The Great Geek Manual

Art

• The Lego Matrix features a series of scenes from The Matrix recreated with Legos.

Comics

• AV Club has compiled a great list of The best comics of the ’00s.

Film

• News: Straczynski says that his script for a potential Silver Surfer movie is complete, but that development on the film has stalled.
• Watch Pieces of April over at SlashControl for free!

Internet

• College Humor envisions 5 Star Wars (Facebook) Status Updates.
• GeekDad puts a Thanksgiving twist on some of sci-fi’s best lines!
• Noveller, for those novels you write throughout the day. (At the noveller site, try signing up. Hysterical!)

Literature

• Interview: Editors Unleashed interviews Literary Agent Ginger Clark.
• Interview: Frightening Journeys interviews Lauren Beukes.
• Interview: Innsmouth Free Press interviews Aliette de Bodard.
• Interview: The Interstitial Arts Foundation interviews Alaya Dawn Johnson.
• News: Amazon asks judge to reverse approval of new Google deal.
• News: Borders’ website suspends book sales.
• News: Magazine Publishers to Build an Online Newsstand
• Barry Malzberg contributes this commentary on the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
• Borders offers up a list of Books to Die For (in two parts), including The Road.
• The Standard Examiner compares Twilight and the earlier novel Angel Falling Softly.
• Suddenly publishers are starting to freak out over “ebook piracy,” claiming (totally inaccurately) that they’ve lost $600 million to it.
• Strange Horizon bemoans the recent trends of Young Adult SFF and the Adolescent Body, pointing out that Twilight’s Bella is the aggressor.
• Write Anything explains Why Science Fiction is Important

Writing

• Jim Rubart offers up Four Major Marketing Principles of publishing. (Part 2)
• Online Classes recalls the Top 10 Plagiarism Scandals of All Time.