Matt’s Bookosphere 8/22/08

Caitlin R. Kiernan and companion abused by idiot security guard at Lovecraft’s grave, told to delete photos

“Dogs” by Nancy Kress contest winners announced

John Scalzi answers questions on topics not generally related to him

The old “Game Fiction Sucks” debate

Stephanie Campisi on Urban Fantasy and Rural Restraing

Friday Free Fiction roundup from Futurismic

The Daily Show’s John Oliver reviews “Literature of the Apocalyspe” (Thanks, Maud Newton!)

Paul Raven: Nostalgia does Science Fiction a disservice

Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Philip Jose Farmer

“I would assert that the death of the midlist (and all the associated problems for midlist writers), which is due primarily to the no-human-involved ordering strategies of the large chains…”

Will blogs save books after all?

Fifty cult classic books

H.P. Lovecraft and Jorge Luis Borges

Map making for fantasy writers

Andrew Wheeler reviews “Books” by Larry McMurtry

I lust for Matt Cheney’s “To Be Read” stack

Stupid, drunken frat boys get eaten by someone’s brain at Ed Champion’s place

BORDERS launches new concept store featuring digital center where customers can make their own books

Disturbed woman living in H.P. Lovecraft’s old apartment says that he is haunting her (via Antick Musings)

Genre prejudice and gaming/tie-in books

Jessa Crispin on Christopher Priest’s “Inverted World”

Review: “The Clockwork Heart” by Dru Pagliassotti

Review: “Fledgling” by Octavia Butler