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• Beam Me Up podcasts "The Last Reef" by Gareth L. Powell.


• Charles Coleman Finlay responds to George R.R. Martin's appeal to remember the purpose of the SFWA; giving to the sf community. Sez Charles: "The lack of vision and leadership in SFWA makes it all but impossible to give anything useful to the organization at this point."


• OF Blog of the Fallen talks about book reviews. [via World in a Satin Bag]


• The future warehouse of unwanted books: A warehouse is being constructed to house the books that no one's reading. [via Velcro City Tourist Board]


• Here's a video of Neil Gaiman helping a fan propose to his girlfriend. [via Gravity Lens]


• Real Science: Peek deep inside the Carina Nebula with this way-cool zoomable view. [via World in a Satin Bag]


• Science Fiction: The Other God That Failed. "Science fiction, it is often plausibly argued, is a literature about technology and what it does to humans. But what if this view of the genre is wrong? What if science fiction (SF) is not really about technology at all but something else. What if SF is at its core a religious genre, a literature about the search for transcendent meaning in a post-Christian world?"


• Here's one sci-fi fan who asserts that some science fiction cliches need to die. Great post title, but I gotta say, he's not winning any friends in these parts by picking on Space Nazis.

Share: | Posted by John on Monday December 03, 2007 - 12:48 AM | Category: Tidbits | © 2007 SF Signal