In case you missed them, here are The Top 15 SF Signal Posts for October 2009:MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Fantasy?GIVEAWAY: Robert Jordan's Eye of the World and ... Becoming 'Feminized'?MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative ...

An exclusive interview with Zoran Zivkovic is posted at SF Signal. Hi! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. I read in an interview that you consider yourself a writer “without any prefixes.” Why do you think some readers, critics, and other writers have biases against fiction that are typically labeled as genre or might ...

Probably my favorite part of a recent SF Signal Interview of Vandana Singh by Patrick Wolohan of Stomping on Yeti blogdom: SoY: Describe your writing style in haiku-form. VS: Ask a crow How it ... stories have been reprinted in Years' Best anthologies, most recently "Oblivion: A Journey" in Year's Best SF 14 (edited by Hartwell and Cramer).

Once again, I'm pleased to note that I was invited to participate in a Mind Meld discussion by the fine folks over at SF Signal. This time, the question they asked was, "Do you read eBooks? If not, why not? If so, what are the pros and cons of eBook reading? What device(s) do you use?" Participants include (deep breath): ...

Quotes from his interview with Charles Tan at SF Signal: Why sf?: "the play of ideas, the awareness that technology is doing something huge to us as a species.""Kelly Link taught me to take sentences seriously; she'd pick a harmless looking sentence in the story and then she'd chip away at it, chip away at it, ...

... put out a press release declaring that some of its researchers, in the Brit journal BMC Biology, are reporting discovery of the insects’ chemical friend-or-foe signal that, until now, has kept nearly all the myriad nests of these things from attacking one another. It seems that here in California they are essentially one big happy tribe or super-colony that hasn’t the collective ...