I’m not sure if this was a slow news week or perhaps I just wasn’t keeping a close-enough eye out. In any case, I’ve included a variety of pieces, to give you something to keep reading before the week’s grind continues. If any readers out there ever have a tip – by all means, send it our way!

–An interview with Neal Stephenson about his latest novel Seveneves

–Luc Besson is set to write and direct an adaptation of the 1967 piece Valerian – if it has any of the energy and style of something like The Fifth Element, I’d be pretty happy

–Damien Walter muses on whether we are being needlessly over-run by ‘mega-novels’ in this editorial piece

–2015 Finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award are announced here by tor.com

–Part 1 and Part 2 of recently released interviews with Artemis Fowl’s Eoin Colfer