SF Signal: SF Tidbits Part XL

SF Tidbits Part XL

Robert Collins's Top 10 dystopian novels at The Guardian.
Interesting factoid noticed by Gregory Benford (who has a new official website): Four of the last five Hugo Awards for best novel went to fantasy novels. (via Views from Medina Road)
Inconceivable! A Broadway production of William Goldman's The Princes Bride is in the works. (via the November 2005 issue of Locus Magazine)
Jim Butcher, whose Dresden Files series is being made into a SciFi Channel pilot, is planning on at least 11 titles in the book series. (via the November 2005 issue of Locus Magazine)
BookRags offers study guides for many books including sf classics like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien as well as Stories by Edgar Allen Poe. (More study guides for the Internet Generation.)