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Hugo Nominees Available As E-Books (For Judges Only) Four out of five Hugo-nominated novels are available for free, in electronic format — but only if you're a Hugo voter. To receive copies of Halting State by Charles Stross, Brasyl by Ian McDonald, Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer and The Last Colony by John Scalzi, you have to send an email to hugo2008@scalzi.com with proof that you're registered for Denvention, the 2008 WorldCon. Too bad only Hugo voters get to read these books electronically, since even non-attendees might want to weigh in about them online. Also too bad that Harper Collins chose not to include Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policemen's Union in the care package, although an excerpt is online here. Sadly, the omission may put Chabon at a bit of a disadvantage with the Hugo voters. [Whatever]

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anathem

Plot of New Neal Stephenson Novel Revealed

We've heard rumors about Neal "Snow Crash" Stephenson's new novel, but nothing more concrete than that it would be called Anathem and it would be a space opera about math and aliens. That would mark a real departure for the novelist, who has dealt only with human histories and futures in his previous works like The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Cryptonomicon. Now Lev Grossman, Time magazine's nerd correspondent, has more details about the plot of Anathem. More »

12:30 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Annalee Newitz
6,000 views, 35 comments

Latest by phoghat: @Rus: So you never read anything for fun?@randallnathaniel: Yeah, me too. I learned a lot from the "Cryptonomicon" also. The historical figures, though fictionalized were written about as they would have acted and were based on facts. There WAS more »

chart

The Rise And Fall Of Cyberpunk

Maybe cyberpunk isn't quite dead, but it definitely peaked a while back. There are way fewer books and movies with cyberpunk themes coming out now than there were in the golden age of the 80s and mid-90s. And we've got the statistics to prove it. We counted up the cyberpunk books and movies for every year since 1980, and charted their rise and fall. Click through to see what we found. More »

8:20 AM on Fri Jan 18 2008
By charliejane
3,363 views, 32 comments

lensmen

New Movie Celebrates Galactic In-Breeding

The quest for classic scifi texts to bring to the big screen may finally have gone too far. Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures are negotiating for the rights to film E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen novels, which are so dated that any adaptation will be either unrecognizable or unwatchable. And yet the series helped launch the whole genre of space opera, so it's easy to understand the temptation. Click through for the awful details. More »

8:20 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By charliejane
1,787 views, 32 comments

Latest by n/a: SO, if LENSMEN gets made, does that mean we mightget to see a production of Fafrid and the Grey MOuser?? more »

tom swift

100-Year-Old Inventor of the Taser Goes to Space, Makes Movie

The Tom Swift adventure novels have been optioned by former Nickelodeon executive Albie Hecht for a new Web, TV and film franchise. Tom Swift has been zooming around the universe and building retro-gadgets in nearly 100 books for roughly a century. What's taken Hollywood so long to pay attention? More »

2:00 PM on Tue Nov 27 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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