• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself). "The keys to great characterization are humor and honesty. If a character can make you laugh, you're already a long way towards being engaged with them even if they're otherwise disgusting."


• Author interviewing author: Gail Z. Martin podcast-interviews Chris Roberson.


• Nancy Kress weighs in on Mundane SF.


• Jamie Rubin has found a way to re-energize your reading (and, in his case, writing): re-read books that you love, in Jamie's case, that's Isaac Asimov's Foundation books. I also find that being in a bookstore gives me the urge to read as well. Funny how that works...


• Newly available Trailer: Jumper, based on the novel by Steven Gould about a young man with the power of teleportation, reunites Star Wars actors Hayden Christensen and Samuel Jackson.


• Updated trailer: The Golden Compass, based on the books by Phillip Pullman, now has a full-length trailer. Armored bears, airships and daemons...lookin' sweet.


• There's a movie version of Land of the Lost in pre-production...it will be a comedy starring Will Ferrell. I'm glad they're taking the comedy route instead of trying to make it into some half-@$$ed "re-imagining".


• The latest BoingBoingTV episode offers a Fall TV sci-fi rundown and Wil Wheaton talking about his new book The Happiest Days of Our Lives.


• The first installment of the new Terminator trilogy has been named Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.


• SCi Fi Chick offers us a Sarah Connor Chronicles Set tour.


• SyFy Portal lists The 10 Scariest Episodes On Sci-Fi TV.


• Illusion blog briefly lists 11 Sci-Fi TV Themes They Love.


• Name that film! Gabriella Hewitt lists 13 Memorable Sci-Fi movie quotes.


• Cracked lists The 8 Worst Places to Steal a Movie Idea. Short version: Video games, toys, TV shows, old movies, real life, comics & graphic novels, movies from other countries and books.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday October 11, 2007 at 12:52 AM
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