• Star Wars.com celebrates the women of Star Wars. As well they should, and the more tentacles the better.

• When I was a child, robots transformed into cassette tapes. Now, Transformers come in USB stick form.

• A new trailer for The Rock's CGI scifi comedy Planet 51 has landed. Apparently on his planet aliens barbeque all day long.

• Eerie Books lists 42 Frankenstein films to see before you die. Who knew there were 42?

• The patron saint of scifi novelizations, Alan Dean Foster, is writing a sequel to J.J. Abrams's Star Trek independent of the movie franchise. I guess that means Trekkies have something to hope for before 2011.

• Alien squids fend off against giant robots in these tourism videos.

• A little belatedly for the holidays, SciFi Wire lists the 11 most patriotic scifi movies.

• Gorilla Artfare hosts some of the best steampunk Star Wars designs. These are some lovely illustrations worthy of print, right here.