m. c. de marco

Purple Pawn has a list of Star Trek-inspired games, just in time for the movie. Unfortunately they’re mostly wargames, but a few RPGs came up in the comments.

Via Daring Fireball: the Iconfactory has some free Star Trek icons up in honor of the forthcoming movie. Get your phasers while they last…

Via del.icio.us sf: an old essay by Michael Wong surveys Brain Bugs, the bum memes of Star Trek and science fiction in general.

Surely no one would be stupid enough to watch the Kobayashi Maru combat simulation in ST2 and conclude that exploding consoles are the principal cause of death for bridge personnel, would they?

Via FireflyFans.net: Steven Brust has braved the lawyers to post his free Firefly novel, My Own Kind of Freedom, online. You can find some details in his livejournal or group blog, and a positive review at io9.

I got my contributor's copies of Strange New Worlds 10 this week, and Amazon claims it was published, appropriately enough, on July 10th. So shop early, shop often!

Simon & Schuster has posted the table of contents for Strange New Worlds 10. Congratulations to all the winners! I snuck into the Voyager section again with “The Day the Borg Came.”

The alternates list is up in Dean Wesley Smith’s forum and he has a picture of the cover in his blog. This will be the last edition of the anthology.

Via GeekPress: a map of the United Federation of Planets.