• Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) is leaving Doctor Who.
• New sf/f website: Deep Genre, a group blog by authors David Louis Edelman, Carol Berg, Constance Ash, Kate Elliott, Katharine Kerr and Lois Tilton.
• William Shatner DVD Club Contest: If you win, the Shat will record a personalized outgoing voice message for your answering machine or voice mail. [via Slice of SciFi]
• The Written Mashup: Books and band names. [via Sarcasmo]
• SciFi Wire profile Tim Pratt, author of The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, which was just nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. [via John Joseph Adams]
• Now blogging: Neal Asher, author of Gridlinked and The Voyage of the Sable Keech. [via Jose at MemeTherapy]
• SciFi Wire profiles Mike Resnick and his latest collection, New Dreams for Old, which inlcudes 10 stories that won or were nominated for awards.

• CNN profiles Conan author Robert E. Howard and his hometown, Cross Plains, TX, which will soon celebrate what would have been his 100th birthday.
• Walter J. Hunt’s latest newsletter offers book updates, projects in the Dark Wing universe, new writing projects and upcoming appearances.
• SciFi Weekly interviews James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, co-authors of the anthology Feeling Very Strange.
• June 2006 Fast Forward features a audio and video interview with Peter S. Beagle, 2006 Hugo-Nominated author of “Two Hearts“.
• Meme Therapy interviews Robert J. Sawyer, 2006 Nebula- and Hugo-Nominated author of “Identity Theft“.

• Roanoke Times interviews Orson Scott Card. [via Locus Online]
• NY Times Book Review’s Dave Itzkoff reviews Nebula Awards Showcase 2006. [via Locus Online]
• Quiz: Which movie had these Sci-Fi Movie Quotes?
• The NYT offers Lessons learned from science fiction/fantasy and asks: Does the fact that someone enjoys the science fiction/fantasy genre automatically relegate that person to nerdhood? [via SFBC Blog]
• Star Wars/Star Trek Mashup: The Enterprise vs. the Death Star.

• A movie version of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Hogfather is being filmed right now in the UK. [via SFBC Blog]
• The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society News interview Terry Pratchett. [also via SFBC Blog]
• Cinematical is having some fun re-casting Star Wars.
• IF magazine interviews Q, John DeLancie [via Sci-Fi Strom]
• SmartPop Books interviews Karen Haber.
• Matt Cheney contemplates the similarities between Alfred Kinsey and Theodore Sturgeon.
• Infoquake author David Edelman On the Writing of Sequels.
• MyGrassyKnoll podcast-interviews Vernor Vinge.

• The Economist ponders Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics and robot safety. [via Emerald City]
• Meme Therapy interviews Rudy Rucker.
• The Movie Blog has a teaser poster for Transformers slated for a July 2007 release.
• Sci Fi Wire profiles Nick Sagan and his latest, Everfree. [via Slush God]
• The 2005-2006 TV sci-fi flare up is apparently over.
• Progressive publisher Pyr now offers the ability to purchase their books through PayPal – and get a 20% discount to boot.

• Naomi Novik has posted a new short story called “Feast or Famine” set in the world of Temeraire between the events of His Majesty’s Dragon and Throne of Jade.[via SlushGod]
• Cory Doctorow is podcasting his stories “The Super-Man and the Bugout” and “Visit the Sins“. [via SFBC blog]
• Wildside Press editor Sean Wallace has unofficially announced a set of upcoming “world-mythology” anthologies. Maybe under the Prime Books imprint?
• BlogCritics interviews Scott Peters, creator of The 4400.
• Following Part 1 of a very enlightening sneak peek into the publishing business, Tor paranormal romance editor Anna Genoese has posted Part 2 which covers “the hardcover to mass market profitable/neutral book”.
• HUMOR: Superheroes + classic art = Photoshop Fun. [via Jay Tomio]
• MORE HUMOR: Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack. [via False Positives]

• Today is 6/6/06: Here’s an overly exhaustive list of the devil/evil/demons in sf/f.
• Andrew Wheeler says Nitpickery Is Killing Science Fiction.
• Meme Therapy interviews Matt Cheney.
• SF Revu interviews Jeffrey Ford and Tanya Huff.
• Holtzbrinck’s Podcasts of the Weeks: Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan and Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card. [MP3]

• Michael Cassut examines science fiction’s 5 Percent Factor where he discusses the ongoing imminent death of sf and the differences between sf/f.
• The June 2006 Ansible is out.
• Sci-Fi ranter girl is tracking the new season start dates of sf/f/h television shows.
• SciFi Dimension interviews Paul Di Filippo.
• Fantasy Bookspot interviews George R.R. Martin

• August will see the release of “the definitive comic re-telling of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars“.
• IF Magazine interviews Battlestar Galactica executive producer David Eick, who talks about BSG season 3. [via Club Jade]
• Fractal Matter briefly interviews Ron Glass, Shepherd Book from Firefly/Serenity. (Warning: Serenity Spoilers!)
• SciFi Wire talks with Chris Roberson, author of Here, There and Everywhere.
• From June 7th through the 21st, the Science Fiction Book Club blog will be hosting a chat with Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire trilogy: His Majesty’s Dragon, Throne of Jade and Black Powder War.

• SF Site interviews Hal Duncan, author of Vellum.
• The Guardian interviews Bruce Sterling.
• SF Revu interviews Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files.
• Adventures Underground bookstore interviews Jay Lake.
• Starship Troopers 3 is in the works. [via Cinematical]
• Tobias Buckell’s story “Waiting for the Zephyr” is now available as an audiobook or podcast released under the Creative Commons license.
• Jeffrey Ford’s Well-Built City trilogy will be reprinted by Golden Gryphon Press.
• Alastair Reynolds has delivered a short fiction collection, Zima Blue And Other Stories, to Night Shade Books. This one includes the previously unrealeased story, “Signal To Noise”. Mmmm, more Alastair Reynolds.

Update: Added Golden Gryphon and Night Shade Books tidbits.

• Trailer: Ghost Rider starring Nicholas Cage.
• The release date of Superman Returns has been moved up to Wednesday, June 29. Also, there’s a new trailer.
• Joss Whedon will be writing a Spiderman story. [via Whedonesque]
• A CRACKED Guide to Futuristic Supe Drugs. [via Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing]
• Brothercyst interviews John Crowley, author of Little, Big.
• Jason Nahrung interviews Justine Larbalestier [via Talking Squid]
• SFF Audio podcast interviews Harlan Ellison. (Favorite snippet: When looking for assistance in trying to recall something, Ellison says to the interviewer, “You have access to the Internet. I don’t.”)

• Batwoman is returning to the comics after a decades-long absence. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
• Dragon page interviews John Meaney, author of The Nulapeiron Sequence: Paradox, Context and Resolution. [via Pyr-o-mania]
• Geodesica author Sean Williams has some things to say about a recent SFWA bulletin that says “time travel is fantasy.” [via Emerald City]
• Why Science Fiction is like Diabetes.
• A brief look at the science fiction scene in China. [via SFBC blog]
• Battlestar Galactica goes comic.
• SciFi Ranter Girl is back online!

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• Meme Therapy interviews Elizabeth Bear, author od Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired
• SF Site interviews Pat Cadigan, author of Mindplayers
• SF Crowsnest interviews Hal Duncan, author of Vellum: The Book of All Hours.
• SciFi Weekly interviews Frederik Pohl, author of the Gateway series and numerous short stories, some of which are collected in Platinum Pohl..
• Publishers Weekly interviews Natasha Randall, who offers a new translation of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s classic sf novel We. [via Locus Online]

• The Book Standard reviews Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly. It’s not pretty.
• Gamer John Scalzo thinks John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War would make a great video game. [via Whatever]
• Jonathan Strahan unveils the cool-looking John Picacio cover art for his upcoming anthologies Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005 and Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005.
• There’s yet another version of Blade Runner coming out in 2007.
• This weekend is Balticon, the convention staged by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Special guests include Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe.
• Literary Kicks interviews Steve Aylett.
• I’m speechless. Sci Fi Channel to air Pro Wrestling.

• Anne McCaffrey’s The Dragonriders of Pern will be adapted for the big screen.
• Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, still headed for the big screen, now has Dakota Fanning and Teri Hatcher providing voices.
• SFFWorld interviews Kit Reed.
• The Associated Press interviews the women of X-Men: The Last Stand.
• The inaugural Heinlein Prize award of $500,000 will go to Peter Diamandis, who spurred the global competition that produced the first privately financed human spaceflight.

• Here’s a Wired article by Neil Gaiman and Adam Rogers on The Myth of Superman. (You may also want to check out The Man From Krypton by BenBella Book, essays on the Man of Steel from Lou Anders, Adam-Troy Castro, Keith R.A. Candido, Paul Levinson, Larry Niven, Chris Roberson, Lawrence Watt-Evans and others.)
• A bibliography on Texas in speculative fiction from 2001. [via CoolSciFi]
• If you go to see X-Men 3, stay past the closing credits. [via SciFiBrain]
• The Book Standard interviews Terry Brooks. [via SFBC Blog]
• Humor: Serenity in the style of MST3K. [via SciFiDig]

• Latino Review interviews Kelsey Grammer who plays Beast in X-Men 3. [via Sci-Fi Brain]
• Meme Therapy interviews sf author David Moles.
• You can listen to the first chapter of Lost novel Bad Twin for free. (Although I can’t seem to get it to work. Maybe you’ll have better luck.) [via SFX]
• Emerald City Issue #129 is out and includes reviews of Naomi Novik’s Black Powder War, David Marusek’s Counting Heads, Tom Disch’s On SF and Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End.
• SciFi Wire has a write-up of James Patrick Kelly’s Hugo-nominated novella, “Burn“.

• Separated at Birth? The Doctors from the Twilight Zone Episode “Eye of the Beholder” and Gary Numan (80′s singer of “Cars”).
• MSNBC offers an X-men trivia quiz. [via Incoming Signals]
• Star Trek props are on the auction block.
• Fantasy Bookspot interviews Hal Duncan, author of Vellum.
• John Scalzi is building his own motivational posters.
• There was once a super-villain based on a chicken. Really. [via Chris Roberson]
• Humor: Top 10 Kids’ Sci-Fi Books.
• Astronomy for Science Fiction Writers. [via University of Nebraska Press]
• A map of speculative fiction and a follow-up. [via Andrew Wheeler]

• There’s a new Superman Returns poster.
• Classic sf art from Frank R. Paul. [via Cynical-C]
• The Guardian asks: Do reviews sell books?.
• An essay on sf/f fandom.
• The Fine Line Between Fantasy and Horror.
• Aquaman goes blub-blub-blub. (Sorry, all the good lines like Auaman Sinks/is Sunk/Drowns were taken.)
• Submitted without comment: Police raid science fiction sex cult based on John Norman’s The Chronicles of Gor.
• Science in kids’ books – space and science fiction books reviewed for accuracy by Marianne Dyson, former NASA flight controller and award-winning children’s author. [via Kids Lit]
• The Mercury News interview Walter Mosley, author of Blue Light and The Wave.

Nuttin’ but interviews!

• SciFiDimensions interviews Paul Di Filippo. [via Locus Online]
• Strange Horizons interviews James Patrick Kelly. [via Locus Online]
• Meme Therapy interviews M.M. Buckner.
• John Scalzi interviews Nick Sagan.
• SFFWorld interviews George R.R. Martin.