Matt’s Bookosphere July 16, 2008

Mind Meld: What are the most controversial SF/F novels of the Past and Present?

Midnight Never Come” author Marie Brennan on hard fantasy

Writing Fantasy: on the dilemma of familiarity

Short summer reads featured in “The Atlantic” fiction issue

“I had really strange dream last night about visiting my old school and ending up having to take a standardized test on the Muppets.”

Cool piece on J.G. Ballard and H.P. Lovecraft

Tim Powers to illustrate James P. Blaylock’s “Metamorphosis”

English translation of Bakker/Martin chat at Semana Negra

Review: Dark Adventure Radio Theater’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness”

Review: Philip K. Dick – Five Novels of the 1960s and 70’s

New Nexus Graphica column up!

Seven word book reviews (My favorite: The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford: Creepy creepy creepy creepy creepy creepy creepy.)

Long-lost Gabriel Garcia-Marquez script being filmed

Joe Abercrombie’s advice on breaking into the market

Mysterious Outposts

When the characters erase your words…and they are right!

Solzhenitsyn novel to be published in English for first time

“Urban Fantasy, is Good in Germany, Jah?”

Laird Barron story to appear in Ellen Datlow edited antho “Lovecraft Unbound.”

Finncon 2008 Line-up