• Robot Dreams makes Oprah's reading list for kids.


• Interviews and Profiles:
  • @StarshipSofa: Alastair Reynolds. (Audio interview)
  • @Scientific American: Clone Wars Director David Filoni.
  • @Concept Sci-fi: Richard K. Morgan.
  • @SFX: Summer Glau.


• Free Fiction:
  • "Resistance" by Tobias S. Buckell (set in his Crystal Rain universe).
  • @StarshipSofa podcast:
    • "The Real Story" by Alastair Reynolds (short story)
    • "What's Expected Of Us" by Ted Chiang (flash fiction)
    • "Making Robot Poets" by Greg Beatty (poetry)
  • @FeedBooks:
    • "Real Death" by Terry Hayman.
    • "The Existential Cure" by Will McIntosh.
    • "Better Sweets To Prove Than Sleep" by Lisa Mantchev.
    • "Strike A Pose - Sturgis" by Ricardo Donnárd.
  • @ManyBooks.net:
    • "The Star Hyacinths" by James H. Schmitz
    • "Pandemic" by Jesse F. Bone
  • Free Fiction Sample: An excerpt from Charlie Huston's upcoming fourth Joe Pitt Casebook, Every Last Drop. I'm looking forward to this one.


• Tor.com asks: How Do You Like Your Book Covers? [via The Art Department]


• Cover Pron: Tom Lloyd's The Stormcaller: Book One of the Twilight Reign.


• Controversy of the day: Ain't It Cool News recently pulled a negative review of Clone Wars at the demands of Lucasfilm.


• The other controversy of the day: Paul Jessup on the Generation Gap in SF. Crotchety Old Fan responds.


• The anthology Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams, get a website.


• Solar Flare asks: Are Science Fiction Short Stories Too Literary?


• Can you guess the title of James Wallace Harris' favorite short fiction story?


• Nancy Kress has posted her reading list for Constructing Future Societies.


• John Scalzi on why you should care about Zoe's Tale.


• More Scalzi: Sports of the Future Will Be Much More Violent Than Those at the Olympics.


• One for the writers: Agent Colleen Lindsay offers the dissection of the perfect query letter.


• Andrew Wheeler more to say about paid reviewing.


• Kevin Maher looks at The Influence of Superhero Style on Runway Fashions.


• Rocky Horror Picture Show gets the remake treatment.


• Universal options Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. [via See What's in my Brain]


• George Lucas has insisted that the Star Wars movies are not science fiction.


• Real Science (video version): Harvard physicist Lisa Randall explains the concept of other worlds.


• Also from Big Think: Scientist (and Doctor Who fan) Dr. Des Etages says science fiction gives her a glimpse of what might be on the other side.


• Dabbled is a blog featuring drawings of robots. [via Science Fiction Brewed Fresh Daily]


• Pic: Heath Ledger as a psychopathic Ronald McDonald clown.


• Cool gadget: Cybertek Wings. (Thanks, Tim!)


• Lists:
  • Tolkien, Hawking and Pratchett (3 times!) make The Telegraph's list of The 12 top titles that booksellers must always stock. [via Bookninja]
  • @Great White Snark: The Top Five Awful Millennium Falcon Cakes. Mmm...cake...
  • Via HobbySpace, Ken Murphy has assembled several themed reading lists aimes at younger readers:
    • Contemporary lunar sci-fi books for young people from the 1950s and 1960s.
    • Lunar sci-fi books for young people from the 1950s and 1960s.
    • Books about asteroids, space stations, rocket flights and more.
    • Early high frontier books.
    • SciFi books for girls.
  • @The List Universe: 15 Memorable Alien Races in Science Fiction.

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