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Geek Media Round-Up: May 23, 2012

23 May 2012  Media

Art

Westeros Map

  • Calvin and Hobbes Bento Box
  • Game of Thrones fans will find this giant map of Westros very useful.
  • God of War Cake
  • Sci-Fi Ring from The Engraver’s Cafe

Comics

  • Interview: Dave Gibbons talks Watchmen, Secret Service and more at Kapow!
  • The 10 Most Depressing Alternate Realities From Marvel Comics

Cross-Media

  • 10 Epic Villains Who Were Supposed to be One-Offs
  • 11 Particularly Bizarre Methods of Time Travel
  • Rejected Westeros House Mottoes: And the Winners Are

Film

  • Interview: Charlize Theron talks Vickers in a new Prometheus featurette
  • Interview: Mark Millar interview: ‘Kick-Ass’ creator on the movie sequel
  • Interview: Mark Millar talks Supercrooks, Kick-Ass 2, and Ultimates at Kapow!
  • Interview: NerdAppropriate interviews Amy Acker of Cabin in the Woods
  • Interview: Screenwriter Max Landis talks about Chronicle, comic book movies
  • News: The Avengers Blu-Ray details have already been announced.
  • Snow White And The Huntsman: Interactive Trailer
  • Watch Cronenberg’s “Antiviral” in this First Ever Clip!

Internet

  • Smell like an Avenger with your favorite superheroes’ cologne.
  • Strong Female Protagonist is a (currently 16-page, but ongoing) webcomic that “follows the adventures of a young middle-class American with super-strength, invincibility and a crippling sense of social injustice.”

Literature

  • Interview: Chris Roberson discusses his sci-fi epic Further: Beyond the Threshold
  • Interview: Far Beyond Reality interviews L.E. Modesitt Jr. of Princeps and Scholar
  • Interview: The New York Times continues to profile Philip K. Dick: Part 2, Part 3
  • Interview: Stina Leicht, author of Of Blood and Honey, was shortlisted for the Crawford Award and has garnered Leicht a spot on the Campbell award ballot this year. The sequel, Blue Skies from Pain, appeared this year.
  • Interview: Suzanne Collins talks about the hardest part of writing Hunger Games
  • Fantasy: A Subgenre Taxonomy
  • In 1929, John Galsworthy won a Guardian poll as the novelist most likely to still be read in 2029. Three years later, he won the Nobel Prize, and the prices of his first editions skyrocketed. His reputation has since been on a 80-year wane that shows no signs of abating. The New Yorker asks Why is Literary Fame So Unpredictable? And who will they be teaching in literature class a century from now?
  • Just a little light spring cleaning at the library

Technology

  • 5 high school kids built a working BattleStar Galactica Viper flight simulator
  • Sci-fi becomes reality as DNA is turned into living drive able to store data
  • SpaceX finally launches! First private commercial flight takes off – taking with it the ashes of Star Trek legend Scotty

Television

  • News: Doctor Who Series 7: New Companion Will Stay A Mystery Until Christmas
  • 10 genre TV series ranked in order of body count per episode
  • Game Of Thrones: Battle Of Blackwater Trailer

Video Games

  • 28 videogame cameos in the movies
  • ‘Game of Thrones’ Facebook game announced

Writing

  • 10 Writing Myths
  • The 20 Essential LinkedIn Groups for Aspiring Writers
  • Cassandra Clare on the myth that authors Condone what we Depict
  • The Most Successful Self-Published Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors

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