Geek Media Round-Up: January 18, 2010

Art

• Legos and Star Wars have been combined many time. There have even been other Lego Chess Sets, but the Star Wars: A New Hope Lego Chess Set is far and away the most drool-worthy.
• The Milky Way Transit Authority offers up this helpful map to the stars.
• Naldz Graphics has posted a gallery of Stunning Warrior Character Illustrations.
• Sci Fi Wire has found The neurotic Seinfeld version of the Star Wars poster.

Comics

• Interview: Fables’ (most excellent) writer Bill Willingham finds a happy ending despite “that damned Shrek.”
• What does the future hold in store for comics? Will digital tablets be the salvation or damnation of the industry?

Film

• Interview: The Book of Eli Directors discuss their Sacred MacGuffin.
• News: Boxoffice behemoth Avatar slipped from the top of the domestic rankings on its 29th day, loosing out to Book of Eli.
• News: ‘Green Lantern’ director says cosmic film will have “a Flash Gordon element.” Dun dun dun… Lantern fans everywhere recoil in horror.
• News: Star Wars and Adidas have officially joined forces.
• This article where io9 calls Book of Eli a reboot of Zardoz had me in stitches. Who in their right mind would reboot Zardoz? Be sure to read through the comments.
• A new poster for the upcoming Kick-Ass has come out.
• Some people are speculating that Avatar techniques could turn back the clock on aging actors.

Literature

• Interview: China Miéville looks ahead in science fiction.
• Interview: Cult Pop interviews John Scalzi and Jim Hines.
• Interview: Matthew Peterson interviews high fantasy authors Carol Berg, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Dennis L. McKiernan, and Diana Pharaoh Francis.
• Interview: The New Yorker profiles Neil Gaiman.
• Interview: SciFiFan interviews Robert Jackson Bennett, author of Mr. Shivers.
• Interview: Webweaver offers an interview with Jeremy C. Shipp.
• Interview: Wenatchee World talks with Kay Kenyon.
• The Book Pirates of Peru turn out to be both numerous and pervasive.
• Is it really doomsday for books? Not while English casts its spell!.
• Offline Book Lending Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion is a hilarious parody of the recent drama over piracy rates.
• Over at Tumblr, a guy is reproducing a long out of print book titled 2010: Living In the Future that was first published in 1972.

Science

• Faster-than-light pulsar radio waves found! Ability to phone Mars long-distance just around the corner.

Television

• In retrospect, it’s really funny how adamant Leno was about passing on the The Tonight Show to Conan five years ago. [video]
• Little Fivers picks The Top 9 New Shows on the Discovery Channel in 2100.
• Read the scripts from series four of Doctor Who, and finally figure out what all that guff was about. Like who was that mysterious woman?
• Seth Meyers explains how Conan got screwed. [video]

Writing

• Even in the Web era, getting in the door is tougher than ever as writers face The Death of the Slush Pile…
• …of course, not everyone believes the slush pile is dead… or is it?
• Jason Sanford offers some thoughts on simultaneous submissions: Should you sim sub or not?

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