Film
- Are these really The 50 Best Movie Villains? The Times Online thinks so.
- SciFi Wire on What Peter Jackson plans for the two Hobbit movies and why.
- Tolkien’s heirs want production of The Hobbit stopped… bolstering the case that copyright shouldn’t outlive an author for intellectual rights reformists everwhere.
Internet
- COED Magazine has posted a gallery of Cosplay Cuties for theComic-Con 2009.
- EdoPeno also has a gallery of San Diego Comic-Con Cosplay.
- EW names the 23 Sci-Fi Characters You Want on Your Buddy List.
- Joe Abercrombie laments the slow slide of RPG into obscurity, arguing that “RPGs have nothing like the wide cultural purchase they used to…”
- Here’s a playlist of Shakespearean plays available as videos on YouTube.
Literature
- Free Fiction: The latest issue of Bewildering Stories is online.
- Free Fiction: Listen to “The Devil’s Playthings” by Jeffrey Conolly at The Daily Tourniquet.
- Free Fiction: Listen to “Into The Blank Where Life Is Hurled” by Ken Scholes at StarShipSofa.
- Free Fiction: Read “Dragon Treasure” by Phyllis Irene Radford, author of the Glass Dragon series, at Book View Cafe.
- Interview: Ursula K. Le Guin discusses The Left Hand of Darkness with The New Yorker.
- Slate discusses the emerging trend of Vampire popularity.
Television
- Lucy Lawless will be returning to her sword and sorcery roots in Starz’ new epic fantasy series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Promoting the series, the producers promised that the series will have “a death toll like nothing you’ve seen on television before.” Check out the trailer for the series on YouTube.
Video Games
- Sci-Fi Scanner runs down The Coolest Video Games That Don’t Exist.
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