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Book News, Reviews, and Musings 1 Nov 2010

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News, Reviews, and Musings is a new daily feature. Feel free to chime in, or to tweet/email us if we've missed something that you'd like to see featured.

News and features

Check out this audio sample of Stephen Kings new short story collection, Full Dark, No Stars.

The film adaptation of The Hobbit has been given the go-ahead.

Amazon will release a Kindle app for Windows 7.

The World SF blog is looking for submissions.

Dont forget to check out our newest posts: competition round ups, new releases, book reviews, and more!

Interviews

The Angry Robot podcast interviews Gav Thrope and Andy Remic.

Adventures in Sci Fi publishing interviews Ann Vandermeer.

Reviews

Michelle at Thats What She Read reviews Black Boy by Richard Wright.

Adele at Persnickety Snark reviews Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood.

Liviu at Fantasy Book Critic reviews Corvus by Paul Kearney.

Musings

Author Paul Jessup talks about collaborating with an artist.

Author Des Hunt talks about starting a new novel.

Jacinta Le Plastrier muses on the value of second-hand bookshops.

Funnyman turned author Shaun Micallef talks about the importance of character in comic fiction.

Just for fun

Quercus books has some fun with words.

Author birthdays

Happy birthday, Stephen Crane and Edward Said.

Quote of the Day

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Beautiful book cover of the day:

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