• This week's FREE eBook at Tor's website is Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell. See why I loved it.


• Speaking of Tor, the latest Tor.com Wallpapers courtesy of Sam Weber (Beasts! edited by Jacob Covey) and Shelley Eshkar (The Andriod's Dream by John Scalzi): [via The Art Department]


• OK, I'm not a Tor-whore, but here's another tidbit: The Tor podcast interview with Whitley and Anne Strieber (2012 and The Grays).


• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Matthew De Abaitua, whose novel The Red Men is a finalist for this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award.


• Topless Robot shares a photo of Benicio Del Toro as the Wolfman.


• The British Science Fiction Association announces that Matrix Online is now live...for members only. D'oh!


• Yet another list of Top Ten Mind-Blowing Science Fiction Books. (The short version: Evolution by Stephen Baxter, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Source by James Michener, 1984 by George Orwell, The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, Walden Two by B. F. Skinner, and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.)


• Does the Galactic Empire have a marketing department? Here's the TV commercial for the Stormtrooper Army. [via MilkandCookies]

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