Got some interesting links this time around, chief amongst them the one entitled The World's Best Paid Authors. It shouldn't be too difficult to figure out who #1 is.

Have a good weekend.

The World's Best Paid Authors
While the publishing industry has struggled to come up with a "Happily Ever After" storyline in recent years, there's still plenty of money to be made in the business of books.

Robot Repair Team Keeps Satellites Spinning
A lot of the satellites we depend on for modern life are in high orbits, beyond the reach of Earth-based repair missions. It would be prohibitively expensive, if not impossible, to send a team of astronauts up there. As a result, when those satellites fail or run out of fuel, they become space junk, and billions of dollars must be spent to replace them — until now.

One Way Up: U.S. Space Plan Relies on Russia
STAR CITY, Russia — This place was once no place, a secret military base northeast of Moscow that did not show up on maps. The Soviet Union trained its astronauts here to fight on the highest battlefield of the cold war: space.

A Conspiracy of Badness in Novel Writing
Every year, the Bulwer-Lytton Awards honor people who strive to write the worst first sentences for a novel that they can possibly imagine. But the winning science fiction entry this year is so weirdly similar to the first sentence of a forthcoming novel from Del Rey that we have to wonder if there isn't some kind of conspiracy of badness in the world of military SF.

How Writers Can Stay on Top of Their Game
There’s something that we writers can learn from athletes, and that’s how to stay on top of our game.

Should SF Writers Boycott Borders?
For any author, getting a book sold at a major chain is an important way to attract new readers and move copies. But it's especially important to scifi writers, who often get little exposure in book review sections.