Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Well technically I guess this should be number one again since last week it was the Science Fiction Blog Roundup, but it seemed like a pointless distinction. Blog, website, if it’s interesting, I’ll link to it.

• Lost Zombies is a community generated zombie documentary. If you think zombies are cool then this is definitely worth a few minutes of your time. I’m always impressed by the creativity of genre fans and this is another example of that creativity at work.
• io9.com offers us Eradicating Camp: 21 Ways to Eradicate Campiness from Science Fiction. There’s a lot of truth in the list, but it does seem to take itself a little too seriously.
• Sadness in the Wasteland is a post at Slice of SciFi that bemoans the lack of quality science fiction movies currently. Granted I’m not the best person to judge. What with wife and work and kids, I have pretty limited time for watching movies. I certaintly can’t claim a comprehensive knowledge of 2007-2008 output. Still is it really any worse than it’s always been?
• SF Signal has some interesting information about Young Adult SF. Turns out there’s a lot of it out there and it’s selling very well (at least compared to adult SF). I remember reading a lot of that sort of thing as a kid but these days I’m just not exposed to it. Which is a shame because I’ve probably been missing out.
• io9.com gives us the Coolest Moons In the Galaxy, and appears to have spent far too much effort figuring this out. Seriously there’s charts and everything.
• And SF Signal proves again why it’s been in my feed reader since I started using one by giving us MIND MELD: WHich SF/F Books Have The Best And Worst Endings?. It’s an interesting discussion in itself and the authors they gathered to answer it, give some surprising (and some not so surprising) answers.