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AND ANOTHER THING

Here's a bloody damned brilliant short story from SF writer Peter Watts. It's John Carpenter's 1982 classic horror movie The Thing told from the point-of-view of the shapeshifting alien:

"I was so much more, before the crash. I was an explorer, an ambassador, a missionary. I spread across the cosmos, met countless worlds, took communion: the fit reshaped the unfit and the whole universe bootstrapped upwards in joyful, infinitesimal increments. I was a soldier, at war with entropy itself. I was the very hand by which Creation perfects itself.

So much wisdom I had. So much experience. Now I cannot remember all the things I knew. I can only remember that I once knew them.

I remember the crash, though."

The prequel to Carpenter's film starts shooting soon.

RAW EUREKA

If you want a great behind-the-scenes look at creating a TV show, click on over to Eureka Unscripted, where the writing staff is hammering out the fourth season of SyFy's hit show.

The new eps don't air until summer, but that's plenty of time for you to catch up on the first three seasons of a fun program best described as "Mayberry meets the X-Files."