SF Tidbits for 12/16/06

• A 3rd Stargate series is in development. [via Big Dumb Object]
• Things we didn’t know last year:
  • C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don’t get on.
  • Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, had a hand in creating the Klingon language that was used in the movies, and which Shakespeare plays were subsequently translated into.
• About offers a Christmas Guide for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fans.
• It’s an M. John Harrison Hat Trick!
  • M. John Harrison has been added to the list of SF/F Authors Who Blog.
  • Read How I Write by M. John Harrison. [via Adventures in the SF Trade]
  • Austgate interviews M. John Harrison.
• Free Fiction: “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” by Mike Resnick. [via Biology in Science Fiction]
• The Top 9 Things Overheard at the SF Holiday Party.
• Cool or very, very sad? Twenty buck will buy you a 30 second chat with a celebrity like Richard Hatch (The original Battlestar Galactica), Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk), Butch Patrick (Eddie on The Munsters), Greg Evigan (Tek War), Dean Haglund (X-Files) and Marta Kristen (Judy Robinson from Lost in Space). Is it just me, or does it seem to be that for every Larry “Soup Nazi” Thomas there are about a dozen Ron “Horshack” Pallilos.

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