• SF Signal's newest contributor, Jeff Patterson, rails against the dollification of scifi's most beloved icons.

• I, for one, welcome our new Dalek pumpkin overlords.

• io9 has a great dissection of what the look of Star Wars actually means.

• Ursula K. Le Guin says she'll never sell another book to Hollywood again.

• Neil Gaiman would really, really, really like to write Guillermo del Toro's Dr. Strange.

• The creator of Pushing Daisies would like to helm the next Star Trek series.