• 13 video featurettes exhaustively cover the design of James Cameron's Avatar.

• SF Signal hosts yet another Mind Meld, this time about the future of science fiction in e-book form.

• Details Magazine profiles Zoe Saldana, who was first Uhura and next will be a blue-skinned space babe in Avatar.

• The original Dune art of John Shoenherr for Analog Science Fact / Science Fiction tends to be forgotten, but it is certainly gorgeous.

• Joss Whedon's brother Zack is doing a Terminator comic series for Dark Horse that follows Kyle Reese as he rises in the post-apocalyptic Resistance.

• Topless Robot lists the ten most cliched character types in science fiction.