"more than a hundred schoolmasters"

Happy Father's Day to everyone who is a father (biological, step, or otherwise, to two-footed or four-footed children)! Also, happy birthday to belleferret and valancourtbooks, with best wishes for many happy returns of the day!

I have a few links to share:

* Eldritch Dark has a number of downloadable audio versions of the stories, poems, and non-fiction writings of Weird Tales author Clark Ashton Smith here.

* At Omivoracious, guest blogger China Miéville dicusses literary movements in "Neither a Contract Nor a Promise: Five Movements To Watch Out For."

* The editor of the forthcoming Shine anthology of "optimistic science fiction" discusses reasons some authors turned down the invitation to contribute: "Why I Can’t Write a Near Future, Optimistic SF story: the Excuses."

* From io9: Samuel Delany Answers Your Science Fiction Questions."

* And, last but not least, Star Trek goes steampunk in Steam Punk: The Moving Picture (thanks to jagash):

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
- George Herbert