» Techland: Lev Grossman interviews Paolo Bacigalupi [via PW]

» Slate: Kwame Anthony Appiah's How come Jonathan Franzen - like many novelists before him - is haunted by Malthus? cites Daniel Quinn, Harry Harrison, and John Brunner

» The American Interest: Walter Russell Mead's Science Fiction is a Genre That Everyone Should Read

» BSCreview video interviews Brandon Sanderson and has a Q&A with Brent Weeks

» Omnivoracious: Exquisite Treasure: Amal El-Mohtar's The Honey Month

» Concatenation's Autumn 2010 update has lots of news and reviews, plus an essays on German Science Fiction up to 1945

» Aqueduct Press Blog announces a new feminist press, Femspec Books

» Salon: Laura Miller on The fierce fight over the present tense, triggered by an observation over the nominees for this year's Man Booker Prize

» 365 Days of Women Writers is a blog about reading only women writers for a year; early selections include Malinda Lo and Sandra McDonald

» LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews William Gibson's Zero History .. "Even when the novel's darker intrigues manifest, the stakes are never really high enough, nor the dangers particularly real."

» LA Times: John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton launch charity e-book

» British Fantasy Awards winners include Conrad Williams, Stephen Jones, Vincent Chong, Murky Depths, and Robert Holdstock

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Jeff VanderMeer's Finch

» Jeff VanderMeer announces Last Drink Bird Head Award Finalists (2009-2010) for "those in the genre community who enrich us with their time, energy, and words, for causes greater than themselves"

» Harlan Ellison's last convention appearance is scheduled for MadCon in Madison, WI, Sept 24-26, 2010

» The Atlantic: Douglas Gorney interviews William Gibson

» LA Times profiles Cornelia Funke (living in Beverly Hills since 2005)

» Lambda Literary interviews Tanith Lee, whose new book is Disturbed By Her Song

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Hawking & Mlodinow's The Grand Design - "the geek humor is endearingly lame"

» The Agony Column: A rather different interview with William Gibson

» NY Times Book Review: Katie Roiphe reviews Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay; Scarlett Thomas reviews William Gibson's Zero History

» Boston Globe: Mark Feeney reviews Gibson's Zero History

» NY Times profiles the late F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre: Froggy's Last Story

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Peter F. Hamilton, Garry Kilworth, Hannu Rajaniemi, JN Fenn

» Participate in an online survey about Aussiecon 4! Communication Studies prof has posted a survey for those who attended this most recent Worldcon at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/aussie4; for more information contact June Madeleyor (email; webpage)

» DragonCon reports from Lou Anders, Clay and Susan Griffith

» Slate's Jack Shafer on The Fallen Status of Books: hard times for hardcovers

» Salon's Laura Miller on The trouble with Google Books

» From Bar to Bar interviews Hal Duncan

» Big Ideas interviews Cory Doctorow on Copyright vs. Universal Access (audio/video)

» Washington Post: Sara Sklaroff reviews Miéville, Okorafor, McDonald

» The Australian: Geordie Williamson's Only connect connects E.M. Forster and William Gibson

» Guardian profiles Tanith Lee

» Dave Langford's Ansible 278

» Aussiecon 4 has released the Hugo voting report [pdf] with the ranked voting breakdown and lists of nominees that didn't make the final ballot

» Deaths: anime filmmaker Satoshi Kon; editor Lawrence Ashmead, whose authors included Isaac Asimov (both NYT)

» Omnivoracious: Jeff VanderMeer's picks for 2010 Novels: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year So Far?

» Wall Street Journal: William Gibson On the Future of Publishing

» NPR: Gary Shteyngart's Nerd Passion For 'Zardoz'

» The Agony Column interviews Guy Gavriel Kay

» Cosmos has free fiction Songs of a Death Earth by Don Norum, and Rust Night by Ian McHugh

» Fantastic Literature's September list is online

» Locus Online editorial: Drilling Down the Inbox; Hugo Results

» LA Times: Michael Moorcock reviews Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow's The Grand Design

» NY Times: Ander Monson reviews Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews William Gibson's Zero History

» Salon: Andrew Leonard reviews the first chapter of The Mongoliad

» NY Times: Jeff VanderMeer's Science Fiction Chronicle reviews titles by Karen Lord, Ian McDonald, Karin Lowachee, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud

» NY Times Op-Ed by William Gibson: Google's Earth

» The science fiction link to the Discovery TV gunman: Daniel Quinn's 1992 novel Ishmael, winner of the $500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship; details at AOL News, Salon, Pharyngula; Quinn responded in Washington Post

» You can watch last weekend's Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards Ceremony (144:56)