Blinks: Bear on Mars; reviews of Evenson, Brin, Stephenson, Yu; interviews with the VanderMeers, Farland; Tom Swift; Armadillocon photos

» CNN: Greg Bear on Why I Love Mars

» LA Review of Books: Paul Tremblay reviews Brian Evenson’s Immobility; M. Keith Booker reviews David Brin’s Existence; and Norman Spinrad reviews Neal Stephenson’s Some Remarks

» The A.V. Club reviews Charles Yu’s Sorry Please Thank You: Stories, and gives it an A-

» LA Times interviews Ann and Jeff VanderMeer about The Weird

» Examiner.com talks with David Farland

» NPR: Catching Up With Tom Swift a Century Later

» Lawrence Person’s photos from Armadillocon