The Great Geek Manual

Film

• News: Despite all the buzz, the release of Scorcese’s Shutter Island has been bumped back to February 19, 2010, effectively removing it from all Oscar consideration.
• News: Movie theaters cut back on printing show times in papers as moviegoers go digital.
• At AMC, Mary Robinette Kowal lists Fantasy’s Top 10 MacGuffins.
• District 9 was about Apartheid. Argument over.
• Over at Comic Book Resources, Don Cheadle Talks Iron Man 2.
• Screenhead has a nice list of Top 10 forgotten and underrated Sci-fi movies.
• While many of us are eagerly awaiting the Halo movie, io9 has a gallery of 10 Video-Game Movies You’ll See Before Halo.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Listen to “Foam on the Water” by Cat Rambo at PodCastle.
• Free Fiction: Read “Charms” by Shweta Narayan at Fantasy Magazine.
• Free Fiction: Read “Oil Fire” by Kate MacLeod at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
• Free Fiction: Read “The Ruined Queen of Harvest World” by Damien Broderick.
• Free Fiction: Read the short horror story “Yellow Warblers” by Jason Sizemeore of Harlan County Horrors.
• Interview: Subterranean Press interviews The Red Tree author Caitlin R. Kiernan.
• Book Screening is a blog that features book trailers from around the web.
• Book Stove takes a stab at picking the Top 10 Science Fiction Authors of All Time.
• The Christian Science Monitor asks How green is my Kindle?
• Michael Moorcock reviews The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry. Along the way he talks a bit about the Steampunk phenomenon.
• The Price of eBooks continues to raise controversy around the web, and SFX share a few thoughts on the topic.

Television

• 15 and Counting has posted the BEST condom adverts ever.
• Topless Robot lists The 10 Most Memorable Monsters Encountered by the Red Dwarf Crew.
• UGO has posted Four New Promo Posters for Dollhouse. The photos come close on the heels of the show’s latest Promo Photos.

Video Games

• Brand Weeks asks Why Are Games Based on Films So Lame?
• Hot Hardware reports that Blizzard Spills Details on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
• VG Chartz looks back at the Top Ten Best Game Over Screens ever.

Writing

• Author 2 Author asks Do book trailers sell books?