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New SF TV – DEMONS Thursdays at 8.30pm, from August 27. Encores Fridays at 10am and Sundays at 6.30pm on @scifitv http://bit.ly/nQ82n

Q. Problem with Oz setting in getting a book published in the US? A. from Editorial Anonymous http://bit.ly/B5xf5

Dirk Strasser is in the "Author Spotlight" @fantasymagazine http://bit.ly/k2KTU

Trent Jamieson's "Story of the Three Book Deal" http://bit.ly/DYG0h @ ROR

Flashy new site >> the new Rangers Apprentice website http://www.rangersapprentice.com

Tracey O'Hara will be interviewed on Romance Radio on the 28th http://bit.ly/fUBCz Should be avail. for download soon after

CBCA Award Winners @abcarticulate: Shaun Tan among Children's Book Council winners http://bit.ly/45Oph

Kaaron Warren is one of the authors responding to the Blogging & Social Networking Mind Meld @sfsignal http://tinyurl.com/r9zroq

KJ Taylor's (author of The Dark Griffin) ABC Radio Interview is available http://bit.ly/49ZDM5

Chronos Awards Winners @ the Continuum Blog http://bit.ly/tLrj9

Continuum Reports at The Continuum Blog http://continuum5.blogspot.com

"an epic post-apocalyptic sci-fi love story" audio drama featured in the latest The Lifted Brow mag via @BlackOnline http://bit.ly/cT1AF

25 New and Notable International YA Books http://tinyurl.com/levwf2

Stephen M Irwin touring with The Big Book Club via @BlackOnline http://tinyurl.com/lqws44

Oz SF on the 2009 Inky's Longlist: Worldshaker by Richard Harland and Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison Goodman http://bit.ly/15lIcE

More items from the ABC that might serve as inspiration for SF Writers; "Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares" from All In The Mind. The transcript includes a link to "Robot Love" an "audio adventure" from The Night Air which includes tracks by Forest J Ackerman, The Buggles, and from South Park. See also the lecture by Rodney Brooks "Remaking Manufacturing With Robotics" available at ABC Fora.

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Found an interview with Isobelle Carmody from June at Fantasy Book Review and a much more recent one with Kim Falconer by Mystic Medusa.

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Margo Lanagan interviewed by Books I Done Read Blog

Drag Me to Hell director Sam Raimi talks to Triple J and The Movie Show (also the stars)

Q&A with Duncan Lay at Voyager Online

Kate Constable interviewed at Australian Women Online and at Reading Rocks Blog

Michael Pryor interview at Pizza's Book Discussion Blog

Keri Arthur at Deadline Dames

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Two recent items of interest from the ABC include The Physics of the Impossible (audio) in which Dr Michio Kaku discusses the science fiction or science fact of such things as invisibility cloaks and teleportation, and 2050: a hypothetical future, a long (82 mins) video of a panel speculating about the world of our future, held at the UTS.

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The Guardian has a long piece on Shaun Tan with some great quotes and insight from Shaun. Also included is a gallery of the story "Eric" from Tales from Outer Suburbia.

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There's been some recent controversy about Justine Larbalestier's US cover for Liar. I first came across it via Read Alert who shared some relevant links, including Justine's response. Justine later shared some of the responses she's received. [Edited to add: see also]

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The most recent episode of Jennifer Byrne Presents, the supplemental show to The First Tuesday Book Club, was on "Brave New Worlds – Utopia and Dystopia in Literature" and featured panelists Emily Maguire, Max Barry, John Marsden, and Richard Neville discuss the works of Orwell, More, Shute, Huxley and many others. A transcript and list of books and authors discussed is available, as well as wmv and mp4 downloads of the video from the podcast page.

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Patty Jansen is hosting this month's Australian Spec Fic Blog Carnival at her LiveJournal.

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Faster Than Light Podcast has a two part interview with Colin Wilson about his life in comics.

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