Art
- io9 has posted Tron 2 concept art that will make fanboys everywhere squee with delight. …except… where exactly do you sit on that light cycle?
Film
- io9 lists 9 Scifi Books That Deserve To Be Films.
Internet
- condition:human is a new science fiction web series. The trailer looks very stylish and is all the more impressive given it’s made with no budget. The finished series is going to be six fifteen minute episodes. The story sounds Bladerunner-esque: near future, AI level companion robots, moral questions about the robots.
- Den of Geek runs down 10 Twinkie sightings in films and TV.
- From the desk of “Oh Jesus, It’s happening for real” comes news that the first clone of an extinct animal has been created.
Literature
- Free Fiction: Preview “White Witch, Black Curse” by Kim Harrison. Buy it February 24th.
- Free Fiction: Read the zombie novel “The Nymphos of Rocky Flats” by Mario Acevedo free today through February 24th at the HarperCollins website.
- Author Richard K. Morgan discusses Tolkien at Suvudu. “The great shame is, of course, that Tolkien was not able (or inclined) to mine this vein of experience for what it was really worth – in fact he seemed to be in full, panic-stricken flight from it.”
- It’s official. Terry Pratchett has been knighted.
- Science spends millions proving what every little kid already knew: Brain scans suggest that readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations.
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