SF Tidbits for 5/18/07

• Check out this way-cool trailer for Transformers.
• Here’s a first peek at the forthcoming CG-animated television series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. [via Club Jade]
• Jeff VanderMeer is reading Alastair Reynolds and uses the occasion to classify space opera.
• BoingBoing has an MP3 of Rudy Rucker, Terry Bisson and Cory Doctorow as part of the Science Fiction in San Francisco series.
• Michale Shanks (Stargate: SG-1 and 24) has a TV Guide blog. [via Boldy Go]
• At The Cultural Gutter, James Schellenberg contemplates the re-reading of books.
• Sci-Fi Overdrive chats with Allen Steele. [via Locus Online]
• UKSFBN interviews Steph Swainston (The Modern World). “If more writers didn’t write ‘fantasy’ so self-consciously and follow imagined ‘rules’ of the genre then the whole thing might not be so hidebound and repetitive. It should be the most creative writing around but is frequently the most conservative.” [via Genre Files]
• Calling all fanboys! Here are the details on Blade Runner: The Ultimate Collection.
• Must-Read of the Week: No Fear of the Future’s An Alternate History of Chinese Science Fiction.
• John Scalzi mashes up Bacon Cat and the Motivational Poster. Inevitable and still funny.

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