Commentary in Fantasy Magazine tells us How To Kill Off A Sense Of Wonder in fantasy (particularly paranormal fantasy). There are some great comments in this thread. I echo the thought that not everything needs to be original. Even so, "original" to the whole of written fiction at large is a much harder obligation to fulfill than "original to me".
Cinematical has the scoop on the big screen adaptation of the comic Atlantis Rising.
This week's SciFi Dept has Kevin Maher looking at The Five Most Evil Computer Villains. Weren't all of these easily defeated by asking the computer to calculate Pi to the last digit? Oh wait...that was just on Star Trek.