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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Pesthouse.

Salon reviews Where's My Jetpack? by Daniel Wilson, a book about the future that didn't happen. (Any bets that we'll see a similar spate of "How Come We Weren't All Eaten By Our Toasters?" books and articles in about 2040?) The Salon reviewer falls into the usual trap of seeing big things as important and small things as unimportant, wondering if "progress itself has actually slowed down, with the 1960s as the climax of a 20th century surge of innovation, and the decades that followed consisting of a weird mix of consolidation, stagnation and rollback." That, of course, is purely an effect of our not hitting the Transportation Singularity, but try explaining that to Salon....

Eric Brown, in The Guardian, reviews Richard Morgan's Black Man (soon to be published as Thirteen in the US, and available from the SFBC then), The Mermaids by Robert Edric and Tony Ballantyne's Divergence.

Fantasy Book Critic reviews Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden.

New at Fantasybookspot:

• a review of the bone-song-infused Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick
• a review of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
• a review of Paul Park's The White Tyger
• a review of Antony Johnston's Stealing Life
• a review of Bloodring by Faith Hunter
• a review of Kim Harrison's Every Which Way But Dead (also available in the SFBC omnibus Dead Witches Tell No Tales)
• and a review of Thomas M. Reid's The Gossamer Plan.

Monsters & Critics reviews Carol Berg's Flesh and Spirit.

Monsters & Critics reviews Laurell K. Hamilton's The Harlequin.

And Monsters & Critics also reviews MaryJanice Davidson's Undead and Uneasy.

SciFi Weekly reviews Lucius Shepard's Softspoken.

At SciFi Weekly, John Clute is awfully dogmatic about what alternate history is and is not allowed to do while reviewing Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. ("A genuine alternate world/alternate history must be an argument about the case of things, or why bother?" sayeth Clute. Considering that I've heard plenty of similar arguments that the novel must be about real people in the real world, or it's similarly not worth the bother, I'm afraid I'm not going along with Clute on this one. I also might say that a space opera must be comprehensible and centered on a character that readers can identify with, but that would be mere cruelty, and I don't exactly mean it.)

From SFFWorld:

• a review of Kelley Armstrong's No Humans Involved
• a review of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin
• and a review of James Barclay's A Shout for the Dead.

SF Signal reviews Minister Faust's From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain.

Blogcritics reviews Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars.

Book Fetish reviews Gerry Bartlett's Real Vampires Have Curves.

Book Fetish reviews Darrell Schweitzer's new anthology The Secret History of Vampires.

Bookgasm reviews the Lou Anders-edited anthology Fast Forward 1.

Publishers Weekly's current fiction reviews page includes their coverage of Jasper Fforde's First Among Sequels (the new "Thursday Next" novel), David Brin's Sky Colony, Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen (coming soon to the SFBC), Jon Courtenay Grimwood's 9Tail Fox, and many more.

The New York Times Book Review looked at Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reviews John "Still Not King" Scalzi's The Last Colony, David Gunn's Death's Head, Kathleen Goonan's In War Times, and has a quick take on Jim Butcher's White Night (also available in the SFBC omnibus Wizard Under Fire).

SF Diplomat reviews the first issue of Death Ray magazine.

Neth Space reviews Steven Erikson's Reaper's Gale.

New at Tangent:

• a review of the tenth issue of Black Gate
• a review of the May Clarkesworld
• a review of Hub #3
• a review of the Winter 2007 issue of Shimmer
• a review of Darker Matter #2
• and a review of Chizine issue #32.

Black Gate reviews J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin and Charles Saunders's Imaro.

This week's additions to Don D'Amassa's Science Fiction reviews include Jeff Carlson's Plague Year and E.E. Knight's Valentine's Resolve.

And on D'Amassa's Fantasy reviews page, the new reviews are Will Shetterly's The Gospel of the Knife and L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Natural Ordermage.

D'Amassa's Horror page also has a few new reviews, most recently Many Bloody Returns, an anthology about vampires at birthday parties edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kellner.

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Fantasy Book Critic interviews David Anthony Durham, author of Acacia.

SFX talks to John Meaney (author of Bone Song) about writing.

SFX also talks to Mark Chadbourn (author of Jack of Ravens) about writing.

OZ Comics has an audio interview with Alan Lee (author of The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook and cover/interior artist for The Children of Hurin).

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Northernstars.ca has a profile of Forrest J. Ackerman.

Adventures in SciFi Publishing's 21st podcast features an interview with and a reading by J.C. Hutchins.

SciFi Wire talks to Jana G. Oliver about her Crompton Crook-nominated novel Sojourn.

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The Agony Column reviews Brian Francis Slattery's Spaceman Blues.

SFFWorld reviews Justin Thorne's In the Shadows.

Strange Horizons reviews Kage Baker's new novella-as-a-book, Rude Mechanicals.

Blogcritics reviews Charlaine Harris's All Toghether Dead.

Book Fetish reviews Marked by P.C. Cast with Kristin Cast.

Bookgasm reviews Jody Lynn Nye's An Unexpected Apprentice.

Susan Palwick reprints the Locus review of her new novel Shelter.

Slate tries to pick a fight in their review of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. (The lede is "Michael Chabon has spent considerable energy trying to drag the decaying corpse of genre fiction out of the shallow grave where writers of serious literature abandoned it." Um, good for you, Ruth Franklin, you can construct a straw man with the best of them. It would be oh-so-flattering to the literary types to think that "genre fiction" is dead, but there's the small point that "genre fiction" comprises approximately 90% of the fiction published today...so whose corpse is in that grave, exactly? And don't get me started on "serious literature," either...) 

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The Agony Colum reviews Chuck Palahniuk's Rant.

Fantasy Book Critic reviews Brian Lumley's Necroscope: The Touch.

OF Blog of the Fallen reviews Jorge Luis Borges's Shakespeare's Memory.

SciFi Weekly reviews Lane Robins's frist novel Maledicte.

Strange Horizons reviews Jeffrey Thomas's Deadstock.

Blogcritics reviews Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

Book Fetish reviews Maria Lima's Matters of the Blood.

Gwenda Bond kicks off the discussion of Alan DeNiro's work (which, I think, will eventually focus on his collection Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead) at The Litblog Co-Op, and Matt Cheney follows up. (There's also a video of DeNiro made by Gavin Grant of Small Beer Press.)

Publishers Weekly's 4/23 Fiction reviews have just hit the net (or, at least, PW's RSS feed) -- it covers, among other things, Peter David's The Darkness of the Light (a starred review), Mark L. Van Name's One Jump Ahead, and Philip Haldeman's Shadow Coast (another starred review).

SFF World reviews Justina Robson's Keeping It Real.

Forbidden Planet International covers Marianne de Pierres's new novel Dark Space (including lots of pictures and links, including this one to a trailer for the book on YouTube).

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January Magazine has been thinking about Philip K. Dick (and liked the recent New York Times article on Dick better than I did).

The International Herald-Tribune also has a profile of Dick.

Phantastik-Couch interviews (in English!) German fantasy writer Karl-Heinz Witzko.

Phantastik-Couch also interviews Australian author Garth Nix.

The Providence Journal talks with Ray Bradbury about his Pulitzer citation.

Blogcritics interviews Cassandra Claire, author of City of Bones and the one whom Sam will kill if she tries anything.

SciFi Wire talked to Paul Park about his Sidewise-nominated novel The Tourmaline.

AZ Central talks to several authors (including Jonathan Lethem, Jodi Picoult, and my old college friend Greg Rucka) about their recent work writing for comics, and how that's different from writing novels.

Kristine Smith is the second author interviewed on this Myspace page. [via the Eos Blog]

Vicki Pettersson is interviewed on KNPR radio about her writing, and her former life as a Las Vegas showgirl. [also via the Eos Blog]

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Entertainment Weekly reviews Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and so does Bookslut.

Entertainment Weekly also reviews Jim Crace's The Pesthouse, this year's entry in the literary-figure-writes-a-depressing-post-apocalyptic-novel sweepstakes.

And The Agony Column also takes a look at Crace's Pesthouse.

The Herald (of Monterey County) reviews Marta Acosta's Midnight Brunch.

Bookslut's "Bookslut in Training" column (by Colleen Mondor, and covering young-adult books) this month examines Mark Del Franco's Unshapely Things, Justine Larbalestier's Magic's Child (also available in the SFBC omnibus The Magic of Reason), and several others. 

Neth Space runs through Stephen Erikson's massive and amazing "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series to celebrate the publication of the seventh book, Reaper's Gale, in the UK. (I'm reading book six, The Bonehunters, right now -- it will be published in the US in September. And all of the previous books -- Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains, and Midnight Tides -- are available from the SFBC. This isn't a series for first-time fantasy readers, but it's a wonderful experience for those who are ready to step up to it.)

And SFF World has the first review of the new Malazan book, Reaper's Gale, that I've seen.

SciFi Weekly reviews Brian W. Aldiss's classic Hothouse (known by some as The Long Afternoon of Earth).

SF Signal reviews Eric Brown's Helix.

Back to Bookslut for a moment: their current "Specfic Floozy" (which I'm afraid I always want to read as Specific Floozy, as if there was a large sea of floozies out there, with only one known in particular) column is given over entirely to a glowing review of Adam Roberts's Gradisil.

Kids Lit reviews George R.R. Martin's novella-as-a-young-adult-book The Ice Dragon.

Bookgasm reviews John Scalzi's The Last Colony.

Solaris reprints a Publishers Weekly starred review for James Maxey's Bitterwood.

Apex Digest reviews Cherie Priest's Dreadful Skin [via the author]

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Entertainment Weekly profiles Michael Chabon, author of The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

(There's also an LA Times story about Chabon and Yiddish Policemen's Union that I found at the Register-Guard. And here's another similar story from the Minneapolis Star Tribune.)

A recent Stephenie Meyer book-signing (for her new novel Eclipse) was themed as a "vampire prom," reports AZCentral.

SciFi Wire chats with the Campbell-nominated Scott Lynch about his debut novel The Lies of Locke Lamora.

Episode 36 of The Sci Phi Show is an examination of science and religion starting with Isaac Asimov's classic story "Nightfall."

SFX interviews Ian Cameron Esslemont, co-creator of the "Malazan" world with Steven Erikson and author of Knight of Knives.

Strange Horizons reviews Mat Coward's short-story collection So Far, So Near. ("Mat?" Perhaps he should get together with Frazz's Jef Mallett in a search for missing letters...)

Jeff VanderMeer talks about the experience of being a judge for the Eisner Awards, and interviews his fellow judges and awards administrator Jackie Estrada.

Jeff VanderMeer also interviewed Elizabeth Hand about her new novel Generation Loss.

Bloggasm looks back on Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day.

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Heidi Ruby Miller interviews Mark W. Tiedemann about his novel Remains.

Reason Online thinks about the Singularity and talks with Vernor Vinge.

SciFi Weekly talks to David Weber about his new book Off Armageddon Reef.

SFF World talks to Steven Savile.

Over the weekend, the New York Times had a long (and often wrong-headed) article about Philip K. Dick in the "Entertainment" section. (The writer, Charles McGrath, manages in one sentence to misuse the modern historian's term "counterfactual" and utterly ignore the strong tradition of alternate history within science fiction -- it's not every Times writer that can be that dim.)

The Toronto Star profiled two local fans. [via Locus Online]

The Agony Column talked to Chuck Palahniuk.

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Meta Corner: Larry of the OF Blog of the Fallen thinks about reviewing.   

The Guardian reviews China Mieville's YA novel Un Lun Dun.

BestSF.net reviews Nebula Awards 22, edited by George Zebrowski and featuring (if I'm reading it right) the 1986 Nebula winners.

BestSF.net also reviews the April/May issue of Asimov's.

SciFi Dimensions reviews Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Green Man Review has a number of new reviews this week, including:

• this one for the forthcoming Ellen Datlow-Terri Windling anthology The Coyote Road (which will be available from the SFBC once it's published)
• a review of David Marusek's first story collection, Getting to Know You
• a review of Emma Bull's new novel, Territory -- a historical fantasy set around a certain event at the O.K. Corral
• a review of Jim Butcher's White Night (also available in the SFBC omnibus Wizard Under Fire)
• a review of Simon R. Green's The Man With the Golden Torc
• a review of Charles Stross's The Jennifer Morgue (also available in the SFBC omnibus On Her Majesty's Occult Service)
• a review of Drew Bowling's The Tower of Shadows
• a review of Robert Charles Wilson's recent novella-as-a-book, Julian (also available in the SFBC exclusive Best Short Novels: 2007)
• a review of K.J. Parker's Devices and Desires
• and a whole lot more.

SciFi Weekly reviews Ian McDonald's Brasyl.

New reviews at Tangent Online:

• this one for the April stories from Strange Horizons
• this one for a colllection by Will Ludwigsen called Cthulhu Fhtagn, Baby! and Other Cosmic Insolence
• and this one for the June issue of F&SF.

The newest reviews on Don D'Amassa's Science Fiction page include Tobias S. Buckell's Ragamuffin (coming soon to the SFBC) and The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman (which I just read myself last weekend).

D'Amassa's Fantasy page has new reviews of Emma Bull's Territory, Sean Williams's The Hanging Mountains, and more.

And D'Amassa's Horror page has new reviews of Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, and The Very Blood Marys by M. Christian.

Andormeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine reviews Liz Williams's Dark Space.

The Contra Costa Times reviews Lawrence Watt-Evans's The Wizard Lord and several other books.

The Salt Lake Tribune reviews Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

Desicritics reviews the whole "Artemis Fowl" series by Eoin Colfer.

The Star Online is grumpy about the question of whether Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel is a "young adult" novel or not.

Fantasy Book Critic reviews Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air.

Fantasybookspot brings us a review of Neal Asher's The Skinner.

Monsters & Critics reviews the new Jack Dann-Gardner Dozois original anthology Wizards (coming soon to the SFBC).

Pat's Fantasy Hotlist reviews Ian McDonald's Brasyl.

SF Signal has two reviews of Naomi Novik books today: this one for Throne of Jade, and this one for Black Powder War; both are available in the spiffy SFBC omnibus Temeraire: In the Service of the King.

SF Signal reviews Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen (coming soon to the SFBC).

Strange Horizons reviews Tricia Sullivan's novels Double Vision and Sound Mind.

Graham Joyce, in The Washington Post, reviews Elizabeth Hand's non-SFF novel Generation Loss.

The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Jose Carlos Somoza's Zig Zag.

SFReviews.net reviews J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin.

Blogcritics reviews the Paula Guran-edited Best New Paranormal Romance.

Blogcritics also reviews Stephen King's short novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Powells.com reviews China Mieville's Un Lun Dun.

Desicritics reviews Michael Crichton's Next.

Jay Lake pointed me at the 4/15 SF/Fantasy reviews from Library Journal, which include Lake's novel Mainspring, River of the World by Chaz Brenchley, Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer, and more.

Visions of Paradise looks at Robert A. Heinlein's classic (well, old, at least) novel Farnham's Freehold.

The most recent Library Journal Fiction reviews page includes Pearl Harbor by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen.

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