• Ridley Scott says that his upcoming Alien prequel will take place about thirty years before the first movie, and not be about the elephantine aliens after all. That's a shame: I really want to know The Pilot's story.

• James Cameron's Avatar gets a second trailer, though you've probably seen most of this footage before.

• ABC was intending on doing a publicity campaign for V by writing the eponymous letter in blood red smoke across the sky, but they ditched their plans, remembering that sort of thing doesn't go over too well since September 11th.

• Lost's Damon Lindelof says that Season 6 won't wait until the last episode to answer big questions. Plus, Libby Bulloff might be back, and we'll finally find out what was so special about Walt.

• A deleted scene from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek brings the Klingons to the villain's table where they belong.

• To celebrate The Twilight Zone's fiftieth anniversary, SciFi Wire lists the 14 most twisted Serling endings.

• There's no better time of year to read H.P. Lovecraft than Halloween. io9 has a good primer of his particular brand of gothic space scifi-horror fiction.