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Fri 30 Dec 05 —

» Ellen Datlow's photos from the KGB reading with F. Brett Cox and Jack Womack

» Rick Kleffel talks with Jeffrey Ford

» USA Today's best books of the year include Elizabeth Kostova, J.K. Rowling

» Narnia walks out of World Trade talks!

Thu 29 Dec 05 —

» Emerald City #124

Wed 28 Dec 05 —

» Sci Fiction's final original story: The Dope Fiend, by Lavie Tidhar

Sun 25 Dec 05 —

» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Armstrong, Atwood, and Winterson on myths; also, Caroline Hsu reviews Scott Bradfield

Fri 23 Dec 05 —

» Runcible Ansible: David Langford and Greg Pickersgill remember Ken Bulmer

» Jeff VanderMeer has posted a holiday story from Secret Life

» SFFWorld reviews Justina Robson, interviews and reviews Deborah J. Miller, and launches its annual 2005 Best Reads poll

» Far Sector SFFH (formerly Deep Outside) for December has an interview with R.A. Salvatore, plus reviews and humor

» Tee Morris podcasts Robert J. Sawyer discussing the promotion and marketing of SF&F books

Thu 22 Dec 05 —

» Guardian talks with Ursula K. Le Guin about fantasy

» The Bat Segundo Show podcasts Aimee Bender

Wed 21 Dec 05 —

» Time Magazine names Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners one of its top 5 fiction books of 2005 (along with Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and E.L. Doctorow)

» Jeff VanderMeer walks James Patrick Kelly down the plank

» Paula Guran's REAL 2005 Recommended Reads List

» Independent: obituary of Ken Bulmer by Jack Adrian

» Guardian: obituary of Robert Sheckley by Christopher Priest

» The New Yorker: Laura Miller visits Philip Pullman; Louis Menand thinks about book prizes; Zoran Zivkovic is briefly noted

Tue 20 Dec 05 —

» L.A. Times: Robert Sheckley obituary; from Sunday's paper, long expose on Scientology and Tom Cruise

» Slate: Alison Gopnik on The Real Reason Children Love Fantasy

Mon 19 Dec 05 —

» Salon's Top 10 books of the year includes titles by Kelly Link, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami

» New York Time Book Review's Gerald Jonas reviews China Miéville, M. John Harrison, Alexander C. Irvine, Kim Stanley Robinson

» Boston reviewer Peter Bebergal lists his 10 favorite books of 2005 in his blog

» The Agony Column reviews Neil Gaiman lettered editions from Hill House

Fri 16 Dec 05 —

» Colleen Lindsay, laid off this week from Ballantine Books, can still be reached at deadlanguages@gmail.com or at 917-312-1612. (Locus Magazine's January issue will detail staff changes at Ballantine Del Rey.)

» In this week's Runcible Ansible Michael Swanwick reports from Robert Sheckley's funeral, and David Langford exposes Narnia naysayers (about which more in this L.A. Times op-ed)

» Jeff VanderMeer walks Tim Pratt down the plank; meanwhile Bloggasm posts interviews with Heather Shaw, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, Tim Pratt, Charlie Stross, Eugie Foster, Greg van Eekhout, Doug Lain, Jenn Reese, Nick Mamatas, Christopher Barzak, Barth Anderson, Christopher Rowe, Jay Lake, Alan DeNiro, Paul Tremblay, Ben Peek, Jeff VanderMeer, Mike Jasper, and Benjamin Rosenbaum... with recommendations of blogs they read

» SF Site's new issue invites readers to vote for your favorite books of 2005

Thu 15 Dec 05 —

» Hill House, publishers of limited editions by Gaiman, Pratchett, Bujold, and others, has a new newsletter and catalog

» Jonathan Strahan is posting picks of the year's best books and stories

» Matthew Cheney interviews Joe Hill

Mon 12 Dec 05 —

» Rick Klaw reviews King Kong

» Fantasybookspot interviews Kelly Link

» Rick Kleffel reviews Kim Stanley Robinson

» New York Times reviews Dean Koontz, profiles George R.R. Martin, and reviews Canongate's three books on myths

Sun 11 Dec 05 —

» John Shirley reviews King Kong

» Chicago Sun-Times' Dan Miller searches for a 'Chicago school' of SF, by way of reviewing Platinum Pohl

» Infinity Plus has an appreciation of Zoran Zivkovic by Tamar Yellin plus a new Zivkovic story, Words; also, Crowther interviewed and Ford excerpted

» Apex Digest interviews Lavie Tidhar, author of the last story to be published by Sci Fiction

» Rambles reviews Shanna Caughey's book of Narnia essays, Gregory Benford, Michael Moorcock, Kenneth Oppel

Fri 9 Dec 05 —

» December Internet Review of SF: Bluejack departs; Lois Tilton and Greg Beatty join the team; Robert J. Sawyer is interviewed; Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold debate

» SFFWorld interviews Caitlin Sweet

Thu 8 Dec 05 —

» Gregory Benford's Benford & Rose blog discusses the 'rise of fantasy' with Darrell Schweitzer

» Rick Kleffel interviews John Scalzi

» Quantum Muse has a new issue of SF, fantasy, and alternative stories and artwork

» Cold Tonnage Books has posted its December catalogue

Wed 7 Dec 05 —

» RevolutionSF: Rick Klaw reviews a King Kong radio play

» Bev Vincent's Stephen King news column from Cemetery Dance magazine is now online at www.NewsFromTheDeadZone.com

» SFFworld interviews John Twelve Hawks and reviews John Meaney

» Bookslut's Adrienne Martini raves about The Next Big Thing -- David Marusek's Counting Heads

• Entertainment Weekly's Dec. 9th Sci-fi 101 reviews (not online) grade Allen Steele A-, Ken MacLeod B, Richard Paul Russo B-, and David Marusek A-

Tue 6 Dec 05 —

» David Langford's Ansible 221

» Paula Guran picks the best of 2005

Mon 5 Dec 05 —

» Issue #12 of Lone Star Stories has work by Sandra McDonald, Jo Walton, Pam McNew, and others

» New small press Payseur & Schmidt has a website and has published an anthology with work by Thomas M. Disch, Tim Kirk, and BlöödHag

» Denver Post: Dorman T. Shindler reviews George R.R. Martin

Thu 1 Dec 05 —

» Trufen.net: Frank Wu analyzes Hugo recommendation lists

Wed 30 Nov 05 —

» AS if!, a new Australian site to help readers find books and magazines to read, has launched

» New e-zine Electric Spec is seeking submissions for its first issue in early 2006

» Boston Globe: Peter Bebergal reviews Dava Sobel's The Planets

» Infinity Plus has new reviews of Rowling, Turley, Meaney, and others, plus reprinted fiction by Gregory Frost, Paul Witcover, and Karen D Fishler

» Fantastic Literature's December list is online

» fps Magazine has new reviews by Cynthia Ward

» The Distant Star is a new "amateur sci-fi and fantasy literature community website"

Tue 29 Nov 05 —

» Group blog Crooked Timber has hosted a seminar about Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, with response by Clarke; the full seminar is available in pdf

» DarkEcho: Paula Guran interviews and reviews Joe Hill

» Guardian: C.S. Lewis opposed a live action film of Narnia

Mon 28 Nov 05 —

» Boston Review: John Crowley reviews Richard Hughes

» Emma Bull blogs at Get Back to Work

» Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City #123 is online

Sun 27 Nov 05 —

» LA Times Book Review: Susan Salter Reynolds' front cover review is of Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling; also, Gregory Benford reviews Ray Kurzweil

» San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Kage Baker, Cherie Priest, Jonathan Carroll

Fri 25 Nov 05 —

» The New Yorker: Adam Gopnik profiles C.S. Lewis

Fri 25 Nov 05 —

» Gregory Benford has a new official site, and has teamed with fellow UCI prof Michael Rose for Benford & Rose, promoting "an on-going series of essays on topics spanning a wide range of evolutionary science, physics, and beyond" via Amazon Shorts

Wed 23 Nov 05 —

» Stephen Jones writes "If anyone has a current contact address or e-mail for Galad Elflandson or the Estate of Sharon Baker, could they please contact me. I have checks and books for both."

» Greeley Tribune: Connie Willis on CBS' adaptation of her novella "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know", broadcast last weekend

» UK bookshop chain Forbidden Planet has a revamped website, and offers an affiliate program

» Jeremy Lassen of Night Shade Books has posted his World Fantasy Con pics

» NY Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year includes Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and books by Murakami, Ellis, Ishiguro, Rushdie

Tue 22 Nov 05 —

» Blog updates: Derryl Murphy has moved; On Spec has one; and A Small Drop of Ink is a new group blog

» NY Times: Christopher Nolan's film adaptation (scroll down) of Christopher Priest's The Prestige to star David Bowie and others...

» Rick Kleffel on Richard Paul Russo

» SF Weekly: John Joseph Adams interviews Katrina survivors Cowdrey, Brite, and Fox

» Strange Horizons offers an article about the Arctic and an essay by Matthew Cheney

Sun 20 Nov 05 —

» New York Times Book Review: Jonathan Lethem's Italo for Beginners

» San Francisco Chronicle: SF & Fantasy gift books for the holidays -- i.e. Michael Berry's picks for the best books of the year, by Tuttle, Farris, Waldrop, Varley, Simmons, Link, Moore et al, Westerfeld, Gaiman, and Butler

» Boston Globe's Joshua Glenn's Back to utopia asks "Can the antidote to today's neoliberal triumphalism be found in the pages of far-out science fiction?", considering works by PKD, Le Guin, Delany, and Fredric Jameson's new Archaeologies of the Future

» Guardian: Gwyneth Jones reviews Justina Robson; Top 20 geek novels

» Green Man Review's Cat Eldridge reviews Richard Bowes and Larry Niven; also, a Vance bibliography reviewed, and Kage Baker�s soul cake recipe in What's New

» Rambles has new reviews of books by Gregory Frost, Richard Bowes, and Jane Yolen

» Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the SFWA Reception in NYC and photos from the KGB reading with Judith Berman and Joe Hill

» Independent: Roz Kaveney talks with Alan Moore: Could it be magic?

Sat 19 Nov 05 —

» Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show has new comics by Orson Scott Card, "Fat Farm", and new reviews by John Joseph Adams

» Call for submissions: She�s Such a Geek, "An Anthology by and for Women Obsessed with Computers, Science, Comic Books, Gaming, Spaceships, and Revolution" (also posted by Boing Boing)

» Aeon Speculative Fiction's fifth issue, now available via various online retailers, features Howard V. Hendrix, Jay Lake, Mark Bourne, Dr. Rob Furey, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and others

» Australian dark fantasy/horror e-zine Shadowed Realms has published issue #8, with Poppy Z Brite, Robert Hood, Lee Battersby, and others; also just released is the Shadow Box e-anthology, edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings and Angela Challis, with work by more than 60 authors, available as a download or on CD

» Rick Kleffel reviews Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana

Thu 17 Nov 05 —

» New York Times: Manohla Dargis reviews the new Harry Potter movie: The Young Wizard Puts Away Childish Things

» Next week's Time Magazine calls George R.R. Martin "The American Tolkien"

» Rick Kleffel reviews Joe Hill and reviews Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana

Tue 15 Nov 05 —

» David Schwartz has set up a Sci Fiction appreciation project, inviting readers to submit appreciations for stories published there

» The Carl Brandon Society has a blog

» Wrigley-Cross Books, which closed its brick and mortar store in September, is now open for online business

Mon 14 Nov 05 —

» Jeff VanderMeer has posted his World Fantasy Con report

» November Ultraverse has new fiction and poetry

Sun 13 Nov 05 —

» L.A. Times Magazine: The fabulist literature that's peculiar to Los Angeles is the only American fiction that's really worth reading, says Alan Rifkin

» SF Chronicle: Elizabeth Svoboda reviews Rudy Rucker

» NY Times: A.O. Scott on Medal Fatigue

» From last week's New York Times Magazine: D.T. Max on The Literary Darwinists

Fri 11 Nov 05 —

» Democracy Now!: Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and Religion, with links to audio files of the interview

Thu 10 Nov 05 —

» New magazine Robot has these writers guidelines

» SFFWorld's Rob H. Bedford reviews the next R. Scott Bakker

» The Author's Dilemma: To Blog or Not to Blog

» French website SF Mag has this English language interview with Richard Calder

» Bookslut: Adrienne Martini's Chicks with Guns reviews Elizabeths Bear and Moon

» November Internet Review of SF discusses military SF onscreen, editorial lessons, why wizards are boring, and more

Wed 9 Nov 05 —

» Historian Robert Conquest, author of SF novel A World of Difference in 1955 and co-editor of the Spectrum series of anthologies in the early 1960s, is among today's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

» Ellen Datlow's photos from World Fantasy Con

Tue 8 Nov 05 —

» Socialist Worker Online: Ken MacLeod: science fiction can help us learn to change the world

» Apex Digest interviews Angeline Hawkes-Craig

» The Agony Column chats with Richard Morgan

» World Fantasy Con reports from Cheryl Morgan, Paula Guran, Matthew Cheney

» Green Man Review reviews historical dictionaries by Brian Stableford, Sharyn November's Firebirds Rising, and Jane Lindskold

» The Bat Segundo Show podcasts Lydia Millet

Sun 6 Nov 05 —

» Keith Stokes' photos from the 2005 World Fantasy Convention

» Anchorage Press: article on David Marusek, author of just-released Counting Heads

» Boston Globe: article by James Sallis, Miéville maps out new territory in fantastic fiction

Sat 5 Nov 05 —

» David Langford's Ansible 220

Wed 2 Nov 05 —

» Autumn issue of Endicott Studio's Journal of Mythic Arts features Ari Berk, Helen Pilinovsky, and Christopher Barzak, plus art by Oliver Hunter, and poetry

» October Broadsheet, newsletter of Broad Universe, features M.C.A Hogarth, Wen Spencer, Carol Emshwiller, Suzy McKee Charnas, and interviews with Ellen Datlow and Spanish writer Nuria C. Botey

Tue 1 Nov 05 —

» James Patrick Kelly is offering free podcasts of readings of his own works, beginning with new novella "Burn"

» ST:TNG exec producer Michael Piller died today at the age of 57

» FantasyBookSpot reviews John C. Wright

» Rick Kleffel reviews and interviews Mary Roach, author of Spook

Mon 31 Oct 05 —

» November scifidimensions has reviews and original fiction by editor John C. Snider

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Borges, Ron Charles reviews Butler

» Fantastic Literature's November list is online

» Jeff VanderMeer announces two new anthologies

» The SF Poetry Association has two editor's choice poems this month, by Tobias Seamon and by JoSelle Vanderhooft • Elsewhere, Mythic Delirium has a featured poem by Ann K. Schwader, and Matt Cheney interviews Mike Allen

Sat 29 Oct 05 —

» Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City #122 reviews George R.R. Martin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Joe Hill, Gary Westfahl... and many others

» Stephen King to write The Dark Tower comics for Marvel Comics

» The 'new' DarkEcho has interviews with Jeff VanderMeer, Michael Moorcock, and Karl Schroeder, an article about those 'Tor Essentials', and lots of reviews...

» LA Times: Carmela Ciuraru reviews Del Howison & Jeff Gelb's Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre

» Design the 2006 Hugo Award trophy!

» Jeff VanderMeer is hosting a Halloween Haiku contest

» Fall issue of Rain Taxi reviews Neil Gaiman, Michel Houellebecq

» The Agony Column reviews Richard Morgan, Terry Pratchett, Gary A. Braunbeck, Connie Willis

» Green Man Review's Favourite tales of some of our best liked literary folk

» Orson Scott Card's online Intergalactic Medicine Show is open to submissions

» NY Times: article about Anne Rice's new house in La Jolla

» USA Today's 2046: A boomer odyssey cites Paul Levinson among others

» PDF Issue #6 of critzine Some Fantastic is now available

Thu 27 Oct 05 —

» The Devil in Brisbane, an anthology of Australian SF, has launched; photos from the launch

» PH-UK interviews M. John Harrison

Mon 24 Oct 05 —

» Guardian reviews Interzone

Sat 22 Oct 05 —

» Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB's October 19th reading with Melinda Snodgrass and James Baker

Fri 21 Oct 05 —

» Issue #4 of Edward J. McFadden's COSMIC Speculative Fiction is available for a free subscription

» USA Today reviews Dava Sobel's The Planets and covers Narnia tie-in books

» Rambles reviews John Scalzi, a Gordon Van Gelder anthology, and Clive Barker's Abarat

» Gary Westfahl, Geoffrey A. Landis, and Andy Sawyer comment on China's recent manned spaceflight

» Paul Levinson's remarks in USA Today were cited by Judith Miller in her speech to the Senate Judiciary Committee (near the end of each piece)

Wed 19 Oct 05 —

» Jeff VanderMeer responds to Rich Horton's article on editors and awards

» RevolutionSF: Rick Klaw reviews MirrorMask

Tue 18 Oct 05 —

» Ellen Datlow's photos from Capclave

» Michaela Roessner has exhibit "Landscape as Architecture" of pastels and gouaches at the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest CA, 12 Nov - 14 Dec 2005

Mon 17 Oct 05 —

» SF Weekly: Nick Gevers interviews Alexander C. Irvine; Wil McCarthy raises the dead

» This week's Strange Horizons has an interview with Holly Phillips and an essay by Matthew Cheney

» Jeffrey A. Carver's free online writing course Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy

» Orson Scott Card's new online magazine InterGalactic Medicine Show is live

» Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels includes A Clockwork Orange, The Lord of the Rings, Neuromancer, 1984, Snow Crash, Ubik; article

» Boston Globe: Into the woods, article about Americans' love of British fantasy fiction

» BBC: Philip Pullman attacks Narnia film plans

» A few thousand science fiction covers

Sun 16 Oct 05 —

» Mid-October SF Site interviews Gwyneth Jones and Simon Clark, reviews Karl Schroeder, M.T. Anderson, Mike Resnick, and many others

» Green Man Review reviews Patricia A. McKillip's new collection

» FantasyBookSpot reviews Sean Wright

» SFFWorld.com interviews and reviews Tim Lebbon, reviews Martin Sketchley, and reviews Robert Buettner

Fri 14 Oct 05 —

» The Times: Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees asks Earth to aliens: we haven't had a signal yet. Could you try again?

» Jeff VanderMeer has posted his Australian trip photos from Sydney, Brisbane, and Cairns, Queensland

» USA Today interviews Gregory Maguire

Thu 13 Oct 05 —

» Ellen Datlow's photos from The Witching Hour, the Harry Potter symposium last weekend in Salem MA

Wed 12 Oct 05 —

» La Gringa's back; Patrick O'Leary launches

Tue 11 Oct 05 —

» October Internet Review of SF covers golden age SF, ArmadilloCon, Pod People, and more

Mon 10 Oct 05 —

» SF Weekly: Nick Gevers interviews Jeffrey Ford; Scott Edelman editorializes about Gary Westfahl's Quotations

» Salon's Laura Miller talks with Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke

» Summaries of 2005 SF begin, from Jonathan Strahan and Rich Horton

» Tim Pratt's webpage for The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl includes an original story

Sun 9 Oct 05 —

» NPR: SciFi Themes Invade the Literary World by Rick Kleffel

» New York Times Book Review: Charles Taylor reviews Neil Gaiman; Sophie Harrison reviews Gregory Maguire

» San Francisco Chronicle: Daniel Burton-Rose reviews Michael Blumlein

» Washington Post: Thrity Umrigar reviews Tananarive Due

» Futurismic's October fiction is Changing the Tune by Jason Stoddard

» Green Man Review covers MirrorMask, Serenity, and Philip José Farmer

» Ticonderoga Online's Issue 5 has fiction by Cat Sparks and Shane Jiraiya Cummings, an interview with Stephen Dedman, and reviews

Sat 8 Oct 05 —

» Dave Langford's Ansible 219

» FantasyBookSpot interviews Paul Park

» The 2005 Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention, 20-23 October in Newark NJ, will present a recreation of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet with original stars Frank Thomas and Al Markim, Thursday evening 20 Oct

Thu 6 Oct 05 —

» USA Today interviews Kurt Vonnegut, on politics, presidents and librarians

» JIVEMagazine.com interviews Richard K. Morgan, 'the new king of cyberpunk fiction'

» SFFWorld interviews Joss Whedon, and reviews Moorcock & Constantine's Silverheart

» CNN: Rev. Graham (Shadowmancer) Taylor was thrown out of a school where he was giving a talk for calling Harry Potter gay and making other offensive remarks

» Rick The Agony Column Kleffel reports on SF for NPR this Sunday, October 9, featuring Terry Pratchett, Susanna Clarke and Kazuo Ishiguro.

» WHEDONesque readers respond to Gary Westfahl's review of Serenity

Wed 5 Oct 05 —

» Wilson Tucker's 90th birthday will be celebrated November 26th in Bloomington IL, and you're invited

Tue 4 Oct 05 —

» Washington Post: Katherine A. Powers reviews Gregory Maguire; Donald E. Westlake reviews Terry Pratchett

» SF Weekly: John Clute reviews Susan Palwick

Sat 1 Oct 05 —

» NY Times Book Review: Heinlein's Female Troubles by M.G. Lord; also, Neil Gaiman debuts at #1

» Peter S. Beagle needs help

» ChiZine Issue #26 features fiction by 11th ChiZine/Leisure Short Fiction Contest winners S. E. Ward, Cat Rambo, and Stephen M. Wilson

» Lone Star Stories Issue #11 has work by Sherwood Smith, Jay Lake, Bruce Boston, and others

» October issues of scifidimensions, SF Site, SFcrowsnest, Deep Magic

» Fantastic Literature's October list is online

» Chicago Tribune: Lost's connection to Flann O'Brien

»: BBC's Afternoon Reading audio on Thursday was Zoran Zivkovic's "The Train"

» USA Today: Podcasts give publishers another publicity tool

» Green Man Review: Will Shetterly reviews Finding Serenity...

Fri 30 Sep 05 —

» Washington Post: Lucius Shepard reviews Paul Di Filippo

Thu 29 Sep 05 —

» Ballardian.com: Chris Nakashima-Brown interviews Bruce Sterling on JG Ballard

» New York Times: Michael Crichton testifies against global warming

» FantasyBookSpot reviews Paul Park's A Princess of Roumania

Wed 28 Sep 05 —

» Onion's A.V. Club interviews Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean; also, Serenity reviewed

» Time Magazine interviews Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon, paired with essay The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth by Lev Grossman

» L.A. Times article on MirrorMask's $4 million budget

» Rick Kleffel interviews and reviews Aimee Bender

Tue 27 Sep 05 —

» Ellen Datlow's photos from the Sept 21st KGB reading with Nancy Kress and Alexander Irvine

Mon 26 Sep 05 —

» Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City issue #121

Sun 25 Sep 05 —

» Boston Globe's Peter Bebergal reviews books by John Crowley and Kelly Link

» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Neil Gaiman's "delightful, funny and affecting new novel"

» San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Scott Westerfeld, Rick Riordan, and Hervé Jubert

» Green Man Review offers "The Winter Queen" reel composed in honor of Jane Yolen; see What's New for the story behind it, or listen

Sat 24 Sep 05 —

» The New Yorker briefly notes Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners

Fri 23 Sep 05 —

» The Carl Brandon Society, "dedicated to the representation of people of color in the fantastical genres", is holding a contest to name its two new awards; Cheryl Morgan spells out the details

» Rick Kleffel interviews and reviews Jeffrey Ford

» Concatenation's Autumn issue has extensive news from recent months, plus reviews of books, art, and graphic novels

» SFFWorld reviews Neil Gaiman, Raymond E. Feist, and David Gemmell

» FantasyBookSpot interviews Robin Hobb

» PH-UK interviews Hal Duncan

Wed 21 Sep 05 —

Announcements:
» Tachyon Publications celebrates its 10th anniversary this Saturday at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, with Jack Vance, Peter Beagle, Terry Bisson, and others

» ArtOrg in Northfield, Minnesota, is hosting a John Berkey exhibition this weekend, 23-25 September, including works never before seen by the public; a second, larger exhibition opens in November

» Holtzbrinck Podcasts, offering free audio excerpts of selected titles from Tor and other publishers, begins this week with works by Orson Scott Card and Ben Bova

Tue 20 Sep 05 —

» AP: Stephen King is auctioning rights to name characters in his novels to support the First Amendment Project; other writers involved are Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, Karen Joy Fowler, and Jonathan Lethem

» Strange Horizons has revived its reviews section and will be posting several items weekly; editorial

» Technovelgy.com's Science Fiction in the News

» A.R. Yngve provides classic pulp covers resized for mobile phone screens

Sun 18 Sep 05 —

» LA Times Magazine: profile of Richard Matheson

» Jeff VanderMeer interrogates Australian writers Bishop, Westerfeld, Larbalestier, Maloney, and others...

Thu 15 Sep 05 —

» Voting for the 3rd annual Wooden Rocket Awards, for best SF/F websites, is now open

» Jeff VanderMeer interviews Garth Nix

» Jack Dann.com

» Steven H Silver's Argentus issue #5 is available in PDF, with work by Julie E. Czerneda, Mike Resnick, Stanley Schmidt, S.M. Stirling, Gene Wolfe, and others

» Apex SF and Horror Digest Issue #3 is now on sale; contents include M.M. Buckner, William R. Eakin, Brian Keene

» FantasyBookSpot interviews Sarah Ash

» SFFWorld interviews and reviews John Marco, reviews Dozois' Galileo's Children, and reviews Robert Williams

Wed 14 Sep 05 —

» Reason: Dhalgren in New Orleans: What an old science-fiction novel can tell us about the Big Easy

» Where London Stood, David Platt's site about 'the contemporary city in ruins'

» John Shirley's guest blogger Norman Spinrad on the "War on Terror"

» Guardian's Sarah Crown talks to Kim Stanley Robinson "about climate change, the power of science and the trials of living under 'the worst president in American history' "

» Jeff VanderMeer interviews the editors of Scottish SF/F Fiction anthology Nova Scotia

Tue 13 Sep 05 —

» DoubleFiltered: interview with Cory Doctorow

Mon 12 Sep 05 —

» Newsday.com: Paul Levinson on media coverage of Katrina: The media's righteous outrage

» Salon serializes Cory Doctorow's novella "Themepunks" beginning today for 10 weeks

» Time Magazine reviews 5 Short Story Gems including books by China Miéville and Kelly Link

» Guardian's Gary Taylor doesn't like Dan Simmons' Olympos; Cheryl Morgan comments

» Telegraph: Philip Pullman attacks school league tables for killing off curiosity and joy

Sun 11 Sep 05 —

» Boston Globe: James Sallis on Echoes from sci-fi's golden age, specifically Eric Frank Russell's Wasp

Fri 9 Sep 05 —

» LiveScience: Housing for Katrina Victims: Ideas from Science Fiction

» Apex Digest interviews Rhonda Eudaly

» Sony's MirrorMask site has previews and clips; film opens Sept. 30th

» And here's the site for Corpse Bride

» Futurismic has posted His Whore The Vector by David McGillveray

» Recent Sci Fiction stories are by Laird Barron, M. Rickert, Pat Cadigan, and Lucius Shepard

» San Francisco Guardian profiles indie SF press Tachyon Publications

» Current story arc of webcomic something positive is by guest writer Paul Riddell

» John Shirley's Edge Trends

» Semiotext(e)

Thu 8 Sep 05 —

» David Langford's Ansible 128 includes a link to Christopher Priest's InterAction Guest of Honour speech

» Katrina victim Tyrannosaurus Press

Wed 7 Sep 05 —

» SF Weekly's John Clute reviews Hamilton & Brackett; Dorman T. Shindler interviews Bradley Denton

» September Bookslut interviews Susanna Clarke and interviews Mary Doria Russell

» Strange Horizons has articles on stupid utopias and sci-fi imagery on wine bottles

» Jeff VanderMeer interviews the editors of forthcoming non-realist fiction anthology Paraspheres

» FantasyBookSpot interviews Caitlin Sweet

» BBC: J.K. Rowling's portrait in the National Portrait Galley

Tue 6 Sep 05 —

» September Internet Review of Science Fiction discusses disaster, Clarion and other such workshops, defining genre, Thomas Disch, and movies; plus reviews

Mon 5 Sep 05 —

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Paul Park's A Princess of Roumania

» RevolutionSF: Jayme Lynn Blaschke reports from Armadillocon

Fri 2 Sep 05 —

» Slate's Bryan Curtis celebrates Ray Bradbury, pulp god

Thu 1 Sep 05 —

» Early reviews of A Sound of Thunder are not promising... Sentinel SF; NY Times; CNN

» Page Horrific: 10 questions for Ellen Datlow

» Rick Kleffel reviews Gaiman's Anansi Boys

» SFFWorld interviews Robin Hobb, reviews Elizabeth Kostova, and reviews Gary Wassner

» Seattle Times profiles Harry Harrison, scheduled (but canceled) GoH at Cascadia Con

» Iowa Review Web has Kathleen Ann Goonan essay Consciousness, Literature, and Science Fiction

Wed 31 Aug 05 —

» Fantastic Literature's September list is online

» Fantasybookspot interviews Sarah Monette

Mon 29 Aug 05 —

» New Russian SF e-zine: Shaltay-Boltay [Humpty-Dumpty]

» New travel e-zine for SF fans, The Genre Traveler, set to launch Oct 1st

Sun 28 Aug 05 —

» Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City completes its 10th year with Issue 120, with reviews, plans, reaction to Worldcon, and analysis of the Hugo results

» NY Times Book Review: Chelsea Cain reviews Jeffrey Ford's The Girl in the Glass

» SF Chronicle's Michael Berry reviews Kelly Link, Richard Bowes, Alan Moore, Joe Haldeman

Sun 28 Aug 05 —

» The SF Poetry Association has posted photos of the 2005 Rhysling Awards, with links to the winning works, and from the Poetry Slan at ReaderCon

» Green Man Review reviews Gaiman's Anansi Boys and Blaschke's Voices of Vision

» Christian Science Monitor on Edward Whittemore, "America's best unknown novelist"

» Newsday article on becoming a successful writer interviews John Marco

Wed 24 Aug 05 —

» Ellen Datlow has posted photos from Readercon and photos from the July 20 KGB Reading with Michael Blumlein and Kelly Link

» Salon's reviewers recommend Bret Easton Ellis and Kelly Link's latest books

Mon 22 Aug 05 —

» SF Weekly's Dorman T. Shindler interviews Dan Simmons, while Wil McCarthy explores the Science of Willy Wonka

Sun 21 Aug 05 —

» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park; also, Paul Di Filippo reviews Sturgeon, Avery, McKillip, and Denton

» LA Times: Denise Hamilton is not too impressed with Christopher Paolini's Eldest

» Elsewhere, Entertainment Weekly gives Paolini [August 26th issue, not online] a D+

» Jeffrey Ford has a blog

» Ideomancer interviews and reviews Charles Coleman Finlay; also, fiction by Angela Boord, Tom Doyle, Roger B. Bagwell, David Kopaska-Merkel, and Marcie Lynn Tentchoff

» The Official Philip José Farmer Home Page is publishing a print magazine, Farmerphile, featuring a serialized unpublished novel Up from the Bottomless Pit

» UC San Francisco profiles staff physician Michael Blumlein

» New author David Louis Edelman, whose Infoquake is due next year from Pyr, has a website

Fri 19 Aug 05 —

» Amazon Shorts offer short fiction, at 49 cents each, by genre writers including Robert Silverberg, Audrey Niffenegger, Gregory Benford, James Morrow, Mary Rosenblum, Lucius Shepard, Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, and many others

» The Albuquerque Tribune profiles Jack Williamson, who says he's done writing

» The 2005 Hugo Award Ceremony Script

Thu 18 Aug 05 —

» Ellen Datlow's photos from Glasgow

» Listen to Cory Doctorow reading from a work in progress -- his fourth novel -- at Worldcon

» Bookgasm is a blog "dedicated to reading material to get excited about"

» A.R. Yngve transcribes Elizabeth Moon's guest of honor speech from Intercon 2005

Wed 17 Aug 05 —

» RevolutionSF interviews and reviews Chris Roberson

» January reviews J.K. Rowling, Jeffrey Ford, Cory Doctorow, Robert Charles Wilson, and Mark Helprin

» Fantasy Book Spot reviews Hal Duncan's Vellum; also, reviews of Richard Bowes and Robin Hobb

» David Hartwell's photos from InterAction

Tue 16 Aug 05 —

» Keith Stokes' photos from InterAction

» Rick Kleffel reports from Worldcon; many other links blogged by Cheryl Morgan

» SFFWorld reviews Robin Hobb and reviews China Miéville

» It's Richard Morgan week at Your Mom's Basement

» Las Vegas Business Press article on conventions supported by the 'New Geeks'...

Mon 15 Aug 05 —

» SF Weekly's Scott Edelman editorializes about Worldcon; last week, Nick Gevers interviewed John Crowley and John Clute reviewed Jeffrey Ford

» Meanwhile, Scott Edelman has posted his Worldcon 2005 photos

» Newsweek interviews Jane Yolen

» Rick Klaw reviews Jeffrey Ford for Austin Chronicle

» Jeff VanderMeer interviews Kelly Link; starting today Kameron Hurley guest-blogs for Jeff

» Star*Line's current poem is "Malgre le Nuit Seul et le Jour en Feu" by David Lunde; Mythic Delirium features "Genetics" by Charles Saplak

» Fantasybookspot interviews Richard Bowes

Sat 6 Aug 05 —

» More press coverage of InterAction: Guardian cites odd panel topics; The Times notes the con's seriousness

» Salon: Douglas Wolk profiles Carla Speed McNeil's "aboriginal SF" graphic novel series Finder

Fri 5 Aug 05 —

» Washington Post: Carolyn See reviews Bradbury Speaks

» The Scotsman covers Worldcon

» BBC on this year's British Hugo nominees

» August SFRevu interviews Simon R. Green, prepares to cover InterAction

» Blogging from InterAction is Rick Kleffel, among many others; Cheryl Morgan is tracking them

» STLtoday: Dorman T. Shindler reviews Dan Simmons, Charlaine Harris, and "what might prove to be the year's finest urban fantasy" by Lydia Millet

» James A. Owen's blog and sketchbook

Tue 2 Aug 05 —

» David Langford's Ansible 217

» Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City 119 looks to Scotland

» August Internet Review of SF has features and reviews and invites volunteer copy editors

» The Scotsman previews Worldcon

» Glasgow's The Herald talks with Christopher Priest and Geoff Ryman

» Green Man Review covers Gardner Dozois, Neal Asher, Niven & Cooper, and others

» Baltimore Sun's Victoria A. Brownworth wonders why horror doesn't get more respect

» Fantasybookspot interviews Jasper Fforde

Tue 26 Jul 05 —

» SF Chronicle: David Kipen responds to reader reactions to his Potter review, and addresses myths about what critics do

Sun 24 Jul 05 —

» The Guardian: article about an ill-timed promotion on the London Underground for Iain M Banks' The Algebraist.. "a perfect place to have your mind blown to smithereens"

» New Jersey Star-Ledger: Dorman T. Shindler reviews Simmons' Olympos

Thu 21 Jul 05 —

» The New Yorker: profile of Chocolate Factory author Roald Dahl

» NY Times Book Review: advance posting of Liesl Schillinger's 31 July review of the new Harry Potter

Wed 20 Jul 05 —

» Futurismic has posted The Rivers of Eden by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold

» World Fantasy Con 2006 has its own website

» Dark Regions Press has a new website and email address

» Issue #5 of critzine Some Fantastic is now available as a PDF file

» Green Man Review reviews Cemetery Dance novellas, Diana Wynne Jones, and Edgar Pangborn

» Tor Books' Knife of Dreams Internet Hunt begins August 2nd, promoting Robert Jordan's new book; registration open now

» USA Today article on the future of books interviews Cory Doctorow

Mon 18 Jul 05 —

» Salon's Laura Miller reviews Harry Potter, with spoilers

» Time Magazine's Lev Grossman talks with J.K. Rowling

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Dan Simmons and Jasper Fforde; also, David Lazarus reviews John Twelve Hawks

Sun 17 Jul 05 —

» NY Times Magazine article about the new Battlestar Galactica profiles Ronald D. Moore

» LA Times: Anne Boles Levy reviews Yolen & Nielsen Hayden's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens

Sat 16 Jul 05 —

» Reviews of the new Harry Potter from NY Times' Michiko Kakutani and LA Times' Emily Green

Fri 15 Jul 05 —

» Slate profiles L. Ron Hubbard

» The SciFi Podcast Network.com debuts

» UC Riverside's Science Fiction Trove Winning Literary War of the Worlds

» The Guardian's Harry Potter pastiches, in the style of various authors, presume that Dumbledore dies in the new book [via]

Thu 14 Jul 05 —

» Rachel Purdom, granddaughter of SF writer Tom Purdom, is one of Amazon's 10 Harry Potter Kids Review Panel; see her video here

» Ian R. MacLeod now has his own domain; Fantasybookspot interviews him

» Sci Fiction's latest original stories are by Elizabeth Hand, Suzy McKee Charnas, Barry N. Malzberg & Jack Dann, and Richard Bowes

» RevolutionSF has new fiction by S.E. Wallace and, coming soon, John Garrison, Steven Gould & Rory Harper, and Lou Antonelli

» Electric Story offers five short fictions by George R.R. Martin, as well as Lucius Shepard's review of War of the Worlds

» New quarterly e-zine Son & Foe will publish fiction, poetry, and art beginning November

» Paul Guran's DarkEcho blog has moved [new URL]

» Anatomy of Wonder's chronology, squeezed out of the print edition

Mon 11 Jul 05 —

» NY Times: Edward Rothstein on Martians

Sun 10 Jul 05 —

» Kathryn Cramer's photos from Readercon

» LA Times: Gavin J. Grant reviews new editions of H.G. Wells

» Boston Globe: Ren�e Graham reviews Mary Anne Mohanraj

» Weird Tales

Sat 9 Jul 05 —

• Entertainment Weekly (July 15 issue, not online) gives Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners an A and an Editor's Choice insignia

Fri 8 Jul 05 —

» NY Times article When the Film Outshines the Novel discusses The War of the Worlds among others

» The Scotsman article The secret to writing a best-seller is .. includes advice from Iain M Banks

Wed 6 Jul 05 —

» David Langford's Ansible 216

» July Internet Review of SF has pieces on Wells, War of the Worlds, and Susanna Clarke...

• Entertainment Weekly (July 8 issue, not online) gives Niven & Cooper's Building Harlequin's Moon an A-, Reynolds' Century Rain a C, Card's Magic Street a D, and Stross' Accelerando an A-

Sun 3 Jul 05 —

» Jeff VanderMeer interviews Lucius Shepard (from Rain Taxi)

» Green Man Review: Jack Merry reviews Anatomy of Wonder; Denise Dutton reviews Essential SF

» Fantastic Literature's July list is online

» John Joseph Adams reviews Spin

» Feo Amante's Story Time

Thu 30 Jun 05 —

» RevolutionSF: Rick Klaw reviews War of the Worlds

» Rick Kleffel interviews Andrew Vachss

» New ChiZine has fiction by Huey Alcaro, Hannah Wolf Bowen, Mark Budman, and Simon Owens, plus poetry by Bruce Boston and others

» Green Man Review: Robert M. Tilendis reviews Silverberg's Star of Gypsies

Tue 28 Jun 05 —

» Slate: David Edelstein reviews The War of the Worlds

» Salon: Laura Miller on what Dianetics really says

Mon 27 Jun 05 —

» NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews John Twelve Hawks' The Traveler; also, article about the book's marketing campaign

» CNN: Star Trek's Jack-the-Ripper John Fiedler dies

» John Joseph Adams interviews Kelly Link

» PKD Android

Sun 26 Jun 05 —

» Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City #118

» LA Times: Jonathan Kirsch reviews Sam Weller's Ray Bradbury bio

» The Agony Column updates Al Sarrantonio

» Nerve: Andy Duncan's Inspiration Point [requires premium login]

» Fantastic Metropolis has an interview with Paul Witcover and an excerpt from Tumbling After

» Ellen Datlow's photos from June 15th KGB Reading with Jeffrey Ford and Gregory Frost

Fri 24 Jun 05 —

» Salon's latest reading recommendations include books by Michael Cunningham and by John Crowley

» The Agony Column reviews Stross' Accelerando

» Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is available as a free download

» CBC TV documentary about Doctor Who features Robert J. Sawyer

Thu 23 Jun 05 —

» Cleveland Plain Dealer: profile of Ellen Klages, Nebula winner

» Boston Globe: profile of Eric Van, co-founder of Readercon, with quotes from Clute and Crowley

» Jeff VanderMeer questions Jeffrey Ford

» SFPA's latest editor's choice poem is Roger Dutcher's "Awakenings: Cryogenic Dream #2"; also, Rhysling winners anthology available for pre-order

» Good Housekeeping's Book Babes recommend sci-fi and fantasy

Tue 21 Jun 05 —

» The Onion reports from 2056

Sun 19 Jun 05 —

» NY Times Book Review: Gerald Jonas reviews Clarke & Baxter, Liz Williams, Steve Cash, Jon Courtenay Grimwood; also, Christopher Benfey reviews John Crowley

» Washington Post: Ron Charles reviews John Crowley

» Boston Globe: James Sallis essay on Edgar Allan Poe

Fri 17 Jun 05 —

» Slate: Bidisha Banerjee likes Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle better than she likes Hayao Miyazaki's film adaptation

» NY Times op ed by Neal Stephenson about Star Wars: Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out; also, Caryn James essay about the pop-culture Manichaeism of Star Wars and Batman

» Guardian: Margaret Atwood on why we need science fiction

» SF Weekly: John Clute reviews Bradley Denton's Laughin' Boy

» Apex SF and Horror Digest's Summer issue has been released

Wed 15 Jun 05 —

» Storytellers Unplugged is a new virtual home for 30 authors, editors, and booksellers in the horror and dark fantasy genres

» Boston Globe: Peter Bebergal reviews Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian

Mon 13 Jun 05 —

» NY Times: A.O. Scott on The Miyazaki Menagerie

» NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews Elizabeth Kostova's Dracula novel The Historian; also, Thomas Mallon reviews Umberto Eco

» Washington Post: Joshua Foer's review of Joel Garreau's Radical Evolution mentions "eccentric scientist" Vernor Vinge...; also, Bill Sheehan reviews Mary Gentle, Ramsey Campbell, Ian R. MacLeod, and Neal Asher; and, Michael Dirda reviews Elizabeth Kostova

» SF Chronicle: David Wiegand reviews Michael Cunningham's Speciman Days

» LA Times: David Ebershoff reviews Michael Cunningham; Max Allan Collins reviews Batman

Sun 12 Jun 05 —

» LA Times: article about and review of Hayao Miyazaki's latest

» Futurismic offers Real Death by Terry Hayman

» Brian Aldiss' website has been redesigned

» Guardian: How to make a book

Fri 10 Jun 05 —

» Barnes & Noble's Explorations newsletter interviews Chris Roberson

Thu 9 Jun 05 —

» Bookslut interviews Lois McMaster Bujold and reviews Carol Emshwiller

Wed 8 Jun 05 —

» Apex Digest Online interviews Christopher Rowe

Tue 7 Jun 05 —

» CBC.ca: Back to Futures Past, article on Canadian SF writers Wilson, Sawyer, and Schroeder

» SFFWorld is running a short story contest, with deadline August 31, 2005

» FantasyBookSpot interviews Matthew Hughes

» June Internet Review of SF interviews Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, reports from WisCon 29, comments on Star Wars and The Time Tunnel, etc.

» SF Weekly: Nick Gevers interviews Paul Park; Michael Cassutt anticipates The Lost Generation

Mon 6 Jun 05 —

» San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews John Varley, Damien Broderick, and Carol Emshwiller

» Salon's Summer Reading picks include Charles Stross' The Hidden Family and Kevin Guilfoile's Cast of Shadows

» London Times: profile of Charles Stross (here scanned)

» This week's Strange Horizons has a Matthew Cheney column on new movements in SF

Sun 5 Jun 05 —

» David Langford's Ansible 215

» Green Man Review: interview with Kage Baker

» Rambles: reviews of Jasper Fforde, of John Varley, of Theodore Judson

» Black Gate has posted the complete text of Judith Berman's The Poison Well

» MarsDust article: N3F re-launches national NEFFY Awards

Wed 1 Jun 05 —

» QuickTime trailer for Hayo Miyazaki's animated Howl's Moving Castle, based on a novel by Diana Wynne Jones

» SF Weekly: Nick Gevers interviews Robert Charles Wilson; Wil McCarthy wonders Why Crush the Moon?

» New issues of SF Site, Lone Star Stories, scifidimensions, SF Crowsnest, Quantum Muse, Deep Magic

» Fantasybookspot interviews R. Scott Bakker

» Fantastic Literature's June booklist is online

» Sean Johnston invites submissions to new webzine Turn the Page

Mon 30 May 05 —

» Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City #117 reviews Dan Simmons, Gwyneth Jones, Steve Aylett, etc., with other reviews by Anne K.G. Murphy and a column by Daniel M. Kimmel

» The Broadsheet for May has a UK focus with guest editor Liz Williams, interviews with Tanith Lee and Susanna Clarke, Michael Arnzen's Grossing Out Teacher: A Horror Writer in the Writing Classroom, reviews, etc.

» George R.R. Martin is done with A Feast for Crows

Sat 28 May 05 —

» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted

» Blogcritics.org: review of Yolen & Nielsen Hayden's The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens

» Rambles: new reviews of George Alec Effinger's Live! From Planet Earth and of Marvin Kaye's The Dragon Quintet

» Library Journal's Best Magazines of 2004 includes Argosy

» Far Sector (formerly Deep Outside SFFH) for May has interviews with Ray Bradbury and Michael A. Stackpole

» The Science fiction, Fantasy and Horror Bookstore of Stockholm, Sweden invites visitors, especially authors (contact)

Fri 27 May 05 —

» New blogs: Ian McDonald, Lucy Snyder, Justine Larbalestier, Mario Milosevic

Tue 24 May 05 —

» Short fiction nominees for this year's Hugo Awards are now available online

» The Agony Column: interview with Chuck Palahniuk, and more

» Planetary Society: Cosmos1 Ships in Preparation for June Launch, with a microwave beam experiment led by Gregory Benford and James Benford

» The current featured poem at Mythic Delirium is Sonya Taaffe's "The Laying Out"

» New York Times: Edward Rothstein reviews the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle

Mon 23 May 05 —

» Charles Stross will make forthcoming novel Accelerando available as an ebook under a Creative Commons license, via accelerando.org, in June

» Green Man Review: reviews of Gaiman & McKean's Mirrormask, of Holly Black, and of Butler/ James/ Mendlesohn about Terry Pratchett

» Boston Globe: Peter Bebergal reviews Steph Swainston and Justina Robson

» Washington Post: Paul Di Filippo reviews Tanith Lee, William F. Nolan, Robert Charles Wilson, and Judith Merril

» Denver Post: Fred Cleaver reviews Neal Asher, Ian R. MacLeod, A. Lee Martinez

» Rambles has reviews of new books by Connie Willis and by Elisabeth Vonarburg

» John Joseph Adams (assistant editor at F&SF) declares June Slush Writer Appreciation Month

Fri 20 May 05 —

» [dead cities] ver.4.o is a new messageboard devoted to SFF

» Issue #4 of Some Fantastic is now available as a PDF download

Tue 17 May 05 —

» SF Weekly: John Clute reviews John Crowley's Lord Byron's Novel

» Mid-May SF Site has reviews of Robert J. Sawyer, Karen Traviss, James Tiptree Jr., four Wesleyan Early Classics, and an interview with Michael Moorcock

» Washington Post: Lloyd Rose reviews H.P. Lovecraft

Mon 16 May 05 —

» The Onion: Scientology Losing Ground To New Fictionology

» NJ.com: Dorman T. Shindler reviews Lucius Shepard's Weapons of Mass Seduction

Sun 15 May 05 —

» L.A. Times: James Sallis reviews Laurell K. Hamilton's A Stroke of Midnight; also, Charles Solomon reviews three books about Star Wars

» Agony Column's Nazalee Raja interviews David Mitchell

» Salt Lake Tribune: Marc S. Williams responds to Orson Scott Card about the end of Star Trek

Wed 11 May 05 —

» Discovery Channel's Alien Planet, a fictional exploration of a new planet, featuring Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, and George Lucas, premieres Saturday May 14; follow links for photos, videos, etc.

» Gabe Chouinard is researching pulp author Nathan Schachner, and invites suggestions from Locus Online readers of decent resources, sources for stories, a bibliography or any other snippets of information

» Blog The Pig of Death has Tough Questions For Tough Jews: Harlan Ellison, first of a three-part interview

Mon 9 May 05 —

» Scott Edelman's Nebula Awards photos

» Ellen Datlow's photos from April 20th's KGB Reading with Harvey Jacobs and Benjamin Rosenbaum

Sun 8 May 05 —

» Ellen Datlow has posted Nebula Awards photos from last weekend's event

» CBC Magazine: essay by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling: Editing Anthologies for Young People

» Green Man Review: Cat Eldridge reviews George Alec Effinger's Live! From Planet Earth

» Futurismic has new fiction by Will McIntosh, The Existential Cure

» January: Andi Shechter reviews a new Jerry Oltion and reviews a classic Ursula K. Le Guin

» Rambles: reviews of Heinlein's The Puppet Masters, Gordon Van Gelder's In Lands That Never Were, and Simon Brown's Soveriegn

» Archaeology: Robert J. Sawyer reviews a new edition of Jack London's Before Adam

» Fantasybookspot: interview of Steph Swainston

» sffworld: interview of E.E. Knight

Tue 3 May 05 —

» Slate compares Wikipedia to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

» LA Times: Orson Scott Card says good riddance to Star Trek

» May issues of Ansible, SF Site, scifidimensions, Internet Review of SF

» Fantastic Literature's May list is online

Mon 2 May 05 —

» Rick Kleffel reviews Cory Doctorow's new novel

» NY Times: Jonathan Lethem on Kafka and Roberto Calasso

» Jeff VanderMeer is collecting manifestos

» Rambles: reviews of Lisa Smedman, of Curt Benjamin, and of Catherine Fisher

» Sunday Business Post: review of Jeff VanderMeer

» South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Alice Hoffman on SF and fantasy

» More on Interaction's shipping arrangements for artists

Sun 1 May 05 —

» NY Times: What SF writers think of Star Wars -- Morgan, Le Guin, Niven, Bradbury, Russell

» LA Times: Philip Pullman on how fiction is A Subtle School of Morals

Sat 30 Apr 05 —

» DarkEcho: Paula Guran tries Setting Locus Straight on Print on Demand

» Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City: April issue has reviews of Swainston, Broderick, Sketchley, etc.; an interview with Golden Gryphon's Gary Turner; and more

» Guardian: PD Smith reviews Mike Ashley's Transformations

» MultiVerse is a new e-zine of speculative poetry reviews

Tue 26 Apr 05 —

» Rick Kleffel interviews and reviews Kazuo Ishiguro

Sun 24 Apr 05 —

» Important information about Exhibitor Shipping and Customs Services for people from North America attending this year's World SF Convention in Glasgow

» San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews John Farris, Chris Roberson, Howard Waldrop

» Elizabeth Hand is this year's May Queen

» Jeff VanderMeer celebrates the new Steve Aylett

» Green Man Review: Lenora Rose considers a book from PublishAmerica; also, Cat Eldridge on a new edition of Miéville's King Rat

Fri 22 Apr 05 —

» NY Times: Caryn James on the latest trendy theme in serious books and films: cloning

Thu 21 Apr 05 —

» Rick Kleffel reviews Steve Aylett's Lint, a biography of fictional SF writer Jeff Lint

Tue 19 Apr 05 —

» NY Times: Michiko Kakutani reviews another cloning novel

» SF Weekly: John Clute reviews Andreas Eschbach

» Strange Horizons: interview with Stephen Baxter; James Schellenberg surveys writers about music they listen to while writing

» Concatenation's Summer 2005 issue includes lots of news and numerous reviews (see What's New)

Sun 17 Apr 05 —

» LA Times Book Review: Stephen King's introduction to Michel Houellebecq's book on H.P. Lovecraft; Gavin J. Grant reviews Lovecraft

» San Francisco Chronicle: Trey Popp reviews Jan Lars Jensen's Nervous System..

» Rick Kleffel interviews Lou Anders

• Entertaiment Weekly's 'Sci-Fi 101' column in the Apr 22 issue (not online) gives Clarke & Baxter's Sunstorm a B+, Reed's The Well of Stars an A, Roberson's Here, There & Everywhere a B, and Sawyer's Mindscan a B

» SFPA's latest editor's choice poem is Peter Payack's "Universal Kiss-off"

Sat 16 Apr 05 —

» NY Times Book Review: Daniel Handler reviews H.P. Lovecraft; Sarah Kerr reviews Kazuo Ishiguro

» The Agony Column: review of Neal Asher; column on story collections, science books, Elizabeth Bear, Stephan Zielinksi (audio interviews), etc.

» Rambles: review of Kim Stanley Robinson

» Bookloons: column on Robert J. Sawyer

Mon 11 Apr 05 —

» Bookslut: Adrienne Martini reviews odds & ends -- Vess, Dozois, McHugh, Oltion

Sun 10 Apr 05 —

» NY Times Book Review: Andrew Leonard reviews Richard K. Morgan

» Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin is profiled in today's LA Times

» Green Man Review: reviews of Kage Baker, Card et al's Three Plays, Tracy & Laura Hickman, Manly Wade Wellman (twice)

» Reflection's Edge: Michael McCarty interviews Charles de Lint

Sat 9 Apr 05 —

» The Infinite Matrix: download Richard Kadrey's new novel Blind Shrike for free

» Rambles: reviews of William F. Nolan and of Hartwell & Cramer's Year's Best SF 9

» Fantasybookspot interviews John C. Wright

» Issue #1 of Adventure Fiction Magazine is available as a free PDF download

Wed 6 Apr 05 —

» April issue of The Internet Review of Science Fiction features Joy Ralph, Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold, Heidi Kneale, John Lanagan, etc

» University of Liverpool has launched the SF Hub, a portal for SF scholars

» For a biography/art book on the SF&F artist Ed Emshwiller (emsh), Luis Ortiz would like to hear from anyone who knew him, has stories of his appearances at sf cons during the 1950s and '60s, or owns any of his original artwork (sf or otherwise)

Mon 4 Apr 05 —

» NY Times: Michiko Kakutani reviews Kazuo Ishiguro's "bravura new novel" Never Let Me Go

» Strange Horizons has fiction by Mark Rich, poetry by Bruce Boston, a column by Matthew Cheney, and an article by Yoon Ha Lee; last week SH's Reader's Choice Awards included Tom Doyle, Tim Pratt

» Futurismic: fiction by Lisa Mantchev, Better Sweets to Prove Than Sleep

» Issue #13 of Le Cafard Cosmique

» Rambles: reviews of L.A. Banks, Elizabeth A. Lynn, Marion Zimmer Bradley

Sun 3 Apr 05 —

» David Langford's Ansible 213

» Chicago Sun-Times: Dan Miller reviews Sam Weller's book on Ray Bradbury

» Publishers Weekly: Lou Anders article about whether fantasy is overtaking SF

» Fantasybookspot: KJ Bishop On the Spot

» New issues of SF Site, Lone Star Stories, scifidimensions, SFcrowsnest, Deep Magic

Fri 1 Apr 05 —

» The Believer: Lou Anders interviews China Miéville (minor spoilers)

» Slate: Margaret Atwood on Kazuo Ishiguro

Thu 31 Mar 05 —

» March issue of Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City covers ICFA and Hugo nominees, introduces a new short fiction columnist, and reviews Wilson, Faust, et al

» ChiZine issue #24 has fiction and poetry by M.K. Hobson, Lavie Tidhar, Marge Simon, and others

» Infinity Plus interviews Zoran Zivkovic and excerpts his novel Hidden Camera

» Fantastic Literature's April booklist is online

Tue 29 Mar 05 —

» OpinionJournal: profile of Harriet Klausner

Sun 27 Mar 05 —

» LA Times: op-ed article about what Caltech undergrads read: Orson Scott Card, David Brin

» Denver Post: Fred Cleaver reviews Eschbach, Grimwood, Benford

» Green Man Review: Patrick O'Donnell reviews Subterranean Worlds, A Critical Anthology

» Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the March 16th KGB reading with Paul Witcover and Robert Freeman Wexler

Fri 25 Mar 05 —