The Great Geek Manual

Art

• PlanetSurfer presents a gallery of the Top 10 Incredible Robot Art Creations.

Film

• Hollywood is utterly incapable of allowing a franchise to exist fondly in our childhood memories, and never has that been quite so evident as when it was announced that Christian Bale will play John Connor in three sequels to the Terminator franchise.
• Sci Fi Weekly’s Scott Edelman shares a list of ten decent sci-fi films he didn’t see until he read the book 10 Bad Dates With De Niro: A Book of Alternative Movie Lists in his column, An Embarrassment of Riches.

Internet

• Den of Geek lists Seven of the very best Star Wars parodies ever.
• LOL Movies presents Star Wars!
• NASA is offering 3D CGI tours of the largest valley in our solar system.
• Slippery Brick has posted a list of 54 memorable sci-fi robots.

Literature

• Booklist Online has compiled a list of the Top 10 SF/Fantasy for Youth: 2008. The great things about these lists, is that, being in my twenties, I’ve never heard of any these books… of course that doesn’t mean that I’m above check them out now that I have.
• Free Fiction: “Nano Comes to Clifford Falls” by Nancy Kress is on offer over at Fantasy Book Spot.
• Free Fiction: “Not Enough Stars in the Night” by Brendan DuBois is available at Cosmos.
• Interview: Dragon Page interviews author L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
• Interview: The Dead Robots’ Society podcast interviews The Name of the Wind author Patrick Rothfuss
• It Doesn’t Have To Be Right has posted a sequel to its list of Overlooked Classic SF Books.
• Neil Gaiman’s latest book, The Graveyard Book now has its own website.

Television

• Den of the Geek wonders if there is there any future for the sci-fi classic Blake’s 7?
• Entertainment Weekly has posted a list of Television’s best season finales. Star Trek: The Next Generation is robbed when they place it at number three.
• The Happy Fun Pundit makes some really good points in Top 10 Things I Hate About Star Trek.
• I loves me a good rant, and the Sci-Fi Channel is among my favorite targets. Sclerotic-rings has recently posted just such a rant.
• Sy Fy Portal lists Ten Forward: The Most Unjustly Cancelled Series This Decade. Firefly comes in at number one, which shows good judgment, which is entirely negated when Angel is listed as number two.
• A trailer for J.J. Abrams’ newest sci-fi television series, Fringe, is now online.