Matt’s Bookosphere 7/17/2008

Interview with China Mieville

Review – or dissection? – of “The Last Colony” by John Scalzi

Review: “Deadstock” by Jeffrey Thomas

I am the very model of a modern SF novelist

Chance encounter with Charlaine Harris book led to HBO series “True Blood”

Michael Jasper offers a bounty for the first photo of his book in the wild at Readercon

Titles: Another Writer Mistake?

A conversation with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

Congratulations for your book sale, Kelly Gay!

The History of Science Fiction: 1900 to 1909

When you have this stuck in your head later blame Chris Roberson

“What (J.G.) Ballard managed to do — and one of the reasons I love his writing so much — is to transmute the leaden trappings of Christian theology and Miltonian brimstone into the alienated gold of the modern built environment.”

A Mosque Among the Stars: Islamic Sci Fi anthology

Happy birthday, Cory Doctorow

Free books

Paul Jessup announces “Raven Cycle” stories

Did you hear this Jay Lake interview at Trashotron?

Podcast: Salman Rushdie reading and Q & A at Memorial Church

Producer looking to bring Brooks’ “Magic Kingdom: For Sale” to big screen

Deborah LeBlanc: Story Tell’er

Scalzi’s annoyed with all of the promotion requests – sort of

Review: “The Court of the Air” by Stephen Hunt

The A to Z guide to political interference in science

Nick Mamatas wants to offer you a small planetoid masquerading as a computer

The Right Agent, the Right Author

The art of reading reduced to a gimmicky stunt

Mark Kurlansky on Bat Segundo

John Scalzi: Giving Ridley Scott his due

When characters die can we really feel grief?

Review: “Dark Wisdom” by Gary Myers

Entertainment Weekly interview with Alan Moore