Internet
- BeliefNet presents a list of the 10 Greatest Spiritual Characters in Science Fiction. It’s an interesting round-up, but it seems like it could have included more book characters.
- The Onion has posted a great video featuring the story “Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past.”
- Pulitzer Prize winning critic Roger Ebert speculates on the Sun-Times website that modern blogs may be the descendants of early fanzines.
Literature
- Free Fiction: The Nostalgia League has posted a great old-time sci-fi pulp story entitled “The Man Who Evolved“.
- Just has to Sound Plausible has a list of a few Overlooked Classics of the science fiction genre that you may want to check out.
- Neal Stephenson recently spoke at a a symposium on Science Fiction as a Literary Genre at Gresham College.
- Roger Zelazny is publishing one more, posthumously. It’s a noir novel that been “lost” for thirty years entitled “Hard Case Crime“.
Television
- Interview: Producer Ron Moore discusses the religious themes of Battlestar Galactica on BeliefNet.
- Network World takes a look at science fiction’s goofiest gadgets and technology.
- Popular Mechanics has published an article Debunking Lost’s Science. However, the day after the article was written, the author was mysteriously mauled by a Polar Bear.
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