• Interviews & Profiles:
  • @SciFi Wire: Eric Brown (Necropath).
  • @Suvudu: Five Questions with Jacqueline Carey (the Kushiel series).
  • @The Nebula Awards: Ysabeau Wilce (Flora Segunda).
  • PodBlack Cat interviews sf/f author Michael Stackpole on role-playing games.
  • @ActuSF: Sarah Ash (Tracing the Shadow).
  • @The Future And You podcast: David Orban, a futurist who talks about spimes.
  • From 1999: Jonathan lethem profiles Rod Serling: "...in a culture which devalued and marginalized the imaginative and fantastic element everywhere it detected it -- save perhaps a Salvador Dali painting or two -- [The Twilight] Zone certainly struck critics as a retreat from relevant, serious, adult work."


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • @Fantasy & Science Fiction: Charles Coleman Finlay's Sidewise Award finalist story "We Come Not to Praise Washington".
  • @Tor.com: "The Film-Makers of Mars" by Geoff Ryman.
  • Lone Star Stories has a new issue with speculative fiction and poetry by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Stephanie Burgis, Josh Rountree, Gemma Files, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Amal El-Mohtar and Catherynne M. Valente.
  • Reflections Edge has its December issue out with fiction by Angela Ambroz, Stephanie Green, Huw Langridge, and K.V. Taylor.
  • @Manybooks: "Master of None" by Lloyd Neil Goble (1962).
  • @The Book Depository: Dawnthief by James Barclay [Via Grasping for the Wind]
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @PodCastle: "Winter Solstice" by Mike Resnick, read by Chris Furst.
    • @Zombie Astronaut: Three H. P. Lovecraft stories, Roddy McDowall reading "The Hound" and David McCallum reading "The Rats in the Walls" and "The Dunwich Horror"
    • @Dr. Forrest's Cheeze Factory: the audiobook of Santa Clause Conquers the Martians.


• Short fiction review-meister Rich Horton looks back at Interzone (among others).


• Cover Pr0nage:
  • Pyr shows off the wonderful Larry Rostant cover of the upcoming Justina Robson book Chasing the Dragon.
  • The Book Design Review has just announced their favorite book covers of 2008. Notable titles include Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison (designed by Jamie Stafford-Hill) and Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon (designed by Jordan Crane) [via Scott Edelman]


• Tobias Buckell is headed home from the hospital. Yay Toby!


• Arrrgh! Keep to the Code is hosting an exclusive video of Jeff and Ann VanderMeer's Fast Ships, Black Sails. [via Enter the Octopus]


• SciFi Scanner points us to these censored Star Wars trading cards. Sorry, no metal bikinis in sight...which is nowhere near as good as it sounds.


• StarWars.com acknowledges The Star Wars Holiday Special. What's next? Do they acknowledge that Greedo shot first? (That was for JP.)


• Image gallery: Classic BSG as Drawn by Star Wars Concept Artists.


• Speaking of BSG, the SciFi Channel finally green-lights Caprica.


• RevolutionSF lists Sci Fi Hunks (Vol. 4).


• Real Science: Biology in Science Fiction reminds us that The History Channel has an episode of The Universe that looks at (peeps?) sex in space. From the show description: "Probe the physiological, psychological and cultural challenges of sex in space."

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