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Geek Media Round-Up: February 18, 2013

18 Feb 2013  Media

Art

UnReal Estate

  • Incredible Concept Art for Pacific Rim
  • Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa built a Lego model of the International Space Station while he was actually ON the International Space Station.
  • The Skywalker Family that might have been

Comics

  • Interview: Colorist Steve Hamaker discusses his work on Jeff Smith’s Bone and RASL as well as Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto comic.
  • Interview: The owner of Third Eye Comics in Annapolis, Maryland, explains why creator signings are an important part of his retailing strategy.
  • News: A new comic book shop opens in San Francisco, digital age or not
  • Gay Writer To DC Comics: ‘Be Better,’ Be Like Superman
  • Graphic Novel Tackles HIV/AIDS Issue
  • Have X-Men comics entered a new golden age?
  • Rumoured New Writers For The Green Lantern Books

Film

  • Interview: ‘John Dies at the End’ Director Don Coscarelli Dishes on Rejection
  • Interview: “Too much of a good thing?” a Joss Whedon interview.
  • Interview: William Shatner Q&A: ‘Star Trek’ icon talks ‘Escape from Planet Earth’
  • News: Joss Whedon wins the British Film Bloggers Circle’s Best Director award.
  • 6 Huge Movie Plot Twists That Caused Even Bigger Plot Holes
  • 10 Best Sci-Fi Films Of The 21st Century So Far
  • Inventing Chell: How J.J. Abrams’ Portal Film Could Take Shape
  • The Really Not That Secret Diary of J P Ellison: Fantasy Series Page Creep

Internet

  • Funny or Die parodies Game of Thrones: Game of Interns

Literature

  • Interview: Reddit Fantasy readers interview Peter V. Brett of The Daylight War
  • News: Random House Penguin Merger Approved By Department Of Justice. All your fiction are belong to us.
  • News: Tolkien School to take place this March at Oxford!
  • 11 Preposterously Manly Fantasy Series
  • 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read (by China Mieville)
  • The Crazy Plan to Save Barnes & Noble
  • An Interactive Analysis of Tolkien’s Works
  • “Used Ebooks” Hurts My Brain
  • Why Terry Deary Is Wrong: The Case For Libraries
  • William Gibson on The Stars My Destination
  • Would you pay to browse for books? Why it will never work for bookstores

Science

  • News: Edinburgh scientists use 3D printing to produce stem cells

Technology

  • News: World’s First Bionic Eye Receives FDA Approval
  • 5 wearable ideas Apple could borrow from sci-fi
  • How Much Money Amazon Is Making From The Kindle

Television

  • News: Chris & Paul Weitz Adapting Neal Stephenson’s ‘Reamde’ For Fox TV
  • News: ‘Doctor Who’ 50th anniversary episode to be directed by Nick Hurran
  • News: Sarah Michelle Gellar to star in Robin Williams’ CBS comedy ‘Crazy Ones’. Let the Buffy comparisons begin!
  • ‘Homeland’ mock RPG video game
  • Love Saves the World: a Buffy essay.

Video Games

  • Game Over? Why Video-Game-Console Sales Are Plummeting
  • ‘Halo’ creator reveals ambitious new sci-fi game ‘Destiny’
  • Top ten most anticipated video games of 2013
  • Six Fascinating, Informative Lectures on Videogames in iTunes U
  • Video Game Violence: Why Do We Like It, And What’s It Doing To Us?
  • What comic books can teach video games about storytelling

Writing

  • 5 Ways A Writer Can Cure Where-do-I-begin-itus
  • 10 Rules We Wish More Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Would Break
  • Endings And Beginnings: Finding The Reader Satisfying “Loops” In Your Story
  • Speechless: Writing Dialogue for Characters Who Don’t Speak
  • Write, Write, Write: The Pressure to be Productive by Zachary Jernigan, author of the recently released No Return.



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