• Does the world really need another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie?
• New X-Men trailer. [via Club Jade]
• Young SF imprint Pyr is celebrating its first birthday.
• Universal has released an expletive-laden behind-the-scenes preview of their upcoming horror/comedy movie Slither. Bothe Both the movie and preview feature Firefly‘s/Serenity‘s Nathan Fillian. [via Cinema Blend]
• In the Asimov’s Forum: The Greatest Sci-Fi FIlms of All Time.
• PopSci’s Movie Awards: The Good, the Bad and the Highly Implausible.

• Kevin Spacey has already signed on for more Superman movies after Superman Returns.
• The Agony Column podcasts Kim Stanley Robinson. [via Locus Online]
• Neil Gaiman is pleased that his book Stardust is being adapted to film.
• Gary Westfahl considers the potential of Homo Aspergerus.
• The March 2006 edition of David Langford’s Ansible is out.

• The economic reality of being a 1980′s Cylon. [via RightMom]
• Hollywood North Report interviews Mary McDonnell of Battlestar Galactica.
• Excerpts from the Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett interview in the February 2006 issue of Locus Magazine.
• Here’s a podcast by psychologist Dr. Helen where she talks with SF author John Scalzi (Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades) and Tim Minear, Executive Producer/writer of Firefly.
• One for Trek fans: Top 20 uses for Data’s Detached Head.

• Joss Whedon on more Firefly, Wonder Woman and more.
• Sci-Fi Promotion of the Week: TV Guide is giving away 1.4 million free downloads of Battlestar Galactica.
• More BG: Ronald D. Moore is a bit bummed out by the appearance of BG season finale photos before the episode premieres.
• Albert Einstein is watching you!
• A Harvard English professor has put Star Wars on the syllabus, much (I imagine) to the delight of Princeton professors. [via Club Jade]

• Michael Moorcock says his new novel, The Vengeance of Rome, has no American publisher and probably won’t until , he says, “the current political climate changes.” The book’s main character is a trickster, self-deceiver, anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic Jew, bisexual and friend of fascism.
• Robert J. Sawyer has posted the introduction to the upcoming media tie-in book, Boarding the Enterprise that he co-edited with David Gerrold.
• Wanna be on a reality TV show? How about applying to be on Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
• Kathryn Cramer on digital watermarking.
• Revolution SF reviews Serenity: The RPG.
• About.com’s Top 6 Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies from TV Shows.
• About.com’s Top 5 Worst Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies Based on TV Shows.

• Jim Kelly concludes the podcast of his novella “Burn“. [via BoingBoing]
• Speceditor666 interviews Ellen Datlow, editor of the late SciFiction. [via Locus Online]
• Book lovers are a lonely bunch.
• Sleaze Science Fiction Covers. [via Cynical-C]
• Ray Bradbury’s old house may become a landmark.

• How much do think S&H costs on an $18,000 replica of the robot from the Lost in Space?
• Battlestar Galactica goes collectable card game.
• Karl Schroeder discusses the physics and engineering behind the world of his novel Sun of Suns. [via Schroeder's blog]
• TOR Books may join Baen in selling unencrypted science fiction and fantasy. [via Locus Online, more by Andrew Wheeler and Charlie Stross]
• It’s Chris Roberson Day at Infinity Plus which offers (among other things) Roberson’s short story “Red Hands, Black Hands“, an excerpt from Roberson’s excellent novel Here, There & Everywhere, and a Chris Roberson interview.
• Marvin Kaye’s upcoming SFBC anthology, Forbidden Planets, offers six original novellas (“Mid-Death” by Alan Dean Foster, “Walking Star” by Allen Steele, “JQ211F, and Holding” by Nancy Kress, “Rococo” by Robert Reed, “Kaminsky at War” by Jack McDevitt and “No Place Like Home” by Julie E. Czerneda) about worlds that are difficult and dangerous to visit. [via SciFiWire]

• Max Barry’s Jennifer Government is apparently being made into a film.
• John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War is being added to the curriculum at Clarkson University.
• The Virginian newspaper NewsAdvance interviews Orson Scott Card about Ender’s Game as it is to be part of the Lynchburg Reads program.
• The previously mentioned podcast of Cory Doctorow’s short story “I, Robot” will be broadcast over low-power FM radio in the Berkshire, Massachusetts area.
• The latest Cover-to-Cover podcast features an interview with Larry Niven.
• Cory Doctorow reviews Scott Westerfeld’s Midnighters trilogy.

• It’s time to play Tom Baker Says! [via Chris Roberson]
• A Wired article on Richard Linklater and A Scanner Darkly [via Cinematical]
• An interview with Mumpsimus Matthew Cheney.
• The Charlotte Observer interviews Nebula nominee Kelly Link.
• Realms of Fantasy is now online and free! [via Electric Velocipede]

• Spiderman 3 promotional photo. [via Cinematical]
• A bunch of brief Jack Vance reviews.
• The first 42 pages of the 2004 graphic novel based on L. Neil Smith’s novel The Probability Broach.
• Multicultural Fantasy – a list of fantasy books grouped by the cultures they portray. [via guest blogger Marie @ Tobias Buckell's blog]
• The Seven Stages of Shatner

• SmartPop Books is readying a Battlestar Galactica media tie-in book and is showing off the early cover.
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews Tobias Buckell. [via John Scalzi]
• Quiz: Which Heinlein Book Should You Have Been A Character In?
• Some details on the Batman Begins and Superman Returns movie sequels.
• SFF World Interviews (Make sure you have a popup blocker!): Neal Asher, Charlie Huston and Tobias Buckell.
• Update: The Shock: Social Science Fiction RPG will be released in March 2006.
• An upcoming science fiction anthology, tentatively titled Glorifying Terrorism, is in the planning stages to protest the proposed British bill which will make illegal ?the glorification of terrorism?.

• Empire Magazine has posted images of their upcoming X-Men 3 special covers. [via SciFi Brain]
• Ving Rhames will co-star in the Aquaman premiere playing McCaffery, a lighthouse keeper who serves as mentor to series lead character, A.C. Curry.
• Editor David G. Hartwell has won the Skylark Award. He’s in good company. [via Robert J. Sawyer]
• Teachers’ Top 100 Books by the National Education Association.
• RevolutionSF reviews four groovy 70′s movies: Silent Running, Dark Star, A Boy and His Dog and Logan’s Run.
• A behind-the-scenes look at digitizing books.

• The 40th anniversary of Star Trek will be celebrated at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.
• This week in SciFiWeekly: An interview with John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades; Michael Cassutt discusses the influence of Harlan Ellison.
• Slice of SciFi interviews Tobias Buckell, author of Crystal Rain.
• Rick Klaw interviews Steve Aylett for Fantastic Metropolis.
• Another one for Pete: Tough Babes in (mostly) SciFi Films.
• The Three Laws of Bio-Nanobotics

• One for Pete: The “classic” movie Star Crash featuring bad special effects and bikini-clad babes. Oh, and don’t forget Marjoe Gortner and David Hasselhoff!
• The UK SciFi TV Book Guide provides a “complete guide to all the various spin-off novels and script books that have been produced in the last fifty-odd years based on science-fiction, fantasy and horror television programmes.”
• See the reason why boys read less than girls and learn how to get boys to read more.
• More radio drama: OTR Hotspot offers “The Word for World is Forest” by Ursula K. LeGuin. [via SFF Audio]
• Religions in literature. [via Club Jade]

• The Physics of Time Travel – Real or Fable? by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.
• Cory Doctorow started podcasting his short story “I, Robot” – here’s part 1. (Or here)
• Subterranean Press interviews Tobias S. Buckell. [via Buckell's blog]
• Cynsations interviews Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier. [via Justine Larbalestier]
• Mashup of the day: Star Wars: The Empire Brokeback. “There is a Force That Penetrates Us…” [via Milk and Cookies]

• First is was Superman vs. Hitler. Next up: Batman vs. Osama Bin Laden.
• The March 10th Battlestar Galactica season two finale will be longer than normal, apparently 90 minutes.
• SF author Bruce Sterling on the future of money. [via Futurismic]
• A SF Site interview with Jeff VanderMeer.
• It’s official, science fiction is better than fantasy. [via Tales to Astonish]
• Missing: one Philip K. Dick robot.
• Former Hulk Lou Ferrigno was sworn in as a Los Angeles County reserve deputy sheriff.
• Submitted without comment – Lost: the Musical

UPDATE: Thanks to Daniel at Tonal Motion who also submitted this link on the missing PKD robot.

Not that I want to steal John’s thunder (or anything else for that matter..)

• The folks over at PointlessWasteofTime (not completely worksafe) have posted an article about The Top 10 Sci-Fi Films that never happened (worksafe).
• From the life imitates SF department, some Olympic skiers have been wearing a new bodysuit that hardens on impact to offer a bit more protection to these atheletes. Yes, we take one step closer to active body armor…
• And Uwe Boll has announced in an interview he will not be making any more video game movies after he finishes butchering Far Cry. My guess is that with the new laws on the books in Germany have more to do with this versus some altruistic decision.

• Funny! My Speech to the Martians by Jack Handey. [via Roberson's Interminable Ramble]
• Rich Horton posts his Virtual Best of the Year: 2005 at Black Gate. [via Locus Online]
• Theres a new blog for Wildside Press, publisher Adventure Tales, Cat Tales, Fantasy Magazine, HP Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, Sherlock Holme’s Mystery Magazine, Strange Tales, Underworlds, and Weird Tales. Now…if only they had an RSS feed… [via Locus Online]
• Cory Doctorow explains Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google.
• Here’s why Tobias S. Buckell loves science fiction.

• How to Survive a Robot Uprising
• George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic receives the National Medal Of Technology. [via TheForce.net]
• Eddie Murphy is headlining the new sci-fi comedy Starship Dave. (note to self: the obvious URL for a movie named Starship Dave is definitely NSFW.)
• SciFi Channel UK is attempting to broaden its audience beyond “science fiction fanatics”.
• SF Author Bruce Sterling, in an essay and new book Shaping Things, coins a new word: Spime – (n) an object that is plannable, findable, trackable, recyclable, uniquely identified that generates digital histories.

• Infinity Plus has posted the short story “Genetopia“, the basis for Keith Brooke’s upcoming novel from Pyr. [via Locus Online]
• It’s time for Strange Horizon’s Reader’s Choice Awards. [via Mumpsimus]
• Here’a an analysis of Linguistics in E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensmen books. [via Mumpsimus]
• Australian science fiction fan Lynne Gryphon offers what (as near as I can tell) is the first video podcast for science fiction news. [via Sci-Fi Storm]
• Naples News article: Truth can be as strange as fiction by Ben Bova.