• John Scalzi officially announces Zoe's Tale, a new novel set in the Old Man's War universe. Unofficially, we had this yesterday.


• Meanwhile, over at Ficlets, Scalzi interviews Matthew Jarpe, author of Radio Freefall.


• And, because you can never get enough Scalzi (or so he tells us), John Scalzi reminds us over at his AOL gig about Star Wars: The Musical.


• Why Tobias Buckell likes science fiction: "I'm fascinated to be working in a literature that is not trying to pretend this stuff doesn't exist, isn't coming, and everything is as it was."


• Here's a list of Speculative Fiction Tropes. [via Geoffrey A. Landis]


• Chris Roberson points us to Stephen Baxter's Warhammer article, which discusses the history of Games Workshop.


• L.E. Modesitt posts about Flash and Substance in F&SF. "One of the problems in the F&SF genre...is that the extremists among the fans, reviewers, academics, and critics have a tendency to monopolize both the dialogue and the critical studies. And, for better or worse, extremists generally tend to praise and support, naturally, the extremes. "


• Neal Asher talks about the merging of machine and flesh in his article Into The Machine. "...in the next few centuries definitions of what is human will become rather hazy, and the individual of that future unrecognisable to us."


• Blast From the Past: In 1936 and 1937, science fiction godfather John W. Campbell wrote an 18-part series of articles for Astounding magazine (now known as Analog) on "the latest developments in solar system science". Behold John W. Campbell's Solar System. [via Crowlspace]


• The September 2007 issue of the revived Orion's Child magazine is now available.


• Dad2059 lists 5 Essential Things To Do In Space.


• BoingBoing Gadgets points us to this awesome collection of ray guns.


• Is Doctor Who's Face of Boe hanging oustide a Washington, D.C museum?


• From the Department of It Had to Happen: LOLthulhu.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday September 20, 2007 at 12:08 AM
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