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• China Miéville's young adult book, Un Lun Dun, has a website.


• Asimov's 2006 reader poll is open for voting.


• Chapter Feeds has posted the first chapter of Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson


• For Tim: Evil Mad Scientist tells us How to Build a Lego Trebuchet.


• Free fiction: "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" by Cory Doctorow.


• Rocket Jones offers Know Your Japanese Movie Monsters, Part 1 - Gamera.


• Warner Brothers is inviting fans to submit 15-minute fanfilm of Smallville in a contest where the winning films will be featured on the upcoming sixth season DVD release.


• Fan Jamie Rubin has decided to spend 2007 going through his entire collection of Science Fiction Age and he's blogging about it. [via Michael Burstein]


• Guy Gavriel Kay, author of Ysabel, is interviewed by Blogcritics and Pat's Fantasy Hotlist


• Cool: 5-Inch Die Cast Figure of Gort.


• Cooler: Horrified B-Movie Victims Figure Set


• Coolest: Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer (Number 6) will appear in the next Playboy. And there was much rejoicing...

Share: | Posted by John on Thursday January 04, 2007 - 12:40 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2007 SF Signal

First, I want to thank John for the trebuchet and now I will commence the building of my new weapon of destruction. Secondly, I only read Playboy for the articles - or lack of articles (clothing that is) Rawr!!!!

Posted by Tim on Thursday January 04, 2007 at 10:53 AM

The first eight chapters of VARIABLE STAR are available online at Spider Robinson's website.

Here http://www.variablestarbook.com/excerpts.html

Posted by John C. Wright on Thursday January 04, 2007 at 1:59 PM

Even better!

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday January 04, 2007 at 2:03 PM

Great trebuchet - and as an aside, has anybody else noticed how cool Make magazine is?

Posted by Scott on Friday January 05, 2007 at 4:21 PM

Yep. That's one of my many RSS feeds.

Posted by John on Friday January 05, 2007 at 5:32 PM

Helfer's way too thin for my tastes. I mean, you can count her ribs!
Give the girl a cheeseburger for Pete's sake!

Doesn't mean I still won't look.

Posted by Kev on Sunday January 07, 2007 at 6:28 PM