Author Claude Lalumière reads the start and finish of a number of the stories in his book Objects of Worship. Claude’s interested in teasing us; how did the beginning morph into the ending? Certainly the differences between the start and the end seem to be pretty huge! Just… if you don’t like spoilers then don’t […]
Archives for November 2009
Where the Wild Things Are Christmas presents
I don’t know about you – but I always struggle to get presents for people. My one rule is only to buy stuff I’d like to have myself. This year I’ve been a little more organised in that I’ve made internet purchases ahead of time (shipping from America to the United Kingdom is still possible) […]
Instant Antagonist: The Selfish Succubus (by @jesshartley)
The concept is simple but effective. There will be times when you need to whisk up a foe – it doesn’t matter which game you’re running; you’ll need to terrorise the players with something! The keyword there might be “terrorise”. Although the Instant Antagonist series tries to be system neutral they do play for modern […]
William Gibson reads from Spook Country
Famous for his 1984 debut novel “Neuromancer” William Gibson is an established thought leader in the Sci-Fi community. This video harks back to 2007 and features him reading an excerpt from the book Spook Country.
Neil Gaiman reads Instructions
In the latest post to the “Author Videos” secton we skip back in time a few years to visit the ever-popular Neil Gaiman as he reads his poem Instructions. It’s a helpful set of instructions – should you every find yourself trapped in a fairytail then this will help.
Go bananas! with Manic Monkey Mayhem now available on WiiWare
Here’s a press release the The Code Monkeys would like me to publish! Hull, UK / Yorkshire based Independent development studio, The Code Monkeys have launched their pick-up-and-play party game, Manic Monkey Mayhem on WiiWare. Imagine if the script writers of Dodgeball invited Mr Del Monte over for a few Brahma Beers and they stuck […]
Will Matt Smith’s Womb be out before the new Doctor Who?
Steven Moffat‘s brave choice as the 11th Doctor, 27 year old Matt Smith, will feature alongside Eva Green in Benedek Fliegauf‘s movie Womb. Smith plays Thomas – alongside Eva’s Rebecca – in a near future movie which the two childhood sweethearts reconnect and begin a passionate love affair. The world comes crashing down when Thomas […]
Jacqueline Mychaels reads from Nameless
In this video section we visit Jacqueline Mychaels as she reads from her young adult book – Nameless. We pick up as a key character waits his death…
Tim Burton at The Museum of Modern Art
This is too cool for words; film master Tim Burton is being featured in the Museum of Modern Art (the New York one) all the way from November 22, 2009 to April 26, 2010. That’s pretty cool news in itself but check out this little 30 second video they’ve got to publicise the date. Fantastic. […]
Oi, Luke Skywalker – can you read this?
This picture comes all the way from Stefan’s fine eye and Flickr account. What we have here is yet another piece of a growing Stormtrooper awe collection on the web. Here at Geek Native I’ve already recently been able to visit Stormtroopers in surprising places.
