• At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Lou Anders, editor of Sideways in Crime, an original anthology of "alternate mystery" stories.


• Over at Neth Space, Scott Bakker answers 5 questions.


• Subterranean Press announces Songs of the Dying Earth, the Jack Vance Tribute anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois which includes stories from Robert Silverberg, Terry Dowling, Glen Cook, Tanith Lee, Liz Williams, Kage Baker, Elizabeth Moon, Neil Gaiman, Dan Simmons, Elizabeth Hand, Matt Hughes, Mike Resnick, Phyllis Eisenstein, Paula Volsky, Howard Waldrop, Tad Williams, Walter Jon Williams, John C. Wright, and Lucius Shepard.


• Free Fiction:
  • At FeedBooks: "The Nothing Equation" by Tom Godwin (1957).
  • At FeedBooks: "The Man Who Hated Mars" by Randall Garrett (1956).
  • At FeedBooks:"Kabbalah Cowboys by Richard Kadrey (2002).
  • At ManyBooks.net: "A World Called Crimson" by John Darius Granger (1956).
  • At Futurismic: "Veritas Nos Liberabit" by Kristin Janz (2008)
  • Beam Me Up narrates "Dark Integers" by Greg Egan (Read in four parts.)
  • StarShipSofa narrates "Passion Ploy" by Matthew Hughes.


• Artist Eric Tan shows off an Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom poster that he created in his unique style.


• Random House launches Vroengard Academy, an immersive online game based upon Christopher Paolini's Inheritance books.


• Real Science: Sunset on Mars. [via Cynical-C]


• Kevin Maher of SciFi Scanner's "SciFi Dept." sez: My King Kong Could Beat Up Your King Kong.

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