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BSC Review has five minutes of Shane Acker’s upcoming movie 9, plus links to other 9-related materials.
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Spielberg was right! Great white sharks stalk specific victims and learn from previous experiences.
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Dinosaurs get revised again: they’re not as totally massive as we thought. Just, you know, really massive.
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Little Brother is everywhere! In addition to the recent stage play, the movie option has been sold to producer Don Murphy. No promises, of course, but as Cory points out, every movie starts as an option…. (via Scifi Watch)
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John Hodgman talks to Barack Obama about geeks and jocks at the Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner, but it’s not entirely facetious.
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Young adult author Justine Larbalestier on “girl books.” (via Bibliophile Stalker)
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Quantum Mechanix comes out with two limited-edition BSG maquettes: a cool Cylon and a scary-looking Starbuck
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I would call this extreme body art, but I assume it goes away eventually…let’s say “extreme tanning.”
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In an alternate reality, a certain sparkly vampire boy hits on the wrong girl in homeroom.
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Sci Fi/Syfy has released a trailer for The Plan, this fall’s TV-movie prequel to Battlestar Galactica. It looks like there will be some overlap between The Plan and the series; the scenes from early BSG made me long for the good old days.
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Steampunk Tales magazine (yay!) only for the iPhone (sad).
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New imprint Haikasoru brings the best of Japanese speculative fiction to English-speaking readers. (via Carl Brandon Society)
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What Watchmen meetings were really like. Warning, it’s a video and “There will be man butt.”
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2009 Chesley Awards announced, including a nomination for our own Irene Gallo for best art direction! The covers of the winning books are linked in the post, but here’s Matts Minnhagen’s Clarkesworld Magazine cover and Maurizio Manzieri’s F&SF cover, too. (via Cheryl’s Mewsings)
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Jetse de Vries, editor of the upcoming anthology Shine, talks about writers’ excuses for not writing optimistic near-future SF. (via Big Dumb Object)
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Turn your desktop icons into a game of Asteroids (and never work again!)
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The Organization for Transformative Works partners with the University of Iowa in the creation of the Fan Culture Preservation project. Their focus right now is on zines, with cataloging and some kind of digitization on the horizon. If you want to donate zines, they will love you forever. (via SF Site)
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Scott Westerfeld, Holly Black, and Cassandra Clare got together at Book Expo America and talked about writing alternate history for young adults; here’s a report of the panel.
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Bookseer is useful for book recommendations, but so far I’m more interested in looking at Amazon recs against the ones generated by LibraryThing (and making them fight).
