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Geek Media Round-Up: February 19, 2013

19 Feb 2013 Media

Art

10 Star Trek collectibles from Toy Fair you’ll want to beam home
Moss from It Crowd …in LEGO
What kind of maniac buys a hand-illustrated car? Can you even imagine how paranoid you’d be about dinging that thing? Why does nobody illustrate anything that sits safely in your house, like a fridge or a washer?

Comics

Interview: Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso talks to CBR
News: AdHouse will be printing Boulet’s 24-Hour Comic, Darkness, in April.
An Open Letter to the Creators of Sexist Fantasy and Comic Book Art

Film

Interview: Acting Triple-Threat Zachary Quinto Discusses His Latest Projects
Interview: Riddick Director David Twohy On An R Rating
Interview: So here’s Ewan McGregor’s idea for an Obi-Wan Star Wars spinoff
Bryan Singer Tweets Behind-the-Scenes X-Men Days of Future Past Picture
Newsarama on the 10 Best Comic Book-Based Performances of All-Time.
A recent article claimed that the Battle of Hoth was Darth Vader’s least-finest military hour. The defense-geek section of the internet would beg to differ, risking being choked over a viewscreen by a Sith Lord for their impudence.

Internet

News: San Diego Comic-Con tickets sold out in 93 minutes on Saturday.

Literature

Interview: Apex interviews Rachel Swirsky of Oz Reimagined
Interview: H.E. Goodhue of Zombie Youth: Playground Politics on SF Signal.
Interview: Lytherus interviews Gail Carriger of Etiquette & Espionage.
Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Francis Knight of Fade to Black.
Interview: The Roundtable Podcast interviews Tobias Buckell of Mitigated Futures.
Interview: Sword & Laser talks to Trudi Canavan of The Magician’s Apprentice.
Campbell-award winning science fiction writer Jay Lake has cancer. His prognosis at this point is not good, but there is a distant hope – cancer genome sequencing. This is an expensive process, so the science fiction community got together and held a fundraiser, volunteering “Acts of Whimsy” as rewards for various monetary goals. The results were whimsical indeed. The rewards were many and varied: Tobias Buckell, Jim C. Hines, and Patrick Rothfuss. The fundraiser hit 50% of its goal in about an hour, and, once PayPal was cajoled into unfreezing Lake’s account, ultimately reached 243%. Jay was, and is, most grateful.
A “Natural History of Dragons” Music Playlist
Nothing Lasts Forever, the novel by the late author Roderick Thorp that was adapted into the first Die Hard film is about to be re-issued. This site includes a list of 42 plot points from the novel that ended up in the first movie.
SF Weapons 101: An Introduction
Why a beautiful Zelda tome is still outselling every book on Amazon. Don’t look now, but as of this writing a detailed hardcover on the history of a videogame is both a New York Times #1 best-seller and the number one selling book on Amazon in the U.S. The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia was originally available in 2010 as a Japan-only celebration of Nintendo’s long-standing franchise. This love manuscript to Link began as a shared project between Nintendo and Shogakukan, a major Japanese publisher of books and manga, to showcase unearthed concept art, design plans, storyboards and an “official” timeline of the Zelda world’s twenty-five years.
Why eBook Retailers Are Embracing Self-Published Authors
Why Stephen King was wrong to publish ‘Guns’ as a Kindle Single