COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90. Link

The IRoSF is back online, with a new design and better backend. Their goal is “the serious exploration of the literature of the fantastic.” IRoSF publishes intelligent articles, essays, interviews, reviews, and criticism to illuminate the most interesting and important work in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Along the way we have also…

Jim Van Pelt has taken issue with those who argue that there’s something “wrong” with science fiction. He’s posted a rebuttal on his site, listing ten reasons why the genre is just fine. There’s more new interesting science fiction in both the long and short form than I can possibly read. There are plenty of…

Locus Magazine has come out with its Recommended Reading list for 2007. It’s the critical consensus of their editors and reviewers on the best SF and Fantasy of the year, and Cory Doctorow says, “a more reliable guide to great speculative fiction you will not find.” Lots and lots of British authors on the Novels…

Big Dumb Object had a recent entry examining the percentage of award-winning science fiction novels he’d read. In my particular case, because I suck, the percentages are: BSFA Award Winners 8% Hugo Award Winners 16% Nebula Award Winners 12% Arthur C. Clarke Award Winners A whopping 0%. I haven’t even heard of some of these.…

Amazon has a collection of nonfic essays written by SF/F authors, available as downloads for 50 cents each. For instance, Building Alternative Realities by Robert Silverberg: During my fifty years as a science-fiction writer I’ve often ventured into the invention of alternative worlds of possibility – history that never happened, but perhaps should have —…