Fandom Wank. Makes me laugh until I cry.

Funny newspaper-clippings. And I mean reaaally funny.

Book-related vocabulary explained. Example:

CLANDESTINE SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: A work set in the future that receives a strong reception from the literary world as long as no one mentions that it is, in fact, science fiction; for example, The Road, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Espresso Book Machine. Very cool. And totally unrelated, but somehow not: Starbucks starts publishing.

The Week in Geek on the Guardian Blog – Marvel adaptations et al.

Cory Doctorow essays read by Jan Rubak.

XKCD and New Yorker in a Cartoon Off.

This sounds like a great (and I mean GREAT) show… Zombies in the Big Brother House? How I want good TV in Austria…

Some suggested reading for Halloween, if you need it. And some more.

Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted will be made into a movie. Yay!

And some more reading material: 52 – a story in installments by Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, AM Homes and Jackie Kay. And The Night Bookmobile – a gaphic novel by Audrey Niffenegger.