Matt’s Bookosphere 5/28/08

As growth slows down at the Sci Fi Channel the network looks to expand their offerings to include light dramas and comedies.

Comics publisher IDW is planning to publish six stand-alone graphic adaptations of stories from Cory Doctorow in the new “Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now,” featuring art from Dustin Evans, Paul McCaffrey, Esteve Polls, Daniel Warner and more.

Trashotron blurbs Ekaterina Sedia’s new “The Alchemy of Stone,” a novel of “automated anarchy and clockwork lust.” Looks good!

1morechapter.com offers a list of 1,001 works that illustrate the development of the novel throughout time.

Did you catch this interview with Felix Gilman at Omnivoracious?

Barbara Roden’s collection “Northwest Passages” has been sold to Prime Books. Look for it in 2009!

The NY Press offers “An Elitist’s Reading List.” Some surprises: Clive Barker, William Gibson?

Jeff VanderMeer asks: what novels do you consider unfilmable?

Paul Jessup praises Jeff Ford’s “Drowned Life.”