• AMC has acquired the rights to Robert Kirkman's popular comic book The Walking Dead for a potential series. [via Tor.com]


• @Omnivoracious: Kage Baker, author of The Hotel Under the Sand.


• Patrick at Stomping on Yeti continues his profiles of Tomorrow's Big Genre Stars, this time with Cory Doctorow.


• Angry Robot Books has video of Dan Abnett discussing reading and writing


• Nnedi Okorafor asks: Is Africa Ready for Science Fiction?


• L. Jagi Lamplighter continues her discussion on the oirgins of her first novel, Prospero Lost.


• Jeff Somers says the Singularity is NOT the end of sf.


• Jason Sanford dubs the current sf trend "SciFi Strange". I like it.


• Video treat: Neil Gaiman reads Cory Doctorow "The Right Book".


• Tor books announces Halo: Evolutions a collection featuring original tales by Eric Nylund, Karen Traviss, Tobias Buckell and more -- coming November 24, 2009.


• Suvudu's Free Library is a temporary condition! Get yours before they're gone.


• Forbidden Planet announces a signing by Kim Stanley Robinson (Galileo's Dream) at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on Thursday 17th September 6 - 7pm.


• Real (Weird) Science: Giant new planet orbits wrong way! Astronomers have discovered a planet (dubbed WASP-17) twice the size of Jupiter (the largest planet ever discovered) that orbits opposite to its star's direction of rotation. [via Neatorama]


• Real Weird: Hewlett-Packard employees in Palo Alto, Califormia, were greeted with a phone message from William Shatner, a tele-bullying tactic by eco-activists in retaliation for HP backing off a eco-friendly promise. Oh, and then there was the vandalism.


• I'll never get tired of pictures like this Death Star concept art.


• I'm not the only one who loved From Dusk Till Dawn. It's two...two...two movies in one.


• Polish TV station TVN has released a teaser (in Polish) and trailer (with English subs) of a series titled Naznaczony (Marked). Looks cool. [Thanks, Pawel!]


• ScifiSquad tells us why Torchwood and Doctor Who should merge on the big screen. Sound great to me! Green light it.


• Lists:
  • SpoutBlog lists 9 Greatest Human-Alien Sex Scenes.
  • Not to be outdone, SciFi Scanner lists The Top Ten Close Encounters of the Scintillating Kind. What? No orgasmatron from Woody Allen's Sleeper? What is the world coming to?
  • Karen Burnham lists Non-Fiction for SF Fans.
  • @retroCRUSH: The 20 Best Zombie Movies Of All Time.

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