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Geek Media Round-Up: December 19, 2012

19 Dec 2012 Media

Interview: Alice Eve, Benedict Cumberbatch And Bryan Burk talk to Empire about next year’s Star Trek flick, Into Darkness
Interview: Andy Serkis on Gollum return in ‘The Hobbit’
Interview: Director Christopher McQuarrie on Lee Child’s character Jack Reacher
Interview: For ‘Hobbit’ Star Martin Freeman, There Are No Small Roles
Interview: ‘Hobbit’: Ian McKellen,Tolkien guardian, acting wizard
Interview: ‘Hobbit’: Martin Freeman on Bilbo’s courage, moral code
Interview: ‘Hobbit’ Screenwriter Philippa Boyens Won’t Read ‘The Silmarillion’ Again Because It Will ‘Break My Heart’
10 Greatest Cinematic Moments Of 2012
10 Movies To Prepare You For The End Of The World
50 Best Movies Of 2012: As voted for by Total Film writers
The Best Pickup Lines for a Midnight Screening of ‘The Hobbit’
Do We Need a Nick Fury Movie?
James Cameron’s 45-Page Declaration Proving ‘Avatar’ Was His Idea
The Science of High Frame Rates, Or: Why ‘The Hobbit’ Looks Bad At 48 FPS
Three Reasons To See ‘The Hobbit’ That Have Nothing To Do With The Film

Interview: Beyond Elvish with Ursula K. Le Guin and China Mieville
Interview: Brenda Cooper Talks Trans-Humanist Fiction with Ramez Naam
Interview: Locus interviews Elizabeth Bear
Interview: Jim Butcher stopped by the University Bookstore in Seattle WA to promote his new Dresden Files book, Cold Days!
Interview: Macmlilan interviews Brandon Sanderson of A Memory of Light
Interview: Mandy Hager is author of the award winning The Crossing, which has been described as “1984 for teenagers.”
Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Ramez Naam of Nexus
News: The Dragon Lords, world’s first ‘cloud-sourced’ novel, prepares to land. Silvia Hartmann’s latest work was written on an open Google Drive document, with 13,000 collaborators offering critiques and even providing a title.
News: Wheel of Time Book Trailer Played Before Hobbit Screenings
Anti-science fiction: If pseuodoscience proponents can be criticised for distorting complex science for their own ends, then the same argument could be applied to science fiction writers, Simon Dunn argues.
Books for the end of the world
The Guardian picks The 100 greatest novels of all time.
Who’s Afraid of Genre Fiction?

Interview: If the universe is just a Matrix-like simulation, how could we ever know? Physicist Silas Beane thinks he has the answer. “The idea we live in a simulation isn’t science fiction.”