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• A Dribble of Ink: Interview | Jeff Vandermeer, World Fantasy Award Nominated author of ‘Finch’
• Airlock Alpha: ‘Doctor Who’ To Split Sixth Season
• Bowing to the Future: Pyr Swag @ DragonCon
• SF Signal: EVENT REPORT: ArmadilloCon 32
• SF Signal: [GUEST POST] Dan Abnett on Puns and Triumff
• SF Signal: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Carmelo Rafala
• SF Signal: SF Fanatic: Meta-SciFi TV And Why I Like It
• Slice of SciFi: Pinewood Studio Head “Sure” We’ll See More Bond
• Slice of SciFi: BBC Wants Matt Smith as the Doctor Until 2013
• Slice of SciFi: “Scott Pilgrim” DVD Will Have Alternate Ending
• Slice of SciFi: Original Kermit the Frog Donated to the Smithsonian
• Slice of SciFi: “Magneto” Movie Canceled by “First Class”
• Slice of SciFi: Whedon: “Firefly” Cancellation Killed TV Ideas
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Sherlock BBC Series 2 Confirmed
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Britney Spears
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – TARDIS
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – The Silence
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Colin Baker
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Evacuation Earth / Return To Earth Doctor Who Console Games Announced
• Pyr-o-mania: Steampunk Autumn
• Tor.com: Tor Books Events at DragonCon: Wheel of Time, Sanderson, and more
• Tor.com: Review: Suzanne Collins’s Mockingjay
• Tor.com: Weather War: Marjorie Bradley Kellogg’s Lear’s Daughters
• Wired: Space Squid Takes Sci-Fi Back to Clay-Tablet Age
• Geek-o-system: The Norse Hollywood Dining Vikings Eat Pirates and Shit Ninjas

Technology

• Tor.com: Power laces? Alright!
• Slice of SciFi: Five New Planets Discovered
• Slice of SciFi: Last Shuttle Launch Will Include Antimatter Detector
• Wired/Geekdad: Phil Plait’s Bad Universe, the Interview
• Wired: Sony’s Newest Android Phone Is a High Dose of Can-Do
• Wired: Paul Allen Files Patent Lawsuits Against Entire Web … Except Microsoft

Comics

• Airlock Alpha: SciFriday: Enough With The Comic Books Already!
• BSC: Comic Matters by Lou Anders
• Geek-o-system: People Reading Comics In Public
• Geek-o-system: The 2010 Harvey Award Winners

Video Games

• Geek-o-system: Telltale Games Teases A Mashup For the Record Books

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• A Dribble of Ink: An Aside | Awesome, gruesome trailer for ‘The Walking Dead’
• A Dribble of Ink: An Aside | World Fantasy Award 2009 Nominees
• Airlock Alpha: Two Strips Of Latinum: Who Will Be The Next Mr. Fantastic?
• Airlock Alpha: Fans Led Allison Mack Back To ‘Smallville’
• Bowing to the Future: Pyr at DragonCon
• Grasping for the wind: Book Review: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
• Geek-o-system: BBC Announces Dirk Gently Television Show
• SF Signal: MIND MELD: Our Favorite SF/F Settings
• SF Signal: REVIEW: The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
• Slice of SciFi: Vampires Are Big Business For Hollywood
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Murray Gold
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Pringles
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Joshua Naismith
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Evacuation Earth / Return To Earth Doctor Who Console Games Announced
• Tor.com: Why Science Fiction?
• Tor.com: Upcoming SF Events in September
• Tor.com: The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: Favorite SFF characters
• Wired: Storyboard: China Miéville Talks Monsters, Geekery and Bifurcated Cities

Technology

• Geeks are sexy: IE9 Screen Shot: Looks like Chrome?
• Geek-o-system: A Look at HD 10180, the Most Planet-Rich Solar System Discovered Outside Our Own
• Wired: Fourth Firefox 4 Beta Adds ‘Panorama,’ Hardware Acceleration
• Wired: Virgin Mobile Offers Unlimited 3G for $40
• Wired: Confirmed: Apple Event Scheduled for September (Updated)
• Wired: Gmail Gets Dialed Up a Notch With New Calling Feature
• Wired: Supermassive Black Holes Formed by Colliding Primordial Galaxies

Comics

• Slice of SciFi: More “Fantastic Four” Casting News
• Slice of SciFi: Whedon: Only One Female “Avenger”
• Slice of SciFi: Whedon Talks “Captain America” Rewrites
• Tor.com: Angel Joins Buffy at Dark Horse Comics
• Tor.com: An interview with colorist Dave Stewart
• Tor.com: Wednesday Comics Pull-List: Good Time Funny Books

Video Games

• Tor.com: GLaDOS Goes To College
• Geek-o-system: THQ Punishes Used Game Buyers
• Geeks Are Sexy: OMG: Neverwinter Is Coming
• Wired: When Game Developers Go Indie, Everybody Wins

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• A Dribble of Ink: An Aside | Some Stylish artwork for A Song of Ice and Fire
• Airlock Alpha: ‘Smallville’ Casts New Villains
• Airlock Alpha: SciFriday: What Does It Take To Make Me Fly Cross-Country?
• Geek-o-system: Futurama Writer Created And Proved A Brand New Math Theorem Just For Last Night’s Episode
• Geeks Are Sexy: Awesome Dungeons and Dragons-Themed Sports Shirts
• Slice of SciFi: Daleks Voted Greatest Sci-Fi Monster of All Time
• SF Signal: Crowdsourcing the Convention: What Makes a Convention ‘Worth Going To’?
• SF Signal: Voice Of The Fans: The New SyFy Series, Will You Be Watching?
• Slice of SciFi: The Unmade Sequel to The Empire Strikes Back
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – William Hartnell
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Alex Kingston
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Tom Baker
• Pyr-o-mania: Midwinter and The Office of Shadow
• Wired/Geekdad: Geeks of Note: Meg Cabot Embraces the “Geek” Label

Technology

• Geeks are sexy: Awesome: A Time-Lapse Look at the Perseids
• Geeks are sexy: Bad Astronomy Blogger Gets Own TV Show: Bad Universe
• Wired: Newly Discovered Chlorophyll Catches Infrared Light
• Wired: U.S. Customers Are Tablet-Hungry, and Not Just for the iPad

Video Games

• Wired: Konami Will Release Kojima’s Next-Gen Castlevania in October
• Wired: Portal 2 Gets a Release Date, Stephen Merchant’s Voice
• Wired: New Dungeon Siege III Screens Emerge from Gamescom

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• Airlock Alpha: Stan Lee, Ming-Na Head To ‘Eureka’
• Airlock Alpha: ‘Battlestar’ Alum Could Head Back To ‘V’
• Pyr-o-mania: The Ragged Man: Powerful Storytelling and High Drama
• Geek-o-system: Joss Whedon Talks Captain America Script
• Geek-o-system: del Toro on Hellboy 3: Not Any Time Soon
• Geek-o-system: 10 Of Our Best Power Grids
• Geeks Are Sexy: Celebs Who Go Geek
• Grasping for the wind: SEPTEMBER 7: NATIONAL BUY A BOOK DAY
• Slice of SciFi: Daleks Voted Greatest Sci-Fi Monster of All Time
• SF Signal: Donating Books for a Library in Kabul
• SF Signal: MOVIE REVIEW: Batman – Under the Red Hood (2010)/a>
• SF Signal: MIND MELD: Fantasy Books That Will Stand The Test of Time
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Tom Baker
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – John Barrowman
• Tor: Phil Plait’s Bad Universe Expands
• Tor: Gulp or sip: How do you read?
• Tor: George Sirois Introduces Excelsior, Sci-Fi’s Newest Hero
• Wired: Storyboard: Naomi Novik Talks Temeraire, Dragons and Pern

Technology

• Geek-o-system: Verizon and Google Announce Chrome Tablet for November

Video Games

• Geek-o-system: Entire Rock Band 3 Track List Leaked Online
• Geek-o-system: Valve’s DotA Meets Trademark Opposition
• Geeks Are Sexy: Conversations with Myself: Fable III
• Wired: USB Dongle Claims to Deliver First Easy Hack for PS3
• Wired: Games: From Doom to Halo Reach, an Ode to BFGs

Comics

• Airlock Alpha: Artistic License: Angel, Star Trek and Buffy, Oh My!
• Tor: Wednesday Comics Pull List: To All Things, Endings
• Geek-o-system: Psychologist Claims Today’s Superheroes Are Bad Influences On Children

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• Airlock Alpha: Discover The World Of ‘Tron,’ ‘Tron: Legacy’
• A Dribble of Ink: An Aside | Cover Art Cliches for 2009
• A Dribble of Ink: An Aside | Travel to Middle Earth, posters by Steve Thomas
• Geek-o-system: ’80s Movies Imagined as ’80s Games
• Grasping for the wind: Book Review: The Black Prism by Brent Weeks
• Slice of SciFi: Summer of SciFi: Silent Running
• SF Site: Beautiful Creatures
• SF Site: The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle: The Thing Beneath the Bed
• SF Site: The Lifecycle of Software Objects
• SF Site: Incarceron
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Patrick Troughton
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Louise Jameson
• Tor: Tom Sawyer and the Undead and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
• Tor: Queering SFF: Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts
• Tor: When literary authors slum in genre
• Tor/Forge: Cherie Priest a 2010 Spotlight Award winner in Seattle Magazine
• Wired: Sci-Fi Vistas Milked From Boring Old Earth

Technology

• Geeks are sexy: Can the Ocean’s Color Help Predict Hurricane Paths?

Video Games

• Airlock Alpha: Artistic License: Evony the Game, Not What You Might Think!
• Wired: Opinion: Why Videogames Need Exercise Ratings
• Wired: BioShock Infinite’s Vision of a Nazified America

Comics

• Tor: Witches, Pirates, Vampires, and Vengeful Gods: Hellboy

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• Airlock Alpha: New ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Game Will Focus On Season 2
• Airlock Alpha: Star Trek Captain Says He Was Miscast
• Grasping for the wind: COLUMN: Inspiration
• SFSignal: ‘Star Wars’ Finally Comes to Blu-ray: Will You Buy It?
• SFSignal: 3 Never-Before-Seen Scenes From The Original ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Cybermen
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Cyberman
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Carrionites
• Tor: Spec Fic Parenting: “That’s a Wizard’s Tower”
• Geek are sexy: What Turns a Film Into a Fandom?

Comics

• Geek-o-system: Old News of the Day: Comics Help Kids to Love Reading
• SFSignal: Trailer: Secret Origin – The Story of DC Comics
• Tor: From Comics to Cosmic, Part 10: It Will Always Be the Same Old Story

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• Airlock Alpha: Producer: ‘V’ Is Just Too Complicated, Inconsistent
• Airlock Alpha: ‘Terra Nova’ To Shoot In Queensland
• Airlock Alpha: Buffy Season 8 Becomes A Motion Comic
• Airlock Alpha: ‘Eureka,’ ‘Warehouse 13′ Plan Christmas Episodes
• Geek-o-system: The 10 Worst Exes in Geekdom
• Grasping for the wind: COLUMN: Age Appropriateness
• SFSignal: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jeff VanderMeer Talks About ‘The Third Bear’
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – The Key to Time
• Tor: Growing up alien: Michael Coney’s Hello Summer, Goodbye
• Tor: Funny, Hip and Nerdy: Regarding The Sheriff of Yrnameer by Michael Rubens

Technology

• Wired: Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’
• Wired: Citizen Scientists Make First Deep Space Discovery With Einstein@Home
• Wired: Dell’s Streak Tablet Is Priced Like a Phone
• Wired: Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower

Video Games

• Geek-o-system: BioShock Infinite: It’s In the Sky
• Wired: July NPD: StarCraft II Outsells Every Console Game
• Wired: Doom, Ultima Creators Talk Space at QuakeCon

Comics

• Geek-o-system: HeartbreAACK: Cathy Comic Strip Ending After 34 Years
• Geeks are sexy: Headlines We Saw Coming: iPad Sees Rise in Digital Comics
• SFSignal: MIND MELD: Comics For Science Fiction Fans
• Tor: From Comics to Cosmic, Part 9: Quit Cramming Concepts Into Comic Movies!
• Wired: Comics Legend Grant Morrison Talks Superman, Bizarro

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• Bowing to the Future: Anthology Love
• Grasping for the wind: EXCERPT: Radix by A. A. Attanasio
• SFSignal: GUEST REVIEW: I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (pseudonym of James Frey and Jobie Hughes)
• Pyr-o-mania: @Dragoncon: Live Hugo Awards Results Breakfast!
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – Character
• A dribble of ink: Free Readin’ | ‘The Heroes’ by Joe Abercrombie
• Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist: Most hated Sci-Fi characters

Technology

• Geeks are sexy: How to Roll High and Capture a Geek Girl’s Heart
• Wired: Linux Chief Sounds Off on Android, Apple and App Stores
• Wired: Another Net Neutrality Option: Remove Financial Incentives
• Wired: Dell’s Streak Tablet Is Priced Like a Phone
• Wired: Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower

Video Games

• Wired: Wii Sells 30 Million in U.S., Signals the End of the Geek

Comic Books

• SFSignal: MIND MELD: Comics For Science Fiction Fans
• Tor: From Comics to Cosmic, Part 8: In Which Captain America Loses His Freedom
• Tor: Wednesday Comics Pull-List: Old Battles and Déjà Vu

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• Grasping for the Wind: Book Review: Bearers of the Black Staff by Terry Brooks
• A Dribble of Ink: An Aside | New Elfstones coming in future Shannara novels by Terry Brooks
• Walker of Worlds: Review | The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (Gollancz)
• SFSignal: Can There Be Such a Thing as a Science Fiction “Unconference”?
• Airlock Alpha: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Story Captivates HBO
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – John Barrowman
• LaughSquid: Sheep Have Taken Over Hobbit Holes on The Lord of The Rings Set

Technology

• Slice of SciFi: Netflix, Epix Sign New Streaming Deal
• Slice of SciFi: Hawking: Humanity Faces Extinction If We Don’t Explore Outer Space

Comic Books

• Tor: From Comics to Cosmic, Part 7: Working in the Industry, Then and Now

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• A Dribble of Ink: An Aside | Synopsis for ‘The Crippled God’ by Steven Erikson
• A Dribble of Ink: Cover Art & Synopsis | ‘The Omen Machine’ by Terry Goodkind
• SFSignal: GUEST REVIEW: I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (pseudonym of James Frey and Jobie Hughes)
• Airlock Alpha: Two Strips Of Latinum: More With Eric Balfour
• Life, Dr Who and Combom: Amazing Facts About Doctor Who That May Not Be True – The Time Warrior
• Slice of SciFi: Portman Believes “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Will Begin Filming Next Year
• Slice of SciFi: “Thrones” Will Debut Next Spring
• Tor: Smexy Zombies and Runaway Zeppelins: The Loving Dead
• Tor/Forge: What’s Your Favorite Heinlein Novel, Rudy Rucker?

Technology

• Geek-o-system: Google and Verizon Propose a Second, Paid Internet. What Does That Mean?
• Wired: Science + Geek + Beer = Awesomely Geeky Science Beer
• Wired: Here’s The Real Google/Verizon Story: A Tale of Two Internets (UPDATED)
• Wired: Motorola Set to Launch Droid 2 Phone
• Wired: Is Being a Geek a Personality Trait or Way of Life?

Music

• Geek-o-system: Dude: Weezer Unveils Ridiculous Album Cover [Update: Lindelof's Reaction]

Comic Books

• Tor: From Comics to Cosmic, Part 6: The Secret Marvel/DC Crossover Event
• Tor: The Eisner Awards: And the Eisner Goes to…

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