• Shiny metal things are a lot easier to bite when they're tiny. For Futurama fans, ThinkGeek has 3-inch mini die cast Bender for $10.


• Free Fiction #1: Electric Velocipede offers the World Fantasy award-nominated story "The Way He Does It" by Jeffrey Ford.


• In 1998, Michael Gordon and Matthew Maguire wrote a science fiction opera called Chaos. Here is the script (in PDF). "Chaos is harmonious, continuous, circuitous. Chaos is industrious, meticulous, and rigorous. Chaos is inebrious, hilarious, melodious, mysterious and...Chaos is heaven for us."


• Free Fiction #2: Fictionwise has "Eight Episodes" by Robert Reed. [via Fred @ Texas Best Grok]


• Over at Locus Online, Howard Waldrop & Lawrence Person review Stardust, the film based on Neil Gaiman's book.


• Free Fiction #3: Cosmos offers "Time Traveling: A Quick Reference Guide" by Robert Friedman.


• Christopher Barzak has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog. [via The Swivet]


• Here's a parody of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" involving a certain Amazon reviewer. I'm just sayin'... [via Pat's Fantasy Hotlist]

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