Art
- Ignacio Bazán Lazcano has a great gallery of SciFi Gunship concept art is featured at the Concept Ships blog.
- Origami artist Mui-Ling Teh makes tiny, perfectly formed origami models so small that they can only be appreciated with macro photography.
- Something Awful’s most recent Photoshop Phriday theme is “Star Trek Invasion!“
Comics
- io9 runs down a list of 10 Comic Characters Who’ve Got The Power Of Love.
- Topless Robot picks The 10 Best Couples in Comics.
Film
- Gawker explains Why Netflix Won’t Be the HBO of the 21st Century.
- Sci-Fi Scanner remembers Fantasy’s Ten Most Passionate Kisses.
- ScreenRant has posted a gallery of 7 Disney Films As Episodes Of “Maury”.
- The UK Telegraph picks the 100 films that defined the past decade.
- YouTube has a great compilation of movie mirror scares.
Internet
- News: Kevin Smith was Thrown Off Oakland Flight Over Weight. Needless to say, Southwest is rapidly discovering what happens when you mistreat a customer with 1.6 million Twitter followers and a lot of spare time
- I’m not much of a sports fan, but this grabbed my attention. A group of university students has set a world record for the world’s largest dodgeball game.
- Star Trek fans turned out on London’s Millennium Bridge on Valentine’s Day and set a new world record for the “largest gathering of Star Trek fans dressed in character” – 99 fans attended in their costumes.
Literature
- Interview: Book Bound speaks with Marjorie M. Liu, who just released Inked, the latest book in the Maxine Kiss series.
- Interview: John Scalzi speaks with Stephen Deas, author of the recently released high fantasy novel The Adamantine Palace.
- Interview: The Odyssey interviews Elizabeth Hand, author of Generation Loss.
- Interview: Reddit has posted an interview with Peter Straub.
- Interview: SciFi Book Shelf talks with Joe Haldeman.
- The Guardian asks the question Shouldn’t there be more sci-fi on stage?
- Not only does Jim Butcher write some of the best on-going series out there, but he’s also pretty funny in person. Check out this hilarious story about how his dog saved his son from a bear.
- Seventeen year-old prodigy Helene Hegemann has admitted that her bestseller “Axolotl Roadkill” is not entirely original.
- Visions of Paradise has compiled a list of who it thinks are the Twelve Greatest Living Science Fiction Writers.
Science
- News: Bees recognize human faces using feature configuration.
- Live Science counts down Top 10 Greatest Explosions Ever.
Television
- Publicis launched a tarot card-themed ad campaign to promote Flash Forward.
- If Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick get their way, the movie could yet become a TV series (that’s what it started out as, by the way).
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