» Amazon.com's Best SF & Fantasy Book of the Year So Far are led by Jo Walton's Among Others, followed by Miéville, Harkness, Brooks, Moning, Corey, Wilson, Rothfuss, Abraham, and Okorafor

» Fantastique Unfettered interviews Bruce Boston about his fourth Bram Stoker award

» The Maui News checks in with Linda Nagata about her latest novel

» Guardian: Patrick Ness' Monsters of Men has won the Carnegie Medal

» CNN reports on Harlan Ellison's initiation into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame

» Telegraph: Peter Ingham reviews Ernest Cline, Tom Holt, Trent Jamieson, Ben Aaronovitch

» Book View Cafe is running a Favorite Science Fiction poll, paralleling NPR's, though with somewhat different rules -- short fiction can be included; Golden Age writers are discouraged

» Tor.com has an excerpt from Vernor Vinge's upcoming The Children of the Sky

» NPR is soliciting nominations for this Summer's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy Books Top 100 list; last year they did thrillers, and got 17,000 ballots

» LA Times: Steampunk culture full speed ahead, with Jeff VanderMeer and The League of S.T.E.A.M.; also, Susan Carpenter reviews China Miéville's Embassytown and reviews Vera Brosgol's Anya's Ghost

» Breaking News: Bram Stoker Awards Winners include Peter Straub, Stephen King, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas

» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Hannu Rajamiemi's The Quantum Thief

» Ellen Datlow's photos from the KGB reading on June 15, with Sarah Langan and Glen Hirshberg

» The Paris Review, Summer issue has interviews with William Gibson and Samuel R. Delany (only excerpts online), and fiction by Jonathan Lethem

» Black Gate: Bud Webster on Rosetta Books' The Galaxy Project; earlier, Bud Webster on Holding History

» PZ Myers reveals his secret addiction -- trolling '70s-era porn shops in search of cheesy science fiction, from van Vogt to Moorcock

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews John Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation

» Pyr's June Author Round Table features Jon Sprunk, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Andrew P. Mayer, Erin Hoffman

» NPR: Glen Weldon selects Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Books for a Fantastical Summer by Liane Merciel, China Miéville, Hannu Rajaniemi, Melissa Marr, and Albert Brooks

» NPR: Howard Andrew Jones plugs Rich Tales in Cheap Print by Leigh Brackett, Manly Wade Wellman, and Robert E. Howard

» London Review of Books: Sam Thompson reviews China Miéville's Embassytown, with reference to John "genre cannot be serious" Mullan

» Clarion UCSD's second annual Write-a-Thon is open to June 26th

» Ellen Datlow's website is newly redesigned

» Guardian: Terry Pratchett starts process to take his own life

» Guardian: Salman Rushdie to write sci-fi drama for Showtime; "quality TV drama has taken over from film and the novel as the best way of widely communicating ideas and stories"

» Baen.com: Gregory Benford's "Terraforming Ganymede with Robert A. Heinlein" - part 1, part 2

» John Ashbrook has a previously unbroadcast 1993 interview with William Gibson

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Willis, Emshwiller, Lebbon, Corey

» From Bar to Bar interviews Alastair Reynolds

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews H.G. Wells' 1910 The History of Mr. Polly

» B&N: Ward Sutton graphically reviews Albert Brooks' 2030

» Boomtron [formerly BSCreview, apparently]: Hal Duncan's column Notes from New Sodom: The Order of the Blue Flower

» New Zealand's Sir Julius Vogel Awards for SF/F/H include works by Helen Lowe, Lyn McConchie, and Paul Haines

» MIT Technology Review plans a special science fiction issue this Fall; also, editors list ten Best Hard Science Fiction Books of all Time that inspired the issue

» The Independent: Christopher Fowler on Fergus Gwynplaine MacIntyre

» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Brian Jacques' The Rogue Crew

» NY Times: Carlo Rotella reviews China Miéville's Embassytown

» Also NY Times: Jeff VanderMeer's "Science Fiction Chronicle" reviews Lauren Beukes, Genevieve Valetine, Peter S. Beagle, Jo Walton

» LA Review of Books: Roger Luckhurst reviews Gary K. Wolfe's Evaporating Genres

» NPR: Alan Cheuse reviews Ben Bova's Leviathans of Jupiter

» Dave Langford's Ansible 287

» Salon: Laura Miller asks Does reading great books make you a better person?