The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Interview: Tor.com interviews steampunk artist James Ng.
• io9 has posted a gallery of Iron Man Storyboard art and some beautiful steam punk concept art.

Film

• News: Remember the TV series Millennium? There may be a movie on the way.
• Den of Geek names 10 franchises that are likely to be resurrected in the next 10 years, including Charlie’s Angels and Home Alone.
• Entertainment Weekly names its picks for the 20 Scariest Movies of All Time.
• In 1981, Philip K. Dick wrote a letter to Jeff Walker regarding “Blade Runner,” predicting that it’s effect would be overwhelming on both artists and the public.
• The movie post for DayBreakers is uber-creepy and quite futuristic. (Also here)

Literature

• Interview: Jacket Copy talks with Michael Chabon about fatherhood and writing.
• Interview: Lon Prater interviews John Brown, author of Servant of a Dark God.
• Interview: Out in Print interviews Steve Berman, author of Vintage.
• News: No surprise here: Brits bigger book buyers than Americans.
• Are we now post sci-fi? With sci-fi filling up every corner of cinema and TV and mainstream literature borrowing its ideas freely, where next for the literary tradition that started the cultural phenomenon?
• Esquire magazine wonders What’s Really Going on With All These Vampires?
• Yet another literary controversy is brewing as evidenced by the articles The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky, A Boy’s Own Genre, or Not, and Women, Gays Apparently Ruining Sci-Fi For the Rest of Us.

Television

• Interview: Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne talk Sanctuary season 2.
• Interview: Crave Online interview Ming Na on her part in the Stargate Universe.
• Interview: The Los Angeles Times profiles Jane Lynch of Glee.
• News: ABC picks up more FlashForward, making it official that any sci-fi series can make it, so long as not a single internet geek likes it.
• News: Dollhouse WON’T Be Canceled After all… yet.
• BattleStar Galactica babes Tricia Helfer and Grace Park are steaming up the cover of the latest issue of Maxim this month. Learn more and watch a video of the photo shoot at Sci Fi Squad or see the photos at IGN.
• Charles Stross rants about how he hates Star Trek, mainly The Next Generation.
• Entertainment Weekly counts off 26 Great TV Shows That Got a Quick Hook, starting with Moonlight.