• Avengers Cake
• Game of Thrones Dragon Egg Cake
• A Portal Bedroom for a hardcore fan
• Seth Sivak whipped up this cool table top Portal Board Game. Looks like Yahtzee.

Comics

• Interview: Comic Vine interviews Mike Carey & Bill Willingham of Unwritten
• 10 Genres that Superheroes Have Swallowed Up
• Marvel Comics: World-Killing in a Bi-Polar Universe

Film

• Interview: Amy Acker talks about Much Ado About Nothing.
• 5 Brilliant Clues Hidden in the Background of Movies. The Jurassic Park clue makes me feel like an idiot for not noticing it earlier.
• 6 Ways To ‘Fix’ Movie Trailers
• After Earth as Scientology Propaganda: What Critics Are Saying
• A Former Scientologist Reviews After Earth
• Top 10 unexpected movie deaths.
• Why After Earth Bombed: Six Theories

Literature

• Interview: Apex Magazine interviews Cherie Priest of The Inexplicables
• Interview: The Civilian Reader interviews Wesley Chu of The Lives of Tao.
• Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Richard Dansky of Vaporware
• Interview: The Qwillery interviews Alan Averill of The Beautiful Land.
• Interview: Sword & Laser interviews Lois McMaster Bujold of Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga)
• 5 Zombie Reads You Need to Consume
• The 10 Rules of Evolution in Science Fiction
• 10 Science Fiction Novels That Will Definitely Never Be Movies
• Authors on Their Favorite Horror Scenes
• Female Warriors in Fantasy
• How to read Lovecraft: A practical beginner’s guide
• The Magic Of Pulp Fiction
• Recent Novels That Use Time Travel to Great Effect
• “This is a Bookshop” from the door of The Albion Beatnik in Oxford
• Understanding the Sexism of Fantasy
• The Unexpected Exotic: Settings in Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Why Neil Gaiman Thinks Fiction Is Dangerous

Technology

• How to prevent an astronaut bloodbath on Mars: To protect the psyches of future space travelers, NASA might deck them out in wearable sensors that spot meltdowns before they happen
• Is It Time For A Private Space Race?
• Sony will use eyeIO’s video compression tech to deliver 4K movies

Television

• Interview: Coco chats with George R.R. Martin About Death-Prone Characters
• Interview: Game of Thrones Q&A: Richard Madden on Robb Stark’s Endgame. The King in the North reflects on his long war for the Iron Throne after tonight’s shocking episode.
• Interview: In an interview at Buzzfeed, co-creators John Fawcett and Graeme Mason and Maslany discuss Orphan Black’s first season and the technical process of making the show. Over at the AV Club, Maslany discusses all her roles–in the same show.
• Interview: Joss Whedon: ‘I kept telling my mum reading comics would pay off.’
• News: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gets nominated for “Most Exciting New Series” in the Critics’ Choice TV Awards.
• News: “…the BBC hasn’t ruled out casting a woman as the Doctor.”
• 7 Television Shows That Took Potshots at Fanfic Writers
• Audiences demand story arcs. Buffy is used as an example of the growing demand for overarching story arcs in genre TV and film.
• ‘Dealing with the F-Word’ – a Whedonverse essay.
• The genius of Buffy. A wonderful short post about the depth of Buffy, how mom does not get it, and how there has been a backlash.
• I Love ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ And You Should, Too
• Just Let Go: A Guide to Making Peace With The Killing’s Third Season
• On Saturday, the premiere season of BBC America’s Orphan Black finished up its first ten-episode run. The show has garnered praise and buzz for lead actress and relative unknown Tatiana Maslany: “There’s no better special effect on television right now than Tatiana Maslany playing a variety of clones.”
• Who Will be the Next Doctor Who?
• Yes, Women Really Do Like Game of Thrones (We Have Proof)

Video Games

• Infographic: Gaming is Good for You
• Interview: Killzone Shadow Fall on PS4: Conversations with Creators
• Review: The Last of Us Would Have Been Better With No Guns
• 6 Tips on Building a Game as a Service
• 7 health benefits of playing video games
• Change is scary: The Xbox One response
• Hardcore Console Gamers Don’t Want Much, Just the Impossible
• My Name Is Tom and I’m a Video Game Addict
• PlayStation 4: The Last of the Game Consoles

Writing

• 11 Neil Gaiman Quotes on Writing
• How to Sell Your Short Fiction
• Why fiction writers should read poetry. Pair with how to enjoy poetry and Coleridge on what a poem is.

• Arian Croft of IllGottenGames and his friend Nate Stephens have pieced together a version of the game of Cyvasse, the chess-like board game mentioned in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series. What’s more, they’ve made their version of the game free to download.
• The Artful Collector: Should You Worry About Forgery in SF Art?
• Game of Thrones as a Subway Map
• Tolkien Watercolors

Comics

• Interview: Comics Beat has an interview with Alex Woolfson and Adam DeKraker, the writer and artist, respectively, behind the excellent LGBT superhero webcomic The Young Protectors.
• Fan Community Calls Out Illegal Comics Sharing
• Who owns Marvelman? Part I and part II – the concluding chapters of Padraig O Mealoid’s epic 16 part history of one of comic’s most disputed characters. meanwhile another hole in comics history is about to be filled in as Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s Zenith finally gets collected in full.

Cross-Media

• The Longest Running Gags in Science Fiction Movies and Television

Film

• The 10 Best Movies of Cannes 2013
• 10 Things You’ll See in Almost Every Tim Burton Movie
• 25 Things We Learned from the ‘Independence Day’ Commentary
• Celebrating 20 Years Of Awful Video Game Movies
• Do Critics’ Opinions Matter More For Original Films than Sequels?
• How Real Is the Magic in Now You See Me? Here’s a Primer
• In Defense Of M. Night Shyamalan: Why I’m Still A Fan
• Watch Joss Whedon introduce Serenity at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Internet

• Sir Patrick Stewart to domestic abuse victim: “You’re safe now”

Literature

• Interview: Bastard Books interviews Wesley Chu of The Lives of Tao.
• Interview: Dark Matter interviews KJ Taylor of The Griffin’s Flight.
• Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews EB Hudspeth of The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
• Interview: Slate interviews Kim Stanley Robinson of 2312
• 30 things to tell a book snob
• Christopher Priest remembers Jack Vance
• Geek Smash on 10 Books You Need To Read This Summer.
• It’s reading vs. screen culture — and screens are winning
• The Nine Novels That Defined Steampunk
• Patrick Rothfuss on “What I Learned Reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane.”
• Self-publishing has become a cult
• The Top 10 best vampire books ever

Technology

• News: Apple’s Share Of The Digital Media Receiver Market Stands At 71 Percent
• From Minority Report to Iron Man, the Genesis of Gesture Technology
• How close are we to creating Artifical Intelligence?
• The Wild, Expensive (and not Always Improbable) Technology of Iron Man
• Why don’t we have space elevators yet?
• Why the Venture Bros. creators want you to know nothing about Season 5.

Television

• News: After four years as the Doctor, Matt Smith will be leaving Doctor Who at the end of the year. “It’s been an honour to play this part,” Smith told the BBC, “to follow the legacy of brilliant actors, and helm the TARDIS for a spell with ‘the ginger, the nose and the impossible one’. But when ya gotta go, ya gotta go and Trenzalore calls. Thank you guys.”
• 6 lines of JavaScript that write Doctor Who plots indistinguishable from the series.
• The Internet is losing its mind over Game of Thrones: Twitter cannot believe that SPOILER ALERT happened to SPOILER ALERT at SPOILER ALERT, and people are freaking out
• “Let me tell you a thing, about an amazing man named Patrick Stewart.”
• Little Known Facts About the Game of Thrones Title Sequence
• Read Moffat’s love letter to fans for not spoiling leaked Who finale
• Top ten Jane Espenson episodes.

Video Games

• 10 Observations On Next Gen Video Games
• Developers Address Video Game Violence in New Film
• Killing Used Games Could Be Profitable, or Suicide
• Microsoft Maneuvers For Piece Of Used Video Game Market
• My Big Gay Skyrim Wedding
• Video Games Are a Metaphor for Life

Writing

• 5 Truths I Wish I Knew When I Began Writing
• 3 Ways To Create An Antihero Your Readers Identify With
• Deborah Moggach’s Rules for Writing
• How to Write for Money Without Selling Out Too Much

• Interview: Meet the new Marvel Comics’ X-Men: all women. CNN recently spoke with “X-Men” writer Brian Wood and editor Jeanine Schaefer about this historic moment in X-history.
• Interview: Gail Simone praises male reader support
• Check out eerie trailer for Babylon 5 creator’s new horror comic
• How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library
• ‘Man of Steel’: 4 Comics to Prepare You For The Movie
• You May Not Own that Digital Comic, Son

Film

• Interview: Hugh Jackman on the set of The Wolverine discussing the idea of a X-Men/Avengers film … and the internet explodes. “I actually just asked the other day, I said, ‘I don’t know what the legal situation is, but why don’t these companies come together? Why isn’t it possible?’ Because personally, I would love to mix it up with Robert Downey Jr. and Iron Man and kick his ass. It’d be great.””
• Interview: io9’s interview with Drew Pearce about the screenwriting of Iron Man 3.
• Interview: Joss Whedon Talks Quicksilver, Firefly, and… Batman???
• Interview: MTV spoke to Will Smith about possibly coming back for Independence Day 2. At the very end of the clip, he says it’s possible, but the fact that his son doesn’t even know it’s in the works doesn’t exactly bode well.
• Interview: Peter Weller defends Trek 2, why it’s more than just a ‘gimmick’
• Interview: Shakespeare, comic books – for Joss Whedon, it’s all the same thing. The Village Voice speaks to Joss about Much Ado About Nothing and more.
• Interview: Why J.J. Abrams insists: ‘Star Trek has to be sexy’
• The 10 Most Heartbreaking Moments in Comic Book Movies
• io9 has created a supercut of folks being forced to marry other folks in science fiction and fantasy film.
• In Defense Of Tom Cruise In Science Fiction Movies
• Star Trek Into Darkness writer apologises for underwear scene
• Star Trek Into Fandom
• The Top 5 Underrated Sci-Fi Movies

Literature

• Interview: M.L. Brennan talks to SF Signal about the veneer of escapism.
• Interview: A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King
• Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson joins the Slate podcast Stranger Than Fiction.
• Interview: The Time Traveler’s Wife author Audrey Niffenegger
• News: Kids Tend to Read Digital More Than Print
• News: Mystery and science fiction author Jack Vance dead at 96
• The E-Book Piracy Debate, Revisited
• Read Neil Gaiman’s amazing project A Calendar Of Tales online for free now.
• What You Need to Know about Book Piracy

Technology

• Is Bitcoin science fiction come to life?
• NASA Onboard for Creating 3D Food Printer for Mars Mission
• UN Human Rights Council talks killer robots

Television

• Interview: Bernard Cribbins interview: Doctor Who, David Tennant, Daleks
• Interview: Straczynski reveals moving story of why Michael O’Hare left Babylon 5
• Doctor Who fans make my life a misery, says John Simm. The Village star says he is sick of overzealous attention from fans of Time Lord over his role as the Master in sci-fi show.
• The fifty greatest Joss Whedon moments.
• How Do We Like This River Song Timeline?
• River Song: Goodbye Sweetie?
• Was Doctor Who rubbish in the 1980s?
• What if Shakespeare had written for Buffy?
• The Whisperman star in this deleted scene from the Doctor Who finale

Video Games

• News: Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project
• News: Video game aims to help young cancer patients
• Anita Sarkeesian has uploaded the second video in her Tropes vs. Women in Games series. The video was temporarily removed after “her harassers abused YouTube’s flag function to get the video removed”.
• An honest, heartbreaking, and ultimately informative postmortem on the positively rated game Retro/Grade presented at the 2013 Game Developers Conference.
• How Microsoft screwed itself for the next generation of video game consoles
• Why We Can’t Have Male Leads in Videogames: Stephen Beirne examines why the idea of a male lead in a video game is just a ridiculous idea.
• Xbox One And Used Games: The Real Reason Everyone’s So Mad

Writing

• Amanda Palmer gave a talk entitled Connecting The Dots on being a Writer
• Got a (fairly tame) fan fiction idea? Kindle wants you. Not Everyone’s A Fan Of Amazon’s Fan Fiction Move. The Organization for Transformative Works parses out the legalese on Amazon’s new fanfiction program.
• Setting as a Character
• Short is the New Long: 10 Reasons Why Short Stories are Hot
• Tobias Buckell explains why 90% of the advice about writing is bullshit right now

• Dune Trading Cards
• Full Scale Lego X-Wing is now the Largest Lego Model In History with 5.3 million Legos
• Game of Blocks: Meet The Man Who Built Westeros in Minecraft in this interview.
• What “Game of Thrones” would have looked like set in the 90s

Comics

• News: Apple directs ComiXology to yank 56 comics about sex & gay heroes
• News: Man finds priceless copy of Action Comics #1, first Superman comic book, hidden in walls of a house
• Geoff Johns heads to ‘Trinity War,’ bids farewell to ‘Green Lantern’
• Geoff Johns Reflects on 9 Years of Green Lantern
• Now You Know: The Car On The Cover Of Action Comics #1 Is A 1937 DeSoto (But That’s Just Part Of The Story)
• On The Increasing Complexity of Origin Stories

Cross-Media

• 9 Fictional Female Teens We Wish We Were Like In High School

Film

• Interview: Beau Billingslea From ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’
• Interview: Joss Whedon Describes Why Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch Are in ‘The Avengers 2;’ Hints at New Villain
• Interview: NASA Connects Space Station and “Star Trek Into Darkness” Crews
• Interview: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ screenwriter Damon Lindelof regrets ‘gratuitous’ Alice Eve underwear scene
• News: ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’ is the first comic book adaptation to win top prize at Cannes. Let’s hold out hope for a wider distribution.
• 7 Female Film Critics You Should Be Reading
• The 10 Greatest Escape Movies of All Time
• The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium
• If The Internet Had Existed When ‘Wrath of Khan’ Hit Theaters
• The Results of the Reddit Top 100 Foreign Language Film poll
• Star Trek Into Darkness: 8 Things You May Have Missed the First Time Around
• Star Trek: The Ultimate Film Tribute is a supercut of the franchise.
• The Top 5 Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Masterpieces
• The Top 10 Most Unique Movie Theaters
• What Fast & Furious 6 Could Teach Star Trek Into Darkness About Women
• Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future?
• Why We Love, Hate, and Love to Hate J.J. Abrams‘ ‘Star Trek‘ Movies

Internet

• The Frisky wants to tell you which Star Trek aliens you date like. I’m all ears. That wasn’t supposed to be a Ferengi joke.
• How Will We View Adventure Time in 20 Years?
• Joss Whedon’s Wesleyan Commencement Speech: “You are all going to die”

Literature

• Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson chats with the S&L Podcast
• Interview: Stephen King on His New Book and Why He Doesn’t Watch Mad Men
• News: Tolkien’s epic about the legend of King Arthur published for the first time
• The 10 Greatest Apocalyptic Novels of All Time
• George R.R. Martin was supposed to write 50,000 words for the ASOIAF companion book, THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE. He wrote 250,000.
• Read Todd VanDerWerff On What Makes Ray Bradbury’s Science Fiction So Distinct And Wonderful
• Using Science Fiction to Better Understand the Sacrifices of Those We Honor
• Why does Science Fiction gravitate towards Dystopia and not the Utopia that Transhumanism promises?

Science

• Scientists Refine Warp-Drive Concept Using Space-Time Distortion

Technology

• Grant Morrison: ‘Google Glass is half-fish, half-man’
• Move Over 3-D Printing. Hello 4-D!
• Robot exoskeleton suits that could make us superhuman – CNN.com
• There will be pizza on Mars

Television

• Interview: “Cowboy Bebop” Director Shinichiro Watanabe
• Interview: Craig Ferguson seems to have a special liking for conversation with Stephen Fry. On Wednesday night, Stephen was back on the Late Late Show as the only guest. The naturally wide-ranging discussion includes Arthur Conan Doyle, America, mortality, religion, philosophy, science, homosexuality, and more.
• Interview: “Hannibal” And The Consequences Of Violence: Bryan Fuller, who developed Hannibal for NBC, talks about what he is and isn’t allowed to show on TV, about the episode that was pulled, and why the show being banned from Salt Lake City is a “badge of honor.”
• 10 Feminist Lessons We Learned From The Women Of Star Trek
• The 20 most insane Star Trek outfits ever
• The Art of the Title of Elementary
• Bring Back The Time Lords: why the Doctor’s race should return.
• Who Controversy: Doctor Who is a ‘thunderously racist’ drama which promotes dismissive attitudes towards black companions and ‘contempt’ for primitive cultures, academics have claimed. Is Doctor Who “Thunderingly Racist?” Fans: “Not Really” Finally, BBC denies ‘Doctor Who’ racism allegations.
• Why Do You Hate This? The series finale of Lost

Video Games

• Big Money Cheating in Online Videogames
• Minecraft for N00bs: A Fanboy Explains
• Xbox One pre-owned strategy leaked

Writing

• 5 Ways First Pages Go Wrong
• 10 Screenwriting Lessons You Can Learn From Close Encounters
• Discovery of a Character – Finding, Building, Creating
• Screenwriting: How To Break The Rules

• Detroit’s RoboCop statue, funded by Kickstarter, is almost complete
• Game of Thrones Houses as Corporations
• NASA’s Retro Drawings of Humans on Mars
• Speedpainting of Optimus Prime
• Tyrion Lannister Cake

Comics

• Interview: Geoff Johns Talks Future Projects, Comic Book Day
• How Graphic Novels Became the Hottest Section in the Library

Cross-Media

• The Ultimate Spaceship Face-off: A search for the fastest ship in science fiction.

Film

• Interview: Amazing Spider-Man 2 writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci talked to MTV about all the villains in the film.
• Interview: Kevin Feige was recently asked if he had any advice for DC on how to make a great Justice League movie.
• Interview: Simon Pegg explains lens flare to the haters.
• Interview: TrekMovie.com was at the premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness and got some great interviews with the film’s writers/producers Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci.
• News: Max Brooks Publicly Disses World War Z Movie
• News: ‘Gremlins’ to Get the Remake Treatment
• Reviews: Star Trek Into Darkness: 10 Things You Should Know
• 5 Literary Classics That Should Be Baz Luhrmann-ized Next
• 5 Things You Might Not Know About ‘Star Trek Into Darkness‘
• 12 Movies That Filmed Happy Endings You Never Saw
• 27 Mind-Blowing Explanations Behind Movie Special Effects
• ‘Iron Man 3′ Sees Tony Stark’s Girlfriend As Just Another Gadget
• The Film Drive With a Retro Sega Genesis Style Title Screen
• FX Guide has a comprehensive article on the visual effects in Iron Man 3.
• How Oblivion Should Have Ended
• Legendary comic artist Jim Lee admitted he’s seen Man of Steel and it’s great.
• The Meme that never grows old: Hitler Reacts to the Mandarin in Iron Man 3
• Saul Bass title sequences: ten of the best
• Top 10 Film Spin-offs That Bear Little Resemblance to the Original

Literature

• Interview: A. Lee Martinez answers readers’ questions.
• Interview: Chuck Wendig interviews Patrick Hester of Cahill’s Homecoming
• Interview: Omnivoracious interviews Raymond E. Feist of Magician’s End.
• Interview: Postscriptd interviews Anne Rice of The Wolf Gift
• Interview: Rick Novy interviews Jay Lake of Kalimpura
• Interview: The Qwillery interviews Brian McClellan of Promise of Blood
• News: Iain Banks defends his science fiction novels
• 10 Forgotten Fantastical Novels You Should Read Immediately
• Deconstructing Horror: The Haunted Page
• The robot threat: In the long run, we are telepathic androids
• Stina Leicht on Faery Tales and Book Covers.
• Sunny Days and Summer Books

Science

• Star Trek: Science mistakes

Technology

• As Amazon and Barnes & Noble Slash Prices, Tablets Are Interesting Again
• Could we scrap DRM?
• Google Framed As Book Stealer Bent On Data Domination In New Documentary

Television

• Interview: Neil Gaiman on the Cybermen, re-writing for Clara and the radio adaptation of Neverwhere
• News: The Seth McFarlane reboot of “Cosmos” will air on Fox in 2014. The host will be Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Cosmos on Fox? WTF?
• Game of Thrones Finally Takes Some Mercy on Its Viewers
• The longest-delayed reveal in television history has been unveiled: I give to you: the mother from How I Met Your Mother.  Of course he hasn’t met her yet. But when he does, it will take place next season, on the 9th and final season of the show, which will occur 24-style over a single weekend.
• Mountaineer Katie Mills analyzes the accuracy of Game of Thrones‘s ice-climbing scene over at Wired. The verdict? You know nothing (about ice-climbing), GoT.
• Slate ‘Boldly Went Where Every Star Trek Movie and TV Show Has Gone Before,’ by watching every Star Trek movie and television series, and offers its position on why Star Trek is great. Yglesias threw his gauntlets on the table and ranked from best to worst the movies, the series, episodes, and crew members.
• Stop Saying Women Don’t Like Game of Thrones Already
• What Is Going on With the Accents in Game of Thrones?
• Why Being a Writer for ‘Game of Thrones‘ Must Suck

Video Games

• News: Microsoft unveils Xbox One
• News: Sony shares leap 8 percent after Xbox One announcement
• Can computer games change the world?
• Can the new Xbox One save gaming?
• Microsoft Stumbles Through Xbox One Announcement
• Will consumers want one? New Xbox is elegant, but question remain
• Xbox One: Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft’s New Console

Writing

• Authors and book rights – some more truths
• Forgetting the “Why” in the Narrative of Horror
• How Many Spaces After a Period? Ending the Debate

• Avengers kittehs
• Hilarious 1980s Star Trek Illustrations
• The Ladies of Doctor Who
• Watch the 6-Second ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Homemade Vine Trailer
• Xenomorph Balloon Sculpture

Comics

• Comics Breaking the Fourth Wall
• Top 10 Best Comic Book Villains!
• Your Guide to Summer Comic Movies

Film

• Interview: Simon Pegg Interview: Barfing on the ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Set, Deleted Scenes and ‘The World’s End’
• Interview: Star Trek Into Darkness’ Alice Eve on Deleted Scenes, Trek 3
• News: Chinese Actor’s Cut ‘Iron Man 3′ Scenes to Be Featured in Short Film
• News: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 To Begin Filming In March 2014
• Reviews: 9 Ways Star Trek Into Darkness Is Too Much Like a Star Wars Movie
• Reviews: How J.J. Abrams Gets Star Trek Wrong (Again)
• Reviews: Star Trek Into Darkness: Let’s talk about that ending
• Reviews: Why this old-school Trekkie loves the ‘Star Trek’ reboots
• 5 Most Shocking Moments in Sci-Fi Movies
• 7 Classic Movies That Are Shameless Ripoffs
• Iconic Movie Mansions: Iron Man’s Malibu Digs to Hitchcock’s Vandamm House
• Star Trek Into Darkness: The Secret Behind The Mystery Villain
• Style Or Substance? 20 Visually Stunning Movies That Go For Broke

Literature

• Infographic: The Stephen King Universe
• Interview: Dmitry Glukhovsky shares his vision for redefining fan-driven fiction
• Interview: John Birmingham interviews George R.R. Martin
• Interview: Omnivoracious on Elizabeth Bear of Shattered Pillars
• Interview: The Qwillery interviews Brian McClellan.
• Interview: Sword & Laser interviews Saladin Ahmed
• Daniel Abraham on the Story behind The Dagger and the Coin.
• The E-Book Piracy Debate, Revisited
• Enhanced Intellects on the Loose in SF
• Is Black and White Fantasy Dead?

Technology

• Trek Tech: How Long Before We Have Transporters, Tricorders, and Holodecks?

Television

• News: Matt Smith Will Remain ‘Doctor Who’ For Season 8
• The Central Problem With Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who
• Funny or Die’s latest series is Gay of Thrones
• I Boldly Went Where Every Star Trek Movie and TV Show Has Gone Before: Now I can tell you exactly why this franchise is great.
• Why Star Trek Has To Come Back To Television As The Cable Show It Was Always Meant To Be

Video Games

• News: Half-Life 2 gets official support for Oculus Rift VR headset
• News: Console still accounts for 42% of the total video games market
• Eurogamer’s Dan Whitehead asks a pointed question: if creators know their best work is going to become the property of publishers, what motivation is there to put their heart and soul into an Intellectual Property?
• Gamasutra blogger Sebastian Alvarado takes us through the possible science behind Mass Effect‘s Genophage.
• Haywire Magazine suggests the verbs afforded players in BioShock Infinite are so narrow, they reinforce the game’s sociopathy
• How plural protagonism works in Chrono Trigger
• Simon Newstead explores a few reasons for why virtual worlds die.

Writing

• 50 Pieces Of Writing Advice From Authors
• Top 10 Overused Fantasy Cliches
• Why Are Some Words More Persuasive Than Others?

• Interview: DC Women interviews the first woman to write Batman in a long while.
• 10 Comic Book Characters Long Overdue for Their Own Video Games
• 10 Comic Book Writers Turned Prose Pros
• If You Make a Bed of Comics, You’ll Have to Sleep in It

Cross-Media

• Infographic: 50 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT STAR TREK
• 13 pop-culture attempts to make puppets appealing to adult audiences
• Star Trek’s History of Progressive Values — And Why It Faltered on LGBT Crew

Film

• Interview: 6 Filmmaking Tips From Shane Black
• Interview: 55-Minute Talk With David Gordon Green About The Future Of Film
• Interview: Empire Magazine spoke to David Goyer about Man of Steel and, at about the 44 minute remark, he explains why they chose that title.
• Interview: Entertainment Weekly spoke to Shane Black about the big twist regarding The Mandarin in Iron Man 3.
• Interview: EW to launch SiriusXM channel with Hugh Jackman interview
• Interview: SuperHeroHype Chats with Marvel Prez Kevin Feige
• Interview: Ty Simpkins Talks ‘Iron Man 3′ And His Love of Comics
• News: Iron Man 3 Grosses Record $28.6 Million in IMAX Theaters
• News: Tom Cruise confirmed for Mission: Impossible 5
• 7 Reasons Why Rick Moranis Needs to Make a Comeback
• 16 Summer Movie Blunders: The Worst ‘Oops’ Moments
• Badass Digest wrote a piece about how the mysteries in Iron Man 3 could teach J.J. Abrams a thing or two.
• Blinded by the Light: Why J.J. Abrams’ Lens Flare Is Not a Big Deal
• Film School Rejects writes about the nine questions unanswered by Iron Man 3.
• It’s fun to go back over all the rumors regarding Iron Man 3 over the years and see which were true and which were false.
• Photos of Abandoned ‘Star Wars’ Film Set Locations in Tunisia
• The Playlist has their best and worst moments of Iron Man 3.
• Screenrant lists their 15 favorite moments of the Iron Man trilogy.
• Supercut Videos has released an emotion-filled supercut of characters screaming “Nooooooooooooo!” in popular films.
• World War Z Viral Video Debuts Online

Internet

• Disney registered a bunch of Star Wars related domains. Terrible foreshadowing.
• Netflix Is Organically Killing Piracy Numbers

Literature

• Interview: Fantasy Finale: Raymond E. Feist on ‘Magician’s End’
• Interview: Margaret Atwood, the author of Oryx and Crake, discusses why she writes about both the past and the future.
• Interview: Neil Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web
• Interview: ScienceFiction.com talks with Armen Gharabegian
• Can Science Fiction Writers Inspire The World To Save Itself?
• Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown: The snobs and critics will have a field day with the US author’s latest work – but I’m not joining in.
• Forbes offers Science Fiction and Fantasy To Learn Economics From, riffing on the Noah Smith list. In response, io9 offers suggestions in response.

Technology

• How Netflix Makes 3.14 Petabytes of Video Feel Like It’s All for You

Television

• Interview: Steven Moffat talks ‘Doctor Who’ season 8 and Peter Jackson
• News: Doctor Who finale The Name Of The Doctor leaked in US error. Can You Avoid Spoilers? It’ll probably be easier if you stay off Tumblr.
• News: During a Q&A session at the German re:publica digital conference, IT Crowd creator and writer Graham Linehan announced that he is bringing the award-winning geeky British sitcom and cast members (Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson and Matt Berry) back to Channel 4 for one last special forty-minute episode. According to Bleeding Cool, this final episode will be filmed in three weeks, so keep your eyes peeled.
• 8 Game of Thrones characters who are better on TV than in the books… to which I would definitely add poor overlooked Podric.
• The 10 Best Deaths on Fringe
• 10 Things which didn’t make sense to me in Doctor Who (feel free to correct)
• The BBC accidentally sent out DVD Sets of Doctor Who Series Part 2 early. This was the response when the BBC implored fans not to leak spoilers.
• Don’t Mess with Firefly! How SciFi Fans Made a Campus Safe for Free Speech
• How do you solicit freelance scripts for a sci-fi television series that breaks the mold? You create a comprehensive guide to writing an episode of Star Trek.
• Watch the first promo for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., coming soon to ABC!

Video Games

• Interview: Beyond: Two Souls Q&A at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival
• ‘Mass Effect’ spinoff discussed by BioWare
• The Psychology Behind Games
• Visually stunning game trailer released at Tribeca Film Festival

An incredibly interesting examination of the motivation behind playing games. It’s more complex and significant than what you might think!

• Check out this Mini Death Star handcrafted from a Ping Pong Ball
• New Hope opening in Minecraft
• Portrait of the Joker made of movie quotes.
• Simpsons Movie Poster Parodies
• Starship Enterprise Transformer

Comics

• Gawker wrote about the seven most essential Iron Man comic books.
• Grant Morrison tells the story of Batman’s life to Kevin Smith. With illustrations.
• In celebration of the new Iron Man 3 film hitting theaters today, Oakland-based web designer and front-end developer Ross Patton design a marvelous interactive timeline for Wired Underwire displaying 14 of “The Greatest Iron Man Armors of the Last 50 Years.”

Film

• Interview: Ain’t it Cool News did a great interview with Shane Black and Kevin Feige where Feige admitted, though it doesn’t seem like it, there are pointers to Avengers 2 buried in Iron Man 3
• Interview: Danny Boyle talks about a “Pixarification of movies”
• Interview: Hitfix spoke to Kevin Feige and Shane Black asking them where S.H.I.E.L.D. was in Iron Man 3.
• Interview: Star Wars Episode VII director J.J. Abrams spoke to the BBC about the wonderful, humbling opportunity that directing the film brings.
• Interview: Total Film has been asking the stars of a bunch of new movies – such as Sir Ben Kingsley, Nicolas Cage, Zoe Saldana and others about their thoughts on the new Star Wars movies.
• News: Michael Caine Confirmed for Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’
• News: Some idiot theater owner in Missouri decided it would be a good idea to invite an Iron Man cosplayer along with a bunch of other folks in tactical gear (complete with fake guns) to a screening of Iron Man 3. They were hired to “storm the theater.” Needless to say, police were called and people were scared.
• Reviews: Iron Man 3 Movie Review in the Form of a Comic
• 5 Things That Bothered Me About ‘Iron Man 3′
• The 10 worst moms in movies
• The 20 Best Fantasy Films You Should Watch
• Criticwire defends the big plot twist in Iron Man 3.
• Dr. Andrea Letamendi has a piece up on The Hollywood Reporter taking a clinical look at Tony Stark’s PTSD from the recent Iron Man film.
• Oblivion: The Ups and Downs of the Big Picture
• Virgin Movies has a huge infographic about the 20 things you didn’t know about Iron Man. Here’s just one piece.
• Want a bit of history on Iron Man 3 director Shane Black? The Playlist writes about the five scripts that made him so famous. Is 20 not enough? ScreenCrush has 10 MORE things you didn’t know about Iron Man.
• What to watch on Netflix

Internet

• How two ‘Star Trek‘ fans are restoring original series shuttlecraft
• Joss Whedon is now on Twitter.

Literature

• Interview: Author Claire Messud consider gender issues, discussing how readers interpret male and female characters differently.
• Interview: Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison & Gene Wolfe discussing sci-fi in 1982
• Interview: Jim Butcher explains that his next book was inspired by Firefly. The Author describes the book as “kind of “Hornblower” meets “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”, it’s very focused on the characters, with very strong influence from Firefly I think.” As if waiting for the next book weren’t hard enough.
• Interview: The New York Public Library interviews William Gibson.
• Interview: Omnivoracious on Elizabeth Bear of Shattered Pillars
• Interview: Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Wesley Chu of The Lives of Tao
• Interview: Slate interviews Neal Stephenson.
• The 10 Commandments Of Sci-Fi
• Auxiliary Memory weighs in on The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1990s.
• Charles A. Tan on Teaching Science Fiction.
• Europa SF ongender bias in the contemporary short-form speculative fiction
• Marketing is Destroying the Science Fiction Genre
• A Rule of Thumb for Escapism
• Tensions between SF/F and Mainstream Literary Fiction
• Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Might Be The Highest Form of Literature on the Planet

Technology

• Technology should make us optimistic

Television

• Interview: Simon Pegg Explain How He Pranked the Cast of ‘Into Darkness’
• News: BBC America has shipped the ‘Doctor Who’ Season 7B Blu-Ray/DVD set early to those who pre-ordered it. Only one problem: it includes the season finale, which airs next week. The BBC confirms on Facebook (where people are having fun in the comments,) and Steven Moffat has promised that if fans keep spoilers off the net, they’ll release a special video featuring the 10th and 11th Doctors after the finale airs. More from Bleeding Cool.
• The full S.H.I.E.L.D. first look TV spot is released.
• The Julie Taylor Test: How to tell if a TV actor is bad
• SteveVader101 dissects Joss Whedon’s brain. This popular YouTube personality examines the unique brand of existentialism, feminism and humanism of Whedon.
• This Year’s Cable TV Winners & Losers

Video Games

• 6 MOVIE VIDEO GAMES WE WANT TO PLAY THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN
• Fighting Games Are Going Extinct
• How to Find the Perfect Game

Writing

• From Serviceable to Memorable: 5 Principles for Dialogue That Delivers
• 23 Agent Query Letters That Actually Worked
• Joss Whedon’s Top 10 Writing Tips

• 7 Classic Movies That Almost Had Absurdly Dark Endings
• 10 Actors Who Would Be Awesome In The Marvel Cinematic Universe
• 10 Movie Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed
• The Hollywood Reporter ran a editorial pitching Man of Steel should be rated PG.

Literature

• Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Brian McClellan of Promise of Blood
• Interview: SF Squeecast interviews Cherie Priest of The Inexplicables
• Interview: Tor Books UK interviews China Miéville of Railsea
• 30 Books That Should Be Turned Into Films
• Ebook anxieties increase as publishing revolution rolls on. Amazon’s bid for rights to sell secondhand ebooks adds another layer of complexity to a world where the certainties of print culture are dissolving.
• Pew Study: Why Parents Love Libraries

Video Games

• Interview: V for Vendetta’s James McTeigue says Games need more direction
• The 10 Greatest Ever Zombie Games
• 5 things you need to know about new Star Trek video game
• 6 Most Overquoted Lines From Video Games
• 7 Best Video Game Franchises Of All Time
• Commenting on the Museum of Modern Art’s recent acquisition of Dwarf Fortress, Bill Coberly muses how the game might function as spectator sport.
• Start up company deliberately releases a cracked version of its own game with an ironic bug

Writing

• 7 Bizarre Things That Happened After My Book Was Published
• The 25 Mindblowing Things You Need to See After Beating “Bioshock Infinite”
• Closing The Gap: Moving From Notebook To Story
• How To Finish What You Start: A 5 Step Plan For Writers
• Keep Dreaming, Even When They Think You’re Nuts
• Who Owns E-book Rights From Old Publishing Contracts?
• A Writer’s Notebook Trap
• Writing Fantasy Heroes

• Interview: Ramon Perez talks Wolverins and the X-Men at C2E2 2013
• Interview: The writer for Detective Comics talks about the ‘Law and Order’ of the Batman comics at C2E2 2013.
• The Top Ten Strongest Non-Superpowered Women in Comics
• Which Comics Should I Get? Your Free Comic Book Day Cheat Sheet

Cross-Media

• 10 Characters Who Got More Interesting After They Died

Film

• Interview: Penelope Austin Lands Song In Star Trek Into Darkness
• Interview: Damon Lindelof: Star Trek is hard science fiction, not science fantasy
• Interview: IM3: Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rebecca Hall & Guy Pearce
• Interview: Shane Black and Kevin Feige Build a Better Iron Man
• Interview: Speaking to Desde Hollywood, Avengers Assemble director and Marvel Phase 2 mastermind Joss Whedon teased a more long-term plan for Marvel Comics villain Thanos, hinting that we might have to wait until the third ensemble film to see the Mad Titan defeated.
• News: Entertainment Weekly confirms Avengers 2 rumour.
• News: ‘Iron Man 3′ Smashes China’s Opening-Day Box Office Record
• 10 Dumb Movie Characters Who Made Disastrous Decisions
• 10 Films That Contradict the Endings of the Books They’re Based on
• Here’s How the Chinese Cut of ‘Iron Man 3′ Is Different
• Looking ahead to Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Robert Downey, Jr.’s Best Movies – Rotten Tomatoes
• The Tribeca Film Festival will feature a documentary called Out of Print, looking at the future of books and interviewing Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, self-published author Darcie Chan and other experts.
• Why Shane Black was once Hollywood’s hottest screenwriter

Internet

• 8 Geek Conventions You Should Attend At Least Once, If Not Every Year
• Brewster’s trillions: Internet Archive strives to keep web history alive
• Wil Wheaton’s heartfelt speech to a newborn about being a geek

Literature

• Interview: Little Red Reviewer interviews Gillian Philip of Firebrand
• Interview: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books interviews John Scalzi
• Interview: Neil Gaiman’s keynote address at the 2013 Digital Minds Conference
• Interview: SF Signal chats with Kit Reed
• Interview: The Qwillery interviews Helene Wecker of The Golem and the Jinni
• Interview: Suvudu readers interview Terry Brooks
• 9 Ways Big Pub Is Like Big Pharma
• Economics and science fiction
• The Greatest Fantasy Author of All Time
• How Important Is eBook Cover Art in 2013?
• Mcsweeneys predicts The Future of Books.

Science

• The Earthiest planets in the universe (that we know of)
• Why Colonizing Outer Space Is a Bad Idea: 9 Lessons From Pop Culture

Technology

• How realistic is Iron Man 3′s technology?
• TitanArm Exoskeleton: Elysium Is Basically Already Real
• Why William Gibson Invented Cyberspace

Television

• Interview: Bryan Fuller on Hannibal, elegant horror
• 9 sci-fi TV stars we want back (and the series they’d be perfect for)
• 10 Non-Superhero Comic Series That Would Make Great TV Shows
• Oh No They Didn’t: Seven Jaw-Dropping Science Fiction TV Cliffhangers
• Star Trek’s Best Moments Poll

Video Games

• News: Virtual simulation games like Second Life are more likely to help with weight maintenance than face-to-face counseling, says an article in the upcoming issue of The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
• 3 Reasons Why War Is A Bad Topic For Video Games
• 5 things you need to know about new Star Trek video game
• 7 things that have to work together in a game story
• Cameron Kunzelman mused on his out-of-body experience playing Mirror’s Edge.
• Nintendo: Gamers growing tired of same experiences and Selling $50-$60 games ‘challenging’ … whine, whine, whine.

Writing

• Five Ways To Build The Writing Habit
• How To Overcome The ‘I’m Not A Good Writer’ Syndrome
• The Secret To Show, Don’t Tell
• The Slow Path To Writing Success
• Writing Tips To Make You A Better Writer

• 75 Years Of Superman: The Man Of Steel’s ‘Unauthorized’ Bio
• The Evolution Of Lois Lane

Cross-Media

• Top 10 Essential Stories About Power Armor

Film

• Interview: Director and Screenwriter Shane Black Talks ‘Iron Man 3′
• Interview: Hellboy 3 Must Happen, Says Ron Perlman
• Interview: ‘Oblivion’ Director Joseph Kosinski on Sci-Fi Filmmaking
• Interview: Robert Downey Jr. Says He’s ‘Renegotiating’ His ‘Iron Man’ Contract
• Interview: SFX interviews Arthur C. Clarke Award Director Tom Hunter.
• 10 Comic Books That Should Never Become Movies
• 10 under-the-radar movies for summer 2013
• 50 Of The Dumbest Decisions In Movie History
• Favorite Guilty Pleasure Movies
• Why reviews are weird – Film Crit Hulk talks at great length about the problems with movie reviews and the best way for you to enjoy Iron Man 3. As always, he’s an essential read, all-caps styling aside.

Internet

• 15 Great Filmmakers to Follow on Twitter
• Fox Censors Cory Doctorow’s “Homeland” Novel From Google

Literature

• Interview: Bleeding Cool has a video interview with Max Brooks of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
• Interview: Dark Matter interviews Tad Williams of The Dirty Streets of Heaven.
• Interview: In a long and practical interview at AV Club, novelist Joe Hill reminded aspiring writers that the idea is only the beginning.
• Interview: Lightspeed interviews Brandon Sanderson and Bruce Sterling.
• Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Kylie Griffin of Allegiance Sworn
• Interview: Neil Gaiman and F. Paul Wilson Discuss Why They’re Reviving Henry Kuttner’s Stories
• American Tolkien
• Dark Fantasy vs. Horror—Where’s the Line?
• Libraries in New York City: Why We Give a Damn and Why You Should Too
• Neil Gaiman: A Primer (as if you needed one.)
• Patterson Sees Ads as a Wake Up Call
• Removing the Violence from Fantasy

Technology

• Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream
• Microsoft unveils ‘IllumiRoom’ tech demo
• White Men Wearing Google Glass
• Will Sci-Fi Predict the Future of Play?

Television

• News: Doctor Who: New Executive Producer Announced
• 9 Ways “Game Of Thrones” Is Actually Feminist
• The Walking Dead and Downton Abbey: Season 3 coincidences

Video Games

• Interview: Shigeru Miyamoto Shares Nintendo Secrets: The revered video game designer on Nintendo’s history, the next wave of gaming and the ‘Year of Luigi’
• 5 things you need to know about new Star Trek video game
• 12 Video Game Companion Apps You Should Have On Your Mobile Phone
• Andrew Vanden Bossche wrote about “The Tyranny of Choice” for Gameranx, arguing that “[c]onsciously or unconsciously, we can’t help but limit the terms of dialogue as designers because we create them.”
• Reacting to the suggestion his last piece was “inflammatory,” Jeff Kunzler argues that there is plenty within BioShock Infinite itself to get righteously indignant about: What’s truly inflammatory in 2013 is Infinite as a collaborative work with millions upon millions of dollars and man-hours put into it, couldn’t bother, apparently, to hire a non-white writer to put some proper perspective into the use of racism to justify a white man’s murderous romp through a floating city in the sky.
• Robert Rath of The Escapist wrote about magic in games and how its role as a simple, mundane tool fails to connect to our understanding of the divine.

Writing

• 11 Quick and Dirty Things About Writing
• Don’t Be An Information Dumper!
• Premise vs. Plot: Which do you have?
• The Shy Writer In You
• Why Keeping A Journal Is So Important For Writers

• Interview: Amanda Conner of Power Girl to Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre
• Interview: Comics Beat interviews Emma Vieceli of Dragon Heir: Reborn
• 6 Comic Crossovers That Would Make Great Movies
• 10 Candidates for an All-Female AVENGERS

Film

• Infographic: Plotting Comic Books’ Rapid Takeover of Hollywood
• Interview: Abrams says Star Trek “must be sexy!”
• Interview: Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios President, On The Future Of ‘Iron Man’
• Interview: The problem is that cinema, as I define it and as something that inspired me, is under assault by the studios and, from what I can tell, with the full support of the audience. The reasons for this, in my opinion, are more economic than philosophical, but when you add an ample amount of fear and lack of vision and a lack of leadership you’ve got a trajectory that is pretty difficult to reverse. – “Retired” director Steven Soderbergh speaks to the San Francisco International Film Festival about the state of cinema
• Interview: Shane Black And The Cast Of ‘Iron Man 3′ Talk Marvel Moviemaking, Christmas And The F-Word
• Interview: Sir Ben Kingsley Talks IRON MAN 3, the Way Kevin Feige Offered Him the Role, His Portrayal of the Mandarin, and ENDER’S GAME
• News: Brit Marling Reteaming with ‘Another Earth’ Director for ‘I Origins’
• News: For the first time, Star Wars will be translated into a Native American language, namely Navajo.
• 3 Weirdly Specific Things That Happen in Every Movie Trailer
• The 13 Most Legendary Robots From Film
• 50 Comic-Book Movies That Must Never Happen

Internet

• William Shatner got into a huge unmedicated fight with Damon Lindelof AND Brannon Braga on Twitter.

Literature

• Interview: Darkeva’s Dark Delights interviews Bruce Boston.
• Interview: Functional Nerds interviews Chuck Wendig
• Interview: My Bookish Ways talks with Wesley Chu of The Lives of Tao
• Interview: Odyssey Workshop interviews Patricia Bray of The Final Sacrifice.
• Interview: The Qwillery interviews Eric Brown of The Serene Invasion
• Interview: Reddit AMA with Stina Leicht of Fey and the Fallen
• 20 Best Young SF Novelists: An Infographic
• The novel resurgence of independent bookstores
• ‘Out of Print’ Doc Examines The End of Print Books and What It Portends
• Publishing should fight ebook retailers for more data

Television

• Interview: Slashdot readers interview J. Michael Straczynski
• How cable led the way for a new breed of television

Video Games

• Interview: Charles Cox explains why he’ll never work on FPS again.
• 7 Best Video Game Franchises Of All Time
• 22 Best Vampire Games of All Time
• Over on Kotaku, guest commentator Jordan Ekeroth writes that rather than blasphemous, he found Bioshock Infinite “deeply Christian.”
• Paul Tassi of Forbes wonders if we aren’t oversaturating games with ultraviolence: “I have nothing against killing in games. It’s just that as video games continue to evolve as storytelling vehicles, this idea that the main protagonist has to kill HUNDREDS of people per game is starting to seem a bit odd.”