• Interviews & Profiles
  • Two interviews with LeVar Buron:
    • @DVDs Worth Watching: Levar talks about being Black Lightning in the upcoming animated Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
    • @NPR: on the end of Reading Rainbow.
  • SF Legend Frederik Pohl on L. Ron Hubbard (part 2). Sez Pohl: "He was a chick magnet."
  • @Suite101.com: David Weber (Off Armageddon Reef).
  • @Off the Shelf: a podcast-interview with Tobias Buckell. [via Tobias Buckell]
  • @Writing Excuses: a podcast-interview with Mary Robinette Kowal.
  • @Stomping on Yeti: Paolo Bacigalupi. (The Windup Girl)


• @The Guardian, Tola Onanuga tells us Why District 9 isn't racist against Nigerians: "If District 9 'hates Nigerians', as a Facebook group would have it, then it hates its powerful, white characters even more."


• Tor.com -- not Tor the publisher -- debuts its first title as a separate publishing entity: Year's Best Fantasy 9 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. (Table of Contents here.)


• "DC Comics is being renamed DC Entertainment, and will as such focus on all media, not just comics." [via Topless Robot]


• Halo-8 Entertainment has slated Matt Pizzolo and Brian Giberson to create an "illustrated film" adaptation in early 2010 of Xombie; Reanimated, a horror/sci-fi adventure comic book created by James Farr, published by Devil's Due Publishing.


• The latest issue of Concatenation is posted.


• Does anyone expect (or hope, or fear) Stallone will follow up his Cyborg Rambo with the just-green-lit Judge Dredd remake?


• Real (Cool) Science: NASA has released shiny new snapshots from the The Hubble Space Telescope. [via Neatorama]


• Real Cool in 4 words (one hyphenated): Animatronic Fire-Breathing Dragon Boat.


• Your geek-craft for the week: How to Make a Star Trek Phaser. Yawn. Call me when I can learn how to make a Yeoman Rand.


• Lists:
  • @SCI FI Wire: Your guide to 11 sci-fi punks. [via Alyx Dellamonica]
  • @Fandomania: Ultimate 20 Comic Book Film Adaptations.
  • @The Galaxy Express: 5 Ways Digital Publishers Could Increase Science Fiction Romance Sales.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday September 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM
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