NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Books, results of 60,000 votes, are led by J.R.R. Tolkien and Douglas Adams

The Smart Set: Nick Mamatas' Paperpack Politics: Insectoids, teenage moon gangs, and the Tea Party

SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Daniel H. Wilson, Lisa Goldstein, Grant Morrison

PW: Adam Lipkin interviews Vernor Vinge

B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Lev Grossman's The Magician King

NY Times Book Review: Terrence Rafferty's Horror column is on The State of Zombie Literature

NY Times obit for William Sleator

LA Times: Nick Owchar reviews Dan Simmons' Flashback

Washington Post: Troy Jollimore reviews J.G. Ballard's Millennium People

BBC's What should spaceships look like? with comments by Chris Foss, Gary Westfahl, and Eric Rabkin

Locus Online editorial blog: A Note about Locus Online's Monitor Listings

Dave Langford's Ansible 289

NPR's Vote for Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles has narrowed nominations down to 237 finalists; everyone gets 10 votes, and about 10 days to vote

Washington Post: Patrick Anderson reviews Dan Simmons' Flashback

LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews J.G. Ballard's Millennium People; online, Nick Owchar's Siren's Call column covers Dan Simmons' Flashback and the VanderMeers' latest Thackery T. Lambshead anthology

Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Paul Malmont's The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown

Gollancz will launch The Science Fiction Gateway with thousands of out-of-print titles by classic genre authors available as eBooks, closely integrated with the online Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, this Autumn

Realms of Fantasy magazine is switching to electronic-only submissions by August 31st

From Bar to Bar inteviews Braulio Tavares

B&N Review via Salon: Katherine A. Powers finds Dan Simmons' Flashback "atrocious, hyper-conservative"