Reviews:

• The Denver Post is ecstatic about Tim Powers's Three Days To Never.
• The Julie Phillips biography James Tiptree, Jr. is being reviewed all over the place: by Nisi Shawl in The Seattle Times, by John Clute in SF Weekly, and by Bethany Schneider in Newsday.
• SF Signal really liked Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio.
• Blogcritics have made it to the end of Julie E. Czerneda's trilogy: Regeneration.
• Book Fetish reviewed Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town.

Interviews:

• John O'Neill, publisher and editor of Black Gate magazine, talked to Twilight Tales.
• Karen Traviss talks to Sequential Tart.

SF writers Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person review the new ooh-the-undergound-cannibals-are-going-to-get-cute-young-girls movie The Descent at Locus Online.

The Observer is fascinated and appalled by a Las Vegas Harry Potter symposium. As usual, it's the slash fiction that really freaks out the mundanes.

Sci Fi Wire looks at Cross Plains Universe, an upcoming Robert E. Howard tribute anthology.

Lou Anders has commited trilogy, with The State of Science Fiction, Part III. (This post also links to some of the other discussions on the subject, including Charles Stross's grumpy post of a few days ago and John Scalzi's reponse.)

Meme Therapy asked a bunch of people about their preference in alien invaders -- and John C. Wright was so inspired, he got his own post.

Meme Therapy also pondered the risks and rewards of nanotech.

Torque Control delves deeply into the fiction of Alastair Reynolds.

[several links via Locus Online]