• SF Scope is reporting that Daniel F. Galouye (Dark Universe) is the recipient of this year's Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, awarded to SF and fantasy writers whose work "displays unusual originality, embodies the spirit of Cordwainer Smith's fiction, and deserves renewed attention or 'Rediscovery'." See also: Past winners.


• SF Canada interviews Bantam editor Anne Groell.


• The July 5th issue of Nature feature article "The Biologists Strike Back" includes looks at science fictions treatment of the biological sciences and includes comments from authors Ken MacLeod (who has a masters in biomechanics), Joan Slonczewski (professor of biology at Kenyon College), Paul McAuley (formerly lecturer in botany at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland), and Peter Watts (who has done research in marine biology). Here's the supplementary text in PDF. [via Biology in Science Fiction]


• Create your very own Who Wants to be a Superhero comic book creation and you could win prizes, courtesy of a SciFi Channel promotion.


• Quasar Dragon has the TV classic Space Patrol!

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