News Nibbles: July 30, 2008

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Science Fiction News Headlines for July 30, 2008:
Below are just some of the headlines that have been posted recently:

• Apex Book Company: Apex Digest Online #3 now available
• io9: Coming Of Age In The Aussie Apocalypse [Zombie Love] * A Human/Vampire Buddy Movie, Family Guy-Style [Last Blood]
• RevolutionSF: Comics Screed : Gaiman, Kubert, Cooke, Kirkman, a Baldwin brother (News)
• Science Fiction Awards Watch: Booker Long List * Awards from Finncon * Wheeler Sticks His Neck Out,
• SciFi Scanner: Heath Ledger's Joker Harkens to Cesar Romero * Site of the Week - The Terminator Files
• SF Signal: REMINDER: Eureka Season 3 Starts Tonight * SF Tidbits for 7/29/08
• SFScope: SFPA's third annual sf poetry contest * Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards awarded * Second Annual Scribe Award Winners
• The Website at the End of the Universe: Excerpt gives taste of Arthur C. Clarke's last book

Selected Blog Updates for July 30, 2008:
Here are the lastest blog updates

Blogspot, Wordpress, and "other" blogs:

• a dark catharsys (Heather S. Ingemar) * Ask Nicola (Nicola Griffith) * kelleyeskridge.com
• Robert J Sawyer * The Crotchety Old Fan * Witchy Chicks

MySpace Blogs:

• Alethea Kontis * bevhale * Chuck Palahniuk * Cynthia Leitich Smith * Di Francis *
• Erica Spindler * Horror Library Blog-O-Rama * Planet Stories * Sherrilyn Kenyon * Tor Books

Science News & Blog Updates for July 30, 2008:
Science News:

• Are We Alone - This weeks episode: "Risky Business"

Science Blogs:

• Bad Astronomy: Comic Con: My panel on science and scifi * Shakin’ up astrological nonsense
• The Daily Galaxy: Galaxy Fans: We're Looking for Private Investors * Intelligent Robots will Explore Milky Way by 2020