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Geek Media Round-Up: February 6, 2009

6 Feb 2009  Media

Comics

Green Lantern's Power Ring

  • IGN has an interview with Michael Green, who co-wrote the Green Lantern film script.

Film

  • John Christopher’s The Tripods Trilogy is being adapted for a film production, but for my money, the BBC got it right with their uncompleted miniseries.
  • New images from Terminator Salvation have been released.
  • Nick Nadel reflects that Heath Ledger Owes His Oscar Nomination to Superman.
  • SCI FI Wire has post a photo of the new T-600 from Terminator: Salvation.
  • Time Magazine profiles the upcoming stop-motion film Coraline.

Internet

  • Slashfilm looks at the SkyWalker Ranch.
  • Topless Robot makes 10 Helpful Suggestions for Killing John Connor.

Literature

  • Free Fiction: Read “A Plague From the Mud” by Alan Polson, “Dark Planet” by Lavie Tidhar, and “Tearing Down Tuesday” by Stephen Francis Murphy at Apex Online.
  • Free Fiction: Read “The Second Gift Given” by Ken Scholes at Clarkesworld Magazine.
  • Interview: SCI FI Wire interviews Richard K. Morgan, author of The Steel Remains.
  • Just when you thought the attention spans of Americans couldn’t get any shorter, now, for those of you incapable of sitting through an audiobook, HarperCollins introduces Video Books.
  • The Guardian reflects on The Next Generation of Sci-fi Writers.

Television

  • Check out a preview of the remake of The Prisoner, starring Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen.
  • I object to anything from the CW being included in any list, but apart from a Smallville includion, Film.com gets it right with their list of the Best Sci-Fi Shows for Non-Science Fiction Fans.

Theater

  • Manhattan Theatre Source is staging a play based on Karel Capek’s classic 1921 play R.U.R., in which the work robot was originally coined, Universal Robots.



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