The Dark Reachesby Kristin Landon ( Read more... )

* Via yhlee, musical stairs on YouTube!

* Also via yhlee, A Regency Romance in 2 Minutes.

* Michael M. Jones puts out an open call for submissions to his new anthology, Scheherazade's Facade: Fantastical Tales of Gender Bending, Cross-Dressing and Transformation.

* Recent Strange Horizons pieces that are excellent: poem "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds" ( Read more... )

Diamond Star
by Catherine Asaro
495 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/SF/Romance

I didn't realize how starved I was for good fluff; I sped through this newest Asaro in a single night despite its flaws. I'm not a rock fan, so the premise didn't excite me, but I do adore the Skolian Empire world. Diamond Star involves an all-too-predictable addiction ( Read more... )

Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writingby Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss (eds ( Read more... )

Worlds Apart?: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopiasby Dunja M. Mohr ( Read more... )

Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthologyby Nick Gevers (ed ( Read more... )

The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood ( Read more... )

The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
374 pages
Genre: Fiction/YA/SF

What authors seek, more than anything else, is word of mouth advertising. And for Suzanne Collins, the word of mouth campaign has succeeded spectacularly. Long before I read The Hunger Games, I had repeatedly read high-praise reviews of the novel on my flist. I am fond of dystopias ( Read more... )

Beggars in Spainby Nancy Kress ( Read more... )

* Literary agent Jenny Rappaport on counting spoons, or living with a chronic illness.

* TIME magazine has an article on how McCain makes Obama conservative, in the small-c sense.

* Via Mir at Want Not, Lean Cuisine is selling limited-edition lunch bags with half of each purchase going to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. They are mainly pink, of ( Read more... )