Greg Costikyan has found the most sacrilegious game ever.

There is a podcast feed containing all of the stories on Cory Doctorow's collection Overclocked.

John Scalzi responds to Mark Helprin's Copyright Uber Alles essay from the weekend.

Coleen Mondor wishes she knew how to hit. (And I wish fewer men learned that particular lesson...we don't seem to have any trouble with it, on my side of the gender divide.)

Many people have mentioned the "Harry Potter" stamps the the UK's Royal Mail will be issuing this summer, but the only place I've seen pictures of the stamps is at the blog of Forbidden Planet International.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America join the hordes of writers' organizations that are deploring the new proposed Simon & Schuster contract.

The fanfic fight continues -- Paul Raven responds to A.R. Yngve, and they then dialogue. (This is the twenty-first century; we use "dialogue" as a verb now.)

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SciFi Wire talks to John Klima about his anthology Logorrhea, full of stories based on winning spelling-bee words.

The UK SF Book News Network talks to Chris Dolley about the novel Resonance.

ActuSF interviews Greg Keyes, author of one of the epic fantasy novels you must read, The Briar King. [via Locus Online]

GalleyCat has an embedded YouTube video interview with Elizabeth Hand about her new novel Generation Loss.

Someone who calls himself, um, "Pauly Psychotic" has interviewed Tim Lebbon. [via Lebbon's blog]

Irene Gallo has a quick interview with, and gallery of the work of, artist Julie Bell.

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SciFi Weekly reviews Jack Williamson's classic werewolf novel Darker Than You Think.

Strange Horizons reviews Jed Mercurio's Ascent.

The Washington Post reviews China Mieville's Un Lun Dun, Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel, Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback, and Carol Emshwiller's The Secret City.

The LA Times reviews Adam Roberts's Gradisil.

Book Fetish reviews Lorelei Shannon's Rags and Old Iron.

Solaris Books' blog has posted a scan of a review of Gail Z. Martin's The Summoner.

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The Table of Contents of Lady Churhill's Rosebud Wristlet has been posted.

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Variety reports that the movie version of William Gibson's Neuromancer has been moved up to the front burner...not due to an inherent qualities of the novel or screenplay, but because the studio has a Big Skiffy Movie hole caused by a Paul Verhoeven project moving back. So adjust your expectations accordingly...

Also, William Gibson himself comments on the novel-into-movie process.

Cinematical has pictures from the set of The Dark Is Rising, the movie being made from the Susan Cooper novel.

The Times Online has a report on the Lord of the Rings musical, which is rearing its head again in London (after a disastrous run in Toronto last year). [via Deep Genre]

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A.R. Yngve does not like fanfic. And his question is a good one.

Niall Harrison thinks about shortlists, by way of starting to review a novel called Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk. (And, as someone who was recently a judge myself -- World Fantasy, class of '05 -- I can say that the idea of having "slots" on a shortlist is very alien to my experience as well.)

Miss Snark is retiring. All of you would-be writers will have to hit yourselves with the Clue Stick from now on. (Post-retirement FAQ.)

Mark Helprin believes copyright should be eternal...at least from this point forward. (Of course, he also believes that the rich should be able to pass down their immense fortunes completely untouched to their worthless progeny -- I went to college with private-school kids, I know whereof I speak -- and thus continue their dominion over the globe. To be fair, he also believes in writing great novels like Winter's Tale, so I have to give him so slack.)

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Black Gate interviews David C. Smith about his career writing sword & sorcery stories in the '70s and '80s.

The Canberra Times talked to Jennifer Fallon, author of Warrior.

The Agony Column interviews Charlaine Harris, author of All Together Dead.

The UK SF Book News Network talks to David Gunn about his first novel, Death's Head (coming soon from the SFBC).

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Robert Silverberg ruminates on Limbo in his "Reflections" column from the July Asimov's.

Cory Doctorow has posted the audio file of a panel discussion at the LA Times Festival of Books among himself, Kage Baker, John Scalzi, and Harry Turtledove about Science Fiction.

Escape Pod will be podcasting readings all of this year's Hugo-nominated stories; Tim Pratt's "Impossible Dreams" is first. [via Boing Boing]

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The current iteration of Green Man Review is an "all books edition," including:

• a review of Richard K. Morgan's Woken Furies
• a review of Kelly Link's collection Magic for Beginners
• a review of Joe R. Landsale's collection The Shadows, Kith and Kin
• a review of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next: First Among Sequels (coming soon from the SFBC)
• a review of The Gypsy by Steven Brust and Megan Lindholm
• a review of Steven Erikson's "Malazan" novella The Lees of Laughter's End
• a review of Kage Baker's The Sons of Heaven, the climactic novel in her great "Company" series (which you can also get in the exclusive SFBC omnibus The Company They Keep, coming very soon)
• a review of the new Gardner Dozois-Jonathan Strahan original anthology The New Space Opera
• and several others...

SciFi Weekly reviews Lawrence Watt-Evans's The Ninth Talisman.

New at Tangent Online:

• a review of the 22nd issue of Abyss & Apex
• a review of Darker Matter #3
• a review of the July issue of Asimov's
• and a review of the first issue of the revamped Weird Tales (#344).

From the July issue of Asimov's comes Paul Di Filippo's On Books column, in which he looks at Liz Jensen's My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time (which Di Filippo mentions noticing because it was in a SFBC catalog), as well as Jensen's previous novels, a book about Jules Verne's centennial, several magazines and comics, and Luis Royo's art book Dark Labyrinth.

New on Don D'Amassa's page of Science Fiction reviews this past week are David Lynn Golemon's Legend, Jeff Carlson's Plague Year, and the reissue of Mike Resnick's Ivory.

And, of D'Amassa's Fantasy page, the new reviews are J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin, The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks (coming soon from the SFBC), Deepwood by Jennfer Roberson (also coming soon from the SFBC), Poltergeist by Kat Richardson, and a number of YA novels.

And D'Amassa's Horror page also has two new reviews this week: Unholy Birth by Andrew Neiderman and Shadow Coast by Philip Haldane.

One of my potted Google searches insists that this January Magazine list of the best SF/Fantasy of 2002 was posted today. I find that hard to believe, but who am I to argue with Google? The list includes such worthy books as Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, Kage Baker's Black Projects, White Knights, and Peter F. Hamilton's Fallen Dragon, which are all just as worth reading today as they were five years ago.

The Times-Leader (of Northeastern Pennsylvania) reviews Sara Douglass's The Serpent Bride.

Michael Dirda reviews World Fantasy Award-winner Haruki Murakami's new novel After Dark in The Washington Post.

Eve's Alexandria reviews Manda Scott's Boudicca: Dreaming the Eagle.

Fantasy Book Critic reviews Lane Robbins's Maledicte.

New at Fantasybookspot:

• a review of Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances by various hands in Paramount's fields
• a review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 9, also by various folks toiling in other's vineyards
• a review of Peter David's The Darkness of the Light
• a review of Ilona Andrew's Magic Bites
• and a review of Simon Spurrier's The Culled.

Monsters & Critics reviews a novel called Seraphs, and, as usual, they forget to tell us who wrote it.

Monsters & Critics also reviews The Silver Moon Elm, and, by squinting, I can see from the bookshot that it was written by MaryJanice Davidson and Anthony Alongi.

Monsters & Critics also also reviews Talia Gryphon's Key to Conflict.

Pat's Fantasy Hotlist reviews Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies, coming soon as a SFBC Selection.

Strange Horizons has a double review of Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel.

Book Fetish reviews Simon Clark's Death's Dominion.

Bookgasm reviews the first issue of Girls and Corpses magazine, which apparently decided that there wasn't enough satirical soft-core porn about zombies in this world.

Somewhat more seriously, Bookgasm also reviews the new "Dresden Files" book by Jim Butcher, White Night. (And you can get that book as half of the exclusive SFBC omnibus Wizard Under Fire for only one dollar if you join the SFBC now. Operators are standing by!)

Publishers Weekly's online-only reviews for this week include The Alton Gift by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross (coming soon to the SFBC), Brian W. Aldiss's HARM, and MaryJanice Davidson's Undead and Uneasy.

Publishers Weekly's fiction reviews from the current issue are also online, and they include the long-lost Richard Bachman novel Blaze, Jennifer Fallon's Warlord (coming soon to the SFBC), and Sheri Tepper's The Margarets.

The Amazon Blog (in the person of the indefatigable Jeff VanderMeer), recommends some SFF reading for the summer, including David Keck's In The Eye of Heaven (one of my favorite recent debut novels as well), Tony Ballantyne's Divergence, Cameron Rogers's The Music of Razors, and Hal Duncan's Ink.

David Louis Edelman continues his re-read of Tolkien with a review of The Two Towers. (And you can get a single-volume Lord of the Rings from us, if you want to.)

Visions of Paradise looks at the Gordon Van Gelder-edited anthology Fourth Planet from the Sun.

Marianne Plumridge reviews Shadows Over Baker Street edited by Michael Reaves and John Pelan.

Book Fetish reviews Mario Acevedo's X-Rated Bloodsuckers.

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Talebones has announced that issue #35 (containing stories by Darrell Schweitzer, Jack Skillingskead, and others) will be delayed until sometime this summer, due to personal problems.

Asimov's July issue is their 30th Anniversary celebration, with a new novella from Nancy Kress and stories from Michael Swanwick, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, and more. (There's an excerpt from the Kress novella, "Fountain of Age," available online.)

Strange Horizons has their usual Monday update, including an article about X-ray vision, the second half of a C. Scavella Burrell story, and more.

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Tachyon Publications has posted the Table of Contents for their Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel), and it's a killer line-up:

• Introduction: Hacking Cyberpunk by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
• Introduction: Kessel-Sterling Correspondence by John Kessel
• Bruce Sterling "Bicycle Repairman"
• Gwyneth Jones "Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland"
• Jonathan Lethem "How We Got Into Town and Out Again"
• Greg Egan "Yeyuka"
• Pat Cadigan "The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry"
• William Gibson "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City"
• David Marusek "The Wedding Album"
• Walter Jon Williams "Daddy’s World"
• Michael Swanwick "The Dog Said Bow-Wow"
• Charles Stross "Lobsters"
• Paul Di Filippo "What’s Up, Tiger Lily"
• Christopher Rowe “The Voluntary State”
• Elizabeth Bear “Two Dreams on Trains”
• Paolo Bacigalupi "The Calorie Man"
• Mary Rosenblum "Search Engine"
• Cory Doctorow "When SysAdmins Ruled the Earth"

That second "introduction" is actually a series of letters between Bruce Sterling and John Kessel starting in 1985, which sounds like it's about the heart of the cyberpunk-humanist split. I hadn't even suspected such a thing existed, and I can't wait to read it myself.

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John Scalzi has declared himself the Dictator of Writing. All hail the dictator!

Jeff VanderMeer anatomizes space opera.

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Fantasy Book Critic interviews Jacqueline Carey, author of Kushiel's Scion.

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The Agony Column tackles Steve Aylett's heavily metafictional And Your Point Is?

SFF World reviews Jack Dann's The Man Who Melted.

SF Signal reviews Adam Roberts's Gradisil.

CA Reviews looks at the YA Vampire novel The Good Ghoul's Guide to Getting Even by Julie Kenner.

The Washington Post reviews Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, via Powells.

Jeff (VanderMeer, I believe) at Amazon Blog preview-reviews some upcoming big summer books, including Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen.

Matthew Cheney delves deep into Will Ludwigsen's story "Faraji" from the April/May issue of Weird Tales.

Jennifer Fallon reprints the Publishers Weekly review of her novel Warlord (coming soon to the SFBC).

Midori Snyder at Endicott Redux looks at Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden.

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SF Scope extensively reports on the pending resignations of three members of the Board of Directors of the Science Fiction Writers of America:

• Secretary Catherine Mintz, just re-elected while running unopposed, will decline the new term when the Board takes office on July 1st
• Western Regional Director Sheila Finch, in the middle of a three-year term, will resign effective June 30th
• and Eastern Regional Director Diane Turnshek will also resign June 30th.

Turnshek's resignation is for personal reasons; it was long expected and anticipated. But the resignations of Mintz and Finch are apparently related to the recent disputed SFWA election, and in particular to some of the issues around Vice President-elect Andrew Burt.

SF Scope's report has quotes from incoming SFWA President Michael Capobianco and Finch, which express regret and unhappiness but do not exactly explain what the specific problem is.

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In the publishing business, we get the bestseller lists early -- in the case of The New York Times, a Sunday cover-dated list is generally circulating through publishing offices on the Thursday of the week previous (ten days earlier). And so I have the May 27th lists here, and these are the genre titles on them:

On the Hardcover Fiction list, it's the same cast as last week:

• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon, #3
• The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien, #4
• All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris, #13
• and No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong, #24 (on the extended list)

The Paperback Fiction list is also very similar to last week's:

• The Husband (a non-supernatural thriller/horror novel) by Dean Koontz, #1
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy, #3
• Born in Death by J.D. Robb, #10

And, on the various Children's lists, Stephenie Meyer's New Moon is still at #1 on the "Chapter Books" list (essentially the Young Adult fiction bestseller list, though other things are included). The #1 Children's paperback is Christopher Paolini's Eldest, and the #1 series this week is Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson & the Olympians."

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Locus Online has posted their most recent list of new books sees, this time covering the second week of May. Notable titles on that list include the Jack Dann-Gardner Dozois original anthology Wizards and the SFBC original anthology Alien Crimes edited by Mike Resnick (which you can only buy from us...so click that link).

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The UK SF Book News Network talks to Steph Swainston about her new novel The Modern World.

Adventures in SciFi Publishing's 22nd podcast interviews author Vicki Pettersson and Pyr editor Lou Anders.

The Time Traveler Show's eighteenth podcast includes and interview with Tobias S. Buckell (author of Ragamuffin, coming soon to the SFBC) from Penguincon about a month ago.

ActuSF interviews Graham Joyce. [via Locus Online]

Holly Black, at Velvet Mafia, interviews Steve Berman, author of Vintage: A Ghost Story. [also via Locus]

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Strange Horizons reviews Mary Rosenblum's Horizons.

James Wood reviews Cormac McCarthy's The Road for The New Republic, via Powells.

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Cory Doctorow, at Locus Online, comes not to bury fanfic, but to praise it.

Russia is reportedly attacking Estonia via "massive cyber-attacks."

Jess Nevins provides a brief history of that most ancient and esteemed art-form, science fiction.

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SF Scope reports that young adult novelist Lloyd Alexander has died today under hospice care in his home, two weeks after the death of his wife of sixty-two years. Alexander is best known for the "Prydain" series (five novels and a related story collection, which won him the Newberry Award for The High King and was made into a Disney animated movie as The Black Cauldron.

A bibliography of his work is available at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, and he has a page on Wikipedia.

He will be greatly missed.

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The Comics Reporter reports that the nasty suit between Harlan Ellison and Fantagraphics Books is heading into mediation; perhaps there’s hope that it will be resolved – well, “amicably” can rarely be applied to either Ellison or Gary Groth, so I won’t aim that high, but how about “without pools of blood on the floor”?

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Cory Doctorow on troll-fighting.

The Sarnia Observer reported on GenreCon. [via Robert J. Sawyer, who was Guest of Honor]

Ben Jeapes has some mildly contrary thoughts on Charles Stross’s recent death-of-privacy speech.

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Tobias Buckell continues to post from his second novel, Ragamuffin (all in all, the first third of it will eventually be available on-line). Four chapters are up now, and you can get to them all from here.

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Galleycat reports on a panel at the Nebula Weekend (which I’m sorry I missed), in which apparently, former SFWA President Norman Spinrad and Tor’s Patrick Nielsen Hayden got into more than a slight disagreement.

(At the risk of being catty, I believe that Spinrad has had trouble recently selling the books he wants to write into the US market. Problems like that often make particular authors believe the market has shifted in detrimental ways, but…it’s often more the case that a particular writer never had a huge audience, and has moved in directions that the audience is not particularly interested in following. It would be wonderful if every book worth reading had a large and receptive audience clamoring for it, but that never has, and never will, happen.)

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Scalpel has launched this week – it’s a new on-line magazine of SF/Fantasy criticism edited by Gabe Chouinard.

There’s a new issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction (dated April/May, even though it didn’t appear until mid-May), with various reviews, essays, and whatnot.

Antipodean SF has published their 108^th issue.

SF Site’s mid-May update is up, including lots of reviews.

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I find this odd – perhaps I shouldn’t – but several comics blogs have picked up the news that we’ll be offering the swell collection Mouse Guard: Fall 1152. I wouldn’t think the fact that we’re offering any particular book was specifically newsworthy, but I’m happy to be proved wrong. (Publishing is an attention economy, so I’ll take any I can get.)

And the Altiverse does do more than a few graphic novels – recently, we’ve offered the new edition of Gaiman & Vess’s Stardust, Matt Wagner’s Trinity, and Star Wars Omnibus: X-Wing Rogue Squadron. But that’s not quite as many as we might like to do, though, so we’d love suggestions – and, even more so, for people to buy GNs from us so we can keep offering more and more of them.

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We're back! (Did you miss us?) I'm not sure why the SFBC Blog was down for two days, but let's make up for lost time:

The Agony Column reviews Alastair Reynolds’s collection Galactic North.

Fantasy Book Critic reviews Joel Shepherd’s Breakaway.

Scalpel, a new on-line SF/Fantasy review magazine, has launched with:

• a review of Adam Robert’s Gradisil
• a review of  Hal Duncan’s Ink
• and a review of Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate.

SciFi weekly didn’t much like Cameron Rogers’s The Music of Razors.

SFF World reviews John Scalzi’s The Last Colony.

The new issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction (which requires free registration) has a review of Jo Walton’s Farthing, one for Jeffrey Ford’s The Girl in the Glass, and more.

SF Signal reviews David Lynn Golemon’s Legend.

SF Signal also reviews the Jeff Prucher-edited Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction.

Stainless Steel Droppings reviews Liz Williams’s The Demon and the City.

Strange Horizons reviews China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun.

John Crowley, in The Washington Post, reviews Jim Crace’s post-apocalyptic novel The Pesthouse. [via Locus Online]

Also in the Post (and also via Locus), is this review of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.

New at Blogcritics:

• a review of the omnibus edition of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” series (which the SFBC has as individual books, for a change)
• a review of Philip K. Dick’s Four Novels of the Future (which scandalously omits any mention of the near-overwhelming bone song that emanates from its pages)
• and a review of Elizabeth Hand’s Generation Loss.

Book Fetish reviews Katie Macalister’s The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires.

New at Bookgasm:

• a review of Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume One
• and a review of Jason Brannon’s The Cage.

Tobias Buckell reports the Booklist review for his novel Ragamuffin (coming soon to the SFBC).

David Louis Edelman continues his…dare I call it a quest?...to read all of Tolkien in internal chronological order with this review of The Fellowship of the Rings. (And, yes, you can get it from the SFBC, in our spiffy Lord of the Rings omnibus.)

From SF Site’s mid-May update:

• a review of  Greg Bear’s Quantico
• a review of Elizabeth Bear’s Carnival
• a review of Mike Resnick’s Starship: Pirate
• a review of Paul Park’s The White Tyger
• a review of Kay Kenyon’s Bright of the Sky
• a review of Dave Duncan’s Mother of Lies
• a review of George R.R. Martin’s The Armageddon Rag
• a review of Jeffrey Thomas’s Deadstock
• and a review of Catherynne M. Valente’s The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden.

SF Diplomat reviews Jonathan Barnes’s The Somnambulist.

Eve’s Alexandria looks at Hal Duncan’s Vellum.

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Adventures in SciFi Publishing podcasts the beginning of Paul Levinson's novel The Silk Code (all of which is available for free as a podact from Podiobooks.com).

Lucius Shepard has posted his story "After Ildiko."

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J.K. Rowling is dangling the possibility of writing, for charity, an encyclopedia of Harry Potter's world.

Larry, of OF Blog of the Fallen, ponders elitism and the clanishness of specific-author fandom. (I have to admit, the behaviors he describes are very alien to me -- how could you possibly read only one fantasy series, and hate every other kind of novel? What on earth would you read the rest of the time? People are really weird sometimes.)

SF Scope reports that Baen Books has also hired a new editorial assistant (Kayt Hensley) and a freelance consulting editor (Gray Rinehart), in addition to adding Jim Minz as Senior Editor.

ABEbooks.com is running a contest in which they'll give away a bookshelf made from Harry Potter books to the best Harry Potter-themed poem.

I think that it would be a glitch

Finding a poem more lovely than a Snitch...

Jeff VanderMeer, writing in the Amazon Blog, lists the winners of Finland's Tahtivaelaja-award (for best SF book) for the last twenty years.

Want to know what Nebula Awards Weekend was like? Well, ask Jeffrey Carver or Tobias S. Buckell.

Charles Stross posts the text of a recent (very long) talk he gave on the side-effects of technology to TNG Technology Consulting of Munich.

Colleen Mondor went looking for mysteries in the YA world, didn't find all that many pure ones, and wandered over into thinking about fantasy YAs with mystery elements (including books by Mark Del Franco, Justine Larbalestier, and Kristopher Reisz).

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Living on Earth talks to Daniel Wilson, author of Where's My Jetpack?

The Agony Column interviews John Marks, author of Fangland.

SciFi Wire interviews Ken MacLeod about his new novel The Execution Channel.

SciFi Wire also interviews China Mieville about his novel Un Lun Dun.

Oort-Cloud podcast-interviews Cory Doctorow.

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The Free Lance-Star reviews Jim Crace's post-apocalyptic novel The Pes