• James Wallace Harris is still writing excellent essays. (I've been hooked since his now-classic The Classics of Science Fiction.) His latest essay discuses The Time Machine by H.G. Wells: "The Time Machine is the big bang origin of the science fiction universe." Take that, Frankenstein!


• Alastair Reynolds comments on his recent book deal. Short version: business as usual. Cool! because his normal business is pretty darned good.


• Support Tim Pratt and his serial story idea.


• Speaking of International SF/F, Dr. Valentin D. Ivanov reviews some Bulgarian SF.


• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff on Story-weaving in the Science Fiction Age. "Writing is a lot like painting. You have a palette made up of ideas and words and technologies and character relationships. Every 'color' interacts with every other color and alters it subtly or not-so-subtly." [via Bibliophile Stalker]


• Andrew Wheeler teaches Book Marketing 101: An Introduction.


• @Missions Unknown: Putting the Science in Science Fiction. 'If we want the next generation of SF fans to grow up with more than just an appreciation for the large franchises (Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers, Terminator, blah, blah, infinite blah) we should ensure they have an appreciation for science as well."


• Interviews & Profiles:
  • The Dragon Page podcast-interviews James Enge (Blood of Ambrose).
  • David Steffen interviews Cat Rambo. [via Bibliophile Stalker]
  • io9 interviews Robert Charles Wilson (Julian Comstock).
  • @The Shirley Jackson Awards Blog: Ann & Jeff Vandermeer.


• Cool Graph of the Day: SFWA Grandmasters, by Age When They Won the Award courtesty of SF Scope and, I suspect, Excel.


• ABS-CBN News offers up tips on How to start a book club


• Fantastic Flashbacks goes ape over the the media hype given to the Planet of the Apes TV show premiere.


• All 18 episodes of Zerks Log Season 1 are on Youtube.


• Real Science: The Hunt for Life on Saturnian Moon Heats Up.


• Lists:
  • Mental Floss lists Surprising Facts About 15 Bestselling Authors. [via Bibliophile Stalker]
  • @io9: The 20 Best (And 20 Worst) Pets In Science Fiction.
  • Boing Boing points us to a cool X-Men Universe Relationship Map
  • @AMC: 10 Dream Double Features Worthy of the Drive In. [via BBT Magazine]

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