- Very cool flow chart of NPR’s top 100 sci-fi & fantasy novel list from SF Signal.
- Nice review of my YA Fantasy novel The Wizard of Time. Time travel and magic – it’s like peanut butter and chocolate.
- Nice io9 blog about why good sci-fi tv is so hard to create: And nice response.
- A Wrinkle in Time gets a stage production in Minneapolis MN.
- Scientists talk about the possibility of an invisibly cloak. Why a cloak? Why not an invisibility poncho?
- Ever wonder whether Mary Shelley lied about when she came up with the idea for Frankenstein? Neither had I, but it’s a good read.
- China to launch unmanned space lab this week.
- Good article on why Harry Potter is the #1 banned series of books in the USA.I wonder if my books will ever get banned.
- 35th annual Archon sci-fi & fantasy convention St. Louis, MO Sept. 30 – Oct. 2.
- Two fun articles about bad sci-fi & fantasy covers.
- Great site for bad sci-fi and fantasy book covers:
- Interesting quick article about the business of making the costumes for sci-fi and fantasy fans.
- Yellow hypergaint star called the cracked egg nebula. But is it sunny side up?
- Another dead satellite is going to crash to earth in Nov. Apparently the sky really is falling.
- Upstate Steampunk Extravaganza and Meet-Up in Anderson, SC this weekend. Very cool.
- David Brin has a good blog up about what the FLT neutrino finding means or doesn’t mean.
- Space-X reveals plans for reusable rocket. Guess those 1950’s rocket designs weren’t so crazy after all.
- Kepler satellite needs $20 Million to keep looking for planets. Maybe we can pass a hat.
- Fun article on how sci-fi characters can be brought back from the dead. They forgot twinning – ala Farscape season 3.
- Computer map created of how galaxies form with help of dark matter. If they only knew what dark matter actually is. My personal theory: dark matter=cosmic marshmallow
