B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Jules Verne's The Castle in Transylvania, a newly translated work - "An example of Verne at his most pleasurable and educational, exploring the remarkable reality of our simultaneous technological plummet and ascent."

Kathryn Cramer's photos from Readercon

Apex Book Company is having a 40% storewide sale

Wall Street Journal: John J. Miller profiles Fritz Leiber

Salon: Laura Miller asks, Is Shirley Jackson a great American writer?

Boing Boing: Cory Doctorw reviews Ian McDonald's The Dervish House - "superb novel of the mystical nano future of Istanbul"

The Threepenny Review's Wendy Lesser reviews Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity (Jo Walton also reviewed it, last week at Tor.com)

Black Gate: Robert Silverberg asks, Are the days of the full-time novelist numbered?

Financial Times: Roz Kaveney reviews Gaiman & Sarrantonio's Stories

Rachel Swirsky is liveblogging on Jeff VanderMeer's blog from Launch Pad, a NASA-funded workshop for writers in modern astronomy

The Agony Column interviews Aimee Bender and reviews The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Omnivoracious features China Miéville on Five Underrated Literary Cephalopods

Science Fiction Awards Watch has winners of the Mythopoeic Awards (announced at MythCon), Shirley Jackson Awards and the Cordwainer Smith Award (both announced at Readercon), and the Rhysling Awards

Publishers Weekly's cover features include Stefan Dziemianowicz on The enduring popularity of H.P. Lovecraft, a profile of Subterranean Press, and Laird Barron on Why I Write

Ellen Datlow's photos from Readercon

NY Times Book Review: Will Blythe reviews Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Good Squad; Christopher Hitchens reviews Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - "an attempt by an experienced storyteller to show how even the best-plotted stories can get too far out of hand"

Entertainment Weekly gives China Miéville's Kraken an A-

Amazon's Omnivoracious celebrates L. Timmel Duchamp and Aqueduct Press, publishers of 50 books in 6 years

PW's Genreville blog summarizes a dispute re Night Shade Books

Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl - "Not since William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk classic, "Neuromancer" (1984), has a first novel excited science fiction readers as much..."