• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles E.E. Knight, author of Valentine's Resolve.


• The Heinlein Prize Trust and the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) have combined resources to launch The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Archives, an online resource that, when complete, will contain electronic copies of every document in UCSC's Heinlein collection. [via SF Scope]


• USA Today talks about real-life fanboys. (Typically, he's a male gamer who's a skeptic but an early adopter.) [via Newsarama]


• Adam Roberts, science fiction author and scholar, focuses on the questions that matter most: Have the Simpsons jumped the Shark?


• Wil Wheaton looks at Sci-Fi Guilty Pleasures of the 80's. "For the most part, Hollywood delivered films as diverse as Back to the Future and Aliens, satisfying mainstream audiences and geeks alike, but some studio executives, their faces buried in a star destroyer-sized pile of blow, filled future car wash bargain bins with craptacular derivative hybrids, like sci-fi/comedy, sci-fi/horror, and the most enduring offender, sci-fi/action."


• Times Online lists The 50 best movie robots. [via John Scalzi]


• Where's my Jetpack? SciFi Scanner has the answer.


• SciFi Chick lists 13 Things Learned From Watching Star Wars.


• Paul Kincaid compares Online vs. Print Reviews.


• New fantasy fiction podcast: PodCastle, from the peopl who brought you the Escape Pod (sf) and PseudoPod (horror) podcasts. [via SFFAudio]


• Funny: Speculative Fiction Authors Considered As High School Students. "Mr. Miéville! Mr. VanderMeer! That is enough! If you want to argue about what is and isn't New Weird, you can do it after school. Thank you. And you as well, Mr. Duncan; all three of you can move along."

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday July 26, 2007 at 12:06 AM
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