Reflections Collections -- 1/21/11

In this issue

• Happy New Year and Congratulations to RFF,Inc
• New Blog Articles
• Hanging out around the RFF Mailbox
• Stats

Alien © julien tromeur - Fotolia.com
Alien ©julien tromeur - Fotolia.com

Happy New Year and Congratulations to RFF,Inc

I do hope you all had a marvelous holiday. With school and colleges back in session, and business picking up as the economy improves, I assume life is busier than ever. May this year be good to you all.

Reading for the Future is now, finally, officially, incorporated as a non-profit headquartered in Utah. This incorporation became official around mid-December, 2010, so we rffers are starting the New Year with a new identity. As part of our growth out of infancy, there is work being done to update the Bylaws and to file papers for federal non-profit status.

New Blog Articles

Have you tried Self-Publishing? Donna Barr talked about self-publishing on Facebook. Her remarks are printed here: Donna Barr Speaks Out on Self-Publishing

How do we know that a book is good for children and youth? As I explore this question, I--and hopefully others-- will be writing short posts on the topic until, eventually, I can develop a rubric that I can use to judge books for kids with an eye out for usefulness in a classroom.

The first article in this series is Beginning a Checklist for Evaluating Children's Literature

After a holiday break, there are 2 new FB Reports:1/13/11 and 1/19/11.

Hanging out around the RFF Mailbox

James Gunn invited us all to explore this cause listed on Facebook: "Support Writing in Schools."

Happily, about 1/2 dozen new members joined TalkingRFF during the months of December and January.

Cie McCullough is busily writing blog posts in which she mentions RFF and children literacy. She lists here posts on the Reading For the Future page on Facebook.

There is a group of members working on the WorldCon workshop project that will teach teachers how to use science fiction in the classroom.

Others have attended/presented/organized writer workshops, convention panels, and more at recent libraries, museums, and fantasy/science fiction conventions.

Stats

Facebook page stats for 1/17/11, copied directly from the emailed report:

203 monthly active users (+0 since last week)
302 people like this (-3 since last week)
30 wall posts or comments this week (+20 since last week)
55 visits this week (+0 since last week)

Hats off to Cie, the admin for the Reading For the Future page on Facebook, for her hard work in locating those links! Thanks to others who have contributed to the Page in the recent weeks, too. Keep the data flowing in, ya'll!

Blog stats for 1/20/11, copied directly from Stats page on the blog Dashboard and slightly reformatted.

Pageviews yesterday ...........9
Pageviews last month ........192
Pageviews all time history...745

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Til next time, Valerie C.

Beginning a Checklist for Evaluating Children's Literature

Found on the Web

The American Library Association lists the YALSA Book Lists Awards and the Alex Awards. The Young Adult Library Association annually lists what it considers the best books written for Young Adults. There is also an Alex award given to the 10 best books published that year that are suitable for Young Adults but that were written for adults. Winners of the Alex Awards are considered to have a special appeal for youth.

Cybils Awards are given by bloggers to children's literature that is suggested by bloggers and after a round of judging that includes adult and teen judges.

Duckon.org gives 3 awards annually to science fiction works in 3 divisions: prek-grade 3 picture books; upper elementary/middle school books; and young adult books. These Golden Duck Awards are given to books written specifically for youth.

Some children's literature authors list books that they recommend for children and young adults, usually in genres related to the one that the author writes for or has a special interest in. Some organizations responsible for fantasy and/or science fiction conventions offer annual awards, including a few for YA and Children's science fiction.

What Makes a Children's or Young Adult Book "Good" or Worthy of an Award?

Awards go annually to fictional books for young adults, suitable for YA, children's books, and picture books. When the award is not specifically for a work of speculative fiction or the sub-genre science fiction, often the list of nominated books include fantasy and science fiction books. But what makes a book worthy of an award? What makes a book good literature? How does one decide that a book can be recommended for a certain age level?

From vforteachers.com; 

used with permission.

To begin an answer these questions, I examined a few websites that grant awards for children's literature or that define children's literature; I looked for definitions of quality in children's literature.

What criteria is used to evaluate the nominated books? That is a question for a future posting. A list of awards is part of the Resources page and another topic for a future posting.

In this post I want to introduce a few definitions of children's literature and young adult literature.

(c) Reading for the Future, Inc.

What is Children's Literature?

For some, children's literature is suitable for youth up to age 12. Some exclude comic books and books for young adults, some don't. It can include books written by children because the author was a child, or not. Various professors, organizations, and groups have given different criteria for classifying fiction as children's literature. (Wikipedia 1and Wikipedia 2)

Wikipedia (1)  reports within the various definitions of children's literature, the extremes are these. "The most restrictive definition of children's literature are those books various authorities determine are "appropriate" for children, such as teachers, reviewers, scholars, parents, publishers, librarians, retailers, and the various book-award committees." Alternately, "[t]he broadest definition of children's literature applies to books that are actually selected and read by children."

Sample Rubrics for Evaluating Books

When an organization gives an award, there is usually some restrictive criteria that makes a book suitable as a representative of the organization's philosophy. One example of a restrictive definition and criteria is that posted online by The AntiDefamation League's Checklist For Assessing Children's Literature. The ADL checklist includes for the category "characters" these criteria:

• Do characters represent people from a variety of cultural groups?
• Do "good" characters reflect a variety of backgrounds?
• Are females as well as males depicted in leadership roles?

Compare this checklist to the one provided by a Canadian department of education to be used in choosing children's literature for schools.

• provide motivating and challenging experiences suitable for the learner’s age, ability and social maturity
  
• elicit personal, thoughtful critical responses
  
• represent a range of styles and literary structures
  
• have literary merit
  
• use language effectively and responsibly, and use language that is essential to the work
  
• broaden students’ understanding of social, historical, geographical and cultural diversity
  
• develop sensitivity to and an understanding that reflects individual differences such as age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, class and political/social values"
  

Another useful checklist is the one from Circle of Inclusion that focuses on literature for and about disabilities.

Sub-Genre of Children's Literature

Nancy Anderson (Wikipedia 2), of the Univ. of So. Florida, separates children's literature into these sub-genre's; for which the fictional descriptions are, I think, informative.

• Picture books, including board books, concept books (teaching an alphabet or counting), pattern books, and wordless books
  
• Traditional literature: there are ten characteristics of traditional literature: (1) unknown authorship, (2) conventional introductions and conclusions, (3) vague settings, (4) stereotyped characters, (5) anthropomorphism, (6) cause and effect, (7) happy ending for the hero, (8) magic accepted as normal, (9) brief stories with simple and direct plots, and (10) repetition of action and verbal patterns.[6] The bulk of traditional Literature consists of folktales, which conveys the legends, customs, superstitions, and beliefs of people in past times. This large genre can be further broken down into sub-genres: myths, fables, ballads, folk music, legends, and fairy tales.
• Fiction, including the sub-genres of fantasy and realistic fiction (both contemporary and historical). This genre would also include the school story, a genre unique to children's literature in which the boarding school is a common setting.
  
• Non-fiction
  
• Biography, including autobiography
  
• Poetry and verse.
  

A Call for Help in Designing my Checklist Rubric

Basically, I have listed information to consider in evaluating a book for children or young adults. My goal is to build a checklist that I would be comfortable using in evaluating science fiction either written for or suitable for youth. Obviously I have more research to do. Why, vocabulary and taboo topics and words are not yet listed. I invite you to comment with suggestions, checklists and criteria from you that will help me make my list.


Note: All lists are quoted text with bullets changed. The link prior to the list is to the website cited.

FB Report: Lots of Links on Speculative Fiction -- 1/19/11

We have a busy page at Facebook. Here are the week' stats.

fb page stats for 17jan11
203 monthly active users (+0 since last week)
302 people like this (-3 since last week)
30 wall posts or comments this week (+20 since last week)
55 visits this week (+0 since last week)

From Other Walls

This might be a bit outdated, but the museum is perpetual!~Valerie C.
via Cie McCullough
Join author Jane Yolen and illustrators Jane Dyer, Barry Moser, Ruth Sanderson and Bruce Degen as they discuss the interplay of words and pictures in the process of creating a picture book. Hear firsthand how the whole emerges greater than the sum of its parts.
1:00 pm panel discussion
2:00 pm book signings
2:30 pm Jane Yolen takes you on a gallery tour of her art collection.See More
Home - The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
http://www.carlemuseum.org/Home
www.carlemuseum.org
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is the first full-scale museum in this country devoted to national and international picture book art.
[1/15/11]

via Lynda Williams
Writers - input welcome on the Writer's Craft blog.
Clarion Blog
http://clarionfoundation.wordpress.com/
clarionfoundation.wordpress.com
Writers are often asked to explain how their favorite authors have influenced their work over the years. But how about what we are reading today? Does it percolate into what we write tomorrow?
[1/16/11]

From the Wall of Reading For the Future

Reading For the Future News from Nichelle Nichols Communications Page:
Tonight on PBS at 8pm - Gene Roddenberry, Rod Serling, & Irwin Allen.
Great way to introduce the Golden Age of SF
Season Two Preview, Pioneers of Television, PBS Video
http://video.pbs.org/video/1694653879
video.pbs.org
PIONEERS OF TELEVISION returns with new stories of the visionaries who shaped the medium.
[1/17/11]

Reading For the Future Just in case you have not heard the nominations yet.
Philip K. Dick Award
http://www.philipkdickaward.org/
www.philipkdickaward.org
The judges of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce seven nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the award:
[1/17/11]

Reading For the Future From Tim Pratt: 'Damn, this video makes me want to write hopeful science fiction.'
NASA - The Frontier Is Everywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY59wZdCDo0
www.youtube.com
FULL CREDIT goes to Michael Marantz for his brilliant original: http://vimeo.com/2822787 http://michaelmarantz.com/ AND OF COURSE to Carl Sagan. I made an entire page of credits and forgot to cite The Pale Blue Dot. Total brain fart on my part. I miss the man dearly. NASA - http://www.youtube.com/u
[1/15/11]

Reading For the Future Valerie C. via Julie Czerneda
Tesseracts 15 update is now available at www.czerneda.com.
Julie Czerneda Official Site
http://www.czerneda.com/
www.czerneda.com
Julie Czerneda's Official Site,Science Fiction and Fantasy Author and Editor, Information on her Work, Stories, and Educator Materials
[1/15/11]

Reading For the Future I complained to the site that they were not putting out enough hard sci fi. Rome wrote back for suggestions. I mentioned my interest in YA and YA suitable books. Rome gave me the name of 3 currently available. I invite him to view this page and help with our book list. See comment below.
Science Fiction Book Club
http://www.facebook.com/ScienceFictionBookClub?ref=mf
The Science Fiction Book Club is one of the best-known resources for science fiction and fantasy books. Our goal is to provide our community of book-lovers with a carefully edited selection of science fiction and fantasy titles all at a significant cost savings. W...e believe in providing our members with the best of the best including original anthologies available only to our members.
[1/15/11]

Reading For the Future commented:
My dialog with Rome included this comment about YA and YA suitable sci fi:
"Science Fiction Book Club Thanks for the great feedback, Valerie - its helpful for me to keep improving SFBC. I'll keep an eye out for more hard sf and some of the t...itles/authors you ment...ion. In the meantime, you might want to check out CHAOS WALKING by Patrick Ness - it's a 2-in-1 omnibus of a YA trilogy - and the third book, MONSTERS OF MEN. Both are available through the club and are very good reads for both YA and adults. Another one is NOMANSLAND. -Rome" ~Valerie c.See More
Saturday at 5:07am
Reading For the Future commented:
If anyone has read these books, do let us know what you think of them! Shall we add them to our book list? ~Valerie C.
Saturday at 5:08am

Reading For the Future Something for writers, and readers, to watch for: pirated eBooks.
little bits of everything - Don't Steal Books
http://renesears.livejournal.com/52367.html
renesears.livejournal.com
So, this morning, a reader tweeted sarahtales that she had illegally downloaded The Demon's Lexicon, Sarah Rees Brennan's first book, because the e-format she wanted wasn't available in her region. (The paper book was.) She then didn't understand why Brennan was upset. ...She claimed she was making a s...
[1/14/11]

Eric Warren commented:
just another reason that technology and easy access is not always better...here we go again!
January 14 at 10:22am

Reading For the Future commented:
Actually, I am quite upset at a friend's comment to my own posting of this:
'What if I already own the book? Could I then feel like the pirated ebook is more like a backup of something that I have already purchased and to which I have user r...ights? I have transferred video cassettes to DVD without guilt if there is no DVD available, but don't do that if I could buy a legitimate copy. If I buy the book and there is no ebook available, I would probably feel ok doing this, but if there was an ebook option? This is actually something that I have been thinking about a great deal lately.'See More
January 14 at 3:32pm

Eric Warren commented:
stealing is stealing...period...there is no way to justify 'pirating' or downloading anything without permission or purchase other than greed and wanting something for free...authors, artists, publishers have rights...they create and produce the product, it is not anyone's to steal...you want it, buy it...if you cannot afford it, that's why there are libraries! haven't we been through this before with illegal music downloading? people need to stop trying to justify a crime...
January 14 at 5:42pm

Reading For the Future ?'H.P. Lovecraft was the forefather of modern horror fiction having inspired such writers as Stephen King, Robert Bloch and Neil Gaiman But what led an Old World, xenophobic gentleman to create one of literature’s most far-reaching mythologies? What attracts even the minds of the 21st century to these stories of unspeakable abominations and cosmic gods?'
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown - Watch the Documentary Film for Free
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/lovecraft_fear_of_the_unknown/
www.snagfilms.com
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown - The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is Fear of the Unknown.. Watch free documentaries. Share documentary films.
[1/13/11]

(I apologize if these 3 below are duplicates from the last posting.)

Reading For the Future This also comes from SFBC; they expect the show to pay tribute to all of our beloved authors and classic novels as well as films.~Valerie
Ridley Scott pays tribute to "Prophets of Science Fiction"
http://io9.com/5727097/ridley-scott-pays-tribute-to-prophets-of-science-fiction
io9.com
For a guy who felt that science fiction was dead a few years ago, Ridley Scott seems to have renewed his interest in the genre of late. He's producing a show for the Science channel paying tribute to scifi's creators.
[1/11/11]

Reading For the Future I offer this because the SFBC made this announcement with the posting:
"Congratulations to Paolo Bacigalupi, whose YA novel, SHIP BREAKER, has won the American Library Association's Michael L Printz award for literary excellence in Young Adult literature- a well deserved achievement! -Rome" `Valerie
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, Science Fiction Book Club® - sfbc.com
http://www.sfbc.com/pages/nm/product/productDetail.jsp?skuId=1065626490
www.sfbc.com
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi, Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA, Price: $11.99 with Science Fiction Book Club® Membership, Length: 336 pages - sfbc.com
[1/11/11]

Reading For the Future This came to my wall via Lynda Williams. ~Valerie
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150119235341667&id=576430978&ref=mf
BBC Book Nerd Challenge
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt....By:Lynda Williams
[1/11/11]

Donna Barr Speaks Out on Self-Publishing

Donna Barr, author of The Grandmother's Hive, is self-published. She has these words to say about her experience in the industry. With permission, I quote her comments on Facebook in response to a posting on the Wall of author Steven Barnes.

"...Self-publishing is more and more an option out there. Lulu.com, Createspace.com, and those are just two of the major ones I use. It's NICE to dip into Paypal or my checking account and ask, ..."Where the $$!#! did this money come from?" (I feel like my Multiple Associative Syndrome friend whose alters keep opening new bank accounts). After awhile you have to cruise around and harvest the money from the sites, because it keeps dribbling in all over the place. Start posting your stuff at AssociatedContent.com; the teeny payments don't get hit with fees at Paypal (bwa ha ha)."

And continued in another 2 comments: First, "Once it's up, you just steer people there. By yacking on facebook, putting up links -- people want to go see what you've got up. What? You can't type out an OpenOffice document, simply format it, slap up a photo you want to use for the cover (or hire me to PAINT it, hint hint), upload that puppy and get out of the way? Then tweak the format for the next site (these are PRINTERS, not publishers, so you get to put it up anyplace you want). Then again, I've been in drawn books and we LED the charge into being able to make our own money and not fool with distributors or publishers (the technical term is 'Going to the dark side'...)"

Second, "While I'm at it, it's Schiller time: http://www.lulu.com/desertpeach Sonia, Haven't tried Smashwords -- but it's another option! They've all got advantages and drawbacks, so you find the one you like. Small recommendation: Lulu for customers & retailers to buy wholesale. Createspace for not fooling with distributors and buying a few copies at wholesale when you need 'em. I'm waiting for the day a big online distributor to say "screw this" about charging paper prices for ebooks, slapping up an open format, and thumbing their noses at the rest of the sinking market. Barnes and Noble, by the way, is beginning to gurgle and splash the way distributors do when they're in trouble: they owe me money and WILL NOT PAY THEIR BILL. I'm not saying stop swimming with them but you might want to get a boat or two."

Finally,in response to how writing what a publisher wants, she replied, "AND.... that's why I've been in self-publishing so long. Because otherwise it's ALL pimping."

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=193927350621620&id=604520909

Visit the website of Donna Barr: http://donnabarr.blogspot.com

To learn more about Donna Barr, visit her Wiki bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Barr

At lulu.com the description of The Grandmother's Hive (©2008) is, "An old house is the source of fear and suspicion for the neighborhood children; one small boy discovers his fears were standing between him and the funnest family he's ever met. Beautiful illustrations and ornate poetry will delight both children and adults."

FB Report: Lots of Links on Speculative Fiction -- 1/11/11

From the Wall of Reading For the Future page on Facebook

Reading For the Future This came to my wall via Lynda Williams. ~Valerie
BBC Book Nerd Challenge
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150119235341667&id=576430978&ref=mf

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt....
By:Lynda Williams
[1/11/11]

Reading For the Future Just in case you want to read some classic SF in German, here are some German Vintage Science Fiction Posters.
kino-50er.de
http://www.kino-50er.de/filmplakatescifi.htm
www.kino-50er.de
[1/10/11]

Reading For the Future Apparently, today is 'National Science Fiction Day'. I was told this by an educational newsletter I subscribe too. Here is a sampling of some of their offerings.
CurrClick - Advanced Search
http://www.currclick.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=science+fiction&x=0&y=0&quicksearch=1&search_filter&filters&search_free&search_in_description=1&search_in_author=1&search_in_artist=1
www.currclick.com
The purpose of this Enrichment4You e-guide is to provide a brief overview of mutations in science fiction and real life. A special focus on 1950’s style science fiction featuring “The Creature From the Black Lagoon” and the real science of amphibians with massive mutations will be discussed. You wil
[1/2/11]

Reading For the Future I have been reminded that the Hugo Nomination Period has begun.
Locus Online News » Hugo Nomination Period Open
http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/01/hugo-nomination-period-open/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
www.locusmag.com
Nomination ballots will be accepted from January 1, 2011, to Saturday, March 26, 2011, 23:59 PDT for the Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Members of Renovation who join by January 31, 2011, and all members of Aussiecon 4, the prior year’s Worldcon, are invited to submi...
[1/2/11]

Reading For the Future Just wanted to tell everyone - we have reached 300 'likes' on this page :) Quite appropriately, it is Isaac Asimov's birthday today.
If you would like to become more involved with Reading For the Future, please check out our website www.readingforfuture.com or think about joining our Yahoo group - Talking RFF (lurkers welcome).
Reading for the Future
http://www.readingforfuture.com
www.readingforfuture.com
Reading for the Future is a grass roots group of parents, teachers and librarians that have banded together to help excite children, to inspire them to read, to study, and to learn by useing Science Fiction (SF, Sci Fi) in the classroom.
[1/2/11]

Reading For the Future Finalists for the 2010 Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards have been named. Here is the link for the Fantasy & Science Fiction nominees in the Young Adult category:
Cybils: 2010 Finalists Fantasy & Science Fiction (Young Adult)
http://www.cybils.com/2010-finalists-fantasy-science-fiction-young-adult.html
www.cybils.com
The Children's and YA Bloggers' Literary Awards
[1/1/11]

Reading For the Future Finalists for the 2010 Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards have been named. Here is the link for the Fantasy & Science Fiction nominees in the Middle Grades:
Cybils: 2010 Finalists Fantasy & Science Fiction (Middle Grade)
http://www.cybils.com/2010-finalists-fantasy-science-fiction-middle-grade.html#tp
www.cybils.com
The Children's and YA Bloggers' Literary Awards
[1/1/11]

Reading For the Future About 6 or 7 are SF.
11 YA Novels We Can’t Wait To Read In 2011
http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2010/12/30/2011-ya-novels/?xrs=share_fb
hollywoodcrush.mtv.com
Now that we've decided which 2010 YA novel was tops, it's time to turn our attention to the plethora of books that will fill our shelves, nightstands, desks, coffee tables in 2011. Happily, many of our favorite authors will be back with sequels and spin-offs, meaning a year of guaranteed great reads...
12/30/10]

Reading For the Future Introducing young people to SF does not mean we have to limit ourselves to prose.
Science Fiction Poetry Association
http://www.sfpoetry.com
www.sfpoetry.com
Science Fiction Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
[12/28/10]

Reading For the Future Great video of this morning's eclipse.
Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMw7yamP4Rw
www.youtube.com
Time Lapse Video of Lunar Eclipse on December 21, 2010 from Gainesville Florida. 1:10 AM EST (6:10 GMT) to 5:03 AM EST (10:03 GMT). Music is Claude Debussy Noctures: Sirènes
[12/21/10]

From Other Walls

David Brin Lovely! A video of Richard Feynman and the difference between knowing the name of something & knowing something. Great perspective on how to talk to kids about science. By the way, I met Feynman when I was a student at Caltech. I’ll tell that story another time…
R. P. Feynman and the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05WS0WN7zMQ
www.youtube.com
[1/11/11]

David BrinInstitute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies IEET Fellow David Brin muses about the challenge of governing a galactic civilization.
Isaac Asimov and Human Destiny
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brin20110107
ieet.org
Ever notice how many futuristic authors toy, now and then, with the concept of a global overmind?
[1/7/11]

Science Fiction Book Club Congratulations to Paolo Bacigalupi, whose YA novel, SHIP BREAKER, has won the American Library Association's Michael L Printz award for literary excellence in Young Adult literature- a well deserved achievement! -Rome
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, Science Fiction Book Club® - sfbc.com
http://www.sfbc.com/pages/nm/product/productDetail.jsp?skuId=1065626490
www.sfbc.com
Author: Paolo Bacigalupi, Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA, Price: $11.99 with Science Fiction Book Club® Membership, Length: 336 pages - sfbc.com
[1/11/11]

Science Fiction Book Club Get the tivo ready - Ridley Scott's on-again-off-again relationship with science fiction seems to be on again. We can now look forward to him profiling some of sf's brightest lights, including Isaac Asimov, Gene Roddenberry and others. No, it's not on Syfy (they really should have thought of it first), but on the Science channel. -Rome
Ridley Scott pays tribute to "Prophets of Science Fiction"
http://io9.com/5727097/ridley-scott-pays-tribute-to-prophets-of-science-fiction
io9.com
For a guy who felt that science fiction was dead a few years ago, Ridley Scott seems to have renewed his interest in the genre of late. He's producing a show for the Science channel paying tribute to scifi's creators.
[1/7/11]