September 7, 2009 Links and Plugs

Fresh from my inbox is the news that StarShipSofa will be releasing via print-on-demand StarShipSofa Stories Volume 1. You can check out the table of contents here.

And Jeff VanderMeer asks: What Book Should Omnivoracious Pair with Stone Brewing's Latest Vertical Epic Ale?

Lastly, Paul Tremblay has a short review of Philippine Speculative Fiction IV and Waking the Dead.

Interviews

• Seattle Geekly interviews various authors include Jennifer Brozek, Seanan McGuire, James M Sullivan, Jay Lake, and Shannon Page (podcast).
• Rick Kleffel interviews Gordon Van Gelder, Ellen Klages, Gene Wolfe, Charles de Lint (podcast).
• Richard Dansky interviews Thomas Sniegoski.
• Seattle PI interviews Angel Leigh McCoy.
• David Gill interviews Anne Dick.
• Odyssey Podcasts guest lecturer is P. D. Cacek.
• Matt Staggs interviews David Lubar.
• Science Fiction and Other Odysseys interviews Juliette Wade.
  

Advice/Articles

• Gary Farber on What Damon Knight Actually Said About Science Fiction. Related: Crotchety Old Fan on The Science Fiction Knight.
• Tero Ykspetäjä on Rise of Women.
• John C Wright on Tales of Mystery and Imagination; or, What is the first SF novel?
• Justin Kahn on How I Got Out of Writing an essay on H.G. Well's The Time Machine.
• Edward Boyden on The Singularity and the Fixed Point.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Look to the Skies!
• Jeff VanderMeer on How Old Are You In Writer Years? Here’s the Formula…
• Rose Fox on I Don't Want to Hate Self-Publishers.
• Torie Atkinson on Alternate Alternate History.
• CL Anderson on The Writing Life - Cynicism.
• Cory Doctorow on Special Pleading.
• Rachel Aaron on Why we should all say thank you to Stephanie Meyer and J.K. Rowling.
• Steven Harper Piziks on But How Do You Feel?
• Vonda N. McIntyre on Seven Ways to Get Your Manuscript Rejected.
• Alma Alexander on Happily Ever After…
• Gerard Houarner on Putthing This Book Together.
• The Rejectionist on Wampyr Wuv.
  

News

• Warrior Wisewoman 3 - Reading Period Now Open.
• Fantasy Magazine Slush Update.
• Serbian writer Zoran Živković will be a guest of honor at World Fantasy Convention 2009.
• Announcing the special World SF issue of Apex Magazine.
• Check out PS Publishing's Zeptember Zelebrations and Midsummer Mayhem!
• First Chapter of the Wheel of Time's The Gathering Storm.
  

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Year's Best Fantasy 9 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer