• In his article Confessions of an Accidental Encyclopedist, Gary Westfahl considers how SF and fantasy are different from other forms of literature, how the two genres are nevertheless the same, and how circumstances beyond an editor's control can shape the content and message of a work like The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Be sure to check out the Ten Quotations list at the end of the article. [via Locus Online]


• Family Guy will kick off next season with an hour-long Star Wars spoof approved by LucasFilm. [via Fanboy]


• Adam Roberts (Gradisil) gets a redesigned website. Also, he has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. [via The Genre Files]


• Star Wars Celebration has a blog [via Club Jade]


• Sneak Peek has the new posters for the upcoming Iron Man and Transformers movies.


• My Elves are Different is promoting Blog Like It's the End of the World, in which bloggers as if a zombie uprising were taking place for real.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday May 27, 2007 at 2:20 AM
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