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Geek Media Round-Up: February 8, 2013

8 Feb 2013  Media

Art

Minecraft Birthday Cake

  • 5 Artists Who Know How To Draw Comic Book Girls right. (Should be longer)
  • How to make your own Minecraft Cake
  • Minecraft Birthday Buffet
  • Mini AT-ST Popsicle Stick Model Tutorial from Instructables

Comics

  • “Anomaly” Detected: The Longest Original Full-Color Graphic Novel Ever Published
  • Lois Lane has died again. In a comic book tie-in to Injustice: Gods Among Us, but still. Corrina Lawson writes about her many, many deaths over at GeekMom.

Cross-Media

  • The 10 Most Useful Gadgets From Science Fiction and Comics
  • My Favorite Cars from Sci-Fi

Film

  • Interview: A conversation with visual effects supervisor Guillaume Rocheron
  • Interview: Hollywood.com talks to Timothy Zahn about ‘Young Han Solo’ Movie
  • Interview: Mark Millar discusses the problems of a Justice League movie
  • Interview: ‘Warm Bodies’ Director: Teen Romance, Undying
  • News: Matt Smith to star in Ryan Gosling’s How To Catch A Monster
  • 8 Awesome Movie Crossovers That Need To Happen
  • If George R. R. Martin wrote it, who would die?: Star Wars Edition
  • SFx presents The Top 10 things we want to see from Jones’ Warcraft movie
  • ‘Star Wars’ Yoda Creator Dies: Why His Work Was Cooler Than Any CGI
  • Ten Genre Movies to Look Forward to in 2013
  • Why Movies Today Are Longer Than Ever Before

Internet

  • Does the Church Have Room for Science Fiction?
  • From the Wire: Netflix Turns Art into Math
  • New Recruit joins the the US Military for the Worst Best Reason Ever.
  • The real reason Gandalf never calls the Eagles

Literature

  • Interview: Apex interviews Seanan McGuire of Midnight Blue-Light Special.
  • Interview: EW talks to Stephen King about ‘The Shining’ sequel ‘Doctor Sleep’.
  • Interview: La Biblioteca de Ilium interviews Christopher Priest of The Islanders
  • Interview: Marie Brennan of A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir.
  • Interview: Peter V Brett of The Daylight War talks to SFX about the third book in his Demon Cycle series
  • The 10 Rights Of A Reader
  • English literature’s 50 key moments from Marlowe to JK Rowling
  • Essential SF Novels: the analysis
  • Locus’ 2012 Recommended Reading List

Science

  • Blogger Bug Girl explains the finer points of male spider anatomy and, also, probably way more than you wanted to know about Peter Parker’s personal life.
  • NASA Will Launch A 13,000-Square-Foot Solar Sail Next Year

Technology

  • 3-D Printed Buildings Coming Soon to a Moon Near You
  • Amazing Visions Of Europe’s 3-D Printed Moon Base
  • Machines that Think Are Improbable
  • Mining Asteroids Could Make ‘Warp Drive’ Possible
  • Top 10 Futuristic Weapons Currently in Development

Television

  • Interview: Nerdist Writers Panel: Robert Kirkman
  • News: George R.R. Martin To Develop New Series for HBO, Because It’s Not Like He Has Other Obligations Or Anything
  • The 10 Most Badass Cartoon Heroines of the ‘80s
  • 10 Reasons The Buffyverse Should Be Back On Our Screens
  • A New Way to Deliver a Drama: All 13 Episodes in One Sitting. Will marathon viewing become the TV norm?

Video Games

  • News: 67% of Republicans Think Video Games Are Bigger Threat Than Guns
  • 5 Ways To Save The Legend Of Zelda
  • Here’s a Tumblr devoted to Skyrim Confessions. Surprisingly, not one of them involves peeing into a bottle rather than pausing the game.
  • When Video Games Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Funs

Writing

  • The Financial Reality of a Genre Novelist
  • Michael Swanwick on How To Win A Hugo.



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