Art
- Fifteen Household Technologies Recreated in a Steampunk style
- Check out this Halo Cake featuring a nearly-scale Master Chief.
- Even more posters representing all The Houses of Westeros (from Game of Thrones)
Comics
- Interview: Jim Lee & Geoff Johns on Justice League and the DC Relaunch
- Interview: More on the New Man of Steel From Grant Morrison
- 8 Reasons to Let Your Kids Read Comics
- In 1964, George R.R. Martin wrote a letter to Stan Lee. The teenage Martin had high praise for Stan Lee’s “fast-paced action and solid characterization,” but disliked a handful of villains, including the Moleman, Diablo, the Puppet Master and the Thinker.
Cross-Media
- A field guide to the geeks of Dragon*Con
- GameInformer lists Star Wars’ 10 Biggest Missteps.
- The Top 10 sexiest sci-fi females in pictures.
Film
- Interview: After some pretty serious fan backlash over the direction the World War Z film would take, but author Max Brooks quickly chimed in to defend the movie.
- Interview: Eliza Dushku and Andrea Romano discuss Batman: Year One.
- Interview: Guillermo del Toro and Katie Holmes on the R-rated children’s horror flick ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’
- Interview: Loki Is ‘More Gangster’ In ‘Avengers,’ Says Tom Hiddleston
- Interview: Tom Hiddleston & Stellan Skarsgård Talk Loki In ‘The Avengers’
- The Best Internet Reactions to the Star Wars Blu-Ray Changes
- Check out the first episode of Transmission, a Florida based zombie web series that has a lot of promise.
- Human Events maintains that Some Fantasies Belong On Film.
- If you’re still having problems getting your basement zombie movie started, then Rob Durick’s new book Filming the Undead: How to Make Your Own Zombie Movie is just what you need to make your special effects and camera lighting go from no budget to Hollywood caliber.
- NASA thinks you should know that ‘Apollo 18′ isn’t real, so they issued an official statement: “Apollo 18 is not a documentary. The film is a work of fiction… The idea of portraying the Apollo 18 mission as authentic is simply a marketing ploy.” Also, the National Wiccan Council called. Turns out, The Blair Witch Project wasn’t real, either. Go figure.
Internet
- CNN Starts Geek Out Blog
- The Science of Gawker’s Nerd Baiting: Why does this happen? Why would a woman subject herself to be publicly dragged through the mud by the entire male population of the internet? It’s because the life of a freelancer is based around getting hits, as the more you get, the more you get paid.
Literature
- Interview: Adam Christopher discusses the inspiration behind Empire State
- Interview: BoingBoing talks to William Gibson about Zero History.
- Interview: Both Chimeras and Toonari Post interviews Aliette de Bodard author of Harbinger of the Storm: Obsidian & Blood, Book 2.
- Interview: Omnivoracious talks to Mur Lafferty about his new Afterlife Series.
- Interview: The SF Signal Podcast interview Zoo City author Lauren Beukes
- Interview: Wayne Barlowe plugs his book God’s Demon on The Idler.
- News: Gail Carriger publishes her first self-published short story
- 5 Fictional Diseases in Literature You Don’t Want to be Real
- 50 Books That Were Banned, including Where’s Waldo.
- Aliette de Bodard On the prevalence of US tropes in storytelling.
- Charles Stross on The rising ebook wave.
- RantingDragon names the Top 20 Steampunk Books in an Intro to the Genre
Science
- Apollo 18 in fiction and fact
- Super-Earth on ‘edge of habitability’
- Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time
Television
- News: AMC Greenlights Secret Stash, Kevin Smith’s Comic Shop Reality Series
- The 11 Most Insulting Cartoon Reboots
- Best TV show, worst episode: AV Club writers take on picking (as it says) the worst episodes of the best TV shows.
- The Evolution of Middle-Grade Fantasy and Television
- “The Twilight Zone” is TV done right and not just because of the important ideas in the programs. The episodes are case studies in efficient storytelling and high production values.
Video Games
- GamnBolt remembers the 10 Most Depressing Deaths In Video Games
- Will the PS3 Outsell the Xbox Over the Holidays?
