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Geek Media Round-Up: August 6, 2012

6 Aug 2012  Media

Art

Curiosity

  • Borg-shaped wedding cake made by Colorado based Sugar Plum Cake Shoppe.
  • Here is the first launch art for Doctor Who Series 7.
  • Inspector Spacetime Poster

Comics

  • 10 Things I Learned From Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Film

  • Interview: Actor Adam Baldwin talks with Stan Lee and co-host Jenna Busch about the directing styles of Stanley Kubrick and Joss Whedon
  • Interview: Total Recall Director Len Wiseman Talks Ambiguity, Action, Art, & 3D
  • News: Joss Whedon gets the “Hottest Director” award from Total Film.
  • News: Library Patrons’ Want E-Books Over Every Other Downloadable Media
  • News: Warner Brothers Wants ‘Batman’ Reboot To Hit Theaters In 2016
  • 10 Most Inventive Shots in Cinema History
  • 15 Reasons Tim Burton’s Batman is Better Than Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight
  • Comic Books (and Movies About Them) Aren’t to Blame
  • The Dark Knight Rises, and When Comics Get Political
  • Everything Peter Jackson added to The Hobbit — with PROOF!
  • Have Severed Robot Head, Will Travel: 5 Ways a Prometheus Sequel Could Work
  • In defense of comic book movie reboots.
  • Read Carl Sagan’s letter (politely) telling Warner Bros. their Contact script sucked.
  • Ten Things You Should Know about “Total Recall”

Literature

  • Interview: R.A. Salvatore is releasing Charon’s Claw, the third Neverwinter Book.
  • Interview: Speculate! continues their show Throne of the Crescent Moon, the new sword and sorcery book by Saladin Ahmed.
  • News: Amazon eBook Sales have overtaken Print in the UK
  • News: New York Times columnist steals ebook, then pays for it
  • Fantasy, the Poor Cousin of Science Fiction
  • In The E-Book World, Are Book Covers A Dying Art?

Science

  • This is truly astonishing: the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped what may turn out to be the Space Picture of the Year: Curiosity descending to Mars under its parachutes!

Television

  • News: He done it. He’s hit rock bottom: M. Night Shyamalan Developing TV Pilot for Syfy. Next stop, late night cable infomercials.
  • Ten essential MST3K episodes, as chosen by The A.V. Club
  • The Top 10 best Game Of Thrones songs.

Video Games

  • Sexual Harassment in Online Gaming Stirs Anger



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