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Geek Media Round-Up: August 29, 2012

29 Aug 2012  Media

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Baby Avengers

  • Baby Avengers
  • First Look at All the Weird Alien Designs That Didn’t Get Used in Battleship
  • Miranda Lawson cosplay
  • Neil Armstrong mosaic of keyboard keys
  • Portal 2 Turret Cross-Section

Comics

  • Interview: Geoff Johns and David Finch Add Stargirl, Catwoman, And More To The Brand New ‘Justice League of America’
  • Superheroes Should Never Date Each Other

Film

  • Empire Magazine reveals why there’s no Whedon commentary for UK Avengers.
  • Tom Hanks Takes the Best Fan Photos Ever
  • Watch the beginning of the alternate opening to The Avengers.
  • Watch the deleted Captain America scene from The Avengers.

Internet

  • How To Read Amazon Review Graphs
  • Skyrim Meets Metal
  • So my dad’s workshop got broken into last night but nothing was stolen. We suspect either the alarm scared the thieves off, or the full size Dalek waiting on the other side of the door. Hmm…

Literature

  • Infographic: DNA of a Successful Book
  • Interview: Agony Column interviews Tim Powers of Hide Me Among the Graves
  • Interview: BetterStorytelling talks to Tim Powers of Hide Me Among the Graves.
  • Interview: Functional Nerds welcome Michael J. Sullivan, author of The Riyria Revelations series of books out from Orbit. [Podcast]
  • Interview: GT Almasi, author of Blades of Winter, speaks with My Bookish Way.
  • Interview: HaperCollins’s chief executive, Victoria Barnsley, on the Changing Role of Publisher: “We can’t think of ourselves as book publishers any more.”
  • Interview: Reddit AMA with Chuck Wendig, author of Mockingbird
  • News: Ray Bradbury FBI File: Suspected Of Communist Sympathies
  • Are Amazon reader reviews killing off the critic?
  • Gatekeeping in the World of Ebooks
  • Keeper Kase is a new method for letting authors sign your e-book. Get yours.
  • Sleeps With Monsters: What Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover Stories Reveal About the History of Women in SFF
  • Ursula K. Le Guin contemplates the issues of Libraries and Ebooks
  • What’s your favorite reading position? This is why I switched to audiobooks.
  • Young Adult Fiction’s Hottest New Trend: Mermaids?

Science

  • Watching reruns can actually help restore willpower. Quick! To the Firefly DVDs!

Technology

  • Interview: LeVar Burton on How Science Fiction Influences Technology
  • Find Out What SF Writers In 1987 Thought The World Of 2012 Would Look Like

Television

  • Interview: Matt Smith and Karen Gillan explain how Doctor Who will make the Daleks scary again… and it’s about time!
  • Interview: Q&A with Caroline Skinner, Executive Producer of Doctor Who
  • News: Joss and Jed Whedon to bring S.H.I.E.L.D. to TV.
  • News: ‘Walking Dead’ To Kill A Series Regular In Season Three
  • Not Some New Man: The Hidden Pattern Behind the Doctor’s Regenerations
  • A Warm Welcome for ‘Doctor Who’ in New York

Video Games

  • News: Creepy new monster coming to Minecraft: the Wither Boss – Minecraft

Writing

  • Dark house, empty bowl: on leaving the world for a novel (and making it back alive)
  • Mighty Axes and Beer-Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves in Fantasy
  • Picking Perfect (Character) Names
  • The types of online reviews that drive writers totally nuts



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