• DreamWorks has acquired the film rights to John Wyndham's Chocky. "Steven Spielberg is said to be keen to make the adaptation his next directing project." [via Locus Online]


• An I Am Legend prequel starring Will Smith is being planned. Topless Robot is not amused.


• At SciFi Scanner, John Scalzi talks about SciFi film music.


• Damien G. Walter Guardian piece, Science fiction doesn't have to be gloomy, does it?, gets responses from Kathryn Cramer and Lou Anders.


• The Guardian interviews Peter F. Hamilton (The Void trilogy).


• io9 interviews Diane Duane [via SciFi Scanner]


• Free Excerpt: Sly Mongoose, Chapter Two by Tobias Buckell.


• Via Boing Boing: The Sorted Books project makes stories from book spine text.


• Tor shows the progression of Todd Lockwood's artwork for Tom Lloyd's Stormcaller.


• Pawel D. writes in to tell us that Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is being adapted as a stage play in Poland.


• Vote in this year's SFX Awards!


• Just in case you were wondering...Nicole Richie Totally Looks Like A Sleestak. [OpticalPoptitude]

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