• Interviews & Profiles:
  • InFrame.tv has a video profile of artist Shaun Tan. Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing is being made into a 15-minute CGI animated short by an Australian film company. [via About]
  • @Suite 101: Margo Lanagan (Tender Morsels): "Censorship, and protests about dark or sexy books often seems to me to be fear parading as concern for children and young people. If you really respect young people you make yourself available to answer any question they pop up with, at whatever time it happens and in whatever circumstances."
  • Pat's Fantasy Hotlist interviews George R. R. Martin and all the Wild Cards: Busted Flush authors.


• Vera Nazarian expresses thanks to the generous genre community for helping out with the HelpVera campaign. [John Scalzi]


• At Tor.com, Douglas Cohen looks at Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane character.


• Hey Look! The Black Library has a blog.


• John Anealio has another Sci Fi Song: "The Millennium Falcon for Christmas", a nostalgic remembrance of you-know-what.


• John Scalzi names The Worst Science Fiction Movie of the Last Twelve Months.


• Make has posted their 2008 Steampunk Gift Guide. I'll take one of each, please.


• Lists:
  • @Not a Planet Anymore: The Top 5 Famous Last Words in SF Films, Shows & Books.
  • @Marooned: 10 Stories you wouldn't know are Martian Science Fiction (Volume 1)
  • Cinematical lists The Best Sci-Fi Remakes.
  • Meanwhile, Film School Rejects list 10 Sci-Fi Films That Should Never Be Remade, and 5 That Probably Should Be.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday December 12, 2008 at 12:05 AM
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