I didn't manage to get a round-up post out over the weekend, so I expect this will be longer than usual. So let's dive right in...

Reviews:

• Peter D. Tillman pointed out the new-to-me review site SF Reviews on rec.arts.sf.written (not to be confused with SF Revu), which has a pile of "biased and superficial Science Fiction reviews." Among the most recent reviews are looks at Jack Williamson's The Stonehenge Gate, Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton, and S.M. Stirling's Dies the Fire.
• Speaking of SFRevu, their August issue has many reviews as well, including this one for Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks and another one over here for Tony Ballantyne's Recursion.
• Julie Phillips's James Tiptree, Jr. biography is covered by the Washington Post.
• The San Francisco Chronicle has a column by Michael Berry covering Tim Powers's Three Days To Never, Elizabeth Bear's Blood and Iron, and The Man from the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman.
• Also in the Chronicle: a full-length review of Scott Smith's horror-thriller The Ruins.
• BestSF.net has a long story-by-story review of the very long The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Third Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois.
• SF Site for August leads off with a review of Steven Erikson's The Bonehunters, and also covers Naomi Novik's Temeraire books in three reviews.
• And here we have SciFi Dimensions on Nick DiChario's A Small and Remarkable Life.
• Helen Pilinovsky at Endicott Redux reviews what looks like a gorgeous book: it's called Fairies, and it's by the great Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano.
• Visions of Paradise has a long, thoughtful review of Robert Charles Wilson's Hugo-nominated Spin.
• Blogcritics on Julie E. Czerneda's Migration.
• A Seattle Times review of the Jews-in-comics-publishing-history Up, Up, and Oy Vey! has the greatest opening line of the week: "It's not set in tablets of stone, but it is a reasonably good rule of thumb: Goldman, Friedman, Superman, Batman ... if a name ends in ' — man,' we're probably talking about either a Jew or a superhero."

Fragments of an Interview:

• John Joseph Adams has posted excerpts from his SciFi Wire piece about Paolo Bacigalupi's story "The Calorie Man," which are pretty much all quotes from Bacigalupi.

This week in Strange Horizons: a new story by Sarah Monette, a poem, and the usual reviews.

HardSF.net lost its old bulletin boards in an ungrade attempt, but has just put up a spanking new forum.

There's a new magazine on the web: Heliotrope. The first issue is available as a PDF, and features stories by Samantha Henderson, Edward Morris, and Michael Colangelo, plus non-fiction articles, poetry and reviews. You can also get a copy on paper for a shipping & handling fee.

David Langford has set Ansible 299 free into the world. It features a letter from Diana Wynne Jones complaining about a review of YA fantasy in the Independent that implictly said she was dead -- which, of course, is not true. (She didn't mention the fact that they stuck a hyphen in the middle of her name where it doesn't belong, but she's probably resigned to that by now.)

SciFiUK.com reports on the rumors that Bill Pullman might star as Philip K. Dick in a movie biography, and asks who should get the part.

Sherwood Smith (a teacher who knows whereof she speaks) talks about what kids really want from YA SF, and what they keep getting in YA SF revivals.

DeepGenre has two takes on the uses and necessities of Story: from Laura J. Mixon and from Madeleine Robins.

Stan Nicholls wonders if the bookstore is doomed, over at writefantastic.