The newest Final Fantasy game launched outside of Japan this week, and gamers everywhere now are tearing their way through Final Fantasy XIII. This week we’re looking at works that spotlight the game’s heroine and cover girl, Lightning!

If you’re at MegaCon in Orlando this weekend, keep an eye out for us. We’ll be making the rounds, sitting in on panels, interviewing guests, and generally being all-out geeks. And if you’re in the Orlando area and not already at the convention, come on over!

Three science fiction novels, an American tragedy, and a Spanish classic make up the five books revealed today in our list of the 100 Greatest Books of All Time.

Bear McCreary’s music is back up for grabs this week, as we’re giving away three copies of the Battlestar Galactica: The Plan / Razor Soundtrack. La-La Land Records has provided the prizing for this one, and there are two ways to enter and win.

Better than a plain, boring hoodie is one that allows you to (literally) wear your fandom on your sleeve, and even better than that is something unique and different from the usual Hot Topic fare. That’s why these ten fans made their own hoodies, either from scratch or reconstructed from other clothes.

Even without Renee or President Taylor this hour, there was plenty of suspense. What made this ep interesting was, of course, Jack Bauer.

Boston-area rock ensemble The Hands Off Love Affair came together as a form of music therapy in the wake of a painful personal loss. Guitarist Ross Charpentier was nice enough to discuss with me the band’s unusual beginnings, recent successes, and future plans.

The first book in what is arguably the most influential fantasy series in the English language opens today’s set of five books in our list of the 100 Greatest Books of All Time.

Don’t forget to enter this week’s contest to win yourself a DVD of Syfy’s Alice miniseries, as well as a DVD of the BBC’s 1966 Alice in Wonderland TV movie. We’re giving away three prize packs, and you have until tomorrow night at midnight to enter.

If there’s one thing this soundtrack doesn’t lack, it’s intensity. I popped the album in my car, and as I was listening to it, I felt like I was traveling to a haunted town full of mystery and suspense, which sets the perfect tone for a film that has been pegged as a “sexually charged melodrama.”