• Unshelved recommends Cordwainer Smith's The Rediscovery on Man by way of comic strip. [via James Nicoll]


• ActuSF interviews Richard Paul Russo (Ship of Fools and The Rosetta Codex). "...science fiction seems the best way to explore how we are moving into the future even as we are living in the present."


• Over at Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer profiles David Keck (In the Eye of Heaven and In a Time of Treason).


• Jay Lake ponders proposing a lifetime achievement Hugo. John Scalzi responds.


• After some last-minute rescheduling, NPR has finally posted a brief interview with John Joseph Adams talking about I Am Legend.


• At Locus Online, Gary Westfahl reviews I Am Legend.


• SF Site and SFF World want to know your favorite reads of 2007.


• Meanwhile, Ken at Neth Space and Patrick at Pat's Fantasy Hotlist list their favorite reads of 2007.


• At Talking Squid, Chris Lawson shows us how Genre conquered Hollywood and asks some interesting follow-on questions: "Why, when movies are so dominated by genre, does the book industry still treat genre like a set of exclusive enclaves and assume that readers will never want to venture beyond rigidly defined walls? Why are non-genre writers so pompously dismissive of genre -- even when they choose to write a genre book?"


• Cynical-C has the lost Star Wars intro.


• Does anyone else think that the Cloverfield monster looks like a giant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? Maybe this Cthulhu version that Fred pointed out would be better after all?


• Chuckle of the day: Brewster Rockit, Space Guy goes Christmas shopping.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday December 17, 2007 at 12:35 AM
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