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Sun 27 Apr 08 —

» Nebula Awards weekend photos from Scott Edelman and SFWA's Keith Stokes

» LA Times obituary: Bebe Barron, Forbidden Planet electronic composer

» LA Times Book Review: Michael Chabon's essay about the pleasures of reading

» NY Times Book Review: essay by Rachel Donadio You're an Author? Me Too! about fewer readers and more writers

» Kim Antieau is conducting interviews on her site with Jane Yolen, Charles de Lint, Alice Hoffman, and others

» timetravelershow.com has an Arthur C. Clarke Tribute

Thu 24 Apr 08 —

» Pasadena Star profiles Hugo nominees Diana Glyer and Mike Glyer

Thu 24 Apr 08 —

» Australian radio interviews Jeff VanderMeer about new anthology Steampunk

» ActuSf interviews Kristine Kathryn Rusch

» The A.V. Club: 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said...

Mon 21 Apr 08 —

» New Scientist: Life-changing books recommended by leading scientists include titles by Asimov, Carroll, and Dick

» Barnes & Noble: Paul Di Filippo reviews Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia

» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth, a novel in verse about werewolves

» SciFiDimensions Podcast interviews Kim Stanley Robinson

» The Agony Column interviews Peter F. Hamilton

» Adventures in Scifi Publishing features Cory Doctorow and Greg Van Eekhout

» Fantasybookspot interviews Alistair Rennie and Ekaterina Sedia

» Sci Fi Weekly's Paul Di Filippo reviews Theodore Judson's The Martian General's Daughter

Sun 20 Apr 08 —

» LA Times: Jay Parini reviews Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia; also, Ed Park reviews Cory Doctorow's Little Brother; earlier, David L. Ulin reviewed Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room!

Sat 19 Apr 08 —

» April Internet Review of SF has an interview with Spider Robinson, features and essays by Daniel M. Kimmel, Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold, Robert Bee, and Lisa Agnew, and reviews of short fiction, Robert J. Sawyer, and Best American Fantasy

» Salon.com's Louis Bayard reviews Karen Joy Fowler's Wit's End

» Concatenation has new columns and articles and lots of reviews...

» Amazon's Omnivoracious plugs Theodore Judson's The Martian General's Daughter

» Andrew M. Andrews' True Review Online has posted PDF Issue 69, with reviews of Connie Willis and others

Thu 17 Apr 08 —

» Amazon's Omnivoracious interviews Junot Diaz -- and excerpts his first SF novel

» Asimov's SF has posted June issue features, including Sheila Williams' editorial, Robert Silverberg's Reflections: The Death of Gallium, and Peter Heck's book reviews

» Small Beer Press offers free downloads of John Kessel's collection The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories

» SF Site for mid-April reviews Jonathan Strahan's The Starry Rift and interviews and reviews Patrick Rothfuss

» ActuSf interviews Karl Schroeder

» Payseur & Schmidt now has a blog

» Ellen Datlow's photos from the KGB reading with Jack Ketchum and P.D. Cacek

» SpaceWesterns.com celebrates its first anniversary with fiction by Cory Doctorow and A.R Yngve

Mon 14 Apr 08 —

» Sci Fi Weekly: John Clute reviews Peter F. Hamilton's The Dreaming Void

Sun 13 Apr 08 —

» USA Today article on Virginia Tech survivors highlights Michael Bishop; the story mentioned in the article is available here; St. Petersburg Times has this article about what Jamie has taught Michael over the past year.

» Washington Post: Kathleen Ann Goonan reviews Bear, McDevitt, Frost, and Kelso

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Thomas, Newton, Roberts, and Dozois

» Telegraph: Mark Chadbourn on The fantastic appeal of fantasy

» Powells.com has essay Giving Yourself to Story by Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem about their novel The Man on the Ceiling

» Time Traveler Show: Mike Resnick reads two stories including Hugo nominee "Distant Replay"

» Guardian Arts blog: the science fiction community should be emulated, not lampooned

» Adventures in Scifi Publishing features Robert Buettner

Thu 10 Apr 08 —

» April Intergalactic Medicine Show interviews Zoran Zivkovic and has fiction by Matt Rotundo, Dennis Danvers, Eric James Stone, Scott Emerson Bull, Stephanie Dray, Aliette de Bodard -- and Orson Scott Card

Tue 8 Apr 08 —

» London Review of Books: Thomas Jones reviews J.G. Ballard's Miracles of Life

» Bookslut: Paul Kincaid on Arthur C. Clarke

» Publishers Weekly has articles on alternate history, military SF, and Baen Books

» Barnes & Noble.com: Paul Di Filippo reviews this history of space opera

Mon 7 Apr 08 —

» April Jim Baen's Universe has fiction by Tobias S. Buckell, Jody Lynn Nye, Jack McDevitt, Mike Resnick, Sarah A. Hoyt, Lou Antonelli, and Margaret Ronald, plus a classic by Jack Williamson

» Philadelphia Inquirer: Gregory Feeley reviews three books by Michael Swanwick

» The Market Mavin #1 was e-mailed today to subscribers, but many e-mails bounced; if you subscribed and didn't receive it, contact market.maven.subscriptions (at)gmail.com

» ChiZine is now publishing books, beginning with Brent Hayward's Filaria

» Writer's Digest has posted its Popular Fiction Report

» F&SF's February favorite story poll is online

» ActuSf interviews David Brin

Sun 6 Apr 08 —

» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews James Morrow's The Philosopher's Apprentice

Wed 2 Apr 08 —

» Salon explains everything you were afraid to ask about "Battlestar Galactica"

» April Clarkesworld features Jeffrey Ford, Tim Pratt, K.J. Bishop, and others

» April Lone Star Stories features Terry Bisson, Sonya Taaffe, Sandra McDonald, and others

» Flurb for Spring-Summer features Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Terry Bisson, Richard Kadrey, and others

» SF Site for April includes Rick Klaw's new graphic novel column plus reviews of Reynolds, Moon, Abercrombie, Anderson, and others

» The Broadsheet for March has an inteview with Beth Massie, art by Jill Bauman, advice on writing a vampire novel by Inanna Arthen, and more

» ChiZine for April-June features Nick Mamatas, Tim Pratt, Bruce Boston, and others

» Cosmos Magazine features fiction Wormwords by Matt Weber

» Kirkus Reviews special SF/Fantasy issue [large PDF file] reviews Banks, Disch, Hamilton, Kaku, Doctorow, and others, and has a Q&A with the VanderMeers

» Jeff VanderMeer has his own new anthology announcement

» Baltimore City Paper: Adrienne Martini reviews Banks' Matter

» Dog Versus Sandwich features Bruce Holland Rogers and others...

» Boston Globe interviews Nebula nominee Jennifer Pelland

» FantasyBookSpot interviews Neal Asher

» Scott Edelman has posted photos from World Horror Convention 2008

Tue 1 Apr 08 —

» Dave Langford's Ansible 249

Sat 29 Mar 08 —

» NY Times Book Review: Susann Cokal reviews Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods

» Washington Post: Dennis Drabelle reviews Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow Year; Ron Charles reviews Karen Joy Fowler's Wit's End

» Village Voice: Julie Phillips on Kurt Vonnegut's Unpublished Writings

Fri 28 Mar 08 —

» David Herter blogs Some Chop-ek to coincide with his new book about Karel Capek, The Luminous Depths

» Eos Books offers online versions of two Hugo nominated stories from Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan's anthology The New Space Opera

» Fiona Kelleghan presented a paper at ICFA on Humor in the SF of Robert J. Sawyer

» Fantastic Literature's April book list is now online

Tue 25 Mar 08 —

» Weird Tales announces The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years

» Night Shade Books' Jeremy Lassen is hosting a Breakfast for Barry campaign in support of a Hugo Award for Barry N. Malzberg

» NY Times' Dennis Overbye remembers Arthur C. Clarke

» Photos from last week's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando by Ellen Datlow and by Kathryn Cramer

» New Internet Review of Science Fiction includes features and reviews by Steven Utley, Cynthia Ward, Lois Tilton, and others, and an interview with Jo Walton

» Tachyon Publications offers Michael Swanwick's Hugo-nominated A Small Room in Koboldtown [PDF]

» Pyr offers PDF downloads of its Spring-Summer catalog and Sampler with 7 sample chapters

Sun 23 Mar 08 —

» More Clarke links: NY Times' Dave Itzkoff on The Fuzzier Crystal Ball of current SF writers; in Philadelphia Inquirer Michael Swanwick eulogizes Clarke

» NY Times Book Review reviews James Morrow's The Philosophier's Apprentice and Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow Year (scroll down)

» LA Times: Tod Goldberg reviews Ford's The Shadow Year; Ed Park (online only) reviews Ekaterina Sedia's The Secret History of Moscow

Thu 20 Mar 08 —

» The Wenatchee World Online interviews Kay Kenyon

Tue 18 Mar 08 —

» And now there's Match It for Pratchett

» Sci Fi Weekly's John Clute reviews Paolo Bacigalupi

» Bibliophile Stalker interviews Ellen Datlow

Fri 14 Mar 08 —

» BBC: Terry Pratchett is donating $1m for Alzheimer's research

» Salon's Andrew O'Hehir interviews Harlan Ellison, subject of film Dreams with Sharp Teeth

» Neth Space interviews Steven Erikson

» Animation and technology writer and blogger Emru Townsend needs a bone marrow donor

» Apex 12 features Cherie Priest, Brian Keene, and Lavie Tidhar; plus Jeff VanderMeer interviews Hal Duncan

Wed 12 Mar 08 —

» Ellen Datlow has posted photos from Robert Legault's Memorial service

» Asimov's website has April/May issue features: Sheila Williams' editorial, Norman Spinrad's book reviews, Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column on Rereading Stapledon, plus the latest James Patrick Kelly "On the Net" column, Son of Gallimaufry

» StarShipSofa is podcasting readings, one each day this week, of the five British SF Association Award short story nominees

» CBC TV interviews Robert J. Sawyer

» Mythic Delirium has featured poems by Jeannine Hall Gailey and Charlee Jacob

» Adventures in Scifi Publishing features Tracy Hickman

» Lou Antonelli has a new blog

Sun 9 Mar 08 —

» Michael Swanwick has posted photos from Janet Kagan's memorial

Sat 8 Mar 08 —

» Dave Langford's Ansible 248, March 2008

» The Official Brian W. Aldiss Website has been rebuilt, and includes short stories, novel excerpts, articles and journalism

» John Meaney has a new website

» Update: Speculations is closing but Cynthia Ward's "Market Maven" continues as an electronic newsletter; see Speculations to subscribe

Fri 7 Mar 08 —

» Black Gate has a tribute to Gary Gygax

» March Clarkesworld Magazine features Jay Lake, Stephen Dedman, Ekaterina Sedia, and Kage Baker interviewed by Jeff VanderMeer

» YA e-zine Shiny is running a contest for writers 12 to 18

» ActuSf interviews Tim Powers

» Neth Space interviews Michael Swanwick

» John Joseph Adams has added more free stories to his Wastelands website; also, there's a YouTube trailer

Thu 6 Mar 08 —

» Wired interviews Jeff VanderMeer and offers his new novella The Situation as a free PDF download

» Night Shade Books is providing Richard Kadrey's novel Butcher Bird as a free download in a variety of formats

» Cosmos has online fiction Untangling the Future, by Ingrid Banwell

» Fantastic Reviews interviews Paolo Bacigalupi

» Aeon issue #13, featuring fiction by Daniel Marcus, Bruce McAllister, and others, plus a column by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is now on sale

» SFRevu for March has an interview and review of Barth Anderson, plus lots of other reviews

Tue 4 Mar 08 —

» Bookslut: Paul Kincaid on A History of Today

» ActuSf interviews Michael Moorcock

» F&SF's April issue includes book reviews by Charles de Lint and by James Sallis and a film review by Lucius Shepard; also, reprint of Steven Utley's Promised Land

» Redesigned Futurism has fiction Uxo, Bomb Dog by Eliot Fintushel

Mon 3 Mar 08 —

» Time Magazine: Lev Grossman interviews Iain M. Banks and reviews his new novel Matter

» F&SF is hosting a contest to win a free DVD of The Martian Child

» MousePlanet article reprints Ray Bradbury essay about Walt Disney

» SciFiDimensions is now podcasting

» Fantastic Literature has posted its March list

» Speculations is closing

Sat 1 Mar 08 —

» SF Site's Editors' Choice Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2007 are by McDonald, MacLeod, Whedon, Morgan, Chabon, Ruff, Rowling, Silvis, Smith, Bull, and Barzak (Earlier: Readers' Choice titles)

» Black Gate has Dave Truesdale's 2007 short fiction recommended reading list

» Odyssey Podcasts features Rodman Philbrick on point of view

» A survivalist blogger digs John Joseph Adams' anthology Wastelands

» Patricia Rogers' photos from the Wild Cards Inside Straight launch party in Albuquerque

» NY Times: Stephen King and John Mellencamp to collaborate on musical "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County"

» NY Metro inteviews Lou Anders and Jon Armstrong

Wed 27 Feb 08 —

» Library Journal's latest SF/Fantasy reviews include stars for Jo Graham's Black Ships and VanderMeers' The New Weird

Tue 26 Feb 08 —

» Reuters: The Quill Awards have been suspended; also Publishers Weekly

» LA Times' online-only SF column by Ed Park reviews Catherynne M. Valente

» SF Quarterly interviews Robert J. Sawyer

» FantasyBookSpot interviews Michael Cisco and Charles Stross

Mon 25 Feb 08 —

» John Picacio has photos from Saturday's Austin TX signing with him and Michael Moorcock

» Black Gate has posted the complete text of Judith Berman's Nebula nominee Awakening

» Adventures in Scifi Publishing interviews Jeff VanderMeer and Tobias S. Buckell

Sun 24 Feb 08 —

» The Australian interviews Iain Banks

» Guardian: Keith Brooke reviews The New Weird (scroll down)

» Publishers Weekly describes Jonathan Lethem's new comic Omega the Unknown, which is available free online from Marvel Comics

» Lou Anders guest blogs for Joseph Mallozzi

Sat 23 Feb 08 —

» Publishers Weekly interviews Paolo Bacigalupi, author of Pump Six and Other Stories; so does Grist: Environmental News and Humor

» Ellen Datlow has posted photos from KGB's Feb 20th reading with contributors to her anthology Inferno

» The Bat Segundo Show interviews Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville

» ActuSf interviews L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

» Guardian blogs about New women's worlds in fantasy, re: Ekaterina Sedia, Kelly Link, Catherynne M Valente, and others

» Regina Leader Post profiles Edward Willett, author of Marseguro

Tue 19 Feb 08 —

» RevolutionSF has a contest for signed copies of Elric: Stealer Souls by Michael Moorcock, with illustrations by John Picacio

» Sci Fi Weekly's John Clute reviews Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem's The Man on the Ceiling

Mon 18 Feb 08 —

» IROSF (The Internet Review of Science Fiction) returns, with reviews, essays, and an interview with Peter Watts

» F&SF (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) enters the blogosphere

Sun 17 Feb 08 —

» Amazon's Omnivoracious presents Ellen Datlow's introduction to Inferno, her recent horror anthology

» Guy Gavriel Kay and Nalo Hopkinson appear in Toronto this Tuesday for lunch as part of Keep Toronto Reading 2008

» NBCC's second Good Reads list includes Junot Diaz and Steve Erickson

Wed 13 Feb 08 —

» Mike Allen seeks stories about Nelson Bond to share at the April opening of Marshall University's Nelson Bond Room

» Spectrum Fantastic Art's Cathy & Arnie Fenner have Thoughts on the 'Best Artist' Hugo Award

Tue 12 Feb 08 —

» Yahoo! News: Tolkien estate sues New Line Cinema

» Yatterings: Iain Emsley interviews Mike Carey and Steve Augarde

» February Harper's Magazine has essay Staying awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading, by Ursula K. Le Guin (preview; full access subscriber only)

Mon 11 Feb 08 —

» TVOntario broadcasts Robert J. Sawyer's University of Waterloo keynote address Science Fiction as Social Comment [mp3]

» Adventures in Scifi Publishing interviews John Zakour and Brandon Sanderson

Sun 10 Feb 08 —

» Globe and Mail: Spider Robinson reviews Stephen King's Duma Key

» Guardian: Robert McCrum reviews J.G. Ballard's Miracles of Life

» Bookslut lists the Top Graphic Novels of the Year

» Discovery Channel's "Dinosaurs: Return To Life?", about new possibilities of resurrecting dinosaurs, airs next weekend

» Tachyon Publications previews anthology The New Weird with a sample of Paul Di Filippo's "Festival Lives" (PDF)

» Lone Star Stories Issue #25 has fiction and poetry by Ekaterina Sedia, Tim Pratt, Elizabeth Hand, and others

Fri 8 Feb 08 —

» NY Times' Dave Itzkoff blogs about Philip K. Dick's YA Novel Nick and the Glimmung

» F&SF online: Dave Truesdale examines how SFWA's Nebula Awards Slight Original Anthologies

» NY Times examines the science behind Jumper, the new film based on novels by Steven Gould

Wed 6 Feb 08 —

» Dave Langford's Ansible 247

Mon 4 Feb 08 —

» Creative Commons interviews James Patrick Kelly

» San Francisco Chronicle's Michael Berry reviews Stephen King's Duma Key: "one of his strongest stand-alones in some time"

» Wall Street Journal profiles David Gemmell

» ActuSf interviews Jonathan Stroud

» McNally Robinson interviews Robert J. Sawyer

» The Writers' Block interviews Jeremy C. Shipp, author of Vacation

» Odyssey Podcasts features Michael A. Arnzen on humor in genre fiction

Sat 2 Feb 08 —

» NY Times Book Review: Dave Itzkoff reviews China Miéville and Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Stross, Weber, Palmer

» Telegraph: Andrew McKie reviews Stross and Tepper; also, Frances Wilson reviews J.G. Ballard's autobiography Miracles of Life

» Amazon's Omnivoracious talks with Brandon Sanderson about Robert Jordan and The Wheel of Time

» February SF Site has Steven H Silver's In Memoriam: 2007, plus reviews of Schroeder, Monette/Bear, Stirling, and others

» February SFRevu has an interview with Jane Yolen, lots of reviews, and Hugo suggestions

» Fantastic Literature's February list is online

Wed 30 Jan 08 —

» Discover Magazine lists 20 Things You Didn�t Know About... Science Fiction

» Amazon's Omnivoracoius: Jeff VanderMeer blogs about his Locus Online: The Best SF and Fantasy of 2007 essay

Tue 29 Jan 08 —

» Washington Post: Paul Di Filippo reviews books by Lanagan, Monette & Bear, Stirling, and Strahan

Mon 28 Jan 08 —

» Robert J. Sawyer reports that Penguin Canada is looking for a full-time SF/F/Mystery editor

» Veoh.com hosts a 47-minute film of Terry Bisson's "Incident at Oak Ridge"; Bisson says "it rocks"

» WICN's Inquiry has a radio interview with Gary Westfahl about his book Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction

» Rick Kleffel interviews Jeff and Ann VanderMeer about The New Weird

» Amazon's Omnivoracious interviews Daniel Abraham, Gardner Dozois, and George R.R. Martin about their novel Hunter's Run

» PBS Wired Science blog Correlations interviews Paolo Bacigalupi

» LA Times: Sara Lippincott reviews Hollywood Science

» Adventures in Scifi Publishing interviews Terry Goodkind

» Austin Chronicle: Rick Klaw reviews It Came From Beneath the Sea and Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers

Sun 27 Jan 08 —

» LA Times Book Review: Ed Park's online only column Astral Weeks reviews Terry Pratchett

Fri 25 Jan 08 —

» NY Times Book Review: Terrence Rafferty's horror column covers Hill, Barron, Barker, and Shirley

» The American Library Association's first Reading List Awards for genre fiction includes SF/F/H titles by Goonan, Rothfuss, and Hill (press release [doc] with long lists of nominated titles)

» Solaris Books offers Jeffrey Thomas' Deadstock as a free download

» FearZone interviews Ellen Datlow

Thu 24 Jan 08 —

» Publishers Weekly on Cory Doctorow's forthcoming Little Brother

Wed 23 Jan 08 —

» Cosmos has new fiction by Bruce Carlson and by Steven Utley

» Night Shade Books has relaunched its website, with RSS feeds

» Guardian: Cory Doctorow's column Personal data is as hot as nuclear waste

Tue 15 Jan 08 —

» Eos is giving away free e-books in honor of its 10th anniversary, beginning with Robin Hobbs' Shaman's Crossing

» Online horror site ChiZine is launching ChiZine Publications, to publish 4 titles per year

» Orbit Books has posted the prologue to Iain M. Bank's new Culture novel Matter

» Blog Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth is posting recommending reading lists of 2007 short fiction

» ActuSf interviews Stephen Baxter and Lucius Shepard

» Adventures in Scifi Publishing launches season 2 with Kevin J. Anderson and Sean Williams

» Robert J. Sawyer is interviewed on Roboethics online

» Artist Jason Van Hollander has launched blog The Jolly Corner and another about the art of Douglas Walters

» Green Man Review reviews Martin's Dreamsongs

Mon 21 Jan 08 —

» The Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for works of "psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic", with jurors including F. Brett Cox and John Langan, and a Board of Advisors including Ellen Datlow, S.T. Joshi, Ann VanderMeer, and others

» Wired: Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing

» Sci Fi Weekly: John Clute reviews Gregory Frost's Shadowbridge

» Times Online: profile of J.G. Ballard reveals his prostate cancer and forthcoming autobiography

» Ellen Datlow's photos from Jan 16th KGB reading with Marly Youmans and Dan Braum

» Paradox Magazine: Claude Lalumière reviews Michael Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road

» Concatenation has a Spring 2008 newscast

» io9 talks with Kathleen Ann Goonan about nanopunk and jazz

» NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews Stephen King's Duma Key

Thu 17 Jan 08 —

» SF Site's Greg L. Johnson compiles the Best of 2007 by Kenyon, McDonald, Goonan, Robinson, and others

Tue 15 Jan 08 —

Fri 11 Jan 08 —

» The Onion: Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power?

Mon 7 Jan 08 —

» Dave Langford's Ansible 246

Sun 6 Jan 08 —

» Times Online's 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945 include Orwell, Golding, Lessing, Tolkien, Carter, Lewis, Rushdie, Dahl, Burgess, Peake, Ballard, Gray, Banks, Rowling, Pullman, and Moorcock

» January Intergalactic Medicine Show interviews James Morrow and has fiction by James Maxey, Marie Brennan, Sharon Shinn, and others

» January-March ChiZine has fiction and poetry by Michael Colangelo, Lavie Tidhar, Leah Bobet, and others

» November Broad Universe Broadsheet has articles and reviews by Lettie Prell, Jay Lake, Candra K. Gill, and others, and an interview with Lyn McConchie