http://revolutionsf.com/ is another zine with fiction, reviews and humor (Tina Brown to take over Asimov’s SF).
Meanwhile, over at scifiction, Michael Swanwick makes his way along the Periodic Table (he’s writing a short-short story for each element) and reaches Gallium.
A reprint on rpg.net of an interview with Tim Powers:
No, I’ve never done any gaming! Of course I know lots of people involved in it, and I love Kenneth Hite’s books — I know they’re for gamers, but they seem to have been written for me. I guess I’m afraid that if I got into gaming it would totally absorb me, and I’d get no writing at all done.
The Onion: Archeologist tired of unearthing unspeakable ancient evils. (I waited until today to post this because I had no Radio at home. Bummer).
Captain Cursor calls his D&D campaign style “Spellpunk“:
“My campaign has defiantly been spellpunk. Necromancers with barely anything on but the leather bondage gear, pierced orcs leading revolutions against the racist humans, and mages that seek to become posthuman in their distopian city. But I think that it’s just a general trend of the genre.”