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Geek Media Round-Up: November 5, 2012

6 Nov 2012  Media

Art

Haunted Mirror

  • Build your own Haunted Mirror, deck out your own haunted mansion.
  • Check out this real-life, operational Star Wars Astromech Droid
  • Darth Vader tells other Disney-owned characters that he’s their father
  • Doctor Who Cookies
  • The Scifi ABCs (in starships)

Comics

  • News: ‘Graveyard Book’: Neil Gaiman series gets P Craig Russell adaptation
  • News: Mile High is instituting a free comics program for victims of the storm.
  • News: Neil deGrasse Tyson Finds Krypton, Shows Up in ‘Action Comics’
  • The Top 5 Comic Book Video Games

Cross-Media

  • News: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Ian McKellen And Patrick Stewart Save The Park Theatre With The Hobbit Screenplay
  • Stirred, but Not Shaken: I read the books and watched the movies. Here’s what makes James Bond great.

Film

  • 5 Sci-Fi Movies That Should Have Had Sequels… But Never Will
  • 10 movies where video games play big role
  • 10 Reasons Star Wars Movies Are Already Practically Disney Movies
  • 23 People You Didn’t Know Were In A Bond Film
  • 138 Mistakes In The Matrix You Didn’t Notice
  • The Force is strong with dream ‘Star Wars’ directors: A wishlist
  • THE HOBBIT: 14 New Character Posters
  • A New Hope or a Phantom Menace? ‘Star Wars’ Superfans Speak Out
  • Star Wars Episode 7: The Story So Far
  • Star Wars sold with future sci-fi fans in mind
  • Thank You, George Lucas
  • TrekMovie asks Will Star Wars Episode VII announcement hurt Star Trek Into Darkness marketing rollout?
  • Watch IMDB’s Top 250 Films Mashed Up in Under 3 Minutes

Internet

  • Adam West Is Listed Under ‘Bruce Wayne’ And ‘Batman’ In The Phone Book
  • Mr. Burns Endorses Romney

Literature

  • Interview: Gail Carriger interviews M.K. Hobson of The Warlock’s Curse.
  • Interview: Five Minutes With: Iain M Banks
  • Interview: Forthcoming Terry Brooks Video Interview
  • Interview: Hugo-Winning Best Fan Writer Jim C. Hines speaks with SF Signal.
  • Interview: Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman on co-writing a zombie novel
  • Interview: MileHiCon 2012 interview with Wind Up Girl author Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Interview: The Norwich Bulletin interview cyberpunk/sci-fi author Ernest Hogan
  • News: Israeli author Lavie Tidhar wins 2012 World Fantasy Award for “Osama”
  • Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well
  • Is “Catcher In The Rye” outdated and outmoded? Jessica Roake at Slate thinks so. She’s backing “Cloud Atlas” when it comes to the new champion…
  • No Better Spirit: The incredible stories of Ursula Le Guin make arguments about genre seem foolish. (Discover Magazine responds Earthsea is Earth.)
  • Nominees for Best Science Fiction of 2012 -” Goodreads Choice Awards. Vote now.
  • Why E-book Distribution Is Completely and Utterly Broken (and How to Fix It)
  • Why is Amazon deleting writers’ reviews of other authors’ books?

Technology

  • News: ‘Cyborg Tissue’ Created at Harvard. Can functional Borg be far behind?
  • 9 Cyborg Enhancements Available Right Now
  • Top 6 Robots of Maker Faire 2012

Television

  • Interview: ‘Game of Thrones’ season three is best yet, says Kit Harington
  • Interview: Matt Smith on ‘Doctor Who’ future. Smith insists that he doesn’t “give a damn” about being typecast as the Doctor.

Video Games

  • Interview: Wreck-It Ralph’s director on rendering Disney’s film about gaming
  • 10 Worst Video Game Endings Of All Time
  • Download Battlefield 1942 for Free via Origin, but read the small print first.
  • Halo 4 Easter Eggs Guide
  • Halo 4 isn’t coming to the PC, and that’s a mistake

Writing

  • 25 Motivational Thoughts For Writers
  • How To Write When You Don’t Have The Time
  • Theodora Goss on Becoming the Writer.



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