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- Random Links & Stuff, 5/22
- Interviews for 5/22
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- Magazine News, 5/22
- Isaac Asimov Memorial Award to Benford
- Hollywood Watch, 5/21
- Random Links & Stuff, 5/21
- Interviews for 5/21
- Stuff to Read for Free, 5/21
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- Magazine News, 5/21
- Rewriring the Future
- As They See Us: Mobicon
- Random Links & Stuff, 5/18
- An Interview for 5/18
- Reviews for 5/18
- Three SFWA Directors Resign
- Times Bestsellers: May 27th List
- Locus, New Books, Yadda Yadda Yadda
- Interviews for 5/17
- Reviews for 5/17
- Random Links & Stuff, 5/17
- Lloyd Alexander, 1924-2007
- Ellison vs. Fantagraphics Goes To Mediation
- Random Interesting Links & Stuff, 5/16
- Stuff to Read for Free, 5/16
- The Latest Kerfuffle
- Magazine News, 5/16
- The Kindness of Strangers
- Interviews for 5/16
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- Stuff For Free, 5/14
- Random SFFnal Bookish News and Links, 5/14
- Interviews for 5/14
- Reviews for 5/14
- Magazine Round-Up, 5/14
- Locus Lists Reprinted Classics
- Analog & Asimov's Reader's Awards
- Winner of Jim Baen Memorial Story Contest Announced
- Nebula Award Winners
- New SFWA Officers Announced
- Jim Minz to Baen as Senior Editor
- Andrew Wheeler Wants You To Buy Wizard Under Fire
- Sarah Zettel on Sword of the Deceiver
- John Moore on A Fate Worse Than Dragons
- Patrick Rothfuss on The Name of the Wind
- John Scalzi on The Last Colony
- Reviews for 5/11
- Interviews for 5/11
- Perseus Consolidation Kills Carroll & Graf and Thunder's Mouth
- S. Andrew Swann on SF & Politics
- Justine Larbalestier Posts the Ban(n)s
- SFWA Names 2007 Andre Norton Award Jury
- Orbit Books Launches With a Contest
- Locus Sees New Books for Early May
- Times Bestsellers: May 20th List
- Interviews for 5/10
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- Magazine News, 5/10
- Stuff to Read for Free, 5/10
- Reviews for 5/9
- Magazine News, 5/9
- Stuff to Listen to for Free, 5/9
- As We See Us, 5/9
- Interviews for 5/9
- Image Is Everything
- Gaimain's Fragile Things Nominated for Edge Hill Prize
- An Odd Question
- SFWA Names 2007 Novel Jury
- Are the Morons Marching?
- New Books in SFBC June
- Magazine News, 5/8
- Reviews for 5/8
- Interviews for 5/8
- How You Could Attend the Nebula Awards
- Romantic Times Book Reviews Awards for 2006
- David Louis Edelman Seeks the Light of the Silmarils
- Liz Scheier to Del Rey from NAL
- Interviews for 5/7
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- Magazine News, 5/7
- Not at All the Real Script for Spider-Man 3
- Maureen McHugh on Strangeness
- SFRA Award Announcements
- Magazine News, 5/4
- Reviews for 5/4
- Interviews for 5/4
- Tomorrow Is Free Comic Book Day!
- Quill Awards To Continue For Third Unexciting Year
- Tor Seeking Editorial Assistant
- As They See Us: MidSouthCon
- More New Books Seen by Locus
- New York Times 5/13/07 List: Genre Betsellers
- Reviews for 5/3
- Interviews for 5/3
- Books SFBC Acquired in April
- 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner
- Magazine News, 5/2
- Interviews for 5/2
- Reviews for 5/2
- Stuff to Read for Free, 5/2
- Locus-ized New Books
- SF Signal Reviews Alien Crimes
- Interviews for 5/1
- Reviews for 5/1
- Stuff to Read for Free, 5/1
- Reviews for 4/30
- Magazine News, 4/30
- Interviews for 4/30
- Stuff to Read for Free, 4/30
- The Battle of the Century!!!!
- Multi-Author Signing for SFWA's Nebula Weekend
- Edgar Award Winners
- Cover Art Brouhaha
- Reviews for 4/27
- Carrie Vaughn on Long-Time Listener, First-Time Werewolf
- Kelley Armstrong on No Humans Involved
- Joel Shepherd on Breakaway
- Allen Steele on Spindrift
- Robert J. Sawyer on Rollback
- Times Bestsellers: May 6th List
- SFnal Art Exhibit in Manchester
- Interviews for 4/26
- Magazine News, 4/26
- Reviews for 4/26
- Stuff to Read for Free, 4/26
- Interviews for 4/25
- Magazine News, 4/25
- Reviews for 4/25
- Stuff to Read for Free, 4/23 -- Special International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day Edition!!!
- Gwyneth Jones On Robots
- Bookgasm reviews Alien Crimes
- Interviews for 4/24
- Reviews for 4/24
- Magazine News, 4/24
- 2007 Hugo Nominations Released
- Meisha Merlin Going Out of Business
- The Economics of Harry Potter
- Interviews for 4/23
- Magazine News, 4/23
- Reviews for 4/23
- Locus Awards Finalists
- Locus Sees Books, Hard and Soft
- Interviews for 4/20
- Reviews for 4/20
- Magazine News, 4/20
- Charles Dickens Theme Park?!
- Eisner Award Nominations
- Dragon & Dungeon Magazines To End
- Sidewise Awards Finalists
- Genre Books are New York Times Bestsellers: April 29th List
- Reviews for 4/19
- Interviews for 4/19
- New Books in SFBC May
- Magazine News, 4/18
- Interviews for 4/18
- Reviews for 4/18
- Let's You and Him Fight
- Several New Books Lists for Mid-April
- The Harry Potter Outreach Program
- Heinlein Centennial Coming Up
- Interviews for 4/17
- Magazine News, 4/17
- Reviews for 4/17
- Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007
- Are You an Pixel-Stained Technopeasant?
- It's Children of Hurin Day!
- VOYA Picks Best of the Year
- Stan Nicholls and Alan Lee Get Trolled
- Australians Prefer Harry Potter
- Virginia Tech Shooting Victim News
- The Road Wins Pulitzer Prize; Ray Bradbury Receives Special Citation
- Interviews for 4/16
- Magazine News, 4/16
- Reviews for 4/16
- Ed Kramer Is Still Under House Arrest
- SFWA VP Declares Writers Who Give Away E-Books Are "Scabs"
- Compton Crook Award Nominees
- Rhysling Award Nominees
- Interviews for 4/13
- Reviews for 4/13
- Your Metaphor of the Day: If Planets Were Countries
- Magazine News, 4/12
- Reviews for 4/12
- Movie Gossip for 4/12
- Interviews for 4/12
- Vote for the Hugos and Locus Awards
- Magazine News, 4/11
- Interviews for 4/11
- Reviews for 4/11
- Locus's New Books for this Week
- One Interview for 4/10
- Magazine News, 4/10
- Reviews for 4/10
- David Louis Edelman on Scientific Accuracy
- Locus Sees Classics Reprinted
- Magazine News, 4/9
- Reviews for 4/9
- Interviews for 4/9
- British Science Fiction Association Awards Announced
- Spin Control wins Philip K. Dick Award
- Reviews for 4/6
- Interviews for 4/6
- Magazine News, 4/6
- Locus + March = New Books
- Magazine News, 4/5
- Interviews for 4/5
- Stuff to Read for Free, 4/5
- Reviews for 4/5
- Kim Harrison Tour-Blogging for Eos
- Justine Larbalestier Wins Susan Koppelman Award
- Stuff to Read for Free, 4/4
- Publishers Weekly Wonders If We're Dying
- Magazine News, 4/4
- Interviews for 4/4
- Reviews for 4/4
- I Find Your Lack of Fashion Sense Disturbing
- Magazine Round-Up, 4/3
- Reviews for 4/3
- Interviews for 4/3
- You've Got To Be...Adaptable...for 4/3
- The Girl from the Anti-Sex League Called: Irony Is on Permanent Back-Order
- 2007 Ditmar Nominations Announced
- Publishers Weekly Bestsellers for 2006
- Books SFBC Acquired in March
- FAQ 3: Random Questions
- FAQ 2: About the SFBC
- FAQ 1: About This Blog
- Write to Us!
- Interviews for 4/2
- Magazine Round-Up, 4/2
- Reviews for 4/2
- Stuff to Read for Free, 4/2
- A Pre-Emptive Assault on Hugo Whining
- A Visual Guide to Our Solar System
- As They See Us: Sci-Fi on the Rock
- Tiptree Award Winners Announced
- I Guess They're All Spartacus
- Locus's April Fools
- Locus Sees New Paperbacks
- 2007 Bram Stoker Award Winners
- Andrew Wheeler Wants You to Buy Midnight Tides
- Brenda Cooper on The Silver Ship and the Sea
- Justine Larbalestier on The Magic of Reason
- Reviews for 3/30
- Interviews for 3/30
- Is John Scalzi Fannish Enough for the Fan Writer Hugo?
- Stardust Trailer
- Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inducts Four for 2007
- Reviews for 3/29
- Stuff to Read for Free, 3/29
- Interviews for 3/29
- New Books in the UK
- New Books in SFBC Spring
- Now You Can Lick Darth Vader (as a Star Wars Stamp)
- Harry Potter Has the Deathly Hallows Covered
- Oprah's New Pick: A Science Fiction Novel
- Interviews for 3/28
- Reviews for 3/28
- The Hexagon of Saturn
- Artist List for Spectrum 14
- Charlie Stross on E-Books
- David Honigsberg, 1958-2007
- Haruki Murakami One Winner of Kiriyama Prize
- Gregory Benford's Journey to the East
- Alien Crimes Is Here! (Are Here?)
- Magazine News, 3/27
- Reviews for 3/27
- Interviews for 3/27
- Jeffrey Ford Is Up to Here in Blurbs
- Melinda Snodgrass Pitches In
- Walter Jon Williams on the Virtues of Repression
- Member Mail: Answered!
- The New York Times Practices Tolkienism
- Time Traveler Show #14 Features Early Williamson
- Table of Contents for Best American Fantasy
- Digital Artists Imagine Eon
- New Books Seen at Locus
- Interviews for 3/23
- Magazine News, 3/23
- Reviews for 3/23
- Rich Horton's Best of 2006 Lists
- Convention Reports: Lunacon
- One Lone Review for 3/22
- Interviews for 3/22
- David Grove To Be Inducted into Illustrators Hall of Fame
- Interviews for 3/21
- Reviews for 3/21
- Harry Potter Goes Eco-Friendly; No Word on Plans to Sing "Kumbaya" Around Campfire
- Winter Is Coming..and Bringing Great Deals on Swords!
- Reviews for 3/20
- Interviews for 3/20
- How To Get Along at a SF Convention
- Prometheus Award Finalists
- I Find Your Lack of Clockwork Disturbing...
- Interviews for 3/19
- Magazine Round-Up, 3/19
- Reviews for 3/19
- John Scalzi Is Running for SFWA President as a Write-In Candidate
- Anita Blake Prequel Comic Coming Next Year
- David Louis Edelman on the Life of a Writer
- Awards from the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
- PS Publishing To Get HWA Specialty Press Award
- Neal Stephenson on 300
- Star Trek: So Gay?
- In Which I Complain About the New York Times
- As They See Us: Penguincon is Coming Up
- Interviews for 3/16
- Reviews for 3/16
- Jeff VanderMeer Points Out That It Is Possible For a Person To Like Different Things
- John Scalzi's Books Promote Themselves!
- First Second Lists Graphic Novels for Booksellers
- The Surrogates Land Movie Deal With Disney
- Magazine News, 3/15
- Interviews for 3/15
- Reviews for 3/15
- Paolo Bacigalupi on Futurizing
- 12 Million Harry Potter Readers Can't Be Wrong!
- Interviews for 3/14
- Magazine News, 3/14
- Reviews for 3/14
- Call Your Galactic Senator and Demand the Truth!
- John Scalzi's Ficlets
- Arnold Drake, 1924-2007
- Science Fiction Museum Slashes Prices
- Oklahoma Says No to the Number of the Beast
- Cory Doctorow On E-Books Once Again
- Jonathan Lethem Offers His Book To Movie-Makers For Free
- Reviews for 3/13
- Interviews for 3/13
- Stuff to Read for Free, 3/13
- Magazine News, 3/13
- Horror: Best of the Year Contents Released
- New Books at Locus
- Reviews for 3/12
- Free Fart Jokes Online from John Scalzi
- Interviews for 3/12
- Magazine News, 3/12
- Another New Literary Movement!
- Time for the Bookseller/Diagram Prize Again
- How to Write Generic Fantasy
- As They See Us: Berry Con
- Interviews for 3/9
- New Books in SFBC April
- Reviews for 3/9
- Cory Doctorow Wins Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award
- David I. Masson, 1915-2007
- Locus Sees Old Books
- National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced
- Reviews for 3/8
- Interviews for 3/8
- Captain America Will Be Throwing His Mighty Shield No More
- Teens Buying Books Like Never Before
- South Korea Mulls Robot Ethics
- Stuff to Read for Free, 3/7
- Interviews for 3/7
- Reviews for 3/7
- Magazine News, 3/7
- Documentary on Harlan Ellison
- Philip K. Dick Award Judges Announced
- Reviews for 3/6
- An Interview for 3/6
- As They See Us: Ad Astra 2007
- Ron Moore to be Nebula Toastmaster
- Leigh Eddings, 1939-2007
- Interviews for 3/5
- Reviews for 3/5
- Magazine News, 3/5
- Lambda Literary Awards Finalists
- Nebula Final Ballot
- Bruce Sterling Is Gloating
- Dream Haven Books Had a Break-In
- More New Books Seen by Locus
- The Usual Grumbling About the Nebula Process
- Stuff To Read For Free, 3/2
- Magazine Round-Up, 3/2
- Reviews for 3/2
- Interviews for 3/2
- Neil Gaiman's Mystical and Oracular Ball of Enlightenment
- James Nicoll Goes All "Harrison Bergeron" On Us
- Wither the SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection?
- Books SFBC Acquired in February
- Magazine News, 3/1
- Happy World Book Day!
- Interviews for 3/1
- Reviews for 3/1
- Susanna Clarke story launches BBC audio series
- New Books from Locus and the UK SF Book News Network
- SF Site's Readers Pick Their Favorite Book of 2006
- UK Readers Now Prefer Austen to Tolkien
- New York Times Discovers Book Podcasts
- Andrew Wheeler Wants You To Buy The Dead Fathers Club
- Guy Gavriel Kay on Ysabel
- P.C. Hodgell on To Ride a Rathorn
- Kim Harrison on For a Few Demons More
- Elizabeth Moon on Command Decision
- Interviews for 2/28
- Reviews for 2/28
- Eric Flint on DRM and Copyright Infingement
- Spectrum Awards
- Space Princess Hullabaloo!
- 2006 Pearl Awards
- Interviews for 2/27
- Reviews for 2/27
- Anna Paquin To Play Sookie Stackhouse In New HBO Series
- Patrice Duvic, 1946-2007
- Today's Writing Advice: 2/26
- Magazine Round-Up: 2/26
- Interviews for 2/26
- Stuff to Read for Free, 2/26
- Reviews for 2/26
- Calling All Would-Be Fantasy Writers!
- Andre Norton Award Ballot
- New Books Seen on the Horizon
- Two New SF Movements in One Week! It's a New Record!
- SF Signal Looks at the Classics of SF
- A Mild Dose of Quarrellousness
- Table of Contents for Hartwell-Cramer Year's Best Fantasy 7 Posted
- Iain Banks Champions SF, Closes Festival, Sells Cars
- AggieCon's Gnomic Utterances
- Seattle Public Library Honors Octavia E. Butler
- Interviews for 2/23
- Reviews for 2/23
- Now It Can Be Revealed: The Lord of the (Onion) Rings
- John Scalzi Likes to Swim Through His Money Like a Porpoise and Throw It Up and Let It Hit Him on the Head
- Live! Girl! Detective!
- Next Stop: Rigel 7. Please Watch the Closing Doors
- New Books in SFBC March
- A Cri de Cour
- Locus Sees New Paperbacks
- Reviews for 2/22
- More Stuff to Read for Free
- Interviews for 2/22
- Magazine News, 2/22
- Awards from Boskone
- C.S. Lewis Fans Gather, Are Investigated by a Major Metropolitan Newspaper
- Someone Named "Jay" Hates Us
- Reviews for 2/21
- Stuff to Read for Free, 2/21
- Movie News, 2/21
- Interviews for 2/21
- Magazine Round-Up, 2/21
- Robert J. Sawyer on AI
- China Is in Favor of SF
- Interviews for 2/20
- Reviews for 2/20
- Robert J. Sawyer Honored by the Toronto Public Library
- Unicorns Vs. Zombies
- India Edghill on Feminist Historicals
- Shelving Units Attempt to Kill Gavin Grant, Are Unsuccessful
- Tor's Got a Brand New Bag
- More Year's Best List-i-ness: Datlow/Link/Grant
- World Fantasy Award Judges Announced
- Stoker Nominees Announced
- 1979 Calling: Anarchy in Le Guin's The Dispossessed
- At Every Moment, Somewhere in the World, A Geek Is Invoking the Name of Cory Doctorow
- Locus Sees Books in the Bleak Midwinter
- Locus's Directory of Book Editors
- WSFA Launches Small Press Award
- Rebecca Ore Blogging for Eos
- Interviews for 2/15
- Reviews for 2/15
- Preliminary Nominees for the 2007 Prometheus Award
- Kathryn Cramer Announces Selections for Year's Best SF 12
- Sarah Monette on Tolkien and Le Guin
- Jennifer Fallon on Mistakes
- Alan Campbell Does Not Suggest Living in South Lanarkshire
- SF Site Picks the Best of 2006
- James Patrick Baen Memorial Writing Contest Announced
- 2006 Cybil Awards Announced
- Overly Incestuous Linking and Re-Linking
- Robert Jordan Is Looking for the Best Fan Art
- Cooling the Earth the SFnal Way
- Childe Abrams To the Dark Tower Comes?
- Jeff Edelstein Asks -- Nay, Demands! -- That Icky Fantasy Be Kept Out of His Yummy SF
- Ann VanderMeer Is New Fiction Editor of Weird Tales
- Locus Sees Early February Books
- And Then They Were Four
- Reviews for 2/12
- Interviews for 2/12
- Magazine Round-Up, 2/12
- John Scalzi Has Gone Into Sugar Shock
- Entry #1000
- Rachel Caine Has Broken Her Arm
- Paul Cornell on Doctor Who Continuity
- Books Seen
- Mark Your Calendars: May 5th is Free Comic Book Day
- Gary Lippincott's Beery Elves
- Are You the Next Reviewer for the Internet Review of SF?
- Reviews for 2/9
- Interviews for 2/9
- Novella from "The Fair Folk" To Become a Novel
- And There Was Much Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth
- Neth Space Defends Escapism
- Nick Mamatas Frees "Move Under Ground"
- Hugo Recommendations on LiveJournal
- Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Horror Is Now "Cool!"
- Archon Prepares for Zombies
- Lee Hoffman, 1932-2007
- Locus Sees Books Once More
- Locus Index to SF Awards Is Updates
- Finally It Can Be Told!
- Interviews for 2/7
- Reviews for 2/7
- Yet Another History of SF
- Now Blogging for Eos: Trudi Canavan
- Edgar Nominees Announced
- Charles L. Fontenay, 1917-2007
- Interviews for 2/6
- Reviews for 2/6
- John C. Wright on What Makes Good SF
- Scalzi's Sagan Diary Read By Many Voices
- Audie Award Nominations
- Reviews for 2/5
- Magazine Round-Up, 2/5
- Interviews for 2/5
- James Patrick Kelly Launches a StoryPod
- Hugo Nomination Ballot Is Online
- Locus Poll Form Available On-Line
- Interviews for 2/2
- Magazine Round-Up, 2/2
- Reviews for 2/2
- The Last Hurrah of the Best-of-the-Year Season
- Locus Needs an Editorial Assistant
- Books SFBC Acquired in January
- Reviews for 1/31
- Interviews for 1/31
- Andrew Wheeler on The Jack Vance Treasury
- L.E. Modesitt, Jr. on The Elysium Commission
- David Drake on The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume Two
- The Last Mimzy: Loosely Descended from Lewis Padgett
- New Books in SFC February
- Interviews for 1/30
- Magazine Round-Up, 1/30
- Reviews for 1/30
- Kathryn Cramer Has a Modest Proposal
- Time to Roll Up an Avanc
- Fire Destroys David Eddings's Office
- Aurealis Award Winners
- Reviews, Interviews, and Magazine News for 1/26
- Year's Best Tables of Contents
- COsine Invaded by Mundane Reporter
- Locus Sees Hardcovers
- Crawford Award Nominees
- World Horror Convention 2007 Announces Grand Master: Joe R. Lansdale
- Interviews for 1/25
- Reviews for 1/25
- Oz Squid '06: The List
- Locus Sees Paperbacks
- Reviews for 1/24
- Interviews for 1/24
- Peter Beagle Wants You -- Yes, You! -- To Buy The Last Unicorn Directly From Him
- Interviews for 1/23
- Reviews for 1/23
- Magazine Round-Up, 1/23
- Time Traveler Show Podcasts Lester del Rey
- Authors Hobnob With the Hoi Polloi
- Science Is Awesome!
- Stephen King Named Grand Master by MWA
- New Books Spotted Overseas
- SFnal Titles Sneak In At National Book Critics Circle Finalists Lists
- Arthur C. Clarke 2007 Award Shortlist Announced
- Into the Trackless Wastes of Pratchett…
- A Blogging Interregnum
- Andrew Wheeler on The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
- Andrew Wheeler on Heart-Shaped Box
- Stan Nicholls on The Diamond Isle
- Neal Asher on Brass Man
- John Birmingham on Final Impact
- C.S. Friedman on Feast of Souls
- Interviews for 1/12
- Reviews for 1/12
- Locus Sees New Books Again
- Robert Anton Wilson, 1932-2007
- Reviews for 1/11
- One Interview for 1/11
- Magazine Round-Up, 1/11
- Rollback for Free
- Charity Auction for Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel
- Kirkus Reviews Picks the Best of '06
- Reviews for 1/10
- Interviews for 1/10
- James Baen Remembered
- New Books in SFBC January
- Nebula Awards Preliminary Ballot
- Magazine Round-Up, 1/9
- Reviews for 1/9
- Interviews for 1/9
- Reviews for 1/8
- Interviews for 1/8
- S.L. Viehl Defines Publishing
- SFnal Odds and Ends
- More Best-of-the-Year Lists
- Philip K. Dick Award Finalists Announced
- Magazine Round-Up, 1/5
- Books SFBC Acquired in December
- Lists of New Books
- Interviews for 1/5
- Stuff to Read for Free Online
- Yet More Best-of-the-Year Lists
- Reviews for 1/5
- Reviews for 1/3
- Interviews for 1/3
- John Scalzi Depicts The Raw Battle for Shelf-Space
- ISFDB Goes Wiki
- Adrienne Martini on Octavia Butler
- Lee & Miller Serializing Novel For Tips
- Jack Williamson Obit in The Times
- Village Voice Not Amused by Physics Play
- Locus Reviews Movies
- Podcast News
- Interviews for 1/1