The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Doctor Who in stained glass
• “For a Thousand Years” offers a fresh take on Boba Fett’s final fate
• “Spare Parts” sculptures are part sci-fi tech, part nightmare.
• The Simpsons at Chernobyl
• Zombie Garden Gnomes

Film

• Interview: Hunger Games Star Amandla Stenberg on Fans, Stardom, and Racism
• Interview: Joss Whedon: Social Media Interview
• Interview: Joss Whedon will be answering questions on Reddit, but first, catch up on the latest news with this interview with Pop Candy.
• Interview: Morgan Spurlock on How Comic-Con is Like a Job Fair
• 19 Things We’ve Learned About Prometheus
• The 50 Greatest Comic Book Movie Villains
• The 50 Greatest Fairy Tale Movies
• 60 Greatest Movie Trivia Facts
• The Top 15 Scientifically Accurate Science Fiction Movies
• Was Battle Royale Japanese film an inspiration for “The Hunger Games?”

Internet

• Zombie survival Google Map allows you to find food and guns for the undead apocalypse. (Created using the Google Places API)

Literature

• Interview: Epic Fantasy Interview Swap: Helen Lowe, author of The Gathering of the Lost, interviews Ian Irvine, author of the recently released Vengeance.
• Interview: Episode 014 of the AboutSF podcast is a recording of an interview John C. Tibbetts conducted with Science Fiction author L. Sprague De Camp.
• Interview: Neil Gaiman talks to Stephen King about his new Dark Tower Novel.
• Interview: SmarterTravel interviews George R.R. Martin
• Interview: William Gibson, commenting on this week’s news of a woman being rescued by Ryan Gosling: “Encounters with celebrity are our equivalent of being taken under the hill by fairies.”
• The Atlantic’s List of Greatest Girl Characters in Literature: Really?
• The Greatest Girl Characters of Young Adult Literature
• Hunger Games banned: Hunger Games trilogy becomes a most-challenged book

Science

• Interview: Anthropologist Kathryn Denning talks to Wired about how our cultural narratives affect the way we think about extraterrestrial intelligence and possible contact with alien cultures.
• Do science fiction and fantasy cause recurring dreams?
• Farm-fresh infringement: Can you violate a patent by planting some seeds? This sounds like science fiction, but it’s the present day reality for many US farmers: growing plants could be patent infringement. For a SF take on agribusiness-created plants as intellectual property, read Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Calorie Man”. [PDF]
• How Evolution Defines Mass Effect’s Aliens: Speculation about how the different alien races in Bioware’s Mass Effect universe could have evolved.

Television

• Interview: Matt Groening gave an interview with Smithsonian Magazine recently. Among other things, he reveals where Springfield actually is (in his mind, at least).
• News: Least Surprising News ever: GAME OF THRONES renewed for a third season [More] Now, let’s keep our fingers crossed for another four seasons.
• News: While the last season had some interesting ideas, the payoff wasn’t so great. Still, Starz is willing to give Torchwood another season of weirdness.
• Genre TV Shows That Tried to Reinvent Themselves in Their Final Seasons
• Should Robots Be Treated Like People? Kids Say “Yes” – Sort Of

Video Games

• Blizzard released a featurette about the Barbarians of Diablo III.
• NYTimes article turns into Flash game. DESTROY THE NEWS!
• Snowspot considers possible storylines for Portal 3. Personally, I would like a defense game where you play as GladOs, trying to kill test subjects.

Writing

• Ten Commandments for Editing Someone’s Work

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