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Geek Media Round-Up: March 17, 2010

17 Mar 2010  Media

Art

  • Books on Mars has a gallery of Pulp Magazine covers from Amazing Stories.

Film

  • Interview: SciFi Wire interviews Jeff Bridges about Tron Legacy.
  • John Scalzi explains Why Hollywood Always, Always Gets the Future Wrong.
  • Missions Unknown! offers alternatives to film remakes in Scrap the Remakes and Film These Books Instead.

Internet

  • GeekDad offers these Top 10 Geeky Excuses For Missing MegaCon.
  • James Bowen is offering a free, downloadable tabletop wargame called Flipit. You can download the rules, fold up the 3D paper models, and play a game for next to nothing next time you’ve got a day to kill.
  • Strippers and pr0n stars play D&D in the mildly humorous web series I Hit It With My Axe at The Escapist. So far, it’s been mostly SFW, but no guarantees of where this is leading.

Literature

  • Interview: GeekDad interviews Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice with Zombies.
  • News: Amazon Threatens Publishers as Apple Looms
  • Jo Walton explains Why Fantasy and SF might be disguised as each other.
  • Locus Magazine talks about Sequels in the Genre aisle.
  • Over at the Huffington Post, Michael A. Stackpole weighs in on the question Will Ebooks Kill The Joy of Reading? Of course, if you’ve been listening to The Dragon Page, you’ll already know his opinion on the issue.
  • Short is sweet when it comes to fiction, argues the Guardian.

Television

  • News: Tom Baker Returns to Doctor Who



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