• Tim Powers confirms earlier rumors: "I can now say that Disney optioned On Stranger Tides and will use elements of the book in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie." On Stranger Tides is about a pirate named Jack who goes in search of the Fountain of Youth


• Interviews & Profiles:
  • Alethea Kontis interviews Cherie Priest, author of the fun-filled Boneshaker.
  • Agony Column podcast-interviews Nalo Hopkinson.
  • @io9: Richard K. Morgan.
  • @The Dragon Page: Robert J. Sawyer.


• Forrest J. Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland has been revived as a website. Like the magazine, the new website, Famous Monsters of Filmland "pays tribute to the monsters of old while keeping up with all things current in the world of genre."


• Paul Di Filippo reviews new volumes by Roger Zelazny. [via Locus Online]


• Articulate stumbles upon the cool illustration of The Librarian who is made out of books, drawn by DeviantArt use amartinsdebarros.


• Listen to Louisville, KY's 89.3 WFPL radio broadcast of The Subversive Side of Science Fiction, which features Amy Sturgis and James Gunn. [via Geekend]


• EVENT: A reading of Poe: 19 New Tales, with Editor Ellen Datlow, Gregory Frost and John Langan - Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.in the Poe Room of the Enoch Pratt Central Library in Baltimore, MD


• The Mad Hatter's Bookshelf has a fascinating gallery that shows The Evolution of The Martian Chronicles Book Cover (1950-2009).


• Tron Guy will make an appearance in Comedy Central's Tosh.0.


• SuperPunch points us to some cool photos of Johnny Lightning's 1950's Batmobile Diecast model, a post in the Batman collectors' blog Under the Giant Penny. Cool name. Get the reference?


• Real Science: The Cassini takes really pretty pictures of Saturn. [via Stone Dead Parrot]


• Lists:
  • SciFiNow: Top five: sci-fi vehicles.
  • @SciFi Wire: The NSFW list of 30 Memorable SF Shower Scenes. [via Slice of SciFi]

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