The Great Geek Manual

Film

• In honor of the late Ricardo Montalban, who died last week, SciFi Wire ticks off 16 Factoids you didn’t know about Star Trek’s Khan.
• List Universe names 15 Great Science Fiction Movies Of The Seventies that you know and love.
• Soundtrack Geek lists The Top 5 Fantasy/Science Fiction Film Scores of 2008, becoming perhaps the first positive list of the new year to include The Day the Earth Stood Still.
• The Tech Republic counts down The 51 geek movies of 2009. It’s not going to be a great year, but it will definitely have its high points.

Internet

• For the young at heart: How to build a Cardboard Spaceship.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Read “26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson and “Dark Rooms” by Lisa Goldstein over at Asimov’s.
• Free Fiction: Wowo is offering a huge batch of top-shelf novels, including “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut, “The Day of the Triffids” by John Wyndham, and “Simulacron-3” by Daniel F. Galouye.
• The Guardian offers up a list of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. The list ends up discrediting itself with attempts to appeal to too broad an audience, but it contains a large number of great vintage reading suggestions.
• Why I Write Science Fiction: An Apology by Alan DeNiro. “If science fiction is a choice that one makes before writing a story, then dismissing it part and parcel simply can’t make sense, especially if particular writers are trying their darndest to reinvigorate the usual, even shopworn tropes-or invent new ones altogether.”

Television

• The classic sci-fi series The Prisoner from the ’60s returns as a reinvented mini-series.
• io9 looks back at BattleStar Galactica’s Top “What The Frak” Moments So Far.

Video Games

• The Escapist has posted what may very well be the greatest video game review EVER. Ironically, the review is what may well be one of the worst games ever.
• Gamersradar looks at Characters you never knew had the same voice actor. Cortana played by Princess Peach?
• Though the theme has been flogged to death, Spike revisits The Top 10 Worst Games Based on Movies.
• Zork! Zork! Zork! The classic interactive fiction game is going to be revamped and remade as an online roleplaying game! Yes, it’s likely to only share its name with the remake, but I’m still excited.