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Geek Media Round-Up: March 7, 2013

7 Mar 2013  Media

Cross-Media

  • The 10 Least Competent Time Travelers
  • 10 Robots That Didn’t Get The Credit They Deserved
  • The 12 Worst Things in the Star Wars Expanded Universe

Film

  • Interview: ‘Iron Man 3′ Director Shane Black and Producer Kevin Feige Talk Expectations, Phase 2, Post Credit Sequences and More Marvel Movies
  • News: ‘Matrix‘ Directors Sued: Wachowskis Accused of Stealing Ideas for Sequels
  • 7 Minor Characters in Scifi Movies Whose Fates Are Never Explained
  • The 15 Most Anticipated Films of SXSW 2013
  • Can Disney Keep The $325 Million ‘Oz The Great And Powerful‘ From Becoming Another ‘John Carter‘? Prospects dim.
  • The Best Steampunk Movies
  • Why ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ Is A Major Step Back For Witches and Women

Internet

  • I Married A Fake Geek Girl; A Defense of Casual Fandom

Literature

  • Interview: Frances Hardinge Answers Five Questions about A Face Like Glass
  • Interview: Geeks of Doom interviews R.A. Salvatore
  • Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Emma Newman of Between Two Thorns.
  • Interview: The Quietus profiles Michael Moorcock
  • Interview: The Washington Post interviews Cory Doctorow.
  • 7 YA Series Adults Will Enjoy With Their Kids
  • Food in Science Fiction versus Fantasy
  • Galaxy Magazine, a free online science fiction magazine, is now online!
  • Magical Realism, Real Magic
  • Sleeps With Monsters: is Urban Fantasy Licentiously Liberal?
  • Ten Reasons Why We Love The Fantasy Genre
  • What is Gaslamp Fantasy?
  • Your Brain on Books: 10 Things That Happen to Our Minds When We Read

Science

  • Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Asteroids.
  • Three Ways Video Games Can Improve Health Care
  • Treating Mental Illness in the Digital Age

Technology

  • Feel like Spidey in a real-life spider-sense suit
  • When are we going to learn to trust robots? Never.

Television

  • How TV networks are battling the ever-growing wave of content piracy
  • The strange, secret evolution of Babylon 5 documents the development of the television show Babylon 5, which premiered just over 20 years ago on February 22, 1993 with “The Gathering.” The show made extensive use of the Internet during its development and its run, and a searchable archive of all postings made by the show’s creator, J. Michael Straczyinsky is available at JMSNews (search on Babylon 5 or B5).

Video Games

  • Interview: Bafta awards host Dara Ó Briain on a lifelong love of gaming
  • Interview: Massively interviews Genese Davis, author of The Holder’s Dominion
  • 11 Best Video Game Intros Of All Time
  • The 50 Greatest Heroines In Video Game History
  • I Sold My Video Games To Pay For My Wedding, Said Goodbye to Part Of Myself
  • Lara Croft: the reinvention of a sex symbol
  • The Soapbox: Yes, Virginia, sexism still exists

Writing

  • 7 tips for staying motivated by self-created deadlines
  • Don’t Worry About Other Writers Stealing Your Ideas
  • Four Techniques to Show Rather than Tell
  • Seven Keys to Book Architecture
  • What Makes a Writer Want to Rock Out?
  • When I Stop Believing in Fiction
  • Writing Rules and Fantasy: Stories Need Conflict



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