NY Times: Jeff VanderMeer's Science Fiction Chronicle reviews titles by Karen Lord, Ian McDonald, Karin Lowachee, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud

NY Times Op-Ed by William Gibson: Google's Earth

The science fiction link to the Discovery TV gunman: Daniel Quinn's 1992 novel Ishmael, winner of the $500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship; details at AOL News, Salon, Pharyngula; Quinn responded in Washington Post

You can watch last weekend's Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards Ceremony (144:56)

Slate's Book Club dissects Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay

More of Lawrence Person's photos from Armadillocon

John Joseph Adams' site for The Living Dead 2 features eight free stories, plus 36 author interviews appearing daily beginning today; the book is available now

Locus Online attends this year's Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards Ceremony

Lawrence Person is posting photos from Armadillocon

Omnivoracious interviews Rose Fox, sf/f/h reviews editor for Publishers Weekly, while Jeff VanderMeeer reports from Shared Worlds, an sf/f writing camp for teen students

The Agony Column interviews Mary Roach and reviews Packing for Mars

Cosmos has free fiction Looking Good by Deborah Walker

Discovery News talks with Robert J. Sawyer at SETI-Con; meanwhile at Philosophy Now, Nick DiChario interviews Sawyer

Meteor House is posting excerpts from forthcoming book The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions

Locus Online editorial On Mixed Marriages, responding to Gary Westfahl's essay

LA Times: Susan Carpenter reviews Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay (on sale tomorrow) - "Wow"; also, Ed Parks reviews Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

The New Gay interviews Hal Duncan

BSCreview interviews Jane Lindskold, Alex Bledsoe, and Aaron Dembski-Bowden

The Agony Column interviews Gary Shteyngart and reviews Super Sad True Love Story

Daily Mail: Harry Ritchie reviews Stephenie Meyer, Justin Cronin, Charlaine Harris