The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have released the longlist for this year's Nebula Award. There are four Canadians in competition at this point in the novel category including Robert J. Sawyer, Nalo Hopkinson, Peter Watts and Julie E. Czerneda.

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The Wild Cards franchise returns in a big way with the first novel in a trilogy edited by fantasy legend George R.R. Martin. Martin has assembled some great names to contribute to the relaunch of one of the longest running shared worlds in the genre.

I was hesitant about this one before I started reading it. I hadn't read any of the Wild Cards books before, but I have read super hero novels. If you are worried about getting someone's take on Batman here, think again. Even in the best of the admittedly small genre of superhero prose fiction, the novels tend to suffer from an ironic postmodern commentary. You can't help but watch the authors Nudging and winking the reader about how clever they are through the entire narrative. If are familiar with comics and superheros this gets very irritating, very fast. If you are not familiar, the cleverness is lost on you.

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In the wake of the movie adaptation of her biography Persepolis' opening on Christmas Day, Marjane Satrapi was interviewed at Newsarama, along with her co-director Vincent Paronnaud.

Persepolis tells the story of Satrapi's childhood growing up in Tehran. A time that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime and the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.

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Byatt, Booker Prize winning author of Possession gives a heartfelt discussion at The Telegraph on why she loves Margery Allingham, author of the Albert Campion mysteries. Read it here.

You can find a list of some of her available books after the jump