• A set of first edition books of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy sold for $2,300. Wow!


• Talking Squid tells us why fanfic makes us stupid.


• Check out The Villanizer, a Steampunk Guitar. [via VCTB]


• Locus Online has posted the contents of the May 2007 issue of Locus magazine.


• James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here's Part 12.


• File under: I Can't Believe This is the First Time I've Seen This: The Science Fiction Story of the Day website which offers free fiction online daily.


• Odyssey SF/F Writing Workshop podcasts Robert J. Sawyer talking about point of view in fiction.


• Finally...a label to attach to the people blocking the bookstore aisles: Manga Hoboes!


• Cory Doctorow reads from his forthcoming (May 2008) young adult novel, Little Brother, about San Francisco hacker kids who fight back against the Department of Homeland Security.


• Slice of SciFi interviews Morena Baccarin who played Inara in Firelfy and Serenity. [via Whedonesque]


• Iain Banks next Culture novel is titled Matter. [via James @ Big Dumb Object, who also has a report from Alt.Fiction 2007]


• Get it before it's yanked! Funny video for Monday: An SNL skit that lacked the cajones to be called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Bone. (YouTube has already pulled this, as it were.) Speaking of The Harry Potter Outreach Program...HEL-lo!

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