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Geek Media Round-Up: April 27, 2009

27 Apr 2009  Media

Comics

Retro Harry Potter cover

  • Thomas the Innkeeper names the Hottest Women in Comics and Anime in a surprisingly long list.
  • What if… Wolverine Battled Conan the Barbarian. Get it before they take it down.

Film

  • Ask Men has posted a gallery of photos of the Top 10 Crazy Movie Stunts.
  • Star Trek is way cool. How’d that happen? Because the geeks have inherited the earth, and the White House.

Internet

  • Twitter is great from watching uninformed panics live.

Literature

  • Free Fiction: Read “Children of the Fire” by Melissa Mead at Aberrant Dreams.
  • Interview: SciFiDimensions interview Robert J. Sawyer, author of WWWWake.
  • The Harry Potter series get the retro cover treatment.
  • L.E. Modesitt, Jr. discusses The Impact of Technology on Reader Civility and what he calls “the enshrining of the validity of each individual’s opinion.”
  • In London, the Espresso Book Machine has been launched. The device, which looks like a large photocopier, can print any of 500,000 titles while you wait. It may fundamentally change the way bookstores everywhere work.
  • Joss Whedon delivered an awesome acceptance speech when he was awarded the Bradbury Award for excellence in screenwriting from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. [Video]
  • Who Killed the Bookstore? The Reader, at Home, With the Computer.

Television

  • Interview: Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper discuss the upcoming Stargate Universe TV series in an interview with Gateworld.

Video Games

  • GamePro looks at The 9 Greatest Fictional Video Games from movies and TV shows.

Writing

  • Author Jim C. Hines discusses The Writer as Martial Artist, where the black belt is a completed novel.
  • You’ve Written a Novel. Now What? Writing a novel is only the first step to getting published. Believe it or not, it’s the easiest step.



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