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.)

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.

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.

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]

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.)

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).

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]

• 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.

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.

• 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.

Jeff VanderMeer anatomizes space opera.