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Geek Media Round-Up: November 26, 2012

26 Nov 2012  Media

Comics

  • Stephen King’s Debt to Horror Comics

Cross-Media

  • Has the apocalypse gone the way of vampires? It’s become a staple of our entertainment industrial complex, but even armageddon can’t last forever
  • How Vampires Learned to Love Virgins So Much
  • Sci-Fi’s Greatest Flying Cars

Film

  • Interview: David Mitchell, The Art of Fiction No. 204
  • Interview: David Mitchell on Translating ‘Cloud Atlas’ Into the Language of Film
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – 5 Reasons to be Worried
  • Space Opera, Please Come Back « Nerdist

Internet

  • Ecce Orcus! An Argument for Humanizing the Orc

Literature

  • Interview: David Mitchell discusses how his “unfilmable” book, Cloud Atlas, was adapted into a movie.
  • Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Kevin Hearne of Trapped
  • Interview: Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Daniel O’Malley of The Rook.
  • Interview: Sense of Wonder interviews Jo Walton of Among Others.
  • Best and Worst Movies Based on Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books (Sez You)
  • Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology: From the beginnings of modern fantasy, in the work of Tolkien, technology has always been the enemy of the good life. But does it have to be that way?
  • How Space Travel Almost Killed Science Fiction

Science

  • The downside of warp drives: Annihilating whole star systems when you arrive

Television

  • 10 TV Shows Better Than the Books They Were Based On
  • The Complete Guide to Every Single Doctor Who Anniversary Special Ever

Video Games

  • The 4 Secrets Behind Zynga’s Narcotically Addictive Games
  • Gaming made me: RPS writer Patricia Hernandez on how Fallout 2 shaped her world view, her politics and her sexuality.

Writing

  • What Fantasy Writers Can Learn From Horror



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