The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Galactic Binder has a gallery of the Top 10 Stormtrooper Crossovers for gawking.
• Gorilla Artfare walks through the stages of creating artwork for the Wizards of the Coast, from the thumbnails through the final touches.

Film

• The Architects’ Journal reflects on The architecture of Star Wars.

Literature

• Free Fiction: Bewildering Stories has posted their latest issue online. Contains some decent reading.
• Free Fiction: Download the ebook “The Digital Plague” by Jeff Somers at Hachette Book Group.
• Free Fiction: Read “Mother Scorpion’s House of Fallen Flowers: A Lucifer Jones Story” by Mike Resnick at Subterranean Press.
• The Guardian ponders Science fiction’s vital contribution to the life of English, saying that, “If you measure the health of literature by its impact on language, than there’s no genre in better condition than SF.”
• Gag me with a stick! Book publishers make a move toward mobile to attract teens? Seriously? Is there any way we could further facilitate the rapidly decreasing attention span of the American teen?

Television

• It’s been officially confirmed. Primeval has been canceled. Not that it comes as a shock to regular viewers. When they switch out the main character and suddenly, the geek gets the girl, the cliff’s edge isn’t far behind. *Sigh* Dinosaurs and a hot chick, people! Why weren’t you watching?!
• Why Star Trek is Finally Cool (Again).

Writing

• Dragon Page hosts an intelligent discussion on the difficulty involved with Becoming a New Author.