• The Movie Blog has an open letter to George Lucas asking for new Star Wars movies based on Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy.


• New/Updated at Gutenberg: "Project Mastodon" by Clifford Donald Simak.


• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible.


• Paul Levinson has received a letter of thanks from Sierra Waters, the time-traveling protagonist of The Plot to Save Socrates.


• Obsessive fan of the week: The guy who put together The Complete Starfleet Library [via Texas Best Grok]


• Free fiction: Best SF has posted "Companion to Owls" by Chris Roberson [via Chris Roberson]


• Jeff VanderMeer lists 3 Overrated Science Fiction Authors.


• Two Questions from John C. Wright: (1) Will fantasy outlive Science Fiction?, and (2) If science fiction does die off, what might kill it?


• Here's a huge collection of maps from fantasy books.


• Darker Matter has posted it's last issue.


• Entertainment Weekly interviews Joss Whedon.


• Free movie: Killers from Space (1954) - "A nuclear scientist (Peter Graves) is hijacked by aliens to facilitate their invasion of Earth. A prophetic script predicts the age of video-conferencing. The overly earnest Graves and laughable alien costumes make this a gem."


• Watch Earth: Final Conflict on the web! And check out the site for other shows.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday August 03, 2007 at 12:16 AM
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