• Robert J. Sawyer points us to the book trailer for Wake.


• Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
  • Plots with Guns has an SF themed issue online featuring "crime stories set in the year 2509" called "Plots with Rayguns." It features fiction by Kyle Minor, Fred Zackel, Jimmy Callaway, Cameron Ashley, Pinckney Benedict, Garnett Elliott, Richie Narvaez, and Kieran Shea.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @ScottSigler.com: the conclusion (Episode #26) of Contagious.
    • @Beam Me Up: Part Two of "Chicken" by Colin P. Davies, read by Paul Cole.
  • Video at The Internet Archive:
    • Men Into Space Episode 4: "Water Tank Rescue."
    • Men Into Space Episode 5: "The Lost Missile."
  • Graphic Fiction:
    • @Golden Age Comics: Eerie Adventures #1 and Sheena: Queen of the Jungle #17.
    • @Crosseyed Cyclops: Iron Jaw 1-4.


• Starting June 1 and ending June 30, Apex Publications is holding the Apex Author Lottery, an event readers can enter to win a themed prize package from select Apex authors and editors.


• SciFi Japan interview Italian Godzilla Director Luigi Cozzi


• Jeanne Cavelos, director of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, discusses The Pleasures of Science Fiction: "...SF provides the pleasure that may best characterize the genre: the pleasure of gaining new insights into the human condition. If you agree with Brian Aldiss's definition of the genre, then SF is the product of a series of writers, reacting to new discoveries and what they reveal about us, trying to understand mankind and his place in the universe."


• Welcome to the blogosphere Joe R. Lansdale! (Joe has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.) [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]


• Jennifer Fallon lists 10 Things Authors Should Never Blog About.

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