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

Amazon's Omnivoracious blog features Mike Allen on Clockwork Phoenix and guest posts by Mark Charan Newton

Lightspeed has fiction by Carol Emshwiller and nonfiction by Carol Pinchefsky; the complete July issue is for sale now

Salon: Justin Cronin Q&A

Blogging the Muse interviews Lisa Goldstein

Submissions are now open for the Australian Shadows Awards, presented by the Australian Horror Writers Association, this year with cash prizes

The Onion: News From The Year 2137

Tor.com is celebrating Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy this month

Strange Horizons: Adam Roberts examines The Woo of Lost

Michiko Kakutani reviews Laurence Gonzales' Lucy, about a human/ape "humanzee", which "doesn't manage to lend Lucy's back story even the veneer of plausibility"; Jerry Coyne is similarly unimpressed

Michiko Kakutani reviews Laurence Gonzales' Lucy, which "doesn't manage to lend Lucy's back story even the veneer of plausibility"; Jerry Coyne is similarly unimpressed

Hal Duncan on The Lost Airbender

David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is reviewed by David Eggers in New York Times, by Eric Banks in LA Times, and by Ron Charles in Washington Post; last week Mitchell was profiled in NYT's Magazine

Time Magazine's July 12th What to Read this Summer (mostly not online) includes editor Lev Grossman's choice of two fantasy anthologies: Gaiman & Sarrantonio's Stories, and Strahan & Anders' Swords & Dark Magic

SF Chronicle: Carmela Ciuraru reviews Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Entertainment Weekly reviews Laurence Gonzales' "sci-fi thriller" Lucy and gives it an A

Flagship is a new electronic and audio 'zine, dedicated to "optimistic, entertaining, Golden Age" science fiction, launching July 4th

Quantum Muse interviews L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

NPR: Alan Cheuse reviews The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson

Dave Langford's Ansible 276