• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • Andy Remic's War Machine is being serialized as a free audiobook.
  • @MindFlights: "Worlds Apart" by J.L. Gadberry.
  • @Afterburn SF: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.
  • @The League of Reluctant Adults: "Zombie Jamboree" by Jennifer Rardin. [via Orbitbooks.net]
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Pseudopod: "The Cellar" by Stephen Owen, read by Ian Stuart.
    • @Well Told Tales: Episode 4 of "I Killed AwesomeMan!" by Finn Colgan, performed by a full cast.
    • @Dunesteef: "When The Stars Are Right" by William Meikle.
    • @The Classic Tales Podcast: "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker, read by B.J.


• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @Blogcritics: Nancy Kress (Dogs).
  • @The Bat Segundo Show: Neal Stephenson (Anathem).
  • Slice of SciFi has a video interview clip with Andrew Lee Potts ("Connor") and Hannah Spearritt ("Abby") from Primeval, from the upcoming DVD release.
  • Here's a podcast of James Maxey on writing strong openings from Odyssey SF/F Writing Workshop.
  • @NextRead: Brent Weeks (The Way of Sadows, Shadow's Edge and Beyond the Shadows).


• Yahoo book groups' November selections:
  • The Award Winning SF & F group will read Grass by Sherri S. Tepper.
  • The Contemporary Science Fiction & Fantasy group will read Marrow by Robert Reed.
  • The Far Horizons group will read Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card.


• The January 2009 selections for Joseph Mallozzi's book club:
  • SF: On Basilisk Station by David Weber.
  • Horror: The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams.
  • Fantasy: City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer.


• The inaugural list of Night Shade Books titles is now available on Baen's e-publishing site, www.webscription.net. [via SF Scope]


• Why Jo Walton hates horror: "I hate horror because it either bores me or terrifies me, and not in a good way."


• J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Changeling) is writing an update of SciFi classic Forbidden Planet (which is based on Shakespeare's The Tempest).


• Make you own Star Wars AT-ST costume (I call them the "chicken walkers".)


• Lists:
  • @SciFi Scanner: Mary Robinette Kowal lists The Top Five Fantasy Films to Relieve Stress.
  • @TrekMovie: 10 Favorite Star Trek Characters In Costume.
  • @io9: The 50 Scariest Moments In Science Fiction and 6Sweaty Moments of Geeky Triumph.
  • @Television Without Pity: The Least Scary Supernatural TV Shows of All Time. I dunno. I was young when Kolchak the Night Stalker aired, and it scared the begeezus out of me. [via Fark]

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