Reviews:

• Green Man Review on the Datlow/Link/Grant Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 19th Annual.
• Green Man Review on Ellen Kushner's The Privilege of the Sword (available in the SFBC omnibus Swords of Riverside).
• Green Man Review on Neal Asher's Prador Moon (which, oddly enough, I'm reading myself right now).
• David Soyka reviews a bunch of short fiction over at Black Gate.
• SFF World on Scar Night by Alan Campbell.
• SF Signal on Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End.

Interviews:

• Infinity Plus chats with Jon Courtenay Grimwood (and also excerpts his new book, End of the World Blues).
• They also give the same treatment to Martin Sketchley: interview and excerpt of The Destiny Mask.
• Not to be left behind, Apex Digest does the same with Cherie Priest: interview here, and an excerpt from Wings To the Kingdom here.
• Martin Sketchley and John Meaney interview each other for Matrix.

Kate Elliott is the latest to take on the Nicoll Pledge: at Deep Genre, she lists the 11 Things in Fantasy/SF That I Don't Promise Not To Use (Or Keep Using) in My Writing.

In the same place, and slightly more seriously, Kevin Andrew Murphy lists six things he wants to avoid in fantasy.

[several links via Locus Online and SF Signal]