The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Sci Fi Wire offers a gallery of 10 Great Sci-Fi Obama Poster Mash-Ups, starting with Optimus Prime.

Film

• DailyFill names 10 Unintentionally Creepy Animated Films, starting with Watership Down.
• John Scalzi picks Ten Directors Who Really Need to Make a SciFi Movie.
• Pop Eater looks back at the Best Alien Movie and Television Invasions.
• PopMatters rants that The Fourth Kind is NOT the truth. It is a piece of fiction using other pieces of fiction to verify its already fake plotline. io9 also warns that The Fourth Kind Is A Hoax.
• Sci Fi Wire explains Why the Stargate movie still holds up 15 years later.
• The Terminator franchise is doomed. Den of Geek explains why.

Internet

• CHICK is a new webseries that follows a woman who trains to become a superhero at a Los Angeles academy. When she catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she goes over the edge.
• The Internet continues to buzz about the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that would put every ISP on a three-strike system.

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Art

• LIFE Magazine has posted a gallery of the 21 Greatest Space Photos.
• Sappymoosetree shares his Lego Max.

Comics

• AbeBooks shares 10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Marvel Comics like that Marvel was the first comic company to give a black superhero his own comic book.

Film

• News: “Ghost Rider 2″ Won’t be a Reboot.
• MovieLine remembers 10 Disaster Films Even More Crapocalyptic Than 2012, remember to include the questionable Knowing.

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Hardcover Book Releases

Blood Pact (Gaunt’s Ghosts) by Dan Abnett
Death Masks: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner
The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy
Elegy Beach by Steven R. Boyett
Eyes like Leaves by Charles de Lint
Heart’s Blood by Julliet Marillier
The Silver Mage: Book Four of the Silver Wyrm by Katherine Kerr
The Sisterhood of the Rose by Jim Marrs
Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt

Paperback Book Releases

Agents of Artifice: A Planeswalker Novel (Planeswalkers) by Ari Marmell
Asmodeus by Dawn McClure
Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Captain’s Witch by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Chasing Midnight by Susan Krinard
Code Geass Novel Stage 3 by Goro Taniguichi and Ichiro Okouchi
Corsair: Blades of the Moonsea, Book II by Richard Baker
The Fall of Highwatch: Chosen of Nendawen by Mark Sehestedt
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
The Golden Tower: Book Two of The Warriors of Estavia by Fiona Patton
Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier
The Lord-Protector’s Daughter by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Magic in the Shadows by Devon Monk
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Art

• Here’s a chart of Common Methodologies of Monster Vanquishing.
• The Urban Collector is now selling Night Of The Living Kev Inaction Figures.
• WonderMark has a poster with an extensive list of Supernatural Collective Nouns.

Film

• Interview: George A. Romero appeared on Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me to talk about zombies.
• News: John Rhys-Davies Not Interested in Dwarfing Up for The Hobbit
• News: Joss Whedon has written An Open Letter to the Terminator Owners.
• News: Original Directors Want To Make Their Own Blair Witch 2.
• Empire wonders How Scary Should Kids Movies Be? “Because both Coraline and Where The Wild Things Are (on its US release) drew semi-hysterical reactions from adults worried that children would be traumatised by the more intense and darker scenes in the films.”
• EW.com offers up a list of 16 Little-Known Horror Gems.
• Giant Freaking Robot explains Why The World Needs Ghostbusters 3.
• It may be a bit late, but for me, Halloween tends to linger. Here’s 10 Horror Films You Can Watch For Free Online.
• The LA Times has a dreamy gallery of Behind the scenes photos of New Moon.
• Martin Scorsese names his choice for the 11 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time.
• Metromix names the Worst. TV shows turned movies. Ever.
• The Times online charts out Films by Genre over the Past 100 Years.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Child Of An Ancient City” by Tad Williams at StarShip Sofa.
• Listen to “The Death of Blessed Terence Albert O’Brien” by C.P. Meehan.
• Listen to “Incubus” by Tim Pratt at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Infestation” by Garth Nix at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “The Man who Carved Skulls” by Richard Parks at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Something There Is” by Joe Nazare at Pseudopod.

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Read the flash fiction “Seven-Year Itch” by Joshua M. Reynolds at 52 Stitches.
• Six-Word Tales is an awesome blog featuring Illustrated Six Word Stories.

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Art

• Jay Stephens shares his take on Linus and the Great Pumpkin.
• Unreality Magazine has posted a gallery of Kids in Sci-Fi Costumes so cute, your nose may bleed.

Film

• Ha! Twilight doesn’t top of the list of The Best Reviewed Vampire Movies.
• Mary Robinette Kowal contemplates the fine line between Horror and Dark Fantasy.

Internet

• A company at a German trade show has attached tiny banner advertisements to flies and set them loose on unsuspecting visitors, in a bizarre yet effective marketing stunt. [Video]
• Charlie’s Diary asks a startling question: How habitable is the Earth?
• FYI: 10 Reasons Not to Bring Someone Back from the Dead this Halloween.
• The Los Angeles Times suggests TV Costumes for Halloween, beginning with Chuck’s Nerd Herd uniform.
• World Affairs contemplates the dangers on allowing English to become primus inter pares as the world dwindles down to just 600 languages.

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The full theatrical trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar was finally released yesterday. I’m still not sure whether I’m stoked or disappointed. The whole thing looks something like Last of the Mohicans meets Starship Troopers, with a pinch of the Battle of Endor. (Seriously, tell me you’re not getting some Ewok vibes.)

Sci-fi in 3D is rare enough that I would probably go see it no matter what, but the way these trailers are unfolding, my review is likely going to look like a Mad Lib.

Film

• News: Just when you thought every actor who could sell out had, news hits the web that Sir Anthony Hopkins has joined the cast of Thor.
• Den of Geek has posted a great list of 18 Movies that Genuinely Scared Us.
• i09 offers up a perspective on The Scary/Funny History of Horror Comedy.

Internet

• Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google talks about what the web will look like in five years. “The internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content… content will move towards more video… today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years.”
• Facebook has announced that they now allow the profiles of user who’ve died a real death to be memorialized.

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