Matt’s Bookosphere 8/19/08

Publishers Weekly interview with Elizabeth Bear

Sci-Fi professionals focus on e-books at Denvention

One more trip to the red planet: Mars in the science fiction imagination

Victor Gischler’s essential SF reading list

Nancy Kress ponders the paradoxes of the US drinking age

Interview with Weird Tales fiction editor Ann VanderMeer

1950 interview with Sprague de Camp

Take a peek at the cover of the Romanian edition of “The New Weird” antho

What’s on your Amazon Wishlist, Caitlin R. Kiernan?

Was New American Review the best literary magazine ever?

Interview: Owen King, John McNally, “Who Can Save Us Now?”

British Fantasy Award shortlist

YA saves SF from EXTINCTION

Review: “Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me” by Martin Millar

Hal Duncan: Notes on Strange Fiction – Postmodern(ism)

Paul Jessup discusses sword and sorcery fiction

Short fiction in the age of the e-book

Did you get a chance to listen to Neil Gaiman on “Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing?”

Interview with Ursula K. LeGuin

Craigslist ad looking for people to sign books for lazy authors

McSweeney’s: Dispatches from a Public LIbrarian

Review: “Software” by Rudy Rucker

John Scalzi offers an “Old Man’s War” chronology

The Seeds of Change: Top Five Things You Can Do