Matt’s Bookosphere 8/3/2008

Warren Ellis calls SF/F print magazines the walking dead – names names, pulls no punches.

Really cool tribute to Thomas M. Disch

Mike Brotherton interviews Gregory Frost

Info on Neil Gaiman’s Batman story

On Gender and Genre

Interview with Chris Evans

Science fiction is not dead and never will be

Review: Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Review: “Whiskey and Water” by Elizabeth Bear

Review: “Dying to Live: A Novel of Life Among the Undead” by Kim Paffenroth

John Scalzi gets all the cool books

Review: “The Stress of Her Regard” by Tim Powers

Alex Solzhenitsyn dead at 89

Author Rebecca Johnson on the search for blurbs

Author spotlight: Angelica Gorodischer

FBI seizes library computers without warrant

“1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual”

Joe Abercrombie’s trilogy reviewed after marathon reading session

More praise for “Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s”

Interview with Kat Richardson, author of “Underground”

Interview with Jackie Kessler

Ken Scholer’s essay on how a short story comes together

Review: “The Naming” by Alison Croggon

The Elegant Variation on the REAL crisis in newspaper book reviews: bad ledes

Really nice overview of “A Canticle for Leibowitz”

Interview with Gene Wolfe

Review: “The Delighted States” by Adam Thirwell

How to support writers online