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Geek Media Round-Up: May 13, 2011

16 May 2011  Media

Art

Hansel and Greedo

  • 20 Insanely Creative Bookshelves
  • Mario Mapped out with Math Function
  • Megan Lara’s Nerd Nouveau
  • Portal 2 Propaganda Posters
  • Science fiction films as Tintin covers

Comics

  • How To Find Comic Books That You’ll Love
  • Listverse picks the Top 10 Badass Comic Book Villains

Cross-Media

  • Why Science Fiction Needs Violence

Film

  • Interview: Director Joe Cornish talks about the inspiration behind his sci-fi film Attack the Block – and why he turned a gang of hoodies into movie heroes.
  • 10 Movie Sequels That Were Surprisingly Good
  • The Most Cringe-Worthy Death-by-Zombie Scenes
  • The Six Stages of Movie Geek Evolution
  • Watch the first official TV spot for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.

Internet

  • Discussion: I’m 29 and I still display my superhero toys in action scenes…anyone else? Children of the eighties stand strong!
  • ro.me is a new Google Chrome experiment showcasing WebGL. The project features “3 Dreams of Black,” an interactive film by Chris Milk.
  • SF on Netflix: a flowchart to help you decide which sf series to watch on Netflix.
  • Social Media Has Sapped Wil Wheaton’s Urge to Blog

Literature

  • Interview: AISP talks with Ian Tregillis, author of Seeds.
  • Interview: Apex interviews Jennifer Pelland, author of Ghosts of New York
  • Interview: Cheryl Morgan talks to critic John Clute at his home in North London.
  • Interview: Ian Fydell joins the Dragon Page to discuss Breathing Space.
  • Interview: Jeff VanderMeer interviews Johanna Sinisalo of Not Before Sundown
  • Interview: Joe Haldeman and Jay Lake talk with Locus Magazine at ICFA
  • Interview: John Scalzi answers questions from the reddit SciFi Community
  • Interview: Patrick Hester sits down with M.D. Lachlan, author of Wolfsangel
  • Everything is Nice suggests 20 Works Of Feminist SF
  • Extend the life of your books by handling them properly
  • The Guardian discovers The secret life of libraries
  • Here’s a fantastic gallery of Pulp Fiction Magazine Covers.
  • The Top 100 Fantasy Books of all time … or not

Science

  • 10 Enduring Myths About the U.S. Space Program
  • National Geographic maps out the Universe in this beautiful poster

Technology

  • Google Lobbies Nevada to Allow Self-Driving Cars
  • Luna Personal Robot Brings You Telepresence and More for $3k. Game Changer?
  • The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics – Why We Can’t Control Intelligence
  • The rise of the robo-waiter: It’s an official trend: Robot restaurants have appeared in Japan, South Korea, China and now Thailand.

Television

  • News: ABC cancels ‘V’ and ‘No Ordinary Family’.
  • 7 ways the Smallville TV series changed the comic-book canon
  • io9′s handy What SciFi To Watch flowchart.
  • NBC didn’t pick up the much-questioned ‘Wonder Woman’ TV series
  • Syfy Prepping ‘Warehouse 13′ Spinoff Centered on H.G. Wells Character
  • Watch this fan-made Dollhouse season two trailer.

Video Games

  • 10 Video Games That Revolutionized the Industry
  • The 15 Best Video Game Controllers Of All Time
  • GameFront remembers the Top 10 Worst Video Game Moms
  • Lady Gaga to debut songs from album ‘Born This Way’ on online game ‘FarmVille’
  • Someone has made the Doctor Who episode Maze of the Dead into a top-down dungeon crawler. The controls are a bit temperamental, but it’s still fun.
  • TIME’s video feature on the indie gaming scene
  • The Top 50 Worst Video Game Voices. [Video]
  • The Most Dangerous Video Game Forests
  • WoW… For the rest of us… WTF?! A flash side scroller featuring Freud, Marx and more, done beautifully in the style of World of Warcraft.

Writing

  • C.J. Cherryh: Advice for Writers
  • When Can We Have A Space Elevator?

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.



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