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Geek Media Round-Up: August 3, 2009

3 Aug 2009  Media

Art

Beautiful Book Covers by Dan dos Santos

  • Abduzeedo has posted a gallery of Beautiful Book Covers by Dan dos Santos, including more than a few you might recognize if you’ve been to a bookstore lately. (Remember back in the days when all fantasy covers were done by Darrell K. Sweet and like two other artists?)

Comics

  • BoingBoing points the way to more on The sad fate of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster.

Film

  • Director and writer David Twohy discusses the third installment in the Riddick franchise. Evidently the problem movie forward is that he doesn’t want any more PG-13 Riddick flicks.
  • John De Lancie discusses the Reboot of Star Trek.
  • Movie Buzz names The Top 10 Worst Comic Book Casting Mistakes, but I would have broadened “Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool” to “Ryan Reynolds as anything.”
  • Screen Junkies counts down 10 Kick-Ass Movie Preachers.
  • The Wolverine Anime Trailer looks terrible. What did they do to Wolverine?

Internet

  • Cracked.com points out 4 Reasons to Hate Comic-Con.
  • io9 rounds up a list of Science Fiction’s Scariest Priests and Preachers.

Literature

  • Free Fiction: The latest issues of Antipodean, Clarkesworld Magazine, Reflection’s Edge, and Sorcerous Signals are now available online.
  • Free Fiction: The latest issue of Crossed Genres alternate history stories is out.
  • Free Fiction: Listen to “Pestworld” by Colin Davies.
  • Free Fiction: Read the classic short story “They Twinkled Like Jewels” by Philip José Farmer at Project Gutenberg.
  • Free Fiction: Read “Glassface” by James Trimarco at Futurismic.
  • Free Fiction: Read “Scarlett” by Mike Brotherton at the author’s website.
  • io9 offers up their Favorite Last Lines From Science Fiction Novels.

Television

  • Cracked.com speculates on 5 Cobra Commander Terror Plots That Might Actually Work… which is weird, cuz when I was twelve, I could’ve sworn they’d all work.
  • Watch the classic The Real Ghostbusters episode “The Collect Call of Cathulhu” at The Retroist.

Writing

  • Editor Unleashed explains Why Writers Should Consider ePublishing.
  • Tor.com asks What is historical fantasy?



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