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Geek Media Round-Up: September 26, 2011

30 Sep 2011  Media

Art

Video Game Art Show

  • Cobblestone Keyboard
  • Don’t miss this gallery of art on display at Gallery 1988′s Video Game Art Show
  • Sumo Lake is a funny short film

Comics

  • IGN names its choices for the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time
  • More comic-ready tablets coming soon
  • Top Ten Comics to Share with Your Boyfriend and/or Girlfriend (That Aren’t Sandman or Y: The Last Man) is a fairly good list of comics that you might not otherwise think to use to lure “straights” into the comic fandom.

Film

  • Interview: Alan Tudyk talks about Tucker And Dale Vs Evil
  • Interview: Cobie Smulders talks about Joss and The Avengers.
  • News: Bladerunner 2 May Have Found Its Writer In Scott Burns
  • News: Netflix just secured a streaming deal with DreamWorks
  • The 10 Best & 10 Worst Movie Deaths, as chosen by WhatCulture.
  • Five Ways Star Wars Hurt Science Fiction, aside from emptying our wallets.

Literature

  • Interview: Blake Charlton on ‘Spellbound’ and Middle Book Syndrome
  • Interview: The Once and Future Podcast talks to fantasy author Jim C. Hines.
  • Interview: Publisher Weekly talks to N.K. Jemisin about her Inheritance Trilogy.
  • Interview: Q&A with Phoenix Rising co-authors, Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris.
  • Interview: SFSignal’s latest panel discusses Near-Future Science Fiction
  • Interview: Urban Fantasy author Anton Strout, host of the Once and Future Podcast, interviews Amber Benson
  • Interview: William Gibson: beyond cyberspace
  • News: Amazon lets you check out Kindle books from library websites
  • News: HarperCollins Takes Backlist Print On Demand
  • News: Isaac Asimov’s ‘Caves of Steel’ Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
  • How Ebook Buyers Discover Books
  • Huffington Post has an infographic of the Top Ten Banned Books Of 2010.
  • Time Travel and Mayhem: A Literary Tour of H.G. Wells’ Stories
  • Time travel in fiction: why authors return to it time and time again

Science

  • NASA Details the Next 25 Years of Space Exploration

Technology

  • Supercomputer Predicts Revolution… like something out of sci-fi.
  • Will robots steal your job? If you’re highly educated, you should still be afraid.

Television

  • Interview: Amazon.com signs deal with Fox to add new instant streaming shows.
  • News: Comcast Working on iPad Streaming Service
  • 10 Star Trek Episodes We’re Glad They Never Filmed
  • Cracked on how Watching Doctor Who Is Like Having A Relationship With God.
  • Doctor Who: 10 great companion farewell scenes
  • Firefly, the First Amendment and Fascism: A University of Wisconsin theater professor was threatened with charges of disorderly conduct for posting a famous Firefly quotation on his office door.
  • SFX’s picks for Best Sci-Fi TV Mockumentaries.
  • ‘Terra Nova’ gives dino fans something new to chew on
  • A Visual History of Literary References on ‘The Simpsons’

Video Games

  • What the new patent laws mean to gaming

Writing

  • A Theory of the Hero: Tragic and Anti-tragic Heroes

Want more? Check out Geek Art Gallery for more art links and eye candy. Visit Oneironomicon for more on book trailers, reviews,and writing links.



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