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Cool interview with Hal Duncan

Elizabeth Bear at GalleyCat

M. John Harrison is climbing cliffs and basically making me feel like a lump of cookie dough by comparison

Harlan Ellison ranting (now) about “the devaluation of language”

Jenny Davidson on “Bat Segundo”

SF author Mike Brotherton on cryptozoology and Bigfoot’s body

Sci Fi Dimensions #3: Lisa Yaszek

Check out the last names of The Onion’s “American Voices” people this week: think someone likes SF/F? (Thanks, “Passing for Human“)

Interesting conversation on SF: “what is this SF, anyway?”

Interview with Gregory Frost

“For all you ‘We get no respect’ SF whiners – Take This!”

Special Pre-Order deal for Jeffrey Thomas’ “13 Specimens”

Behind the scenes of Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline”

Radiohead penning score for “Choke” movie

Ellen Datlow has a TON of cool Denvention photos

How to get published and avoid alien bloodsuckers

Win a copy of the “Masters of Science Fiction” series on DVD

Print’s not dead – SF magazines are

Andrew Wheeler recommends that you learn how to be nice to book publicists

Review: “The Army of the Republic” by Stuart Archer Cohen (eco-terrorists! Oh noes!1!!!!1)

Review: “The Edge of Reason” by Melinda Snodgrass

Eye Candy for Bibliophiles has an awesome series of cover shots from old fantasy art books

John Picacio’s WorldCon Photos

Review: “Seeds of Change” edited by John Joseph Adams

Ben Peek interviews Anna Brown

Adrian McKinty: “Why is crime fiction so much more interesting than romance, horror, sci-fi and increasingly literary fiction? Here’s my attempt at an answer.”

Speculative fiction writer’s retreat with Terry Dowling, Robert Hood, Cat Sparks

David Anthony Durham on Jeff VanderMeer’s assertion that the World Fantasy Awards have gone traditional

The Nautiloid praises “The Stress of Her Regard” by Tim Powers

Will there be compensation for the writer of the book about Mohammed’s bride?

Greg Van Eekhout’s full and complete Worldcon report

Michael Jasper’s new, official website is go

Corey Redekop interviews “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” by John McFetridge

Nice review of “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow

io9 on the Hugos

Review: “Stalking the Unicorn” by Mike Resnick

Stephenie Meyer responds to outcry about some vampire book

How to use Stumbleupon to find sci fi websites

Neal Stephenson explains the name of his new novel

Written by Matt Staggs

August 12, 2008 at 10:37 pm

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