Comics
- Spider-Man meets Barack Obama the new President Elect of the United States in issue #583 of The Amazing Spider-Man.
Film
- Den of Geek runs down the Top 25 fictional ads in sci-fi movies.
- Jonathan McCalmont compares the rhetoric of American foreign and domestic policy with the thematic underpinnings of the super hero movie genre, and explains why he’ll be as glad to see the back of costumed crusaders as he will the back of Bush.
Internet
- Author Bruce Sterling looks forward to the future in his State of the World essay over on the Well, the oldest communities on the net.
- Can U.S. Laws Protect Online Speech from Foreign Libel Suits or was John Perry Barlow really right when he said that, “in cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.”
Literature
- Free Fiction: Read the historical urban thriller “The Somnambulist” by Jonathan Barnes over at HarperCollins.
- Free Fiction: Read the “The Last Great Clown Hunt” by Chris Furst at Weird Tales. Isn’t that a great title. If you hate clowns, give this one a read.
- The Books on Mars blog has posted a phenomenal list of 20 Stories you wouldn’t know are Martian Science Fiction in two parts. This is a definite must-see for anyone who has ever considered themselves a Ray Bradbury fan.
- The Books on Mars blog lists award-worthy literature published in 2008 in its Nominees for the 2008 Marooned Awards.
- The Guardian’s Ben Myer reflects on The Joy of Secondhand Bookshops.
Television
- According to SciFi Wire, Fox will be abandoning its attempt to move Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles episodes to standalone format in the hope of recapturing the “magic” of the first season. And I ask myself, what magic?
- Express Night Out reflects on Why BattleStar Galactica is so frakkin’ Cool.
- NBC has announced that it will air an episode of Chuck in 3D on February 2.
- Sci Fi Wire looks back at The Sexiest Sci-Fi Moments of 2008, but loose me about the point where they add Scully and Mulder to the list.
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