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Geek Media Round-Up: July 3, 2008

4 Jul 2008  Media

Film

  • 30 Upcoming Movie Sequels You Didn’t Know About
  • Yet another geeky argument that will never be decided: Indiana Jones vs. Han Solo: Who Would Win?

Internet

  • TheOneRing.net is a fan site that is tracking the progress of The Hobbit, which is scheduled for release in 2011.

Literature

  • The Eat Our Brains blog shares their Top Ten Zombie Haikus to commemorate the upcoming release of the book Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your…Brains.
  • Free Fiction: Helix has posted the intriguingly-titled short story The Mermaids’ Tea Party by Samantha Henderson.
  • Free Fiction: If you haven’t gotten around to checking it out yet, Accelerando by Charles Stross has been made available to the public under a Creative Commons license.
  • Free Fiction: Subterranean Magazine Online is featuring an audio version of the Locus award-winning story “After the Siege” by Cory Doctorow.
  • Free Fiction: Whether or not this is an official release, DivShare has posted The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory.
  • Noted historian Robert Darnton gives an inspiring explanation of Why paper books still matter in his article, The Library in the New Age.
  • “Why do critics still sneer at sci-fi?” is a damn good question.
  • Will there ever be an end to science fiction? Will human science ever advance to the point where we’re only left with things that are impossible to write about?



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