• Irrational Games features a gallery of the monsters from BioShock that might have been.
• National Post has an inexplicable gallery of Babies dressed as Evil Historical Figures.
• Threadless is selling these Tron Police t-shirts for just a few more days.
• Tor has just released the cover art for the re-release of Robert Jordan’s Lord of Chaos.

Comics

• News: Judd Winick Taking Over ‘Power Girl’

Film

• News: Tim Burton to work on Addams Family 3-D animated movie (Finally!)

Internet

• Open Library has a new collaborative open source website that aims to catalog every book ever published. Read more about the project. The goal is to create one Wiki page for every edition of every work, with a complete description.
• Say it isn’t so! Topless Robot has attempted to explain How Nerds and Sports Fans are Alike, but I will have none of it.
• To promote mission awareness, NASA has authorized the creation of promotional posters. Some may look familiar. [PDF]

Literature

• Interview: Futurismic’s Fiction Editor, Chris East, speaks to ScienceOfFiction.
• Interview: Fantasy Literature interviews Marjorie Liu, author of the excellent Hunter Kiss urban fantasy series.
• News: Book returned to South Yorkshire library 45 years on
• Night Shade Books complains that Genre Fiction is Going to the Dogs.

Science

• Buzz Feed shares 10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Impending Apocalypse.
• Japanese researchers are developing a super-fast book scanner that will be able to scan a book of about 200 pages in a minute without any need to break up or flatten the book. [Video]

Television

• News: Big cable pushes 7 “consumer principles” for cable, IP video

Video Games

• News: In virtual world, China consumers best the U.S.
• Futurismic has an awesome post explaining how we may be on the verge of an epic win and how gaming can make the world a better place.

Writing

• Charles Stross answers that timeless fan question, Why did you pick such an awful cover for your new book?

• Books on Mars has a gallery of Pulp Magazine covers from Amazing Stories.

Film

• Interview: SciFi Wire interviews Jeff Bridges about Tron Legacy.
• John Scalzi explains Why Hollywood Always, Always Gets the Future Wrong.
• Missions Unknown! offers alternatives to film remakes in Scrap the Remakes and Film These Books Instead.

Internet

• GeekDad offers these Top 10 Geeky Excuses For Missing MegaCon.
• James Bowen is offering a free, downloadable tabletop wargame called Flipit. You can download the rules, fold up the 3D paper models, and play a game for next to nothing next time you’ve got a day to kill.
• Strippers and pr0n stars play D&D in the mildly humorous web series I Hit It With My Axe at The Escapist. So far, it’s been mostly SFW, but no guarantees of where this is leading.

Literature

• Interview: GeekDad interviews Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice with Zombies.
• News: Amazon Threatens Publishers as Apple Looms
• Jo Walton explains Why Fantasy and SF might be disguised as each other.
• Locus Magazine talks about Sequels in the Genre aisle.
• Over at the Huffington Post, Michael A. Stackpole weighs in on the question Will Ebooks Kill The Joy of Reading? Of course, if you’ve been listening to The Dragon Page, you’ll already know his opinion on the issue.
• Short is sweet when it comes to fiction, argues the Guardian.

Television

• News: Tom Baker Returns to Doctor Who

• Joe Corroney is selling an array of Star Wars Propaganda posters and offering the art for free as wallpapers.
• Naldz Graphics has rounded up a gallery of Fantastic Cosplay Photos.
• Singularity has posted a gallery of Photoshopped Cyborg Animals from Worth1000.com .

Comics

• GeekDad asks Should Superhero Stories Kill Off Kids? The short answer is no.
• Stephen King is slated to release a comic entitled American Vampire.
• Strange Horizons considers Superman as Science Fiction.

Film

• Interview: Director George A. Romero on why he loves zombies.
• AskMen counts down the Top Ten Movie Heists.
• The Alien Next Door explains Why District 9 Should Have Been the Most Important Movie of 2009… you know, other than that it was probably the most entertaining.
• MadAtoms offers this disturbing Breakdown of Jim Hensen Characters.
• Tor.com compares Repo! The Genetic Opera with RepoMen.

Internet

• News: Filesharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain
• GeekDad reflects on 10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse.
• These Chatroulette piano improvisations may some of the first redeeming results of the site, that I’ve seen.

Literature

• Interview: Blood and Stardust interviews Nicholas Kaufmann, author of the soon-to-be-released Chasing the Dragon.
• Interview: BookBanter interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
• Interview: New Zealand Radio has brief interview with Neil Gaiman. [MP3]
• News: B&N eReader for iPad Coming Soon
• Gizmodo offers this Demonstration of the Newstand of the Future.

Science

• Brian Switek, David Williams, and Michael Welland have started a series of blog posts about writing popular science books.

Television

• News: Battlestar’s Gaius Baltar moves to Syfy’s Eureka
• Fantasy&SciFi Lovin’ complains Hey! Your Politics Got Into My Science Fiction!
• io9 lauds the many virtues of Lost.

Writing

• 750words.com is a simple, free site which challenges users to write 750 words (3 pages) every day and tracks the results.

• Listen to “Bridesicle” by Will McIntosh at Starship Sofa.
• Listen to “Charlie Harmer Looks Back” by Brendan Detzner at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky at Tor.com.
• Listen to “A Light in Troy” by Sarah Monette at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Remote Control” by R.R. Angell at Transmissions From Beyond.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Get a sneak peek of the graphic novel version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Catch up on The Hollows before you read the latest in the series, Black Magic Sanction, by downloading Dead Witch Walking Free with Bonus Material.
• Chapter 8 of the Creative Commons licensed science fiction novel The Cardinal and The Thief is now available online.
• Download Black Crusade by Ari Marmell as a free download.

Short Stories

• Read “The Final Now” by Gregory Benford at Tor.com.
• Read “Who in Mortal Chains” by Claire Humphrey at Strange Horizons.

Zines and Periodicals

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies has released its latest, Issue 38.
• Flurb number nine is out!

• Check out this Bioshock parody by Zander and Kevin Cannon for the April Fool’s edition of Game Informer.
• Finally! A graphic portraying the power of the Death Star vs. the power of the Force.
• Michael Kutsche has a gallery of Alice in Wonderland artwork.

Comics

• AV Club does a decent job profiling the work of Alan Moore.

Film

• Interview: Mark Millar Explains How Stan Lee Inspired Kick-Ass.
• News: Foreign Audiences are Speeding Up the 3D Cinema Conversion By Paying Double For Avatar
• News: Planet of the Apes prequel confirmed: the apes will rise again
• “George Lucas made ‘Star Wars’; but it was the fans who turned it into a seemingly undying worldwide phenomenon. So I thought it appropriate to give them a prominent voice in the documentary.” The People vs. George Lucas premiered at this year’s SXSW. Official Site and More.
• io9 looks back at Comic-Book Costumes That Actually Look Good In Movies.

Internet

• The DIY Network offers 10 Tips to Designing and Building the Ultimate Man Cave.
• There are two Tron 2 viral sites here and here, as described by SlashFilm.

Literature

• Interview: The Author Hour interviews R.A. Salvatore.
• Interview: Hub Fiction interviews Joe R. Lansdale.
• Interview: Michael Moorcock shares the music he listens to while writing.
• Futurismic contemplates New business models in transmedia storytelling.
• Stitching Words names its Top Ten Standalone Fantasy Novels.

Television

• The ADD Blog does a good job picking The 25 Best Original Star Trek Episodes.
• ComicBookGallaxy has posted Gene Roddenberry’s original pitchfor Star Trek, featuring Robert M. April, captain of the S.S. Yorktown. [PDF]

Video Games

• Over at VentureBeat, Game guru Sid Meier explains gamer psychology.
• Play by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman examines society’s obsession with video and online gaming. [Video]
• VGChartz counts down Game Titles That Sound Like a Bunch of Random Words.

Writing

• The Intern explains The Ten Best Things You Can Do For Your Manuscript, none of which, surprisingly, involves the anatomical instructions I usually hear regaurding my manuscripts.

• Liven up any room in your house with one of these Mario Bros. Floating Blocks.
• Tron Legacy concept artist Daniel Simon is choked full of eye candy, including sci-fi race cars and spaceships.

Film

• The Atlantic Wire tries to nail down Why Alice in Wonderland Disappoints.
• BriTANicK has crafted this stereotypical Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer.
• SlashFilm reports on the latest film gimmick, Movies that call you on your cellphone during the film.

Internet

• News: Piracy Rises In France Despite Three Strikes Law

Literature

• News: “E-book ISBN Mess Needs Sorting Out,” Say UK Publishers
• News: Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text [The Onion]
• The Guardian examines The ecological case for ebooks.

Television

• News: Richard Belzer stirs up publicity by choking an Apple employee. I’m pretty sure that if I did this, I’d be in jail right now.
• Andy Richter Rips on Jay Leno and NBC on Live! With Regis and Kelly. [Video]
• The Atlantic Wire asks, Is Google TV the Wave of the Future?
• Behold the many moral alignments of Dr. Who.

Video Games

• Only in Korea is StarCraft so funny is gets its own stand-up routine.

• Travis Pitts is selling Sci-Fi Jesus Fish stickers on Etsy.
• Unreality has posted A Wicked Gallery of Little Red Riding Hood Re-Imagined.
• Virtual Fun Zone has a gallery of Japanese Trains Decorated with Anime. I think that some of these would really spruce up New York subways.

Comics

• News: Patton Oswalt to write ‘Firefly’ comic book

Film

• Interview: Christopher Nolan teases a “fantastic story” for a Superman reboot.
• The Innsmouth Free Press picks 10 Best Epidemic Horror Flicks.
• Premiere remembers 10 Movies That Were Better Than The Books.
• Wired warns of The Top 10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3-D.

Internet

• According to NG Online, Blogging younger demographics aren’t blogging. Does this mean I’m not “hip” anymore?
• FlavorWire is claiming that Conan O’Brien is Secretly Tweeting From 8 Different Accounts. I guess the guy has a lot of free time on his hands.

Literature

• Interview: Starship Sofa interviews Gene Wolfe. [Podcast]
• In the article “Aliens have taken the place of angels” at the Guardian, Margaret Atwood explains why we need science fiction.
• Engadget has an exclusive look Microsoft’s Courier digital journal. Apple seriously needs to strap two iPhones together to make one of these.
• io9 wonders Is “Science Fiction Humanism” A Contradiction In Terms?
• Jo Walton discusses Fantasy and the need to remake our origin stories.
• A new book claims that Robin Hood stole from the rich and lent to the poor as a secret Templar.

Television

• News: Sony 3D TVs to arrive in June

Video Games

• Cracked explains Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted.

Writing

• Charlie Stross explains Why books are the length they are.

Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson
Hiveborn (The Earthborn Wars) by Paul Collins
The Midnight Mayor: Or, the Inauguration of Matthew Swift by Kate Griffin
The River Kings’ Road: A Novel of Ithelas by Liane Merciel
The Universal Essence by Dean Lincoln Minton

Paperback Book Releases

Caliphate by Tom Kratman
How to Make Friends with Demons by Graham Joyce

Anime Releases

Evangelion: 1.11 You Are Not Alone [Blu-ray]
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple – Season Two, Part One
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Vol. 1 [Blu-ray]
Naruto: Shippuden, Vol. 7

DVD Releases

Planet 51 [Blu-ray]

Theatrical Releases

Green Zone (R) starring Matt Damon opens this Friday, leaving men with a viable option for an action fix. Sadly, however, any guy with a girlfriend or wife is more likely to get dragged along to see Robert Pattinson’s latest travesty, Remember Me. My sympathies.

More interestingly, the animated feature film The Secret of Kells is finally opens in the U.S., and it looks like the first decent non-Pixar animation to open in a long, long, looong time.

Video Games

Blazblue: Calamity Trigger Portable (Sony PSP)
Calling (Nintendo Wii)
Final Fantasy XIII (PS3/X360)
Spectral Force Genesis (Nintendo DS)
Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising (Windows)