m. c. de marco

Via SFScope: Night Shade Books has published Walter Jon Williams’ Implied Spaces, with bonus downloads. Also new in their catalog is Greg Egan’s Incandescence.

Via GeekPress: LiveScience explains the bizarre properties of glass that make its traffic jam of atoms neither a liquid nor a solid.

In the 1950s, Sir Charles Frank in the Physics Department at Bristol suggested that the arrangement of the “jam” should form what is known as an icosahedron, but at the time he was unable to prove it.

I am not a food blogger; I just owe someone a recipe. I’m including a bonus recipe as well:

• Fig Anchoiade: You can’t go wrong with anchovies.
• Authentic biscotti: Who knew you could make cookies with olive oil?

Usually I prefer to use cookbooks, but I found both of these at RecipeZaar.

Via a mailing list: MagCloud is a new print-on-demand magazine publisher. You can browse magazines during the beta or beg for a publisher account.

MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we’ll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.

Via a mailing list: Victoria Strauss debunks a fake SFWA contest.

I can only imagine the number of hopeful writers who will be enticed by the SFWA name, not to mention the promise of enormous prizes plus a commercial publishing credit. Once again, however: this contest is a fake.

SciFi.com reports about the light and fluffy B-movie content of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening, which opens today:

“One of the things that I said to everybody—the cast and crew—I said, ‘This is a B movie,’” Shyamalan said in a press conference in New York on June 9. “Let’s get ourselves straight here. This is just a great B movie. We’re making the best B movie we can here. That’s our job. We’re making a B movie.

SFScope reports that Pyr Books is expanding its line to about 30 books a year.