Matt’s Bookosphere 8/7/08

World Fantasy Awards going traditional?

Orbit announces new book from Joe Abercrombie, Jesse Bullington, Gail Carriger, N.K. Jemisin

Great piece on Christopher Priest’s “The Inverted World”

Pulling (Richard) Matheson from the cobwebs

Nancy Kress at SciFi.com

Jonathan Strahan reports in from WorldCon

A history of steampunk, part one.

Steampunk makes its way to the Hamptons

Interview with Deborah Cooke

The Way the future used to be

Literary and popular fiction examined

My interview with “Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse” author, Victor Gischler

Big publishers join blog talk radio

Cory Doctorow in Chicago Tribune

Tropes in speculative fiction

Elizabeth Bear is here to sell you something

Do Hugo-winning novels make great films?

SciFi Summer with the San Diego Reader

Ekaterina Sedia praises Carol Emshwiller’s “The Mount”

Review: “Lord Tophet” by Gregory Frost

Win a signed copy of “Clockwork Phoenix!”

An exhibition of radical children’s literature

Poul Anderson: One of the Greats

Warren Ellis is thinking a good bit about teleportation

Details on Caitlin R. Kiernan’s chapbook

Rob takes a look at Tobias Buckell’s “Sly Mongoose”

Win a copy of “Debatable Space” by Philip Palmer

Review: “Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse” by Victor Gischler

Cthulhu fonts?

Comic-Con: bigger, but not necessarily better

Charles Stross on why UK Sci Fi is more hopeful than American Sci Fi

Science fiction discussion groups online and how to find them

Review: “Unholy Domain” by Dan Ronco

Calling all vampires