Matt’s Bookosphere 7/03/08

You need the new fiction antho “Clockwork Phoenix.”

Congratulations, Cat Rambo!

Review: “Gonzo: The Life and Works of Hunter S. Thompson.”

Neil Gaiman, Gris Grimely’s “The Dangerous Alphabet.”

Congratulations are in order to Michael Constantine McConnell

Top Ten Ways to Blow a Book Deal, #4

LOTS MORE AFTER THE BREAK!

Can science fiction go to far, William Gibson? Can it? Can it?

Kafka was the romantic comic of his day

Jeffrey Ford interviewed at LOCUS

Review: “The Fog Mound 3: Simon’s Dream”

Holy Bookworms! Superheroes Take to the Page!

How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean

Mike Brotherton takes Michael Crichton down a peg

Jayme Lynn Blaschke announced as communications and marketing director for SFWA

Wheatland Press is having a sale

Fiction: “Outcast” by Leslie Claire Walker

Hey Nick Mamatas, how was “Hancock?”

“Flytrap” open for submissions (Thanks, Charles!)

Interview with Jo Graham, author of “Black Sails”

Review: “My Sister, My Love,” Joyce Carol Oates

Warner Bros. buys rights to “Hiding In Time.”

Nice review of “The Professor’s Daughter” (”…when we first see Imhotep, he’s more Fred Astaire, complete with top hat, tails and cane, than he is ancient corpse…”)

John Scalzi: Why so few SF movies are genuinely funny

Even Philip K. Dick has a YA novel

CNBC gets bullish on books

Literary Mainstream: Monolithic or not?

Round ‘em up, Mr. Champion

Review: “Quiet, Please”

Lilith Saintcrow talks up “Night Shift”

Rowling blow to plans to age-banded books

Win a copy of Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD graphic novels!

Permuted Press t-shirts: “Enjoy the Apocalypse”

Bookshow interview with Neil Gaiman

Review of Lewis Shiner’s “Black and White.”

Book advances, royalty checks, and making a living as a writer

Clarion, Day 3: Kelly Link reading

Why Nancy Kress has GONE TO THE DOGS

“Only Strange People Want to Be Friends With a Machine”

Joe Abercrombie on “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.”

Cigars, books? Where do I sign up?

Geekdad’s Favorite Podcasts

Happy birthday, Kaaron Warren!

Lots of good fiction at Helix SF

Is Harry Potter “Literature?”

Saturn Awards

Review: “Bodyslick”

Io9’s Annalee Newitz writes her last column for Alternet

“The Christian Crusade to Stamp Out Science Fiction”

Gary Gygax: Infernal Sorceress

Review: “Whiskey and Water” by Elizabeth Bear

On the record with Cory Doctorow

Review of “How the Dead Dream” by Lydia Millet

Download a free copy of “Winning Mars” by Jason Stoddard

Chabon to be a Kansas University Humanities Speaker

The Entertainment Weekly 1000: New Classics

Matt Mitchell has an ethics question

HBO adapting Sloane Crosby’s “I Was Told There Would Be Cake”