The Great Geek Manual

Art

• 3D Christmas Chalk Art
• 12 cute pics of embroidered comic heroes
• Geekiest Christmas tree ever!
• Gingerbread Companion Cube
• “How Cthulhu Ate Christmas“
• John Carter concept art transports you to the magnificent Barsoom
• Neil Gaiman’s Chilling Christmas Card Story as a creepy Pop-Up Book
• Why Get a Comic Book Tattoo? A tattoo is forever, for the most part. So why do so many people get these things?

Comics

• Infographics: Comics on the 2011 New York Times Bestseller List
• Top Ten Best Graphic Novels of 2011

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Art

• 10 More Nerdy Christmas Ornaments
• Amazing Morrigan Dragon Age cosplay
• Great Zombie Apocalypse Charlie Brown
• Left 4 Dead Fan Film
• Tintin meets Lovecraft. Madness ensues.
• Worst Star Wars Costumes Ever

Cross-Media

• Interview: Making It with Joss Whedon.
• 6 SFF Characters We Want to See Go Evil
• The 10 Creepiest Santa Clauses

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Art

• Angry Birds Christmas Lights
• Beautiful Books and the future of Storytelling (a lecture)
• Neverending Story eReader Cover
• Terry Gilliam Christmas Card
• The World Tree of Hope is dcorted each year with thousands of origami cranes.

Comics

• Sean Murphy ponders the role of inkers in an increasingly digital future.

Cross-Media

• 14 great sci-fi and fantasy detectives who out-Sherlock’d Holmes
• ‘Harry Potter and yoga are evil’, says Catholic Church exorcist…

Film

• News: Potter back where he belongs, says Boris Johnson: Harry Potter film sets will transform Watford into a “place of pilgrimage”, the Mayor of London said today.
• Here’s some impressive screenshots and a new trailer for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City which will hopefully hit shelves early next year.
• Ridley Scott thinks you should only see movies in a movie theatre!

Internet

• Kim Jong-Un Privately Doubting He’s Crazy Enough To Run North Korea: Kim Jong-un, heir apparent to North Korea’s highest government post, expressed doubt that he was sufficiently out of his mind to succeed his father, Kim Jong-il.
• Klip.me is a Chrome extension to send articles to your Kindle with one click.
• Nerds and Male Privilege

Literature

• Interview: 7 Questions with Tobias Buckell
• Interview: A Conversation with Rob Zeigler, author of SEED
• Interview: For Off the Shelf Neil Gaiman tells us about some of his favourite books
• Interview: Gail Carriger interviews Adam Christopher on her blog.
• Interview: James Gurney answers “What inspired you really to create Dinotopia?”
• Interview: Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians on Fantasy as a genre
• 5 of the best SFF books of the year, as chosen by Lev Grossman
• Are eBooks Too Cheap?: Indie Authors Question 99 Cent Price
• The biggest threat to local bookstores? Crazy booksellers and their fanboys
• io9 recommends the 10 Greatest Libertarian Science Fiction Stories
• January Magazine pick the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2011.
• REJOYCE! Brandon Sanderson Has Finished A Memory of Light

Science

• Interview: Lightspeed Magazine interviews Richard Dawkins.
• Interview: The science of a parallel universe: Brian Greene says that concept is more than just a sci-fi plot. The physicist says that, mathematically, the concept of a parallel universe, or many of them, is very possible.
• Bad Science in Star Wars
• The Geology of the Mountains of Madness
• Largest-Ever Simulation of the Universe Revealed. The latest computer model of the cosmos involves 400 billion particles in a box.
• Microbes Found Thriving in Volcanic Mars-like Habitat

Technology

• The 13 best sci-fi workplace tablets of all time
• Libraries Make Room For High-Tech ‘Hackerspaces’: “We see the library as not being in the book business, but being in the learning business and the exploration business and the expand-your-mind business…”
• Michio Kaku looks ahead to smart machines: Life in the year 2100

Television

• News: Goodbye Amy Pond – Karen Gillan to leave Dr Who. The 24-year-old actress – who plays Amy Pond – will be written out in a “heartbreaking” storyline, show boss Steven Moffatt said. NOOOOOOOOOOO!
• 6 Reasons Star Trek: Voyager Never Really Worked
• 10 things you probably didn’t know about ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
• Doctor Who’s top 10 assistants
• Portlandia explains How Battlestar Galactica Can Totally Ruin your Life

Video Games

• “Some games, in other words, have soul. They are soul, they’re about it. They are spiritually nourishing.“

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Download The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis from Ancient Faith.
• Listen to “The Ghost of Christmas Possible” by Tim Pratt at PodCastle.
• Listen to “Misfit” by Marshal Latham at Journey Into…
• Listen to “Saint Nicholas’ Helper” by D.K. Thompson at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Watchbird” by Robert Sheckley at StarShipSofa.

Comics and Graphic Novels

• CBR offers a preview of The Activity #1
• CBR offers a preview of The Infinite TPB, vol. #1
• CBR offers a preview of The Last Battle #1
• Comic Attack offers a preview of Buffy Season 9 # 5
• Comic Attack offers a preview of Conan the Barbarian #1
• Read an excerpt of The Annotated Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman at Tor.com.

Flash and Micro Fiction

• Read the flash fiction “Blang!” by Harris Tobias at Quantum Muse.
• Read the flash fiction “Through the Uprights” by Richard Butner.

Novels and Preview Chapters

• Download Silence the Siren by Jackie MacKenzie at Smashwords.
• Listen to an excerpt of Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson or read the first chapter at the author’s website.
• Read an excerpt of The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham by Nick Mamatas and Brian Keene at Weird Fiction Review.
• Read an excerpt of Postcolonialism and Science Fiction by Jessica Langer at io9.
• Read an excerpt of Switchblade Goddess by Lucy Snyder at Scribd.
• Read an excerpt of The Wind Through The Keyhole by Stephen King at Tor.com.

Poetry

• “The Cabin and the Stars” by C. G. Olsen
• “Imageography” by Robert Frazier
• “On Moving Into Your New Home” by Brit Mandelo
• “Persephone in Autumn” by Mary Turzillo

Short Stories

• Read “Among the Dark Places of the Earth” by Julio Toro San Martin.
• Read “Ash and Dust” by Jennifer Mason-Black at Strange Horizons.
• Read “At Best An Echo” by Bradley H. Sinor at Lovecraftzine.
• Read “Beaumains” by Jo Thomas at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Billy O’Bannon’s Time Travel Dating Service” by Joseph L. Kellogg.
• Read “Black Betty” by Nisi Shawl at Crossed Genres.
• Read “A Clean Sweep With All the Trimmings” by James Alan Gardner at Tor.com.
• Read “The Curator” by Stuart Clark at the author’s website.
• Read “Digitall” by Stuart Clark at the author’s website.
• Read “Elder Instincts” by W.H. Pugmire at Lovecraft Zine.
• Read “If Dragon’s Mass Eve Be Cold And Clear” by Ken Scholes at Tor.com.
• Read “Just An Accountant” by Henrik Sandbeck Harksen at Lovecraft Zine.
• Read “Kolkata Sea” by Indrapramit Da at The World SF Blog.
• Read “The Last Recall” by Mason Ian Bundschuh at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Life in the Clouds” by Helen Lowe at the author’s website.
• Read “Maldoror Abroad” by K.J. Bishop at Weird Fiction Review.
• Read “The Mirror Men” by Stuart Clark at the author’s website.
• Read “My Other Half” by Maria Stanislav at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Nameless” by Helen Lowe at the author’s website.
• Read “Neural Net” by Ken Schneyer at Ideomancer.
• Read “The Orange Tree” by T.O. Giwa at StoryTime.
• Read “The Orphan Queen” by Michael John Grist at Ideomancer.
• Read “Paradox” by Lane Diamond at Smashwords.
• Read “The Parting Glass” by Andrew Penn Romine at Lightspeed Magazine.
• Read “Pawn to King Four” by Timothy Zahn at Baen.
• Read “Portrait of a Courtesan” by Megan Arkenberg at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Reading in Bed” by Joan Aiken at Tor.com.
• Read “The Remote-Controlled Doggirl” by Lara Ek at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Second Place” by Sarah A. Drew at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Signs Following” by Erica Satifka at Ideomancer.
• Read “Stone City, Old as Immeasurable Time” by Kelda Crich at Lovecraftzine.
• Read “Young Lions” by Zachary Jernigan at Crossed Genres.
• Read “Zeppelin Follies” by Cat Rambo at Crossed Genres.

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Audio Fiction and Podcasts

• Listen to “Aldo” by Michael C. Thompson at Dunesteef.
• Listen to “Chicken Noodle Gravity” by J. Daniel Sawyer at Escape Pod.
• Listen to “The Heroics of Interior Design” by Elise R. Hopkins at Drabblecast.
• Listen to “Hunted Heroes” by Robert SilverBerg at DramaPod.
• Listen to “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen at Classic Tales Podcast.
• Listen to “Ties of Silver” by James L. Sutter at PodCastle.
• Listen to “To My Wondering Eyes Did Appear” by Larry C. Kay at Pseudopod.
• Listen to “Torn Away” by Joe R. Lansdale at Fantasy Magazine.
• Listen to “Watchbird” by Robert Sheckley at StarShipSofa.

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Art

• Download Papercraft Star Wars Snowflakes

Comics

• Interview: Scottish novelist/playwright Denise Mina has been chosen to adapt the Millennium Trilogy into comics
• News: Be on the lookout for Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel.
• How To Get Your Girlfriend To Read Comics

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The always-excellent Craig Mod of Flipboard on “beautiful books” and the future of storytelling in age of digital books – a must-watch for any storyteller, designer, and media observer.