- James Woods on character. (Via Jenny.)
- And another from the tireless Jenny, 10 famous writers talk about their trunk novels.
- Ed Park on Terry Pratchett.
- When the cinetrix tells me to watch something on youtube, I do it.
- Jonathan Strahan announces an open reading period for Eclipse Two, running through February. Writers, start your stories.
- Craig Gidney reviews The Shadow Speaker, saying it’s a kind of African The Golden Compass. Sold.
- The Anonymous war on Scientology. Fascinating, this one.
- Which book? The interesting thing about this site is that I’ve never heard of anything it spits out, but they all sound fabulous. (Via Laurie Halse Anderson.)
- Alan DeNiro reviews The New Space Opera anthology, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan: "After all of this disappointment and cast-off deflation, the exceptions in this book are so, well, exceptional that it makes the entire book worth reading—if for nothing else than to map out how the tired and unambitious stories put the gems in high relief, like settings in a crown."