The Great Geek Manual

Film

• News: Nollywood (sic) director Tchidi Chikere asks Is Africa Ready for Science Fiction?
• Ebert attacks hesitant adopters of Miyazaki’s work in his review Ponyo: “Is it only dubbed? All animated films are dubbed! Little Nemo can’t really speak!”
• Retrocrush has posted a gallery of video clips from The 20 Best Zombie Movies Of All Time.
• Seriously, I’m never going to trust a New York Press review ever, ever again. WTF?
• The Sprout Blog picks the 9 Greatest Human-Alien Sex Scenes ever seen on the silver screen.

Internet

• Awesome! A paper published at uOttawa presents a Mathematical Model of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Read “A Fantasy of Hope” by Jonathan Wood at Daily Cabal.
• Free Fiction: Read “Dust” by Mari Ness at Everyday Weirdness.
• Interview: Kage Baker, author of The Hotel Under the Sand, speaks with Omnivoracious.
• The SFWA has released a statement on the proposed Google book settlement: “For the record, SFWA believes that the proposed Google Book settlement is fundamentally flawed and should be rejected by the court.”
• Spiral Galaxy Reviewing Laboratory suggests Non-Fiction for SF Fans.

Television

• News: AMC has acquired the rights to the The Walking Dead comic series… Should we be excited that a great comic is getting its own series or upset that the series will air on AMC?

Writing

• The comments on Two Things That Don’t Help a Query are nearly better reading than the article itself, which is always a great sign that a site needs bookmarking.
• Dean Wesley Smith puts a name to the Stages of a Writer.
• Hugo-Winner Ellen Datlow discusses the Art of Editing Short Fiction.