Art
- They make the rounds of the internet every few months, but they’re always worth another gawk. Check out the My Little Pony Sculptures of Mari Kasurinen.
Film
- Entertainment Weekly has posted photos of the upcoming The Book of Eli staring Denzel Washington.
- Geek Tyrant reviews the upcoming Watchmen film, concluding that “I could not have asked for a better adaptation of ‘Watchmen’. The spirit of the graphic novel lives in this movie.”
- Screenwriter David Hayter explains that the ending of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen is different from the graphic novel because of September 11th. (Dun Dun Dun… is there a reason they’ve not told us this until the last minute?)
- Warner Brothers has announced an animated Green Lantern film.
Internet
- The Star Trek: The Experience has been granted a last minute reprieve! Book your vacation now, because there’s no telling how long it will last.
- The Winter 2009 issue of Comic-Con Magazine, the new official publication of the San Diego Comic-Con International, WonderCon, and APE, the Alternative Press Expo is available online now.
Literature
- Free Fiction: Listen to “Ligeia” by Edgar Allan Poe at The Classic Tales Podcast.
- Free Fiction: Read “Herding Vegetable Sheep” by Ekaterina Sedia and “The Loyalty of Birds” by Rachel Sobel at Clarkesworld.
- Free Fiction: Read “Silk and Shadow” by Tony Pi at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
- Review: Cory Doctorow reviews Ian McDonald’s “Cyberabad Days”, an anthology of short stories set in the future India.
- Fantasy Hotlist takes a stab at choosing The Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of All Time.
- Patrick Rothfuss, author of the The Name of the Wind, discusses the release of The Wise Man’s Fear… with comic illustrations. “Kindly die screaming in a fire… P.S. Your tears are delicious to me. *ROFL*
- Science fiction stories in six words, some by well known scifi authors like Charles Stross, David Brin, Harry Harrison, and Vernor Vinge.
- Wil Wheaton weighs in on the Kindle’s Text-to-Speech feature. In short, authors seem to unanimously support the feature.
Video Games
- The Onion asks Are Violent Video Games adequately preparing children preparing children for the Apocalypse?!
Writing
- Watch videos of the Writers On Writing Panel at the NY Comic Con.
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