- Poll: What’s your Clarke of Clarkes?
- Story: “Electrisarian” by Sean McMullen (from Polder)
- Sf community discussion: “These fictions that sustain us” by Ian McDonald (I’m waiting for Paul Cornell to expand on this comment); Lou Anders getting medieval on reality’s ass one, two and three; Barbarian Confessions” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Another reason to get around to reading Snow: Orhan Pamuk has won the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Controversy: Abigail Nussbaum on the Battlestar Galactica S3 premiere
- Review of the week: Nicholas Whyte on The System of the World
- Shameless pimping: Strange Horizons is having a fund drive
