The Great Geek Manual

Film

• News: Edward James Olmos is joining Green Hornet.
• News: Will Steven Spielberg direct the Halo movie? Maybe if we beg?
• Alltop.net picks The Top 10 Ridiculous Movie Face-Off Titles, but forgets the absolute worst: Samuel Jackson versus Snakes.
• IGN beams up the Top 10 Aliens Among Us Movies.
• Ouch! It looks like Cameron Diaz just spoiled the twist at the end of the upcoming science fiction movie The Box. [Spoilers!]
• The true story behind Tarantino’s upcoming Inglourious Basterds.
• VideoHound asks Neill Blomkamp “Would District 9 have happened if Halo had gone forward?” among other things.
• Wired looks back at Vintage Mexican Sci-Fi. Mexico has sci-fi?

Internet

• Come to think of it… this is How Return of the Jedi ended. Damn you, George Lucas, will we be left with none of our illusions.
• What do the G.I. Joes do when they’ve got some free time? The Ballad of G.I. Joe

Literature

• Free Fiction: Listen to the short story “Castor On Troubled Waters” by Rhys Hughes at PodCastle.
• Free Fiction: Read the short story “Finisterre” by Maria Deira at Strange Horizons.
• Free Fiction: Read “A Hundredth Name” by Christopher Green at Abyss and Apex.
• Free Fiction: Strange Horizons interviews David Weber, author of the excellent book By Heresies Distressed.
• Interview: Neil Gaiman and Cory Doctorow discuss Giving It Away.
• Interview: SciFiChick interviews Kevin J Anderson.
• Interview: Worlds Without End has an audio interview with Robert J. Sawyer.
• Author Paul DiFilippo looks at three of the founders of the cyberpunk genre in Aging Chrome: Cyberpunks in 2009.
• The Los Angeles Times laments The Lost Art of Reading.