Some reading to keep you busy this weekend:
Crazy Friend by Jonathan Lethem — Lethem's essay about Philip K. Dick and the writer's effect on his life.
Starship Stormtroopers by Michael Moorcock — an essay from the 70's in which Moorcock picks apart the political subtext of science fiction up to that point, analyzing both rightest, imperialist themes of writers like Robert Heinlein and Rudyard Kipling and the leftest themes of writers of his generation.
Queen of the Iron Sands by Scott Lynch rather surprised by how much I'm enjoying SF novelist Scott Lynch's serialized tribute to the pulp Mars stories of the 30s, like those of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I know in the past I've complained about SF writers rehashing the old rather than doing anything new, and nothing here is particularly new, but it is fun.