Matt’s Bookosphere 7/18/8

Special offer on Ekaterina Sedia’s “The Alchemy of Stone”

Pan Versus Peter Pan; Or, Can’t We Have Some Adult Fantasy to Go with the Adulterated Fantasy?

Alan Moore featured as one of “85 Weirdest” at Weird Tales

Spotlight on Thomas M. Disch’s “Camp Concentration”

Cover art from forthcoming VanderMeer-edited pirate fiction antho

(TONS OF GOOD STUFF AFTER THE JUMP)

Rick Novy asks “Where is SF Going?”

Review of Interzone 116: The Mundane Issue

Michelle Richmond guest posts at Ecstatic Days: Here, Here, Here and Here

Speculative Fiction Contest from Graveyard Press?

On rereading classic science fiction

Review: “The Long Look” by Richard Parks

…and another one here.

Review: “The Lies of Locke Lamara” by Scott Lynch

Review: “A Gathering of Doorways” by Michael Jasper

Four kinds of fantasy?

A Question of Authority (nice post about reviewers, professional and otherwise)

“Maybe it’s just the physical act of reading that keeps it out of the conservative media’s glare. Maybe it just makes sense that something that involves sitting perfectly still in a quiet room and flexing the imagination could never seriously be blamed for the rise of knife crime. Because that would be utterly absurd.”

Hey! You Got Your Science Fiction in my Fantasy!

Readercon reports are trickling in…

Here’s another one from Scott Edelman (with bonus Paul Di Filippo photo goodness)

Harry Harrison named SFWA Grand Master

Someone has calculated the number of words Cory Doctorow speaks per minute

Short review from Midwest Book Review for “Ten Sigmas and Other Unlikelihoods” by Paul Melko

Good news on Jay Lake’s cancer: “I may never play the violin again, but it looks like I’m going to live a long time yet.”

“Hallucinating Spaces, or The Aleph” (scholarly piece on Jorge Luis Borges)

K. Tempest Bradford: “Focusing on the stupidest among those with whom you disagree is a sign of weakness, not of strength.”

Review: “The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 25th Annual Collection” edited by Gardner Dozois

Fiction: “The Valley of Giants” by Benjamin Rosenbaum

Borders advises readers on what to read while waiting for Stephenie Meyer’s “Breaking Dawn.”

Interview with blogging novelist L. Lee Howe

Report on the SFRA 2008 rewards ceremony

Interview with Tim Stretton, author of “The Dog of the North.”

Mur Lafferty on burning bridges with idiot bookstore owners (Ask me about this some time – Matt)

Stacy isn’t too crazy about Angela Carter’s “Nights at the Circus”

Hilarious cartoon at Ben Peek’s place (”A Softer World.”) (I’m going to have this song stuck in my head now.)

Clarion, or why sleep is irrelevant

How to amass a large book collection quickly and inexpensively

Review of Jonathan Lethem’s “Omega the Unknown”

Excerpt from Jeffrey Thomas’ “13 Specimens” (GOD I WANT THIS BOOK!)

Nancy Kress on Michael Chabon’s “Wonder Boys:” So in that sense, I had a little trouble with Chabon’s excellent book. It seems to perpetuate the myth that in order to be creative, you must also be a brawling, law-breaking, heavily boozing, woman-abusing son-of-a-bitch in the Hemingway tradition.”

Interview with Edward Willett

How many books do you read each year?

Bat Segundo Show may not be down for the count

Americans say “Oui, oui” to foreign graphic novels

“Squeal Like a Pig Dot Com” (not what you think; relax)

Review: “The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy,” edited by Ellen Datlow

Podcast: “What Makes a Cover Work”

Fiction: “Necrotic Culver” by Charlie Huston

Robert Buettner on “Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing podcast”

Underland Press’ Wovel “The Living” blurbed at The Guardian

Review: “The Wasp Factory” by Iain Banks

Towards a taxonomy of science fiction book trailers promotional videos for books (btw, did you know that “book trailer” is a trademarked term? I didn’t.)

Interview with Terry Brooks

Stephen Burt on Philip K. Dick

The Ethics of Hate Mail: Should Bloggers Post email correspondence without permission? (Thanks, Larry!)

Why Media Training? (Read this. This is absolutely true.)

Could H.P. Lovecraft have been a spy?

Jeremiah Tolbert is looking for info about “Beneath Ceaseless Skies”

Buzz “Science fiction ruined the space race” Aldrin wrote a few sci fi novels? Who knew?

Michael Berry reviews “Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse” and “Dogs”

Fiction: “Engineer’s Dream” by George Dyson (Thanks, io9!)

Fiction: three stories by Dale Bailey

Spiderman to lose virginity (um…ok.)

Escape Pod: Love and Death in the Time of Monsters

DC Comics on its digital strategy

Review: “Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko”