• The Hollywood Reporter: “Sleeper Dealer”
  This sounds like an interesting SF film: “Bottom Line: A smart and imaginative science-fiction tale set intriguingly in the third world.”
  (tags: SF film)
• Why Giant Mecha Robots Are Totally Awesome
  Your must read post of the day.
  (tags: robots awesomeness)
• HBO Films: John Adams
  Thank you, HBO, for making this seven-part mini-series about my life. I’m not so sure about the whole “Join or Die” tagline though….
  (tags: doppelgangery)
• Facebook | John Adams
  In other doppelgangery news, this guy friended me on Facebook. And I noticed he already had another John Adams as a friend. Why is he hunting us all down? What’s he going to do when he finds us all? Looks like he’s ready to lay the smackdown on us and cla
  (tags: doppelgangery)

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I got the following email the other day from my alma mater:

Fellow Knights,

Two representatives from the UCF Alumni Association and UCF Foundation will be in New York City on February 12 and would love to meet and mingle with you!  The event will be held at [restaurant] near Rockefeller Center.  Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served in a relaxed lounge setting. 
 

Anyone ever been to something like this? Will it be fun? Should I go?

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• SCI FI Wire | Singularity Posits The Plural
  (tags: SCIFI Tor)
• SCI FI Wire | Iron Dragons Back In Babel
  (tags: SCIFI Tor)
• SCI FI Wire | Shadow’s Web Mirrors TV
  (tags: SCIFI)

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• SCI FI Wire | Vaughn’s Kitty Challenges Genre
  (tags: SCIFI GrandCentral)

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• SCI FI Wire | Demon Reinvents Hell
  (tags: SCIFI Tor)
• SCI FI Wire | Palmer’s Space Reflects Times
  (tags: SCIFI Orbit)
• SCI FI Wire | Gettysburg Inspired 99 Coffins
  (tags: SCIFI ThreeRiversPress)

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• SCI FI Wire | Hunter Had Long Gestation
  (tags: SCIFI Eos)

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• SCI FI Wire | Blood’s Vamps Wear Prada
  (tags: SCIFI Crown)

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For the organizationally-inclined among my readers, I have a favor to ask.

What I need is a system, or a piece of software that will help me keep track of publicity mailings–basically, where I sent what.  I’ve been using an excel spreadsheet to keep track, but it’s not ideal. I’d like to have something that will cross-reference all my data, so I can look at a book and see where it’s been sent, look at a review venue and see what I’ve sent them, and look at who actually reviewed what.

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• Not of This Fold by William Shunn (PDF)

  A preliminary Nebula ballot nominee; originally published in the chapbook An Alternate History of the 21st Century

  (tags: free-fiction SF)

• SCI FI Wire | Fantasy Writers Live In Dragon

  (tags: SCIFI Simon&Schuster)

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There’s a new post-apocalyptic film coming out this spring called Doomsday, by Neil Marshall, director of the pretty good horror flick The Descent. Go check out the trailer.

It looks pretty good. For about half of the trailer I was thinking "This could be the best post-apocalyptic movie ever," but my enthusiasm diminished somewhat when the biker-punk cannibals showed up. Still, I remain cautiously optimistic.

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