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Geek Media Round-Up: February 23, 2010

23 Feb 2010  Media

Art

We Sell Used Cars And Droids…

  • Check out the Star Wars art Dagobaths Au Printemps! and We Sell Used Cars And Droids.
  • Edward Pun has posted a sketch of a (District 9) Santa Prawn.
  • Russian LARPERs, it turns out, take their roleplaying MUCH more seriously than we do.

Comics

  • News: Superman’s debut comic book sells for $1m

Film

  • Interview: Bruce Willis talks Die Hard 5 and Unbreakable 2.
  • News: Fox Grabs Rights to The Fourth Realm Trilogy Sci-Fi Series
  • If you’re a fan of Dirty Harry, you may enjoy the Dirty Harry Filming Locations Blog.
  • MovieFone counts down The 10 Best Twist Endings in Movies.
  • Rumors are already brewing that Alice in Wonderland is going to be a disaster.
  • USA Today discusses how Oscar nominations have raised the profile of the science fiction genre.

Internet

  • Blake Charlton explains How Playing D&D Will Prepare YOU for Medical School.
  • MadAtoms imagines How Fairy Tales would End in 2010.
  • TorrentFreak feels that Piracy Isn’t Killing The Movie Industry, Greed Is.

Literature

  • Interview: The GGGP podcast interviews Blake Charlton, author of SpellWright.
  • Interview: The NewStatesman interviews Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City.
  • Interview: PBS talks with Ursula K. LeGuin about the Google Book Settlement.
  • Interview: Tor.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast has an fun interview with Steve Eley, editor of Escape Pod. [Podcast]
  • Interview: SFX is inviting readers to submit questions for Terry Pratchett.
  • News: Format War Heats Up Among Publishers of Electronic Textbooks
  • John Mullan picks Ten of the best monsters in literature.
  • John Mullan also has a list of the Ten of the best shipwrecks in literature.
  • Over at the Guardian, authors offer their top Ten rules for Writing Fiction. Margaret Atwood’s advice is the best.
  • Sadly, the Internet Review of Science Fiction is closing shop. It will be missed.

Television

  • Count down the seconds until Conan can come back on the air at the Conan Comeback Clock.

Video Games

  • The Feed has rounded up a series of StarCraft II Beta Exclusive Video Interviews!
  • PixelMonster has an infographic of the Numbers behind World of Warcraft.



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