• This week's Tor Wallpapers come from Luis Royo and Jon Foster.


• Charles Coleman Finlay interviews Paul Melko (Ten Sigmas and Other Unlikelihoods and Singularity's Ring).


• Kaleb Nation interviews Scott Westerfeld, who talks about his Uglies books. [via Yatterings]


• More than 120 YA authors are participating in Simon & Schuster's Pulse Blogfest. [via Yatterings]


• Peter F. Hamilton is hard at work on Temporal Void, the sequl to The Dreaming Void.


• Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a new website and blog (and has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog). [via Tobias Buckell]


• An Internet experiment done right - Flash fiction meme turns into book! Gareth L. Powell has the scoop on Illuminations, an anthology showcasing "original, cutting edge short fiction from eight up-and-coming young British writers." That'd be Paul Graham Raven, Gareth D Jones, Martin McGrath, Dan Pawley, Justin Pickard, Neil Beynon, and Shaun Green.


• BBC's 7th Dimension is featuring Philip K. Dick's story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", the basis for Total Recall. Tune in on March 16th, or listen again afterwards. [via SFFaudio]


• Free audio fiction for the podiobooks: "Time Crime" by H. Beam Piper (1955).


• Science Fiction Concatenation offers "Futures" by Steven Longworth (PDF link).


• Fanboy shares some videos of Comic Book Artists in Action.


• Geek Alert: A 7-foot tall Battlestar Galactica Cylon figure. Cost: $8,000. That's a lot for a toaster. ALthough, at 7-feet, I bet it makes a whole lotta toast.

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