Matt’s Bookosphere 8/2/08

This “A Field Guide to Surreal Botany” looks cool!

Checking in at Nick Mamatas’ new digs

“Shadow Unit” released under Creative Commons license

Caitlin R. Kiernan is auctioning some cool stuff on eBay

More after the jump

August issue of Clarkesworld magazine

Salman Rushdie set to sue over unflattering book about him

Contest: “Brave Men Run” by Matthew Wayne Selznick

Tom Waits on “Weird Tales” 85 Weirdest

Interview with Marie Brennan

Interview with Pet Crowther

Why is the mystery genre more popular than fantasy or science fiction?

Interview with John Varley

Discuss a different SF author every day at SF Message Board’s Author August (Via Boing Boing)

Fantasy writing: six cliches to avoid

Interview with Ben Bova

Best of the month’s science fiction

Concept art for Jay Lake’s new book “Green”

How science fiction has prepared Catherynne M. Valente for the future

John Klima on the generation gap among sf writers

Reprint of 1980 interview with Jorge Luis Borges

Review: “Alive in Necropolis” by Doug Dorst

Why motion isn’t the future of comics