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Geek Media Round-Up: March 11, 2013

11 Mar 2013  Media

Comics

  • Interview: Former President of DC Comics Paul Levitz Talks the History of DC
  • News: Marvel giving away 700 first-issue digital comics for free
  • News: Superman comic artist Chris Sprouse withdraws amid anti-gay controversy
  • China Miéville deconstructs superhero comics in the outstanding Dial H
  • Comic books becoming a battleground for gay rights

Cross-Media

  • Blood and Brains – can vampires survive a zombie apocalypse?
  • Full list of the 2012 nominees for the Nebula Awards.

Film

  • Interview: Lucas: ‘Star Wars VII’ to reunite original stars
  • Interview: Joss on a new Hulk movie: Mark Ruffalo required
  • Interview: Robot master behind ‘Men in Black’ and ‘Hellboy’ shows us how movie magic is made
  • First trailer for Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing.
  • J.J. Abrams didn’t want Star Wars and 6 Other Secrets Behind Lucasfilm Deal
  • Joss Whedon’s Shakespearean road trip for ‘Much Ado’
  • The Ridiculous ‘Red Dawn’ Remake Is Even More Absurd Than You Think
  • Ten serious sci-fi films for the sentient fan

Internet

  • News: Chris Hardwick Q&A: Nerdist network overlord talks geek culture
  • Here’s an archive of just about every issue of Dragon magazine
  • How I Got 10,000 Twitter Followers In A Week: Alastair Duncan, the creator of the popular Twitter account Star Trek & The City (previously), discusses his viral fame and interviews the creators of other popular Twitter parodies

Literature

  • Interview: Peter V Brett of The Daylight War talks about writing.
  • Interview: Warm Bodies author Isaac Marion
  • Ebook Index of Free Ebooks for the Kindle

Technology

  • 8 Sci-Fi Gadgets That Could Soon Become Real
  • 20 Lies Back to the Future II Told Us (Besides the Hoverboard)
  • Cypherpunk rising: WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia

Television

  • Interview: Joss Whedon tells SXSW crowd how he’ll bring back Coulson
  • Interview: Liveblog of the SXSW Much Ado About Nothing Q&A.
  • Interview: Steven Moffat says he has “no plans” to bring back Amy and Rory
  • The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi TV Shows
  • The Buffy theme in reverse.
  • The 5 Best New Doctor Who Monsters

Video Games

  • Interview: PBS profiles Ralph Baer, the “Father of Video Games”
  • Interview: Ultima Creator Richard Garriott Revolutionized Video Game RPGs. Now He Wants To Do It Again
  • Interview: Video games mean losing. So why play? Q&A with Jesper Juul, an assistant professor at the New York University Game Center.
  • News: Video Games May Aid Children With Dyslexia
  • Arguing About Videogames Is the Cheapest Entertainment of All
  • If anyone wants to try it out, the Minecraft 1.5 pre-release version is ready
  • Study Predicts Which StarCraft Race Will Conquer Space

Writing

  • Are You Sure Your Query Is Ready? A Checklist for Successful Submissions
  • How to Raise the Stakes in Your First 50 Pages of Your Novel
  • How realistic does a created world have to be? A Google+ Hangout Report
  • Water as a metaphor
  • What B Movies Can Teach Us
  • Why You Should Work From a Coffee Shop, Even When You Have an Office



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