October 24, 2008 Links and Plugs

There's no USA Today best-seller list for today because... their site hasn't been updated with the latest list. Anyway, here are the week's links and plugs:

• SF Signal has a Mind Meld on The Future of Written Science Fiction.
• Check out the new Joan Aiken site.
• Stephen King has a column entitled Who Says Real Men Don't Read? and has a header Chick Lit vs. "Manfiction".
• Jeff Vandermeer interviews K.J. Parker.
• Geoff Ryman on Teaching in San Diego. And a multi-part column on Cambodian Tales (1, 2, 3).
• I beg to differ but Jon Evans writes Magic realism: not fantasy. Sorry.

I've plugged this book several times but it can now be ordered at Amazon, three weeks before its release date:

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