• Bob Eggleton continues his renditions of the classics with this awesome cover art for Heinlein's The Man Who Sold The Moon.


• Over at UKSF Book News, Andy Remic talks about the...unbelievable...process of writing his novel War Machine.


• New free fiction at ManyBooks.net: "A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum.


• Karen Miller interviews Trudi Canavan, author of The Black Magician trilogy and the Age of the Five trilogy. "There has been this chunky mega-book series phenomenon, which I don't like as a reader. I prefer to wait until the last book of a series is available before I start reading the first one, and I must admit my interest in the Jordan and Martin mega-epics has waned from waiting so long to start them." [via Eos Book Blog]


• Author Bruce McAllister writes in to tell us that his first novel, Humanity Prime, is being reissued by Wildside Press. Originally published in 1971--and based on McAllister's first published story, "The Faces Outside"-- Humanity Prime is the story of a telepathic aquatic race of humans faced with annihilation on a distant planet thousands of years from now.


• From a press release: "A signed copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and a rare hand-numbered signed limited edition of Margaret Atwood's poetry collection, The Door, will be the eye-catching headline items in an AbeBooks.com's online charity auction taking place between December 6 and 11."


• Here's the trailer for Prince Caspian, the second installment of The Chronicles of Narnia. [via SciFi Chick]


• Drivers and Sundry collates a bunch of genre-related short films.


• Good news...I think...Riff Trax is doing the Star Wars Holiday Special. [via E.E. Knight]


• Warning to expectant fathers: The purchase of the book Baby Sci-Fi Names will be something she'll bring up for years to come. "From Anakin to Zardoz" indeed...

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday December 06, 2007 at 12:21 AM
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