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Jamie Bamber, who plays Lee "Apollo" Adama in SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming final 10 episodes will wrap up all the outstanding questions and mysteries. Everything.

Milo Ventimiglia, who plays the power-absorbing Peter Petrelli in NBC's Heroes, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming third season will shock people--and not just because something happens to his character in the very beginning of the season premiere.

Damian Kindler, creator and executive producer of SCI FI Channel's upcoming supernatural series Sanctuary, told SCI FI Wire that he strove to make something that bridged the real and fantastical, with a graphic-novel style that hasn't been seen before.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, the stars of the upcoming The X-Files: I Want to Believe, told reporters that they went through a reacquaintance period taking on their old roles of former FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

Hancock director Peter Berg will produce and develop a new film take on Hercules for Universal Pictures, Variety reported. Berg will helm Hercules: The Thracian Wars, a co-production of Spyglass Entertainment, Berg's Film 44 and Radical Pictures.

This week's Mind Meld is brought to you in conjunction with the Shared Worlds creative writing program for teens, currently in session at Wofford College. During this program, groups of teens create a 'shared world', much like the Wild Cards or Thieves Guild books, then create stories, art and games set in that world. Along the way they learn how to work together to create the world and the assets, and how to solve the problems that c [...]

• The bizz is beginning to increase around Joss Whedon's new show, Dollhouse. The Calgary Sun has an interview with Eliza Dushku covering the new show, Joss Whedon, and empowered women characters from Whedon.
• But what's this? Fox has ordered a new first episode of Dollhouse! They did this with Firefly, have they not learned fr [...]

• SF Tidbits for 7/23/08
• Gwyneth Jones' Top Ten SF by Women Writers.


• M. John Harrison's Top Ten Favorite Books.


• John Courtenay Grimwood's The Top Ten Cult [...]

• Charity SF Blogathon

Shira Lipkin is holding a charity blogathon and sent along the following information:

I'm doing a blogathon this Saturday, July 26 - posting to my LiveJournal every half hour for 24 hours to raise money for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. This is my sixth year blogathonning, and I write spontaneous short fiction every year. It usually tends to have an urban fantasy bent [as in fantasy in a city, not paranormal romance], but this year, I'm taking a distinctly SF angle on it. For 2 [...]

GIVEAWAY: The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made

It's that time again, time for yet another freebie for you our readers! This time, Titan Books has graciously provided 5 copies of their soon to be released book: The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made, and you, our readers, get the chance to own a copy of your very own, for free. Always a good thing. You probably can guess from the title what [...]




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The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez

Mack Megaton isn't your average joe on the street. He's actually a reprogrammed robot built for destruction and world domination who, upon gaining free will, gave up his creator's megalomanical ways and has gone straight, earning his citizenship one day at a time as an honest taxi driver in Empire City, where weird science reigns supreme. He's not hero material, that's for sure. Heck, he barely understands people, and he can't even tie a bow tie. His therapist thinks he needs to work on his man [...]

A Conversation With Terry Brooks: an interview with Sandy Auden

"I tell everybody that when I'm stuck and I'm looking for ideas or even when I just want ideas to come, the best thing is to either take a long dive where your mind is freed up and you can just let it go; or get in a situation where's there's water -- showers are great. I get lots of ideas in the shower. It's amazing. In there it's like a white-noise state and your mind just suddenly releases and you begin to follow all these possibilities in your head. It's real magic! Although sometimes nothi [...]

Wastelands by edited by John Joseph Adams

One of the things that science fiction does is look at how it might be, if our dreams or nightmares came true. And one of the most persistent nightmares is the contemplation of loss, of all that we love, all that we know, all that makes us feel comfortable, being taken away from us. It is no surprise, therefore, that variations on the end of the world are as old as science fiction. Though the nature of the apocalypse, and our response to it, have changed depending largely on the cultural contex [...]

Nexus Graphica: a column by Rick Klaw and Mark London Williams

In L.A. it has been the summer of books. No, not because everyone here in the Pueblo of Angels is suddenly cracking open copies of Ask the Dust or Day of the Locust to unearth their town's own literary history, but rather, because the two main gatherings of the book industry -- the Book Expo of America (or "BEA") and the American Library Association's annual gathering (or "ALA" for short) -- were held there. Our intrepid reporter, Mark London Williams, scouted out the graphic novel scene.

The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

This sixth installment of the Hollows series starts out with a bang. Rachel Morgan, our ne'er-do-well witch, has once again gotten in over her head. Thinking that all is well, Rachel discovers quickly that things have gotten way out of hand. Algaliarept, the demon that Rachel sent to demon jail, is somehow getting out and gunning for her. Not only is she not safe, but anyone close to her is in danger.




Science Fiction Resource

Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. In common with most fiction, science fiction is written mainly to entertain people. The term science fiction generally refers to any fiction that the average reader would consider theoretically possible, but which is not set in the past or present as we generally conceive it to be. Even clearly impossible fiction set in the future or in outer space is usually considered science fiction, if it has the trappings of science rather than magic. Thus stories of faster-than-light travel are generally counted as science fiction.

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• Space Travel: Science or Fiction?

There are those who deny Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and maintain the whole story was a government conspiracy. The idea that man could actually break away from our cradle of atmosphere and gravity was once fiction of the highest sort. Yet one dreamer made it a reality. What is there not to believe about space travel? Will there be a time when such a thing is feasible?

Space Travel: Science or Fic [...]

• Firefly and Serenity

Serenity is an 2003 Firefly-class spaceship featured on the science fiction television series Firefly, created by Joss Whedon. She fits the profile of a light freighter, having a cargo area equivalent to about three or four semis. The photon-reaction drive in the bulbous rear section of the ship lights up when accelerating, thus the class moniker.

Firefly and Serenity

• Galactic Empire, a Space-age Third Reich

Born in May of 1944, in Modesto, California, George Lucas lived a world away from the horrors of Fascist Germany. Yet its imprint is more than evident in Lucas’ life’s work and creative brainchild, the Star Wars Saga. Admitting that the Galactic Empire was based on Germany’s Third Reich, Lucas drew from history the characters and imagery needed to paint his evil regime. While some parallels are obvious—such as the robotic white soldiers Lucas named “storm troopers,” the same name Hit [...]

• The Ender Saga: A Noteworthy SF series

January 1985 marks the beginning of America’s love affair with Ender Wiggin. It was that month that Ender’s Game was published, becoming an instant blockbuster, and “probably the most popular science fiction novel published in the last twenty years” [John Kessel]. The child prodigy and ultimate savior of the earth, Ender Wiggin, had appeared seven years earlier in a short story published in the science fiction magazine Analog. Writer Orson Scott Card had spent much of his young life work [...]

• Trekker vs Trekkie

So what is the difference between a trekker and a trekkie? The short answer is: nothing. According to Wikipedia, the all-knowing, on-line encyclopedia, both terms denote a fan of the Star Trek science fiction franchise. So why all the controversy between the two? I once heard that fans of the original series were called trekkers, while those of the Next Generation were trekkies, but I have since learned it’s not as simple as that. The difference, it turns out, has nothing to do with the actual [...]




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• Lipstick Aliens #49 We're Going on Hiatus; TV Show Predictions

Lynne and Cat say goodbye for now but before they leave they give some TV show predictions for Who Wants to be a Superhero, The 4400, Sanctuary, Masters of Science Fiction, Flash Gordon, Eureka, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Bionic Woman, Heroes, Stargate: Atlantis and Farscape.

We'd like to thank you for your voicemails, emails and comments this past year. We've enjoyed every bit of it!!!

You can contact Lynne at
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• Lipstick Aliens #48 Flash Gordon, Masters of Science Fiction, Superheroes

Lynne and Cat start the show with the pilot episode of Flash Gordon. They discuss the third episode of Who Wants to be a Superhero and the elimination of Mr. Mitzvah and Limelight. They also review 4400's Daddy's Little Girl, Eureka's Noche De Suenos and Masters of Science Fiction's premiere episode, A Clean Escape.

Everyone's homework is to watch The Bionic Woman.

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• Lipstick Aliens #47 Sarah Connor Chronicles, Babylon 5: Lost Tales

In this episode of Lipstick Aliens, Lynne and Cat discuss Sylar/Spock, Dresden Files cancellation, 4400, Eureka, Who Wants to be a Superhero, Sanctuary, Babylon 5: Lost Tales and Sara Connor Chronicles.


Don't forget to review The Lipstick Aliens on iTunes.


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Lipstick Aliens #46 Stan Lee's Superheroes, Eureka, 4400, Poll Results

This week Lynne and Cat girlie squeal over a comment from Who Wants to be a Superhero's Hygena. They discuss each of the new Superheroes in detail. Next is a discussion about the latest 4 episodes of Eureka's new season. The 4400 are in Seattle and the girls are impressed on the stories direction. Finally, they end with a the results from all 5 of their polls.


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Lipstick Aliens #45 Transformers and Harry Potter

This is the big Transformers/ Harry Potter show. Lynne and Cat talk about both movies. They also have news and voice mail.



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Emerald City #134



• Latro in Egypt

Gene Wolfe's Soldier of Sidon reviewed

• The Old Gods Return

Jay Lake's Trial of Flowers reviewed

• Fairies and Society

Susanna Clarke's Ladies of Grace Adieu reviewed

• Rapture without Rancor?

John Shirley's The Other End reviewed

• Childhood Reading

Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana reviewed

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