some science fiction stuff (and some not)

Too hot to be outside?  Stay cool indoors and check out these SF- and reading-related items:

The Turkey City Lexicon - a Primer for SF Workshops.

"This lexicon is not a guide to scholarship. The Workshop Lexicon is a guide (of sorts) for down-and-dirty hairy-knuckled sci-fi writers, the kind of ambitious subliterate guttersnipes who actually write and sell professional genre material. It’s rough, rollicking, rule-of-thumb stuff suitable for shouting aloud while pounding the table."

 The io9 Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy for this month.

This month's issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.

From the Wall Street Journal: "Your E-Book Is Reading You."

Blade Runner animation.

And, for no particular reason, here's a small fountain in Washington, DC: