Joss Whedon, writer and creator of awesomeness such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and most recently Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has a new show in the pipeline, Dollhouse. The bad news? It doesn't start until February, and many are already predicting Dollhouse's demise. The good news, though, is that it is filming now, and people are already writing about it on the internet!

Like many of my fellow sci fi fans, I looked forward to the premiere of Sanctuary Friday night (10/3) because it is one of the few new science fiction shows we are getting this year. The other is Fringe, upon which I've already commented over at Snapshot Chronicles. But Sanctuary isn't interesting simply because there isn't much else to divert our attention. Some of the other reasons the show appeals to me:

About a year ago, I wrote a case study on my marketing blog about the Sci Fi Channel's  first digital press tour. After my interview with the pr rep, I half jokingly said she should be sure to invite me to the next one. So she did.

Maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a surge in popularity of young adult post-apocalyptic fiction. I've read no less than three young adult novels that focus on such life changing events this year and have yet another on my library request list. I'll confess, ever since junior high when I read Gloria Milkowitz's After the Bomb: Week One (I never did track down the first book in the series) I've had a secret addiction to catastrophe-themed novels. The "what if's" both thrill and terrify me. They keep me awake at night. They haunt my nightmares. I love them.

Science fiction author Madeleine L’Engle died last Thursday at the age of 88. L’Engle broke down barriers when A Wrinkle in Time was published in the early 1960s, after being rejected by 26 publishers before Farrar, Straus & Giroux took a chance, according her obituary in The New York Times. Decades before JK Rowling raised the bar for positive female and feminist role models in “children’s" literature, L’Engle’s strong, realistic heroines gave girls and young women characters to admire and inspire, and introduced many to a lifelong love of science fiction. Feminist bloggers are noting how important L’Engle’s work was to them, grieving, and celebrating her contributions to science fiction, feminism, and faith. Flyswallowfly wrote at Swallow. (“named after the great scientist Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”):