With Friends Like These...

...who needs to be clever?First of all my splendiferously talented and inhumanly prolific friend, Scott Westerfeld, just won the Victoria Premier's Award for his Young Adult novel, So Yesterday. Kudos, you big lug.Secondly, The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies by international ladies' man, John Scalzi, is finally available. Buy it then argue with your friends about Scalzi's sure-to-be-controversial List of Canonical Science Fiction Films.In:The Adventures of Buckaroo BanzaiBrother from Another PlanetThe MatrixOut:Being John MalkovichOutlandLiquid SkySadly, my two science fiction films Specimen, starring the epically talented Mark Paul Gosselaar of Saved by the Bell fame, and Hypercube, starring several extraordinarily competent but not quite household-name-status Canadian actors, were unintentionally omitted from The Canon. Perhaps Scalzi will correct this in the next edition.Also, stay tuned for news about a future podcast of one of my short stories.