The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Let’s map out all those pesky mythical creatures on a vin diagram!

Comics

• 92 years ago today, Jack Kirby was born, and io9 takes the opportunity to remind us Why Kirby Will Always Be The King
• BoingBoing points the way to a Google map that tracks all the events from issue 1 to 64 of the Walking Dead comic.

Film

• MovieFill has an infographic comparing the gross receipts of geek vs jock films.
• SciFi Squad pick the The Top Ten Sci-Fi Deaths. Wish they’d have gone for the top 100! I’d love to see them all ranked.
• Tarantino’s review There Will Be Blood is not only entertaining but insightful.

Internet

• Jason Sanford asks Is the term SciFi still derogatory?

Literature

• Free Fiction: Listen to “The Graduate Student” by Daniel W. Powell.
• Free Fiction: Read “First Flight” by Mary Robinette Kowal at Tor.com.
• Free Fiction: Scott Lynch has posted an excerpt of his upcoming novel The Republic of Thieves.
• Interview: The AV Club interviews Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians.
• Interview: The Reef Tank interviews Tobias Buckell.
• Interview: SF Universe interviews Wil Wheaton.
• The Consumerist demands answers from Amazon regarding Kindle Licenses, but the answers they get are a bit dodgey.
• Somewhere, Emily Bronte is spinning in her grave as, thanks to Stephenie Meyer, Wuthering Heights once again tops bestseller charts.

Television

• News: Summer Glau joins Dollhouse season two! SciFi Wire has more information. Anyone want to lay odds that the show will get canceled now?
• News: Will Cartoon Network become “The Network”?
• Comedy Central has posted a gallery of clips of Futurama’s Geekiest Moments.
• I’m really not certain io9’s argument that House, M.D. is Science Fiction holds water, but I’m all for a few more fantastic elements.
• Over at NPR, they’re honoring everyone’s favorite kid’s show as Reading Rainbow Reaches Its Final Chapter.

Writing

• Juliette Wade discusses Point of View, Unreliable Narrators, and Subjective Experience.
• Salon dispenses some poetic (and funny) advice when a read admits My friend wrote a horrible novel.