Pamela Sargent

Faren Miller has a long review of Farseed in the June (print) issue of Locus, in which she calls the novel "well-told, moving, and thoroughly gripping SF."

The Storm is a suspenseful, detailed account of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, written by Ivor van Heerden, Deputy Director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, and co-author Mike Bryan. Recommended for its insights into the often contentious interactions of scientists and politicians, and for the abundance of evidence it offers to show that the loss of New Orleans, far from being the outcome of a natural disaster, was the result of human negligence. If you need an excuse to get a copy, it's now out in paperback.

...Keith Olbermann should not have had to say this.

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing has performed the great service of providing a link to a list of blogs by fantasy and science fiction writers. You can find it here.

Freeman Dyson has a fascinating and provocative piece on biotechnology here, at the New York Review of Books site.