In the previous post, I didn’t list the honorable mentions. They deserve to be posted.
Horror short story honourable mentions

Jacinta Butterworth, “Love Affair”
Dirk Flinthart, “One Night Stand”
Margo Lanagan, “Under Hell, Over Heaven”
A.M. Muffaz, “Mosquito Story”

Fantasy novel honorable mentions

Kylie Chan, White Tiger
Lian Hearn, Harsh Cry of the Heron

Fantasy short story honorable mentions

Lily Chrywenstrom, “Ghosts of 1930″
Carol Ryles, [...]

For the last 5 years, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been choking its TV science. Radio science is doing fine: there are a number of wonderful Australian programs every week, notably The Science Show, Ockham’s Razor and The Health Report, and short, snappy appearances all over the place by the irrepressible Karl Kruszelnicki. But TV [...]

The nominations for the 11th annual Aurealis Awards have been announced.
The winners will be announced at what promises to be a lavish ceremony in Brisbane on January 27, hosted by the effervescent team of Kim Wilkins, Sean Williams, and Gardner Dozois. For details, see the Aurealis Award homepage. Note well there is a cover charge [...]

The Breaking Point is a wonderful book, but there’s no getting past it. The book starts badly. By the second sentence, there’s already trouble.
In 1916, a third-class ticket on the dilapidated old clunker that ran from Toledo to Madrid must have cost next to nothing, and the ride would have been jolting and slow. It [...]

These are cool. Seriously cool. Cooler than the Fonz. Cooler even than the Fonz thought he was, which is way cool. Why aren’t these for sale in time for Xmas? Someone should track down the patent holders and get them on the shelves ASAP.

This particular example, the Official Rex Mars Planet Patrol Atomic Pistol, was [...]

I’m a little late on this one, but Ticonderoga Online has released issue 10 for summer (if this confuses you, remember we’re talking Southern Hemisphere here). There’s fiction by Sean Williams, Susan Wardle, Brian Ross, and Matthew Doyle, interviews with Paul Haines and Simon Haynes, reviews and more.
(Link to Ticonderoga Online, Issue 10.)

Nature has released a free PDF poster explaining stems cells, where they come from, and why your hair is closely related to your brain.

In the footsteps of Cory Doctorow, author Peter Watts has just released his novel Blindsight (reviewed here by Cat Sparks) on the internet for free download.
(Follow the link to the Blindsight download page.)

A is for Autobiography, Fake.
Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth is billed as the autobiography “of a man who has been nowhere, done nothing, and met nobody.” This is not exactly true, as one of the standard assumptions behind an autobiography is that no matter how hopelessly biased and self-serving, it is at least supposed to be a [...]