@Sojourners: Gabriel McKee asks: Why Does God Need a Starship? "That question sums up the entire attitude of science fiction toward religion: science fiction wants a God from whom we can demand answers."
At Critical Mass, author Kit Reed talks about writers embracing the Internet: "For those of you with shortened attention spans: a friend is writing his novel on Twitter. A plot twist in every tweet. One editor at a major publishing house expects her authors to spend several hours a week burnishing their Internet presence. With print book review space compressing geometrically, writers by the thousands are hurling themselves into cyberspace."
Orbit reports: "Hachette Book Group is creating a new publishing division that will include both Orbit and Yen Press (the company's Graphic Novel and Manga imprint)."
Suggestive Obelisk Warning! Hugo Gernsback (Amazing Stories) started a digest called Sexology: The Door to Sex Enlightenment. [via Boink Boink...er...I mean Boing Boing]