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Geek Media Round-Up: October 29, 2012

29 Oct 2012  Media

Art

Hogwarts Pumpkin

  • Business Cards of Famous Characters
  • The Ladies of Ice And Fire
  • Comics turned into Collages
  • Nothing Says Romance Like The Soft Light From a Death Star Paper Lantern
  • The Walking Dead ice cube tray will have the power to transform “walkers” into beverage-cooling undead bros.
  • Weta Installs Gigantic Gollum at Airport

Comics

  • 5 new sci-fi comics you must read in 2013
  • Editing And Composition In Frank Miller’s ‘The Dark Knight Returns’

Cross-Media

  • The 7 Most Tragic Deaths Caused By Joss Whedon

Film

  • Interview: Lana Wachowski on the Philosophical Intentions Of the ‘Matrix’ Trilogy
  • Interview: Sean Bean talks Kit Harington and Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
  • News: Netflix Says It Now Has 30M Subs Worldwide
  • Reviews: Ebert gives up on trying to review Cloud Atlas… Overwhelmed, all he knows is that he really, really likes it.
  • The 15 best vampires not in Twilight.
  • The Dark Side: Why We Must Join. The Psychology Of Darth Vader
  • Fifteen Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Cloud Atlas’: Korean Rappers, Cut Characters, the Ending, and Cameos
  • Flavorwire’s 50 Essential Horror Films: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
  • Flavorwire’s Guide to (Scary) Movies You Need to Stream This Week
  • From Paranormal Activity 4 to Nosferatu: the scariest movies of all time.
  • A History of Horribly Haunted Objects in Horror Films
  • Horror Films You Didn’t Realize Were Based on True Stories
  • Miami Connection Destroys the Myth of ‘So Bad They’re Good’ Movies
  • Take a Tour Through Guillermo del Toro’s Bizarre Home Offices
  • Top 5 Movies to Watch During Halloween
  • Why Pixar Movies Are All Secretly About the Apocalypse
  • The World According to Cloud Atlas

Internet

  • Interview: Joss Whedon on …Mitt Romney. And zombies. Think about the future.

Literature

  • Interview: Black Gate interviews Melinda Snodgrass of The Edge of Ruin.
  • Interview: Fantasy Faction interviews Iain M. Banks of Hydrogen Sonata (Part 2)
  • Interview: Hannah Tinti interviews Neil Gaiman
  • Interview: Speculating Canada speaks with Douglas Smith of Chimerascope.
  • Interview: State of horror: Scott Kenemore of Zombie, Illinois on how he turned Illinois into a land of zombies
  • News: The book publishing world is merging into behemoths in order to better
    negotiate with Amazon. Rupert Murdoch (HarperCollins) has made an offer to buy Penguin for $1.6 billion. This just hours after Penguin said it was in talks to merge with Random House to create a ‘Random Penguin’ with nearly 25% of all English-language book sales. Either way the reputation of Penguin could soon be in tatters. As one agent said, “Authors have told me they are frightened by a Random House takeover, but terrified by a HarperCollins one.”
  • 8 Great Sci-Fi Novels That Haven’t Been Made Into Terrible Movies (Yet)
  • 10 Fantasy Novel Series That Could Be Great TV Shows
  • 10 Novels That Are Scarier Than Most Horror Movies
  • The Book Smugglers’ 10 Recommended Halloween Reads
  • Download Click-Clack the Rattlebag: A Free Short Story by Neil Gaiman to Trigger an Audible Contribution to DonorsChoose.org
  • GeekoSystem remembers the 10 Worst Science Fiction Governments
  • Novel Approaches: 10 Books That Became Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films
  • What would a Random House/Penguin merger mean for sci-fi and fantasy?
  • Why ‘Frankenstein’ Is the Greatest Horror Novel Ever

Science

  • News: Large Hadron Collider Won’t Destroy Earth With Planet-Eating Black Hole
  • Are we alone in the universe? Alien Life, Alpha Centauri & The Fermi Paradox
  • Fomalhaut B Exoplanet Study Suggests ‘Zombie’ Alien Planet Is Planetary Object
  • Search for alien life about to step up a gear
  • Why We May Never Get to Alpha Centauri

Technology

  • News: In Contest for Rescue Robots, Darpa Offers $2 Million Prize
  • Tractor Beam: NYU Physicists Build Real-Life Working Model Of Sci-Fi Staple

Television

  • The 20 Most Annoying TV Characters Ever

Video Games

  • Do not adjust your gamma: The 5 scariest PC games of all time

Writing

  • How much Worldbuilding before you write? (especially for NaNo folk)



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