The Great Geek Manual

Film

• io9 believes that Iron Man Will Crush The Hulk At The Box Office
• Jonathan Cowie of Concatenation compares Blade Runner vs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
• Solar Flare has posted a list of Ten Fantasy Books That Should Be Movies. It’s a nice list, but I don’t understand why people always overlook Robert Asprin’s Myth Adventures series.

Literature

• The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. believes that J.K. Rowling Is Wrong to sue to the publisher of The Harry Potter Lexicon.
• Free Fiction: Free SF has posted a pdf version of the short story The Fish Merchant by Tobias S. Buckell, author of Crystal Rain.
• Interview: SF Site interviews Patrick Rothfuss, author of the (amazing) book, The Name of the Wind.
• The UK’s Telegraph takes a look at The fantastic appeal of fantasy. According to Mark Chadbourn, the more rational the world gets, the more we demand the irrational in our fiction.

Television

• CandleBlog asks What’s gone wrong with Battlestar Galactica? Before the episode in which Baltar talks to himself, I might have ignored him.
• Lisa Paitz Spindler has posted a great list of Thirteen Things to Enjoy about BattleStar Galactica.