• The Art of Dungeon Maps
• Dual Lightsaber Arm Tattoos
• Excellent Highschool of the Dead cosplay
• Some colorful Tyrande Whisperwind cosplay (from World of Warcraft)
• Walking Dead Valentines Cards
• Witness is an other-worldly art installation featuring hundreds of accounts of alien abductions being whispered in the dark.

Comics

• 10 Comics Villains We Love To Hate
• Graphic Novels For People Who Hate Superheroes

Cross-Media

• Interview: Doctor Who, The Adventures of Tintin and Sherlock mastermind Steven Moffat talks to Emer Sugrue about writing, jokes, and terrifying children.
• 10 Movies and TV Shows Where Everybody Probably Died 5 Minutes After the End

Film

• Interview: George Lucas is claiming that Han never shot first. He says: “The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down.”
• Interview: Marc Webb on ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ Trailer Reactions, The Lizard and How His Take Differs From Sam Raimi’s
• Interview: Jane Goldman & Susan Hill interview: The Woman In Black
• 10 Classic Haunted House Movies
• ‘Chronicle’: the movie that makes special effects special again
• John Scalzi on on Lessons from the Success of Chronicle.
• The top 50 foreign language films of the last decade
• Total Film attempts to pick out just 50 Great Lord Of The Rings Moments

Internet

• A Valentine’s Day gift buying guide from Hero Complex.

Literature

• Interview: Design in Nature author Adrian Bejan chats with Suvudu
• Interview: I Should Be Writing interviews Jeff VanderMeer
• Interview: Myke Cole on ‘Military Fantasy’
• Interview: SFSignal chats with author Jennifer Pelland of Unwelcome Bodies
• Interview: Suggest questions for Anne Rice, who is promoting her book, The Wolf Gift, at Google on February 24.
• Interview: Terrible Minds talks to Martha Wells about The Serpent Sea.
• News: 39% of U.S. Public Libraries without e-books
• David Brin lists The Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy Tales.

Science

• 10 Frightening Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Ants
• Bear McCreary reveals the physics behind your favorite science fiction theme tunes
• Cloning scientists create human brain cells
• The science fiction effect: Laura Kahn on how science fiction can help explain concepts that are otherwise difficult for many…or perhaps, don’t hold their interest. Interesting that Frankenstein is arguably the first time that science fiction appears. From Frankenstein to Jurassic Park, authors have been writing about ‘mad scientists’ messing around with life. Science fiction can be a powerful tool to influence society’s views — one scientists should embrace.”

Technology

• 10 Ways Big Data is Creating the Science Fiction Future
• Scientists invent robot that eats organic matter, then poops it out. Why worry about robots and zombies when you could be worried about robotic zombies?
• Will Artificial Intelligence be America’s Next Big Thing?

Television

• News: A revival is in the works for Space: 1999
• News: The Magicians did not get picked up by Fox.
• io9 names its picks for the 10 Sexiest Evil Twins of All Time.

Video Games

• Average Playtime Of Skyrim PC Players Is 75 Hours
• A new theme park in Ilsan, just outside Seoul, South Korea features interactive adventures using Kinect technology. That’s way cheaper than building rides, exhibits, and a fantasy world.

Writing

• Create Your Own Kindle EBook, Step by Step, With Pictures

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• Community / Batman Mash-Up
• DC Comics Valentines
• Love(craft) Valentines are maddeningly cute
• Posters that (almost) trick us into thinking Phantom Menace is good
• The Video Game Humans of the Future Should Look This Awesome
• The WALL-E Builders Club formed in October 2007 as an offshoot of the R2 (yes that one) builders club, to create their own WALL-E replica. This is their current progress on the project. [Via]

Comics

• Interview: Entertainment Weekly interviews Joss Whedon about Buffy season 9.
• Interview: Scott Allie on Making “Buffy” Bold.
• How Marvel Comics screwed Jack Kirby out of millions

Film

• Interview: Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter Oscars snub was “snobbery”
• 10 Truly Terrifying Horror Movie Jump Scares
• Boycott the Avengers? A Slate writer discusses why Marvel’s troubled history with artists has led him to boycott the upcoming project, despite his love for Joss
• Every now and then a trailer comes along that makes u remember why we love zombie movies. Osombie is a movie about the re-animated corpse of Osama Bin Laden and the mission wherein a group of military operatives go to kill him, again. Check it out after the break and get ready for what will be an amazing ride.
• If 2012′s Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth
• Is The Shining really about the gold standard? Using unpublished info from the Stanley Kubrick Archives as a key source, Kubrick’s Gold Story [part 1 of 4] is a film analysis that uncovers economic themes encoded in The Shining with regard to gold vs fiat monetary systems. Written,
  narrated and edited by Rob Ager
• The Most Influential Sci-Fi Films

Internet

• 10 Biggest Nerd Gatherings in the World

Literature

• Interview: Alan Lightman, author of Mr g, answers a few questions for Suvudu.
• Interview: Elizabeth Hand talks about her crime novel, Available Dark.
• Interview: J. Kelley Anderson of Casting Shadows on making room for genre fiction in the western literary canon.
• Interview: Michael Sullivan plugs Theft of Swords on The Skiffy and Fanty Show
• Interview: Peter Orullian talks to Robin Hobb about her novel City of Dragons
• Interview: Why William Gibson Distrusts Aging Futurists’ Nostalgia
• Fear and Loathing in e-Land by Ursula K. Le Guin
• What is the Right Price for an E-Book?

Science

• 6 Scientific Discoveries That Laugh in the Face of Physics

Technology

• EU is considering using drones to police Farms
• From the “life imitates Fallout” files comes MIT’s photonic crystals that could lead to “nuclear reactors” in every gadget.
• How do robots see the world? This is an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye.

Television

• Interview: Nichelle Nichols talks about breaking barriers in television. A black woman as a starship officer was outrageous enough in 1966, but when she kissed Kirk, she made history.
• News: Fox’s ‘House’ will end this season. [More]
• Infographic: 45 Years of Star Trek

Video Games

• Minecraft: Making Your Own Fun, One Brick At a Time

Writing

• Here’s a handy list of medieval occupations, though I can’t see George R.R. Martin ever typing the word “eggler.”

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• Amazing Selena cosplay
• Lucas Oil Stadium, recreated in Legos
• Mass Effect Valentines
• XXIT is an absolutely amazing Blade Runner-esque short from Stargate Studios

Comics

• Interview: Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton talk about the “The Guild: Fawkes”
• Interview: A two-and-a-half hour webchat with the great Alan Moore, wherein he talks about magic, writing, creativity, Lovecraft and horror, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, philosophy, time, his new novel, Watchmen and more…
• Details about Issues 8-10 of Buffy Season 9.

Film

• Interview: George Lucas is doing a new series of interviews on Star Wars.com about the origins of…yep…Star Wars.
• Interview: The New Yorker chats with Michael Chabon about his new short story on comic book rivarlies and his co-writing of the forthcoming John Carter film
• Interview: Daniel Radcliffe admits being drunk during “Harry Potter” scenes
• In case you missed it, the extended trailer for The Avengers ran during the Super Bowl. It featured 40 seconds more footage than the trailer’s teaser had.

Internet

• Interview: Felicia Day at the Calgary Comic Expo

Literature

• Interview: Q&A with The Night Circus’s Erin Morgenstern
• Interview: Suvudu talks to Carrie Vaughn about her latest book, Steel.
• Interview: Tim Powers of Drawing of the Dark talks about his secret histories
• News: Amazon in the Process of Launching a Retail Store, because book retailers are just so hot right now… errr What?
• 10 Great Science Fiction Books for Girls
• 102 Essential Science Fiction Books for Your Kindle
• Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction
• A fanatical Hunger Games fan that goes by the name V. Arrow put a ridiculous amount of thought and effort into mapping out Panem’s 13 Districts. Her process is outlined in her LiveJournal, and she makes a compelling argument.
• Hey! Do you like books? (Yeah…) Do you like free books? (Yeah!) Do you like giving books to friends and strangers and whomever? (Hell yeah!) Are you American? (I just said “hell yeah” didn’t I?) Then sign up here! (Then what happens?) You can select from one of thirty books. (And?) They’ll send you a box with twenty copies of one book which you can give to friends, strangers or enemies. (What’s the catch?) There’s no catch, it’s World Book Night.
• John Hodgman explains how he came to love Game of Thrones.
• Why does Edgar Rice Burroughs still matter?

Television

• Interview: Q&A with Kevin Smith, Executive Producer of Comic Book Men
• “Darn Your Sinister Attraction!” an essay from The Psychology of Joss Whedon: An Unauthorized Exploration of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly
• Slate examines the many times Daffy Duck has been shot in the face — specifically the 18 instances found in Chuck Jones’ “Hunting Trilogy” of shorts.
• Why Amy Pond Must Live

Video Games

• As a valuable object lesson to why people often turn to piracy and why “always-on internet” is a bad idea for DRM on games, your legal Ubisoft games won’t work on Tuesday for an undetermined period of time.
• Skyrim: A Bookseller’s Video Game Lament
• How to get lightsabers in Skyrim
• The Skyrim Creation Kit launches Tuesday
• Video gamers are going on a non-killing spree! Wait, what?

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• Even more (and more) Skyrim Valentines
• If Lego ever releases a line of Zombie sets, they should start with this one.
• Lessons to take away from Star Wars
• Poem is a commercial, but it’s hands-down the most beautiful commercial I’ve seen.
• Why weren’t cheerleaders this cool when I was in school?

Comics

• Interview: The Agony Column interviews Stan Lee
• Interview: CBR takes a looke Behind Buffy Season 9 with Andrew Chambliss.
• Interview: J. Michael Straczynski: ‘I Would Have Absolutely Zero Right To Complain’ About Unauthorized ‘Babylon 5′ Prequels
• News: Stan Lee will appear at the London Super Comic Convention. Excelsior!

Cross-Media

• ComicBookMovie names the 99 Hottest Fictional Women

Film

• Interview: George Lucas on adding a digital Yoda to Phantom Menace
• Interview: Gina Carano interview: Haywire, The Expendables 3, and Star Wars
• News: It’s not looking too good for a new “Ghostbusters.”
• Get Over It and Stop Complaining That ‘Star Wars’ is Being Marketed to Kids
• If you recently watched Groundhog Day and were wondering about some of the thinking behind the Bill Murray classic, this article tells you how the writers explained his time loop in an early draft along with how long he was supposedly looping, from his point of view.
• The Scariest Ghost Movies Of All Time
• Top 50 modern day low budget movies
• Watch the final trailer for Chronicle, an amazing-looking comicbook-style movie.

Internet

• 10 Things to Do This Super Bowl Sunday while not watching the game.

Literature

• Interview: Delia Sherman on The Freedom Maze
• Interview: KWLS archives has a recording of Douglas Coupland & William Gibson discussing a whole range of kick-ass topics
• Interview: The Future And You: Jonathan Mugan of The Curiosity Cycle discusses Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, cyber-security, human intelligence, human learning, errors in our thinking process.
• Interview: Interview with Lavie Tidhar, author of The Great Game, an Alt-history, Steampunk Mystery worth reading.
• Interview: SF Site drills Paul Di Filippo on what it’s like being a writer.
• The Future of the Book Is the Stream
• ‘Potter,’ ‘Twilight’ feed generation’s ‘Hunger’ for fantasy lit

Science

• News: Earth twin discovered 22 light-years away
• Police video camera nabs falling meteor during Texas traffic stop

Technology

• The future of electric cars might just have gotten a bit brighter thanks to the technobabble-sounding principle of magnetic resonance coupling, which would charge your car as you drove.

Television

• Interview: Eve Myles interview: future of Torchwood and Gwen Cooper
• News: NBC orders sci-fi pilot ‘Revolution’ from J.J. Abrams
• 8 fan campaigns that saved series—and 14 (sob!) that failed
• 18 awesome sci-fi moments from 30 years of Letterman’s Late Night
• Donald Glover Pleads With You To Help Get Community Back On Air

Video Games

• Oklahoma Bill to Tax Violent Video Games Is Clueless and Inconsistent
• Skyrim theme rock remix video
• Sony’s Highly Personal, Surprisingly Decent 3D Viewer

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• 21 minimal posters reppin’ techie superheroes
• Art History Through Sci Fi-Colored Glasses
• Skyrim Valentines for your gaming widow.
• Let these zombie-themed sheets serve as a reminder to us all: Never Sleep Alone
• Watch a (cute) girl build a Tardis

Comics

• Interview: Marjorie Liu on ASTONISHING X-MEN and Relationships

Cross-Media

• 8 Sci-Fi Remakes Surprisingly Better Than the Original
• It’s not the first fan-film to do it and it won’t be the last, but here’s a pretty good mash-up called Doctor Who meets Star Wars Episode I.
• Meet the Scientists Who Make Science Fiction Believeable

Film

• Interview: Frank Langella, Sci-Fi Breakout
• A budget breakdown of the original Star Wars movie. If this inflation calculator is accurate, Episode IV was still a bargain in today’s dollars.
• Discovery names its choices for the Top 10 Sci-Fi Films of all time.
• Top 5 Bad Ass Ladies Of Sci-Fi Film

Internet

• In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Hero.
• Kotaku has a great write-up on The Game of Thrones Board Game

Literature

• Interview: AdviceToWriters interviews the legendary Harlan Ellison
• Interview: Brides, Bears, Selkies and Magic: an interview with Margo Lanagan of the recently released Young Adult novel Tender Morsels.
• Interview: George R.R. Martin responds to Reddit’s top 10 questions.
• Interview: Grasping for the Wind chats with E.E. Knight
• Interview: LibraryThing interviews Theodora Goss of The Thorn and the Blossom.
• Interview: SF Signal has an interview with Charles Day, author of The Plan
• Interview: Theodora Goss on The Thorn and The Blossom
• Chemical engineering student and Tolkien superfan Emil Johansson has undertaken a project as epic as the Middle Earth universe itself — he’s attempting to place every character into a family tree.
• Download A Map of Westeros Map from the App Store!

Technology

• Japan advances bathtime technology beyond the reach of most nations with a planetarium for your tub. If it does a Pink Floyd laser show, too, I may be willing to sell an organ (perhaps mine) to get one.
• Prime Directive violation of the day: They’ve given iPads to orangutans.

Television

• Interview: Matt Smith and Gillian Anderson visited Graham Norton’s chat show to talk about the San Diego Comic Con. There is an attempt to define the term “geekgasm.”
• The 10 Most Undignified Deaths in Science Fiction and Fantasy
• LOST raised the bar for TV mysteries. It was a huge success with a massive following. Since then, plenty of competition has stepped up to the plate, hoping to become the next big ongoing mystery. But for every victory, a handful of shows have become “The Next LOST” failures.

Writing

• 10 Writing “Rules” We Wish More Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors Would Break
• 25 Things Writers Should Know about Agents

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The Wall Street Journal recently did a story about people who play video games as pacifists where they attempt to make it through typically violent games without killing anything. For example Daniel Mullins has been playing Skyrim as Felix the Peaceful Monk and he has yet to register any kills in the game.

• 12-month apocalyptic pin-up calendar: Sexiest end of the world ever
• The Beauty of Minecraft
• Check out these amazing Minimalism Lord of the Rings Movie Posters
• Fresh take on the LoTR Book Covers
• MLord of the Rings Minifigs are coming to a store near you!

Comics

• Interview: DC Confirms New 35-part Watchmen Comic series due this summer.
• News: Neil Gaiman, Todd McFarlane settle ‘Spawn’ legal dispute
• 5 Fantasy Comic Books That Should Be Made into Movies

Film

• Interview: Daniel Radcliffe Talks Moving Away From ‘Harry Potter’ And Lawyering Up For ‘The Woman In Black’
• Interview: Noel Clarke talks about being cast in the new Star Trek film
• News: The Hobbit casting call shut down after 3,000 extras turn up. Police are called to auditions for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings follow-up after overwhelming numbers spark safety fears.
• Behind The Scenes Of Inception
• Check out the trailer for 7500, a horror flick set aboard a plane.
• io9′s list of 10 Of Scifi And Fantasy’s Most Aesthetically Significant Bathroom Death Scenes completely overlooks the single best example, the X-Files toilet monster. I last saw that episode ten years ago, and I still can’t use a port-o-potty.
• Two new stills of Bond from Skyfall

Internet

• The most beautiful bookstores in the world.
• Steampunk places to hit up if you’re ever in London.
• Why Cthulhu hates the Universe now more than Ever.

Literature

• Interview: Gollancz interviews Sarah Silverwood of The Double-Edged Sword.
• Interview: Interview with Ryder Windham, author of The Millennium Falcon Owners’ Workshop Manual.
• Interview: Sea Hearts Book Trailer and Q&A with Margo Lanagan
• Interview: Trolls Can Be Sexy: author Amanda Hocking talks Switched
• News: Barnes & Noble Won’t Sell Books From Amazon Publishing
• 7 literary Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels you must read « Damien G. Walter
• 10 Worthwhile Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Seek Out in February 2012
• The Fifty Essential Authors of Science Fiction
• Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Who Never Wrote Sequels or Trilogies (There weren’t a lot of them.)
• Vaginal Fantasy Hangout Bookclub! with Felicia Day. Felicia Day likes romance novels. And so do her friends. They recruited the internet for discussion.

Technology

• Incredible, Sci-fi Railgun Takes Step Toward Reality

Television

• The fine folks at Vulture have taken on the task of creating a venn diagram for Reality Television. Via
• Watch this year’s Superbowl Star Wars commercial now.

Video Games

• 100-year-old woman stays young by playing Nintendo.
• Filmmaker and long-time World of Warcraft gamer Anthony Rosner has made IRL: In Real Life, an inspiring short documentary film that looks at his personal World of Warcraft addiction and how amazing his life has become since ditching the game.

Writing

• 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes
• Curse Like an Orc, Woo Like an Elf: The Secret to Fantasy Languages

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• BioShock Crochet Project
• Fantastic Flying Books
• I Built a Tardis
• Jurassic Park done right.
• Never turn your back on a Snowman.
• Skyrim Valentine’s Day Cards

Comics

• Interview: Designer Rian Hughes on DC’s New Logo
• Comic Book Resources has a fantastic round-up of the state of digital comics.

Cross-Media

• The 10 Best Alternate Universes In Sci-Fi
• 11 Sci-Fi Properties Which Need A Movie Right Now!

Film

• Interview: Peter Jackson and his cast and crew talk exclusively to Total Film about the one film to rule 2012… The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
• Interview: Daniel Radcliffe Talks Life After Harry Potter
• 6 Deleted Scenes from Star Trek Movies that would’ve made them less confusing
• 50 Greatest Movie Cameos
• After a string of projector malfunctions occurred during a screening of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo in New York City, the pre-show advertising began playing over the film’s climactic scene. The results were eerily relevant, yet hilarious.
• First Person Monster Blog with special effects artist Shannon Shea
• Five new images from The Avengers.
• KoldCast TV Picks 17 Seminal Moments in Sci-Fi Films
• Top 25 cult film actors, chosen by Den of Geek. Fillion has his own category.
• Turns out that, just like “Star Wars,” Joseph Campbell wrote “Police Academy.”

Internet

• How Sitting All Day Is Damaging Your Body, And How You Can Counteract It
• JADs International, makers of fine Star Wars and Star Trek related perfumes, have released a new line to coincide with The Avengers Movie. Ode to Hulk?
• Neil Patrick Harris’ acceptance speech for the Streamy Awards
• Was Megaupload bad for the creative industries?

Literature

• Interview: All Men Are Islands: Interview with author Christopher Priest
• Interview: Daniel O’ Malley discusses his new book, The Rook.
• Interview: Lev A.C. Rosen talks to Omnivoracious about Steampunk, the Importance of Being Earnest, and “All Men of Genius“
• Interview: Theodora Goss, author of The Thorn and the Blossom talks with both Daemon’s Books and The Qwillery.
• Interview: W.G. Marshall talks about her debut SF novel, Enormity.
• News: Wizards of the Coast will reprint its classic 1st edition trio of rulebooks.
• 10 SFF Authors Play D&D Together’ by Brent Weeks
• 25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore
• Bookstore’s Last Stand: Barnes & Noble is taking on Amazon in the fight of its life
• Here’s how a local bookseller tried to get my future business.
• The Importance of Science Fiction Awards in Elevating Geek Culture
• Why Science Fiction is the literature of change

Science

• Interview: Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America
• News: Newt Gingrich described himself as a visionary when he unveiled plans to create a mammoth new space program, including a permanent colony on the moon within the next nine years. Everybody’s Going to the Moonbase!
• What if the Apollo Program never Happened?

Technology

• Pirate Bay is starting a new category, Physibles, with files for your 3D printer.
• Robot cleaner a 'game changer' for hospital infection epidemic
• Self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away. Didn’t I see this in an Arnold Schwarzenegger film?

Television

• Interview: Kevin Smith discusses his AMC series, Comic Book Men.
• Interview: Toby Whithouse talks Being Human series four
• Check out this Map of Firefly’s ‘Verse, beautifully rendered in HTML5.
• “Curse Your Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal” is an essay in which Lani Diane Rich recaps the arguments she had with her husband whilst watching Firefly.
• Visit The Village from The Prisoner on Google Maps

Video Games

• Fans of Zelda-esque top-down RPGs should find something to like about the Scarlet Stranger. Use your trusty sword and shield (as well as crafting skills) to rescue the obligatory princess.
• ModDB.com has a video of the players’ choices of the top ten 2011 game mods.

Writing

• 25 Reasons Readers Will Keep Reading Your Story

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The full music-video for ‘This Is Aperture’ – a Portal-style remake of ‘This Is Halloween’ from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

• Listen to “All the Painted Stars” by Gwendolyn Clare at Clarkesworld.
• Listen to “The Ballad of Delphinium Blue” by Samantha Henderson.
• Listen to “Beautiful Dreamer” by Edward McKeown (Part 2) at Beam Me Up.
• Listen to “Biba Jibun” by Eugie Foster at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Fruit Jar Drinkin’, Cheatin’ Heart Blues” by Patty Templeton.
• Listen to “Martian V F W” by Vandenburg at The Drama Pod.
• Listen to “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard.
• Listen to “Surviving the eBookalypse” by Randy Henderson at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “What Everyone Remembers” by Rahul Kanakia at Clarkesworld.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• Bleeding Cool offers a preview of Kirby Genesis #0 And #1
• CBR offers a preview of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 #6.
• CBR offers a preview of Crossed: Badlands #1
• CBR offers a preview of Danger Girl: Revolver #1
• CBR offers a preview of Murky World #1
• CBR offers a preview of Supergirl #5
• Read “The Situation,” an original comic story created by Jeff VanderMeer and Eric Orchard, about the perils of office politics in a world eerily different from ours.

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Listen to the flash fiction story “Breakfast in Dread” by Bettina Borg Cardona.
• Listen to the flash fiction story “The Madness of Andelsprutz” by Lord Dunsany.
• Read the flash fiction “AI Robot” by Patrick Dey at Flash Fiction Online.
• Read the flash fiction “All or Nothing” by Nancy Fulda at Daily Science Fiction.
• Read the flash fiction “Cuy” by Michele Markarian at Yesteryear Fiction.
• Read the flash fiction “Dumb as Dirt” by Garth Upshaw at Daily Science Fiction.
• Read the flash fiction “Homecoming” by M. Darusha Wehm at Luna Station.
• Read the flash fiction “Into the Forest” by Dana Dupont at Daily Science Fiction.
• Read the flash fiction “The Relative Densities of Seawater and Blood” by An Owomoyela at Brain Harvest.
• Read the flash fiction “Sea Ink” by Jennifer Linnaea at Flash Fiction Online.
• Read the flash fiction “Sixty-one by Seventy” by K.G. Jewell at Daily SciFi.
• Read the flash fiction “Stonehenge in his Garden” by Gerald Warfield.
• Read the flash fiction “Subway” by Eric Suhem at Weirdyear.
• Read the flash fiction “Things Exist by Imitation of Numbers” by Benjamin Rosenbaum at Daily Science Fiction.
• Read the flash fiction “War Song I – Torvenfell” by Ram Iyer at Yesteryear Fiction.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download Moon Spell by Samantha Young for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
• Read an excerpt of Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds at Gollancz.
• Read an excerpt of The Butcher of Anderson Station: A Story of The Expanse by James S.A. Corey at Orbit Books.
• Read an excerpt of Mass Effect: Deception by Willian C. Dietz at Scribd.
• Read an excerpt of Overkill by Robert Buettner at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of Quick Bites: A Short Story Collection by Jennifer Rardin.
• Read an excerpt of Ragnarok by Patrick A Vanner at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of Something Wikkid This Way Comes by Nicole Peeler.
• Read an excerpt of Unfallen by Lilith Saintcrow by Lilith Saintcrow at Orbit Books.

Poetry

• Carrington’s Ferry by Mike Allen

Serial Fiction

• Nothing is Beyond by Davy Minor is a new sci-fi series you can read for free.

Short Stories

• Download “The Taste of Promises” by Rachel Swirsky. [PDF]
• Read “All the Painted Stars” by Gwendolyn Clare at Clarkesworld.
• Read “Always True to Thee, in My Fashion” by Nancy Kress at Lightspeed.
• Read “Bloodstone” by R.B. Payne at Wily Writers.
• Read “Captain Clone” by Deborah Walker at Ray Gun Revival.
• Read “Cosmic Love” by Harry Markov at The World SF Blog.
• Read “The Driver” by Rahul Kanakia at Nature.
• Read “Death Reported of Last Surviving Veteran of Great War” by Dan Abnett.
• Read “Eliza” by Joshua Reynolds at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “Enter Here” by FJ Bergmann at Eschatology Journal.
• Read “The Five Elements of the Heart Mind” by Ken Liu at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read “Hel’s Half-Acre” by Jack Campbell at Baen eBooks.
• Read “The Johnson Maneuver” by Ian Douglas at Baen eBooks.
• Read “Judgement Day” by Gary Cuba at Eschatology Journal.
• Read “Jungle Walkers” by David Klecha & Tobias S. Buckell at Baen eBooks.
• Read “The Last Run of the Coppelia” by Genevieve Valentine at Baen eBooks.
• Read “The Metal Men of Mars” by Joe R Lansdale at Tor.com.
• Read “My Bicycle, 4500 A.D.” by Stephen Case at AE SciFi.
• Read “Scattered Along the River of Heaven” by Aliette de Bodard at Clarkesworld.
• Read “The Spaces Between Space” by Brett J. Talley at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “The Spaces In-Between” by A.B. Doh at StoryTime.
• Read “A State of Variance” by Aimee Bender at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read “Story with Pictures and Conversation” by Brontops Baruq.
• Read “Sweet Embrace” by T. M. Hunter at Mindflights.
• Read “Tark Left Santiago” by Joseph S. Pulver, SR at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “The Tower And The Kite” (Part 2) at Philippine Genre Stories.
• Read “The Vessels” by Nancy O. Greene at Lovecraft eZine.
• Read “What Everyone Remembers” by Rahul Kanakia at Clarkesworld.
• Read “White Noise” by Michael Matheson at Lovecraft eZine.

Vintage Fiction

• Download the short story “The Girl in the Golden Atom” by Ray Cummings from Librivox at the Internet Archive.
• Download the short story “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir from Librivox.
• Download the short story “Subspace Survivors” by E. E. Smith from LibriVox.
• Listen to The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux from CBS Radio Mystery Theater at Journey Into…
• Read the short story “The Sanatorium at the Sign of the Hourglass” by Bruno Schulz (1937) at Weird Fiction Review.

Zines and Periodicals

• Download issue ten of Shimmer Magazine. This issue features Nir Yaniv’s “A Painter, a Sheep, and a Boa Constrictor,” which was reprinted in Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010.

• 50 Weird Examples Of Harry Potter Fan Art
• Archetype is a low budget sci-fi short film featuring Hollywood-level special effects.
• Duct Tape Bowser
• Futuristic Solar Radiation Gel Pills for the basement-bound nerds
• Rule 63 Princess Of Persia cosplay
• Nothing completes a costume like a badass pair of Dragon Claw Gauntlets
• Where have all the book illustrators gone? Charles Dickens enjoyed close collaborative relationships with the illustrators of his novels, but now it’s rare to find a picture outside the world of children’s books. Is drawing a lost art, or could we be on the brink of a new golden age?

Comics

• Interview: The Maverick Behind the Men Beneath the Masks: Stan Lee
• Fox is going after DC Comics in ways that echo 1950s comic-book witchhunt.
• New 2012 Manga: Ten manga titles to look forward to this year.

Cross-Media

• SFX Magazine’s Top 50 Vampires of 2012.

Film

• Interview: Joss Whedon Talks THE AVENGERS’ Challenges
• News: Next Star Trek Getting A Bigger Budget Than The Last One
• News: Peter Jackson Films “Hobbit” in 48 Frames-Per-Second, Hopes to Revolutionize Digital Cinema
• The 11 Star Trek movies ranked worst to first
• The 50 Most Successful Indie Movies
• It’s time to hit the MPAA where it hurts: Black March
• Johnny Depp’s dark look for his dark role in Tim Burton’s dark film ‘Dark Shadows’
• Johnny Depp’s ‘Dark Shadows’ Blood Sucker Is Creepier Than Robert Pattinson’s ‘Twilight’ Vamp, but how could it not have been.
• Rejects lists 14 Of The Most Impressive Monologues In Movie History
• Star Wars Uncut is a complete recreation of “A New Hope” by fans. 15 seconds at a time, in a style of their choosing.

Literature

• Interview: 60 Second Interview Patrick Rothfuss of The Wise Man’s Fears.
• Interview: Amazon has an interview with Wicked author Gregory Maguire.
• Interview: Carol Berg, author of The Daemon Prism, talks to Speculate!
• Interview: Grasping for the Wind chats with Gail Carriger about her upcoming book Timeless, the fifth and final Parasol Protectorate book. (March 2012)
• Interview: John R. Fultz plugs his new book, Seven Princes.
• Interview: Just Sit Here and Read with The Thorn and the Blossom author Theodora Goss … who talks about creating a double-layered story elsewhere.
• Interview: Laurie Sheck is a renowned poet and novelist. A Monster’s Notes, her first novel, intertwines the stories of Mary Shelley and her most famous creation, Frankenstein’s Monster, in a tale that parallels both.
• Interview: SFSignal interviews sci-fi legend Joe Haldeman.
• Interview: William Gibson: I really can’t predict the future. The sci-fi legend tells Salon that if he had a crystal ball, he’d have put Facebook in an early novel.
• 10 Cult Literary Traditions for Truly Die-Hard Fans
• Arthur C. Clarke Award director Tom Hunter on the importance of science fiction Awards in elevating geek culture and The Kitschies, the highly praised new genre fiction award from pornokitsch.
• Helen Lowe asks Do We Need To Make Epic Fantasy New?
• Margaret Atwood writes about her book, The Handmaid’s Tale.
• Ralph Fiennes reads NSFW Harry Potter fan-fic about he-who-must-not-be-named.
• Stephen King’s 10 favorite books, as covered by the Christian Science Monitor.

Science

• Rise of the Super-Earths: Astronomers have discovered a giant new kind of planet that could hold life — and they could change everything
• Tabitha Smith introduces Project Bifrost, the potential foundation for interstellar space exploration.

Television

• Interview: Preview of George Lucas Talking To Oprah
• Interview: “Spartacus: Vengeance” interviews with Steven S. DeKnight et al.
• News: ‘Fringe’ Season 5 Renewal Under Negotiation
• Really fun Star Trek segments from recent Robot Chicken.

Video Games

• The 10 Best Schools for Serious Gamers
• Irrational Games’ creative director Ken Levine wants you to meet BioShock: Infinite‘s new difficulty: 1999 Mode.
• Skyrim and the Quest for Meaning
• Why The Apple Trackpad Might Be The Best Video Game Controller Ever Made

Writing

• 10 Common Self-Publishing Scams You Should Be Aware Of
• As everyone predicted, Apple released an ez-iBook maker, but there’s controversy over it’s features and possible lock-in since you can only publish to the iBookstore.
• Fantasy-Faction is holding a Fantasy Writing Contest.
• Tropes Not Cliches: More Thoughts On Making ‘Epic Fantasy New’ & The Importance of Character

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• 9 pulpy science fiction movie posters from an alternate cinematic universe
• Beautiful Portraits of Game Characters
• Calvin and Hobbes / Spider-Man Mash-Up
• Check out this amazing Stormtrooper Cake
• The Magic of Man
• Make a greeting card with a Mechanical Iris for all your steampunk events!

Comics

• Fox News expose: sex sells in comics and is destroying our children
• The great ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ web-shooter debate
• One Way To Reduce Piracy: Improve The LCS Experience
• The Top 5 Science Fiction Comics

Cross-Media

• The Best Fictional Scientists From TV and Movies
• Why Do Nerds So Often Wear Glasses? Eddie Deezen (who should know) looks at the history of nerds in pop culture.

Film

• Interview: Cuba Gooding Jr. on George Lucas and ‘Red Tails’
• Interview: George Lucas on his retirement, Red Tails, and future pursuits.
• Interview: ‘Judge Dredd’ creator: Three reasons I’m excited about new film
• News: NASA Relents: Apogee of Fear, first Sci-fi Shot in Space, to be released
• 17 blockbusters so horrible even their creators say they sucked
• 64 Horror Movies In Five Minutes: How Many Can You Name? When you’re ready to check your guesses, click over to the Youtube page.
• “I love the smell of napalm in the morning!” The line from Apocalyse Now has been used and reused and adapted in so many other movies that there’s a supercut.
• Top 10 Film Character Introductions
• Watch The Amazing Spider-Man Tokyo Press Conference

Internet

• Evercon panel discusses best ways to stay alive in Zombie apocalypse
• Like dogs? Like Star Wars? Here ya go!
• Why should we stop online piracy?

Literature

• Interview: 60 Second Interview with MD Lachlan, author of Fenrir, which is nominated for Best Fantasy Novel 2011.
• Interview: The Alloy of Law Q&A with Brandon Sanderson
• Interview: George R. R. Martin interviews Bernard Cornwell of Death of Kings
• Interview: R.A. MacAvoy talks to Lightspeed about Death and Resurrection.
• News: Digital Library Lending Up 130% in 2011
• Fantasy Series to Read While You’re Waiting for George R.R. Martin’s Next Book
• As demand for e-books soars, libraries struggle to stock their virtual shelves
• Why e-books will be much bigger than you can imagine

Science

• Why Does Our Universe Have Three Dimensions?

Technology

• 10 Ways Big Data is Creating the Science Fiction Future
• The Four Stages of Introducing New Technologies: A futurist explains how society moves from fear to acceptance of smartphones, computers, and other advances.

Television

• Interview: Jorge Garcia explores new mysteries on ‘Alcatraz’
• News: It looks like AMC is placing bets on another stellar season of The Walking Dead because early reports show that the third season will get 16 episodes instead of the current season’s 13, or last season’s six.
• Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin’s Season 2 anxieties
• Preview a couple scenes from new episodes of The Walking Dead.
• See the poster for Kevin Smith’s AMC series
• The Star Wars TV series will be “The Empire Strikes Back on steroids”.

Video Games

• Does Gaming Scientifically Combat Depression?

Writing

• 9 Essential Books on Reading and Writing
• Description in Fantasy: Finding the Sweet Spot
• Possibly inspired by Al Gore, Apple announces a new iTunes U app, textbooks for iBooks 2.0, and iBooks Author, so you can create your own interactive books.

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• Listen to author Alberto Chimal of Mexico City reads his story “Variation on a Theme of Coleridge” from Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, an anthology of new Mexican fiction never before translated into English at Oneironomicon.
• Listen to “Balfour and Meriwether in The Vampire of Kabul” by Daniel Abraham.
• Listen to “Beautiful Dreamer” by Edward McKeown at Beam Me Up!
• Listen to “Black Hill” and “The Worm That Gnaws” by Orrin Grey at Journey Into…
• Listen to “The Day the Icicle Works Closed” by Frederik Pohl at Podmatic.
• Listen to “Found Manuscript” by David Lindblad at Cthulhu Podcast.
• Listen to “Health Tips for Traveller” by David W. Goldman at Toasted Cake.
• Listen to “Illusion” by Jean Rhys at Miette’s.
• Listen to “The Martian Chronicles” by Cory Doctorow (Part 2) at StarShipSofa.
• Listen to “On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs” by Marissa Lingen at Lightspeed.
• Listen to “Pageant Girls” by Caroline M. Yoachim at Toasted Cake.
• Listen to “Rain” by Abby Manheim at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Revenants” by Judith Tarr at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “Singularity Knocks” by Will Ludwigsen at The Drabblecast.
• Listen to “A Study In Flesh And Mind” by Liz Argall at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “The Thing in the Attic” by James Blish at Drama Pod.
• Listen to “The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds” by Seth Dickinson at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Listen to “Unglued” by Amber D. Sistla at Toasted Cake.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• CBR offers a preview of Batman #5
• CBR offers a preview of Blue Beetle #5
• CBR offers a preview of Catwoman #5
• CBR offers a preview of Green Lantern Corps #5
• CBR offers a preview of Steed and Mrs. Peel #1
• CBR offers a preview of Supergirl #5
• Major Spoilers offers a preview of Scam #1

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Listen to the flash fiction story “Cowpokin’!” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Read the flash fiction “Box” by Richard Fuller at Quantum Muse.
• Read the flash fiction “Dancers by the Hedge” by Anahita Ayasoufi at Yesteryear.
• Read the flash fiction “Electric Company” by Melissa Mead at Daily Sci-Fi.
• Read the flash fiction “Grandma Bixby’s Teeth” by Harris Tobias at Quantum Muse.
• Read the flash fiction “The Lightning Gun” by Antoinette Rydyr at AntipodeanSF.
• Read the flash fiction “Parallel Universes” by Madeline Leong at Short-Story.me.
• Read the flash fiction “Sale!” by Lissy Jones at Weirdyear.
• Read the flash fiction “Sweet Pain” by Carl Alves at Short-Story.me.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download The Book of Deacon by Joseph Lallo for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
• Download Call of the Herald by Brian Rathbone for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
• Download Dark Earth by Jason Halstead for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
• Download The Emerald Talisman by Brenda Pandos for the Kindle.
• Download Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur by Ruth Nestvold.
• Download Thirst by Claire Farrell for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
• Download TimeSplash by Graham Storrs for the Kindle at Amazon.com.
• Read an excerpt of 77 Shadow Street by Dean R. Koontz at Scribd.
• Read “A Tinker of Warhoon” by Tobias S. Buckell from the anthology Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom at io9.
• Read an excerpt of Artic Rising by Tobias S. Buckell at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of Ashes of Candesce by Karl Schroeder at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe at Orbit.
• Read an excerpt of A Monster’s Notes by Laurie Sheck at Random House.
• Read an excerpt of Taft 2012 by Jason Heller at Tor.com.
• Read an excerpt of Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan at Orbit.

Poetry

• “The Eagle” by Ambar Past
• “The Lord Charon” by Tony Grist

Short Stories

• Download “The Witches: An Extraordinary Tale” by Gerrard Wlson at Smashwords.
• Read “Always True to Thee, in My Fashion” by Nancy Kress at Lightspeed.
• Read “Baby, Your Body’s My Bass” by Edward W. Robertson at AE SciFi.
• Read “A Better Offer” by Jamie Mason at AE SciFi.
• Read “Calibrated Allies” by Marissa Lingen at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Read “A Crisis of Unicornian Proportions” by Dr. Ace T. Jericho at the Lair.
• Read “Clay Cast Cats” by TCA Lakshmi Narasimhan at The World SF Blog.
• Read “Dinner Guests” by Ivan Dorin at AE SciFi.
• Read “Founding Fathers” by Edward W. Robertson at AE SciFi.
• Read “God’s Obituary” by Brent Alan James at Words without Borders.
• Read “Homecoming” by M. Darusha Wehm at Luna Station Quarterly.
• Read “How Sleep the Brave” by Jack Skelter at Ray Gun Revival.
• Read “The Immaculate Conception of Private Ritter” by Seth Dickinson at Asimov’s.
• Read “In the Dead of the Night” by Gordon Rowlinson at Quantum Muse.
• Read “Les Amoureus” by Alison Bwalya Erlwanger at StoryTime.
• Read “Killing Time” by Harris Tobias at Quantum Muse.
• Read “The Lady of the Lake” by E. Catherine Tobler at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Read “Loob” by Bob Leman at Weird Fiction Review.
• Read “On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs” by Marissa Lingen at Lightspeed.
• Read “Recognizing Gabe: un cuento de hadas” by Alberto Yáñez.
• Read “Seizing Cervantes” by Antônio Xerxenesky at Words without Borders.
• Read “The Tides of the Heart” by David D. Levine at Bentopress.
• Read “The Tower And The Kite” by Matthew Jacob F. Ramos at Philippine Genre.
• Read “Where All Things Perish” by Tanith Lee at Weird Fiction Review.

Vintage Fiction

• Download the novel The Time Machine by H. G. Wells at Project Gutenberg.
• Listen to the short story “A Crystal Age” by William Henry Hudson at Librivox.

• Harry Potter Retro Travel Posters
• Simpsons Movie Parody Posters
• Painting John Carter
• “Tyrant of the Salvage Yards” by Andrew Chase is a T-Rex built of scrap metal.

Comics

• News: DC Comics announced “Justice League No. 1″ was the best-selling comic book published in 2011 based on total sales
• Alan Moore hangs out with V for Vendetta-masked Occupy protesters
• Comics store zones in on Internet success

Film

• Interview: Deconstruction of a Scent: The Chris Evans Q&A
• Interview: Joss Whedon says we’ll see Avengers through Captain America’s eyes
• Interview: Tim Burton shared more details about the new “Beetlejuice” movie.
• News: NASA Grounds Richard Garriott’s Sci-Fi Film
• News: Star Trek Sequel Begins Shooting
• The first teaser trailer for the French action-horror hybrid Innocence in now online. Look something like Event Horizon, but better.
• Five New Posters For Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D Are So Good, You Almost Forget How Bad It Is
• Kill Bill, Parts 1 & 2, in One Minute, in One Take, produced by the University of York Filmmaking Society.
• Meaning of Robots Trailer: Robots Need Lust, Too
• Quentin Tarantino’s best movies of 2011
• The sci-fi and fantasy trailer edits of bloodrunsclear range from a more diverse recasting of The Last Airbender and a more accurate version of the upcoming live-action Akira film to a moody treatment of The Sandman to the retro-looking adaptation of Neuromancer and the haunting Call of Cthulhu film. Want trailers to video game adaptations? To wargamers he has a live-action Warhammer 40,000 teaser. To LARPers he gives you Vampire: the Masquerade. To video gamers? Well… which kind are you interested in?
• The Top Ten Horror Films of 2011, as chosen by Gothic.net
• Total Film remembers the 50 Greatest Childhood Movies
• Why no film should be considered unremakable

Literature

• Interview: A Conversation with George R.R. Martin and Bernard Cornwell
• Interview: Day at Night was an interview series on the public television station of the City University of New York that aired from 1973-4. CUNY TV is in the process of digitizing and uploading the 130 episodes that were produced, including an interview with author Ray Bradbury
• Interview: Empire State author Adam Christopher talks with Geek Syndicate
• Interview: Ernest Cline discusses his first novel, Ready Player One
• Interview: George R. R. Martin: “I have the best fans in the world”
• Interview: Interview with Matthew Beard, author of The Last Garrison.
• Interview: Q&A with the Founder of ‘The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction’
• Interview: Robin Hobb pays tribute to Anne McCaffrey’s enduring influence
• News: Kindle Owners Are “Borrowing” Nearly 300,000 Electronic Books A Month
• 5 ways to revolutionize the book business
• 15 unreal sci-fi and fantasy books we wish we could really read
• Could McDonald’s become a leading book retailer?
• A House Divided: Science Fiction Versus Fantasy
• Hugh Howey was a self-published novelist of no real success. Until WOOL, that is – a 15,000 word “little throwaway story” he uploaded to Amazon’s Kindle Marketplace one day and promptly forget about. The story he didn’t blog, didn’t tweet, and didn’t even sell on his site hit #2 on the Kindle SciFi Bestseller list and “changed the course of e-books.”
• Why we must reward intelligent fantastic literature

Science

• This article aims to investigate the first ‘Death Star’ from the ‘Star Wars’ film series and how much energy it would require to destroy a planet.
• A Push for Historic Preservation on the Moon: To Preserve History on the Moon, Visitors Are Asked to Tread Lightly

Technology

• The BBC has an awesome report on 3D printers at CES.

Television

• Interview: Daniel Radcliffe talks hosting ‘SNL’
• Interview: Kevin Smith Talks New Reality Series Comic Book Men
• Interview: Star Wars prequel producer Rick McCallum talks to IGN about the upcoming live action Star Wars television show, Star Wars: Underworld.
• News: Doctor Who’s Next Companion May Be The Girl In The Fireplace
• News: Hulu to launch first original scripted series
• AMC’s New Unscripted Series, Comic Book Men , Debuts Sun., Feb. 12, at 10PM
• Firefly Drinking Songs: a new CD by Bedlam Bards and Marc Gunn.
• We finally know when Game of Thrones will return for season 2!

Video Games

• News: Penny Arcade is moving into video games news coverage, hiring a reporter.
• 8 Superheroes That Should Get Their Own Video Game
• Elevator: Source is a Half-Life 2 mod which puts the player on an elevator that visits a number of strange floors. It requires Gary’s Mod and HL2:Ep2, but you can sample the experience with this gameplay video. Check out The Jay is Games review and walkthrough.
• William and Sly 2 is a gorgeous, ethereal fantasy exploration game wherein you play a nimble fox tasked with finding the scattered pages of your human friend’s journal, while gathering mushrooms, finding keys to unlock mystery boxes, and freeing rune-bound spirits and pixies trapped in frost along the way.

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• Concept art for The Dawn Treader.
• Own your very own Companion Cube
• Praskovya Pelmeshkina has posted an AMAZING gallery of Hermione Granger cosplay photos
• What good would kids be if they weren’t such adorable cosplay accessories?

Comics

• News: China Mieville to write new title for D.C.’s new 52.
• Big spoilers on happenings in Buffy comics continuity.
• Girl in a Comic Book Shop

Cross-Media

• Interview: Brian Selznick, author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, joins Geeks Guide to the Galaxy to discuss working with Martin Scorsese, interviewing Sacha Baron Cohen, and creating his new picture book Wonderstruck.
• SFx names the Top Sci-Fi & Fantasy Goths

Film

• Interview: A conversation with visual effects supervisor John Bruno
• Interview: Chat with ‘Apes,’ ‘Tintin’ star Andy Serkis
• Interview: Steven Spielberg talks War Horse and explains how Robopocalypse will be like Minority Report.
• News: Holy Sales! Dark Knight Rises tickets somehow already selling out?
• 6 Horrible Aftermaths Implied By Movies With Happy Endings
• 12 More Sci-Fi Film Locations You Can Actually Visit
• The Best Science Fiction Films at This Year’s Sundance
• New batsuit from The Dark Knight Rises features front-shirt pocket! Just kidding! But it is different-ish.

Internet

• Shatner adds more fuel to Star Trek/Star Wars online feud.

Literature

• Interview: Glen Duncan discusses his latest work, The Last Werewolf
• Interview: Marissa Meyer discusses her new take on the Cinderella story, Cinder.
• Interview: Star Wars Books offers an interview with Star Wars: Darth Plagueis author James Luceno.
• News: Amazon ups discount pressure on publishers to “astronomical” levels
• Can science fiction still predict the future?
• The Fantasy Novelist’s Exam: “Ever since J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis created the worlds of Middle Earth and Narnia, it seems like every windbag off the street thinks he can write great, original fantasy, too. The problem is that most of this “great, original fantasy” is actually poor, derivative fantasy. Frankly, we’re sick of it, so we’ve compiled a list of rip-off tip-offs in the form of an exam. We think anybody considering writing a fantasy novel should be required to take this exam first. Answering “yes” to any one question results in failure and means that the prospective novel should be abandoned at once.”
• The full Terry Pratchett documentary is now available on YouTube.
• SF Signal has a Holmes-genre anthology smackdown.
• The utopian Mars fiction of Soviet Russia

Science

• Cracks in time are real.
• Minute Physics is a YouTube Channel full of short, simple explanations of physics. Learn why there are tides, what neutrinos are and how to find them, why there is no pink light, and why Galloping Gertie didn’t collapse due to resonance. Minute Physics is also on New Scientist’s website, but slightly re-titled and with links to related New Scientist articles. If you have another 41 minutes, you can learn more about Minute Physics from it’s creator, Henry Reich.
• The New Math of Technology I Expected By Now
• Why, no, the Wall from Game of Thrones couldn’t actually exist.

Technology

• If you can invent the tricorder, you might win a bunch of cash.
• LAPD’s sci-fi solution to real crime: Predicting where felons might strike is being made easier with a computer calculation
• Robot dinosaur is your new favorite pet.

Television

• Colbert Report talks about Iran developing the warp drive.
• The Death of Buffy: An essay looking at the experience of seeing The Body and positioning it in an historical context.
• New details emerge regarding Star Wars live-action TV series.

Video Games

• Diablo III coming to consoles.
• Kill Screen’s top 25 games of 2011

Writing

• 25 Things Writers should know about finding their Voice.
• A gathering of Neil Gaiman’s laws (all four of ‘em.)

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