zindell's The Lightstone.
• Book Fetish on Moon Called by Patricia Briggs.
• Book Fetish on Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn.
• CA Reviews covers two books by Julie Kenner: Carpe Demon and California Demon.
• CA Reviews also covers two books by Sarah Monette: Melusine and The Virtu.
• Scott Smith's The Ruins is reviewed by: CA Reviews, Esquire (via Powell's) and Powell's (all by itself).

Interviews:

• Greg Bear talks to SciFi UK.
• Lou Anders and Paolo Bacigalupi (who is a wonderful writer, but has the hardest name to spell in all SF) interview each other at Mundane SF.
• Also at Mundane SF, Robert Sawyer and George Zebrowski interview each other.
• Nalo Hopkinson is interviewed by The Internet Review of Science Fiction (but you need to register to read it).

There's a new issue of Some Fantastic: #9 (warning: that's a PDF file). It contains an interview with John Scalzi and a number of book and DVD reviews.

Infinity Plus features an extract from Gwyneth Jones's new novel Rainbow Bridge.

The original, acclaimed PBS movie version of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven is coming to DVD, as part of William Shatner's DVD of the Month Club.

Amazon.com (yes, the people I still think of as a bookstore) have just optioned the film rights to Keith Donohue's The Stolen Child (coming in softcover to the SFBC in a few months), reports Sci Fi Wire. Is there any business Jeff Bezos doesn't plan to get into?

At Deep Genre, David Louis Edelman goes through The Five Elements Common To All Stories.

Meme Therapy asks, more or less, if the concept of a future Utopia is plausible.

Jonathan Strahan has posted the Table of Contents and the cover art for The Jack Vance Treasury, a gigantic collection of great short stories and novellas that he co-edited and which Subterranean Press will be publishing in a few months.

Via Bookslut, may I present A Muggle's Guide to the World of Harry Potter, wirtten by a guy who never read the books or watched the films, but is pretty good at figuring things out.

[several of these links via Locus Online]