- Happy Birthday, Arthur C. Clarke, born 90 years ago today!
- Dave Itzkoff take a stab at poli-sci-fi humor in his Planetary Politics article.
- SF Author Mike Brotherton (Star Dragon, Spider Star) has a redesigned website. (He also points us to this seriously cool video of Crayon Physics.)
- AM New York presents a science fiction reading list offering "some of the best and most thought-provoking contemporary writing"
- To help celebrate the release of Inside Straight, the first book in a new Wild Cards series, a new Wild Cards website has been launched. [via George R.R. Martin, the series creator]
- SFX interviews Doctor Who Producer Phil Collinson. [via BLTSF]
- AskMen lists 5 Things You Didn't Know about Star Trek, which includes things every fans already knows about Star Trek. Oh well, at least they got some nice eye candy in the sidebar, if you know what I mean.
- The New York Times interviews and profiles David Gerrold who talks about Tribbles, Gene Roddenberry and his long-lost Trek script.
- At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer profiles Elizabeth Bear, author of Dust. [via The Swivet]
- Speaking of The Swivet, you should be reading that on a daily basis. Better yet, subscribe to the newsfeed. La Gringa provides a plethora of links to reviews, book releases, contracts and acquisition news that we just don't cover here. If you remember what Andrew Wheeler did for the SFBC blog, it's like that -- she's picked up that torch for all of us. Thanks, La Gringa! Keep up the great work!
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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday December 16, 2007 at 12:03 AM
© 2008 SF Signal
"Other fun facts (thank you, Wikipedia!): the command center of the Apollo 13 craft was named "2001" after the movie, Clarke had a whole friggin' asteroid AND a new species of dinosaur Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei named after him. Coolness."
No, Wired, the "command center" of the Apollo 13 craft was not named "2001". The Command Module, the capsule attached to the Service Module was named "Odyssey". And the Lunar Module was named "Aquarius". Which was taken from a song from my misbegotten youth.
Well, it could have been worse.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Sunday December 16, 2007 at 5:44 AM at 5:44 AM
I'm guessing the editors at Wired weren't old enough, or even born yet, to remember Apollo 13. If only there was a movie or TV show, or heck, even a book, that would have helped them out.
See what you get for relying solely on Wikipedia?
Posted by jp on Sunday December 16, 2007 at 7:12 AM at 7:12 AM
Hey, John!
Thanks for the kind words and the shout out! Much appreciated!
xoxo
La Gringa
Posted by La Gringa on Sunday December 16, 2007 at 12:38 PM at 12:38 PM
Someone tell me who is advising AM New York. That has to be the worst list I've ever read.
Posted by Terry Weyna on Sunday December 16, 2007 at 2:20 PM at 2:20 PM
Wow that's a pretty big screwup on Wired's part since even Wikipedia is right (even the soviet encyclopedia gets it right sometimes.) 
Posted by Scottsh on Sunday December 16, 2007 at 5:42 PM at 5:42 PM
Ugh. If you're creating sci-fi list, keep the selections science fiction. LOTR, Earthsea, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, and Paolini's books are fantasy. The selections are for the most part, terrible. Kudos for putting Foundation, Dune, PKD, nd Neal Stephenson on the list.
Posted by E_I on Sunday December 16, 2007 at 7:04 PM at 7:04 PM