• John Scalzi interviews Karl Schroeder, author of Sun of Suns, a book with an awesome cover design. Meanwhile, Cory Doctorow reviews the book itself.


• Hear Paul Levinson read the first chapter of his book The Plot to Save Socrates available at The Sound Palette. Also, The Words Palette also Levinson's essay: How I Came to Write The Plot to Save Socrates.


• James Patrick Kelly podcasts another of his Asimov's columns, "On The Net: Singular".


• Paul Jessup sees F/SF Literature as a game of language.


• You say you like lists? Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin' Blog lists their Seminal Science Fiction and Fantasy while Wyrdsmith's Kelly McCullough shares a list of perfect books.


• SCI FI Wire talks with Stephen R. Donaldson, author of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and they also profile Next, the Nicholas Cage movie based on the Philip K. Dick story "The Golden Man".


• The editorial of this week's SCI FI Weekly has some sci-fi writers and actors answering the question "What was the best holiday present your ever gave or received? And what was the worst?"


• SFRevu interviews Rudy Rucker, author of Mathematicians in Love. [via Locus Online]


• As Club Jade points out, one of the nicest things about TIE-Tanic, a Star Wars mashup, is seeing Ewoks on fire.


• Finally, an answer to the question: "Where can I get a big-a$$ Star Trek map?"


• Heroes' Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura) will appear as himself as host of the show within the show Studio 60.

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