• 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.”

• The 10 most badass sci-fi battlesuits ever

Film

• Interview: Evil Dead II: Bruce Campbell Interview
• Interview: Iron Man 3 Interview: Shane Black Answers YOUR Questions
• Interview: Joss Whedon Is Either Messing With Us Or Adding Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch to ‘Avengers 2.’ Keep your fingers crossed.
• Interview: Kevin Feige discusses the Thor 3 trailer.
• Interview: “Preposterous,” “ridiculous” and “completely insane.” Those are the exact words J.J. Abrams uses to describe the fact he’s behind not only Hollywood’s current iteration of Star Trek, but will soon helm Star Wars VII.
• Interview: Talking to IGN at this weekend’s C2E2, Patton Oswalt riffed all about George Lucas’ work ethic and retold a story of how Brad Bird would have slightly changed Return of the Jedi. Read the full quotes at IGN.
• Reviews: Iron Man 3 Spoiler-Filled Analysis
• 10 Awesome Set-Pieces (That Were Ripped Shamelessly From Other Movies)
• The 10 Most Hellish Movie Prisons
• 25 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘The Avengers’
• The Best Joss Whedon Movie Moments
• Why ‘Iron Man 3′ is a Christmas Movie

Literature

• Interview: Alasdair Stuart interviews Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
• Interview: Editorial Eyes interviews Guy Gavriel Kay of River of Stars.
• Interview: Hugh Howey is an American author currently touring Australia and New Zealand to promote his dystopic science fiction novel, Wool.
• Interview: Reddit AMA with Jay Lake of MAINSPRING
• Interview: Sci-Fi Fan interviews Chandler Klang Smith of Goldenland Past Dark
• 6 Tips On How To Read Critically
• 30 things to tell a book snob
• The title of Wells’ Leia novel might shed light on the new Star Wars
• Realistic Fantasy: an Oxymoron
• Top 10 Stories Set in London

Technology

• Do e-readers inhibit reading comprehension?
• VR helmet plus treadmill is a peek at the first real holodeck

Television

• Interview: Jaime Murray ‘Defiance’ Q&A: “I’m not the best gamer!”
• Bill Hader’s tauntaun impression
• Has An Incriminating Chair Solved the Doctor Who Clara Mystery?

Video Games

• Interview: Chris Roberts: more profitable than AAA games on a fifth of sales
• Can video games help cure depression?
• Game Writers Have The Toughest, Most Underappreciated Job In The Industry
• Over on Bit Creature, Zolani Stewart explores Mirror’s Edge as an aesthetic wasteland. And at Shut Up and Sit Down, Mark Wallace broaches the topic of licensed board games, good or evil?
• Top 10 Most Atrocious War Crimes in Video Games
• Turn Off “Always On” DRM
• Video games are a legitimate form of cultural expression… right?

Writing

• 7 Tips For Aspiring Writers
• Simple Words For Up and Coming Writers
• What could possibly be wrong with a book that collects over 100 “encouraging, motivating, inspiring and instructional passages” about writing from actual writers? Chuck Wendig, who was quoted in the book, explains why he isn’t happy. The book’s author is claiming fair use–but fair use is a slippery thing, and defending it has sunk many a lawsuit. Fair use or not, it’s simply polite to ask permission to borrow someone else’s words. Especially where you intend to make money from the words you’re borrowing.

• The jaw-dropping Japanese cover for The Lies of Locke Lamora
• Star Wars Vintage Action Figure Paintings

Comics

• Interview: The Children’s Vampire Hunting Brigade: A Q&A With David Lucarelli
• Interview: Marvel vs. DC: Inside dope from the kings of comics, Dan DiDio, co-publisher, DC Comics
• The 50 Greatest Iron Man Moments

Cross-Media

• 2 Reasons “The Walking Dead” Could Be a Billion-Dollar Franchise
• Severus Snape Does Not Deserve Your Pity

Film

• Interview: Asa Butterfield explains how Ender’s Game went to insane lengths to fake Zero G fight scenes. The previews make the effects look amazing.
• Interview: Comic Book Movie talked to Drew Pearce and Shane Black about hinting at Fin Fang Foom in Iron Man 3.
• Interview: Hayley Atwell spills some interesting details about future plans for her character Peggy Carter and the Captain American franchise.
• Interview: J.J. Abrams Won’t Rule Out Star Trek 3
• Interview: Nazneen Contractor in “Star Trek Into Darkness.”
• News: There won’t be an Iron Man 4, says Gwyneth Paltrow
• Comics-based movies: Breaking ‘the book was better’ rule
• How ‘Star Wars’ Killed Smart Sci-Fi Cinema
• The Last Sci-fi Blog: Dissecting ‘Oblivion’

Literature

• Infographic: Find the fantasy or sci fi book for you
• Interview: China Miéville Answers Five Questions
• Interview: Neil Gaiman discusses “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”
• Interview: William Gibson of the New York Times-bestselling trilogy Zero History talks with the New York Public Library.
• Interview: William Gibson: The Decline of “Cyberspace”
• News: Amazon Media Room: Press Releases
• News: Iain Banks ‘astounded’ by support over terminal cancer
• Cory Doctorow on tracking e-book sales numbers.
• Ira Glass on the art and craft of telling radio stories
• Read A letter from Iain Banks

Technology

• How are humans going to become extinct?
• Sci-fi legend William Gibson tries Google Glass for the first time

Television

• Interview: ‘Doctor Who’ John Barrowman wants Captain Jack, River Song spinoff
• Interview: ‘Game of Thrones’: Meet the Hound, Scottish actor Rory McCann
• Interview: Zombieland Writers on Their Amazon Pilot and Zombie Rules
• News: Baby penguins take their names from ‘Doctor Who’
• I’m Probably Going to Have to Break Up With Doctor Who
• Investment Lessons From ‘The Walking Dead’
• NBC has pulled the fourth episode of Hannibal from the air due “sensitive subject matter” in deference to American audiences, but the events of the episode are central to the series as a whole, so the producers of the series have posted the Hannibal episode as a webseries online.
• One-Way Mars Mission Will Be World’s Best Reality TV Show

Video Games

• Interview: Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime on the recently announced StarCraft 2 World Championship Series.
• Interview: Warren’s Mailbag: Games are still niche, too expensive
• News: Women in Games International & Girl Scouts Creating Video Game Patch
• 10 Reasons Why 3D Gaming Failed
• Brainy Gamer’s Michael Abbott BioShock Infinite the beginning of the end for the FPS genre. Meanwhile, Amnesia developer Thomas Grip praises the game for what it attempted to do but concludes “it feels like an attempt to tell a serious story through a theme park ride.”
• Future-proofing your PC for next-gen gaming
• A Guide To Mobile Video Game Etiquette On Public Transportation
• Nintendo is caught in a generation gap

Writing

• 5 Tips for Tighter, Cleaner Writing
• Chuck Wendig’s 7 Secrets Of Withholding (becoming a literary tease)
• Does Your Protagonist Have Amnesia?
• On Keeping a Notebook in the Digital Age
• Patti Smith shares William Burrough’s advice for writers: build a good name and make sure everything you do stays true to it, until the name becomes a currency.
• Point of View: Choosing Whose Head To Be In
• The Slow Path to Writing Success

• Awesome Custom Steampunk AT-AT
• Commenting on the Museum of Modern Art’s recent acquisition of Dwarf Fortress, Bill Coberly muses how the game might function as spectator sport.
• Here’s the midnight IMAX poster for Iron Man 3, by comic book artist Jock. Jock also posted a ton of alternate versions of his Iron Man 3 IMAX poster on his site. If You Like Jock’s ‘Iron Man 3′ IMAX Poster, Wait’ll You See His Nine Unused Designs.
• Steampunk Portal Illustrations

Comics

• Interview: J. Michael Straczynski On ‘Superman: Earth One, Volume 3′
• News: Terry Moore ‘s Horror Comic ‘Rachel Rising’ Heading to Television
• News: The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books since 1988. The digital comic category was added in 2005. Some say the category could be expanded, given the abundance of digital creations. Regardless, there are 42 different titles nominated in the past 8 years. The 2013 nominations have been made: Ant Comic by Michael DeForge, Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, It Will All Hurt by Farel Dalrymple, Our Bloodstained Roof by Ryan Andrews, Oyster War by Ben Towle.

Cross-Media

• Five Leadership Mistakes Of The Galactic Empire

Film

• Interview: Director Joseph Kosinski: 5 things to know before ‘Oblivion’
• Interview: Don Cheadle suggests he’ll be appearing in more Marvel films.
• Interview: Iron Man 3 co-writer Drew Pearce hopes Bollywood goes global
• Interview: Iron Man 3′s Kevin Feige on taking Tony Stark “back to basics”
• Interview: Matthew McConaughey On How Far Interstellar Will Reach
• Interview: Robert Downey Jr. discussed maybe returning for Iron Man 4 or The Avengers 2. I picture Iron Man becoming the next Rambo-length franchise.
• Interview: Robert Downey Jr: ‘I’m having a good time as Tony Stark’
• News: Michael Bay Apologizes for Apologizing for ‘Armageddon’. Does anyone else sense an Apology inception coming on?
• Reviews: Tom Cruise’s Latest Headed For ‘Oblivion’: Joseph Kosinski’s sci-fi adventure, starring Tom Cruise, is the most incoherent piece of storytelling since John Travolta’s Battlefield Earth. It had critic David Edelstein crying, “What? What?” over the din of the explosions.
• 10 Under-Rated Sci-Fi Movies You Need To Love
• Excited for Iron Man 3? Here are all the mistakes in Iron Man 1 and 2
• ‘Oblivion’ has us asking: Why is futuristic food so bleak?
• Watch the ‘Thor: The Dark World’ Trailer, then contemplate 10 Key Moments that Reveal Love Triangles, ‘Avengers’ Connections, and Possible Deaths

Literature

• Interview: Michael J. Sullivan was one of the early indies who signed a traditional contract when the big-six came knocking. Orbit (fantasy imprint of Hachette) bought his Riyria Revelations series and republished it as three, two-book omnibus volumes. He recently announced a return to self-publishing with his new novel, Hollow World, which will come out January 20, 2014.
• Interview: Terry Pratchett: ‘Fantasy is uni-age’ Despite his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Terry Pratchett is still marvelling at the world and still writing. He tells Stephen Moss about his new scientific direction, battling Hollywood executives – and why he doesn’t fear death
• News: Politician Introduces Bill to Make Sci-Fi Required Public School Reading
• Economics of Ice & Fire I: House Tyrell Is Richer Than House Lannister
• Handy charts reveal why you’ve never heard of most female SF authors
• Should Science Fiction Be Mandatory For Students?

Technology

• Powered exoskeletons stepping from science fiction into practical use

Television

• Interview: 5 Awesome Things About Peter Dinklage Revealed in Playboy
• Interview: B5′s J Michael Straczynski: ‘US TV networks don’t take sci-fi seriously’
• Interview: ‘Game of Thrones’: Maisie Williams on what’s best for Arya Stark
• Interview: Game of Thrones stars on dream deaths!
• 10 Things We Learned About Dating from Game of Thrones
• Doctor Who: 4 Reasons Why American Remake Would Have Been Terrible
• ‘Doctor Who’s’ Name Revealed? Steven Moffat Teases ‘You’re In For A Shock’
• Guy who invented Thrones language says we’ve been pronouncing Khaleesi wrong
• Watch a trailer for Ron Moore’s new Syfy drama Helix

Video Games

• Interview: After LucasArts closing, what does the future of adventure games look like? Tim Schafer, Dan Connors, & Dave Gilbert weigh in.
• Can Videogames Teach Us About Race?
• How an accountant created an entire RPG inside an Excel spreadsheet
• How we can look at BioShock Infinite through the lens of auteur theory.
• Is Sifteo the new Nintendo?
• Last week was rough. Rob Dubbin, Colbert Report contributor (and infrequent Kill Screen scribe) showed how making games in response to tragedy can offer a different kind of catharsis.
• The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away
• We Don’t Just Need Better Game Publishers. We Need Better Everything.

Writing

• 12 Ways to Start Writing Again: Don’t be “a writer.”
• Advice for writers: A Wordplayer’s Manifesto

• Clever Boys Turned a Subaru Into a Jurassic Park Tour Car

Comics

• Interview: Ed Brubaker, the writer of the original “Winter Soldier” comic storyline has nice words for the upcoming Captain America sequel.
• News: Cleveland Declares ‘Superman Day’ To Celebrate 75th Anniversary
• The 75 greatest Superman stories of all-time: 75-26, 25-1
  - celebrating the 75th anniversary of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s debut of the character in ACTION COMICS #1. Everything you need to know about Superman in four panels. The Actual Best Superman Writer Ever Happy Anniversary Lois Lane. The $130 Check That Bought Superman.

Cross-Media

• An ancient gold ring thought to have inspired JRR Tolkien to write The Hobbit is on display at a Tudor house. The ring, which is inscribed in Latin and has been linked to a Roman curse tablet, is being exhibited for the first time at The Vyne, in Hampshire.

Film

• Interview: Harrison Ford Won’t Answer Star Wars Questions
• Interview: Joss discusses the importance of the Chinese movie market.
• Interview: Watch the Much Ado About Nothing Panel at WonderCon.
• How Much ‘Star Wars’ is Too Much ‘Star Wars’?
• Shot-By-Shot Analysis Of Star Trek Into Darkness Domestic Theatrical Trailer

Internet

• Five Leadership Lessons From Jean-Luc Picard

Literature

• Interview: Del Rey has posted a video interview with Terry Brooks
• Interview: Charles Stross on the Merchant Prince Series: Five Questions
• Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Michelle Gagnon of In War Times.
• Interview: The Qwillery offers this interview with Menna van Praag, author of The House at the End of Hope Street
• Interview: Sword and Laser’s interview with R.A. Salvatore at DragonCon 2012
• Interview: Tor.com interviews Karen Healey of When We Wake.
• News: the Digital Public Library of America has launched
• News: Prepare Your Eyeballs: E-Book Subscriptions Are Coming
• 10 Essential Books Featuring Dinosaurs in Science Fiction
• C. S. Lewis and H. P. Lovecraft on loathing and longing for alien worlds
• The Hugos are Broken. Let’s Start Our Own Award.
• Lawrence Norfolk on dystopian fiction
• Science Fiction Poetry: Worlds of Potential

Science

• Could life be older than Earth itself?

Television

• Interview: Conan O’Brien recently reunited with some of the other writers of The Simpsons who he worked with during his tenure on the show. The panel touches on “… how Jub-Jub became the name of Selma’s iguana, how Tracy Ullman always hated the cartoon, and how Conan was the only person in the show’s history to have three episode ideas accepted in one story idea day.”
• Interview: Jane Espenson discusses the Women of Doctor Who
• Interview: Why Dinklage says Thrones fight scenes don’t make him feel badass
• News: Amazon’s Original Show Pilots available for streaming and voting. You help decide which shows become series.
• News: Dr Horrible 2 will have to wait. Joss says “We’ve written a bunch of it. It’s really just getting that into production, there’s too much even for me.” Nooooo!
• Buffy: The impact of one television show. “To me it’s not a hit cult show. It’s the beacon of hope that led me through the dark ages of my life.”
• More Doctor Who Series 7 movie posters
• Watch Patton Oswalt’s improvised Star Wars Filibuster monologue from Parks and Recreation. Not only is the rant hilarious, there’s some awkwardness at the end in which the extras in the audience clearly don’t know what’s going on and a boom mic enters the shot.

Video Games

• 12 ways to improve turn-based RPG combat systems
• The 25 Greatest Voice Acting Performances In Video Games
• The Best Finishing Moves In Games
• Is Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice? Do games support the gun industry?
• Metacritic Matters: How Review Scores Hurt Video Games

Writing

• “How Kickstarter is replacing the traditional publisher” by Michael J. Sullivan
• Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms: Fourteen words that, depending on their context, can mean the opposite of what you think they mean
• So How Do You Write a Novel in 30 Days?
• Ten ways self-publishing has changed the books world
• Writers Writing About Writers Writing About …