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Geek Media Round-Up: October 8, 2009

8 Oct 2009  Media

Art

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  • FamilySkiners is a livejournal of a group that sells weird custom leather goods.
  • Retrospace reflects on the way that Monsters Really Like Carrying Chicks.

Comics

  • Inspire76 has a gallery of Psylocke fan art.
  • Comic Alliance picks a scant 5 Comic Book Halloween Costumes That Won’t Objectify Women (And 5 That Will Objectify Men!).

Film

  • Topless Robot looks back at The 10 Craziest Old People In Horror Movies.

Internet

  • SciFi Squad has a gallery of The Top Ten Sci-Fi Villains You Don’t Want to See on Bora Bora, beginning with Jabba the Hut.

Literature

  • Interview: Keeping the Door interviews Janny Wurts.
  • Interview: Podcaster J.C. Hutchins talks about his current project, the transmedia book Personal Effects: Dark Art.
  • Interview: Sharon Shinn author of the bestselling Samaria series talks with BSC.
  • Interview: Stomping on Yeti talks with author Jason Stoddard.
  • Amazon are going to start selling Kindle ebook readers world-wide and some people think this is very bad news for writers.
  • BookSprung discusses How publishers encourage piracy through stupidity.
  • Most of The top ten most pirated eBooks of 2009 are about sex. No surprise there.
  • SFSignal asks major authors What book introduced you to fantasy?

Television

  • CBBC show Blue Peter has launched a competition to design a new Tardis console that will appear in the next series of Doctor Who… for kids. (Damn it.)
  • Mental Floss looks at 11 Famous Actors and the Big TV Roles They Turned Down.
  • TimeOut counts down the 50 Greatest Animated Films, with added commentary by Terry Gilliam.

Writing

  • Charles Tan reflects on The Taboos of Editing.

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