The Great Geek Manual

Art

• 8-Bit Movie Posters from Behance
• Excellent Portal Gun prop demo
• Make your own Hunger Games cookies with this tutorial from Not Your Momma’s Cookie.
• NASA charts out the flow of the oceans over the course of decades in a beautiful video reminiscent of the work of Van Gogh
• Starcraft 2 Propaganda

Comics

• Interview: Joe Hill and Jason Ciaramella WonderCon talk “Locke & Key”
• News: ‘Superman’ rights trial called for by Warner Bros
• SFSignal examines the The Year in Graphic Novels So Far

Cross-Media

• The Top 200 Sexiest Characters In Sci-Fi

Film

• Interview: Joss Whedon, the GQ interview.
• 21 Best Horror Movies of the 21st Century
• The next generation will never know how difficult this decision was.

Internet

• Internet: How George Takei Conquered Facebook
• Batman Pulled Over For Traffic Violations in Maryland, Joker Left To Run Free… plus, a lot more to the story

Literature

• Interview: The BBC profiles the legendary HP Lovecraft
• Interview: Highlights from Sir Terry Pratchett’s presentation at Capclave 2011
• Interview: Qwillery chats with Saladin Ahmed of Throne of the Crescent Moon.
• Interview: Talking with Joe Lansdale: Out on the Edge
• Cultural Exchange: Chinese science fiction’s subversive politics
• Could the Amazon Kindle Revitalize Science Fiction?
• Should science fiction and fantasy do more than entertain? There’s no escaping the fact that writers with a critical understanding of fantastika create better stories
• Ursula K. Le Guin weighs in on The Death of the Book

Science

• Moon Rock Analysis Casts Doubt on Lunar Origins
• Science Fiction or Fact: ET Will Look Like Us

Technology

• I’m not entirely sure this is real, but there may now be a company delivering Tacos by Flying Robot in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’m eager to believe this is true, as the only thing that could make me love pizza night more is if my pizza were robotically delivered.

Television

• TV’s Top 9 Warrior Women… Buffy at number 7.

Video Games

• 9 of the Best (Worst) Fictional Games in Actual Movies
• Mass Effect 3 Outrage Causes Unrelated Game to Change its Ending

Writing

• Interview: Philip Athans on Building Immersive Sci-Fi & Fantasy Worlds
• Eight Reasons Your Story Might Not Be Selling That Have Little To Nothing To Do With Whether The Story Is Any Damn Good
• Eight things I wish a pro had told me

Want more? Check out Geek Art Gallery for more art links and eye candy. Visit Oneironomicon for more on book trailers, reviews,and writing links.