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Interview: Chicago Tribune interviews David Mitchell, author of The Bone Clocks.
Interview: Nature interviews Neal Stephenson, contributor to Hieroglyph.
Interview: NPR interviews Margaret Atwood, author of Stone Mattress.
Interview: The Qwillery interviews Gregory Sherl, author of The Future for Curious People.
Interview: Talks at Google interviews John Scalzi, author of Lock In.
News: Minority Report TV pilot gets picked up by Fox. I give it eighteen months before its canceled, nineteen months before it becomes popular enough for anyone to care.
Review: BoingBoing calls Steven Gould’s Exo, a Jumper novel by way of Heinlein
Review: The Illusions of Control: Jeff VanderMeer’s extraordinary Southern Reach Trilogy.
Amazing Stories reviews A Brief Timeline of the Alternate History Fandom.
How the Dragonlady Saved My Life: A tribute to Anne McCaffrey
I’m giving up on Doctor Who again. This time it may be final: “I gave up mainly because I’d got tired of watching talented actors reduced to eye candy and acting out the fantasies of overgrown adolescents who had somehow finagled their way into writing scripts. Where they were writing scripts that looked like old-time Doctor Who, without necessarily understanding why old-time Doctor Who worked and more importantly why it didn’t.”
io9 considers The Islamic Roots Of Science Fiction
Masterful Star Wars trolling at Slate: "All of Abrams’s and Johnson’s affection for the original films drive home how much the new ones will be, at base, unnecessary cash grabs—the equivalent of old action figures sold on eBay, schemes for money and not for art. The prequels seem almost pure by contrast. George Lucas was the guiding creative vision behind the franchise from the beginning, and his vision told him to invest in lush CGI, hire Hayden Christensen, and tell the story of Anakin Skywalker’s descent from wee midichlorian-surfeited boy to angsty, lanky-haired Jedi. Lucas found the story touching, even if his viewers didn’t."
OMNI picks Top 10 Phillip K. Dick Book to Film Adaptations.
One Planet, One Language: How Realistic Is Science Fiction Linguistics?
Paul Cornell looks back at Five Brilliant Things About Doctor Who Episode Four.
Popular Mechanics suggests The 30 Sci-Fi Stories Everyone Should Read.
Reading Insecurity: Has the Internet killed thoughtful, prolonged engagement with a text—or are we nostalgic for a reading Eden that never existed?
Reading Pathways: suggestions for where to start in on the works of Murakami, Asimov, Munro, Bray, Bradbury, Morrison, Forster, Atwood, along with reading order suggestions for: Discworld, The Star Wars Extended Universe, and The Marvel Universe.
Why Doctor Who is football, but for geeks: “In the same way that complete strangers can bond instantly over the latest football news, Doctor Who gives geeks an easy solution to awkward silences in conversation.” As awesome as this article is, I have never once noticed a conversation become LESS awkward for me vomiting my love of Doctor Who all over a complete stranger. In fact, I’m pretty sure my Doctor Who small talk is at least two of the top ten reasons I’m the only guy on the city bus to get his own seat.
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