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Geek Media Round-Up: March 6, 2013

6 Mar 2013  Media

Art

Murderous Automatons

  • Adorable Doctors Who Crochet Amigurumi Dolls and Matryoshka Dolls up for sale.
  • Baznet mashes up your favorite pop culture fandom with Donkey Kong
  • George R.R. Martin Calendars Are Coming

Comics

  • Interview: Comics Beat interviews Gail Simone of Batgirl discusses writing Red Sonja For Dynamite

Cross-Media

  • 10 greatest handguns in all of science fiction and fantasy.
  • The 10 Greatest Science Fiction Board Games of All Time
  • 30 Greatest Sci-Fi Siblings

Film

  • Interview: ‘Avengers 2 digs into character relationships’ says Joss
  • Interview: CraveOnline’s interview with Derrickson and Cargill of Sinister. (Part 2)
  • Interview: Liam Neeson says there’s no Taken 3: “that’s just bad parenting.”
  • Interview: Mila Kunis Takes Nervous BBC Radio Personality By The Hand And Gives Him The Interview Of His Life. Really funny / cool interview for Oz.
  • Interview: Sam Raimi discusses why he’s not doing the World of Warcraft movie
  • News: Christopher Nolan In Talks To Oversee Justice League. Forbes magazine hypothesized that a Christopher Nolan produced Justice League movie could break the $2 billion mark.
  • News: ‘The Hobbit 3′ Release Date Delayed To December 17, 2014
  • Director James Mangold Reveals List Of Films That Influenced THE WOLVERINE
  • “If nothing else, “Argo” is an exercise in American exceptionalism – perhaps the most dangerous fiction that permeates our entire society and sense of identity. It reinvents history in order to mine a tale of triumph from an unmitigated defeat. Nima Shirazi explains what’s wrong with Argo’s depiction of the Iranian hostage crisis.
  • Here’s a Supercut Dedicated to “The Art of Steadicam“
  • The Top 10 best horror sequels you thought were rubbish
  • Was There an Octopus in The Goonies? Legend Revealed
  • Who Should (And Could) Replace Tony Stark?
  • Why are there so many great cyberpunk games, but so few cyberpunk movies?

Internet

  • Students spend two years building a 10-foot Tesla coil that shoots sparks to the Super Mario Bros. theme song

Literature

  • Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Betsy Dornbusch of Exile.
  • Interview: The Qwillery interviews Francis Knight of Fade to Black.
  • Interview: SF Site interviews Kathleen Goonan of In War Times.
  • Interview: Writer’s Digest Q&A with debut author Miriam Forster of the Young Adult Novel, City of a Thousand Dolls
  • News: Gen Y: the most book-loving generation alive? “Believe it or not, Generation Y might just be the most bibliophilic generation alive” according to new study.
  • “If George R. R. Martin wrote it, who would die?” (Lord of the Rings Edition)
  • A Librarian on What the Library Means to Me.
  • Literary vs. Genre Fiction – What’s All the Fuss About?
  • Politics and SF/F: Like peanut butter and chocolate
  • Why Sorcerers Have Long Grizzled Beards

Science

  • Authors push science beyond the lab into fiction and fantasy
  • Mars May Be Habitable Today, Scientists Say

Technology

  • DARPA’s BigDog Gets a New Arm. Now it can kill you with a cinder blocks. Why the hell are are we making robots more lethal?

Television

  • Interview: ‘Buffy’: James Marsters on Spike, Spock and romantic vampires
  • Interview: Game of Thrones stars Sophie Turner and Rose Leslie talk season 2.
  • News: ‘Game of Thrones’ launches traveling exhibit with props from show
  • ‘Doctor Who’ new episode images: Ice Warriors and fez return
  • Joss Whedon shares his favourite Buffy episodes. Digital Spy lists the five greatest Buffy episodes in response.
  • Why Netflix thinks Buffy is a “guilty pleasure” – and why it isn’t.

Video Games

  • Interview: NYU assistant arts professor Jesper Juul explains why failing at videogames makes us unhappy
  • Interview: Scott Hartsman pontificates on the future of MMOs
  • News: Seniors who play video games report better sense of emotional well-being. Clearly they aren’t playing against the little bastards who populate XBox Live.
  • 10 Signs You Are A Video Game Snob
  • Dear Game Devs: Please Stop Telling Us $60 Isn’t A Lot Of Money
  • A Plea for the Gaming Industry to Respect Gamers: With microtransactions set to become even more prevalent, publishers need to be considerate.

Writing

  • News: Amazon May Have Just Killed Free Kindle eBook Promotions
  • The 5 Least Promising Scenes for a Superhero Story
  • 10 things writers should know about knives and knife fighting
  • Marie Brennan on How to write a long fantasy series.
  • Three Questions to Get to the Heart of Your Story
  • Three Warning Signs When Bringing Your Own Emotions into Fiction Writing
  • Writing And The Monomyth



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