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O’ the recursive wheels within wheels keep spinning…

Here are some tasty tidbits about much-anticipated upcoming SF TV fare from Gerry Canavan, who always seems to be 1/2 step ahead of me with this stuff.  I guess you can all just stop reading Candleblog and go straight to the source from now on…

Sci-Fi has a trailer up for the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, while Joss Whedon is frantically running around trying to reassure everyone that the shooting of a new Dollhouse pilot doesn’t mean that Dollhouse is the new Firefly.

Also in Joss Whedon News, there’s been some pushback on Dr. Horrible over the fact that he’s once again killed over a female love interest in order to provide character development for male characters. I guess not even the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer can escape the siren song of a woman in a refrigerator.

And he’s also got this post today…

Gwyneth Jones lists her top 10 science fiction stories by women writers in the Guardian. Via io9, where subtractions and omissions are quickly discussed, including the remarkable absence of anything by Octavia Butler.