Art
- Irrational Games features a gallery of the monsters from BioShock that might have been.
- National Post has an inexplicable gallery of Babies dressed as Evil Historical Figures.
- Threadless is selling these Tron Police t-shirts for just a few more days.
- Tor has just released the cover art for the re-release of Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos.
Comics
Film
- News: Tim Burton to work on Addams Family 3-D animated movie (Finally!)
Internet
- Open Library has a new collaborative open source website that aims to catalog every book ever published. Read more about the project. The goal is to create one Wiki page for every edition of every work, with a complete description.
- Say it isn’t so! Topless Robot has attempted to explain How Nerds and Sports Fans are Alike, but I will have none of it.
- To promote mission awareness, NASA has authorized the creation of promotional posters. Some may look familiar. [PDF]
Literature
- Interview: Futurismic’s Fiction Editor, Chris East, speaks to ScienceOfFiction.
- Interview: Fantasy Literature interviews Marjorie Liu, author of the excellent Hunter Kiss urban fantasy series.
- News: Book returned to South Yorkshire library 45 years on
- Night Shade Books complains that Genre Fiction is Going to the Dogs.
Science
- Buzz Feed shares 10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Impending Apocalypse.
- Japanese researchers are developing a super-fast book scanner that will be able to scan a book of about 200 pages in a minute without any need to break up or flatten the book. [Video]
Television
Video Games
- News: In virtual world, China consumers best the U.S.
- Futurismic has an awesome post explaining how we may be on the verge of an epic win and how gaming can make the world a better place.
Writing
- Charles Stross answers that timeless fan question, Why did you pick such an awful cover for your new book?
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