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Geek Media Round-Up: November 7, 2008

7 Nov 2008  Media

Comics

DragonLance Chronicles

  • Topless Robot counts down The 12 Dumbest Spider-Man Stories Ever.

Film

  • The BBC features an interview with the James Bond set designer, Sir Ken Adam.
  • Newsarama looks at The 5 Most Scientifically Plausible Sci-Fi Movies, though, for the record, I would like to add Terminator, mainly because we gave the robots the ability to construct other robots.
  • There’s little doubt that 007 is the ultimate ladies’ man, but he’s not always muy swave, as Den of Geek demonstrates with its list of the Top 10 Most Uncool James Bond Moments.

Literature

  • Amazon.com shares its picks for the Best 10 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Books of 2008.
  • Free Fiction: Read “The Eternal Wall” by Raymond Z Gallun at Feedbooks.
  • Free Fiction: Read “The Nest Building Habits of Children Inclined to Ornithomancy and Other Such Auguries” by Berrien C. Henderson at Dark Fantasy.
  • Free Fiction: Read “Waiting for Rain” by Mary Robinette Kowal at Subterranean Online.
  • io9 takes a look at Women Who Pretended to Be Men to Publish Scifi Books. Most of them are surprisingly popular authors, but, as I always knew Andre Norton, CJ Cherryh, and JK Rowling were female, I wonder how effective any of these nom de plumes really were.
  • Interview: SciFi Wire interviews Jim Butcher, author of the Harry Dresden series.
  • MightyGodKing has posted a hilarious gallery of re-titled genre novel covers.

Television

  • Sci-Fi Wire has officially sided with every adolescent male on the planet in naming Summer Glau the Best Terminator Ever.
  • Smallville’s ratings strategy: screw the comics, screw story cogency, keep tossing in hot actresses.
  • There’s a new trailer for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse online.
  • UGO names the Top 50 Animated Hotties, which includes Daphne from Scoby Doo but excludes the smoking hot Witch Hunter Robin.

Writing

  • Each year, WritingWhitePapers compiles a list of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers. This year’s batch is particularly good, in my opinion.
  • Speaking of WritingWhitePapers (which is a great blog), they’ve got a nice round-up of the Top 10 Books for Writers.



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