Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, or too gross …
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Amazon Pushes Kindle For Mac
Mac users can now download Amazon’s Kindle software, which will synchronize books between an actual Kindle, compatible mobile devices (currently iPhone/iPod touch and BlackBerry), and the desktop client.
Like the PC version, you’ll only be able to access your books—no magazines, newspapers, or blogs can be read on anything except
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March Madness: Who Will Take Narnia and the Phantom Zone?
Who’s excited for tomorrow?
So here we are on the eve of the greatest imaginary tournament known to man. Like we did yesterday we’re going to field your suggestions on who will take the Narnia and Phantom Zone brackets. This side of the bracket won’t go live until Friday, so you have some time to make your picks.
Also, …
I Just Watched Elizabeth Bennet Chop Off A Zombie’s Head
The book trailer for the upcoming Austen-zombie prequel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls dropped today in all it’s gory brilliance.
Here, we get a first look at the Bennet girls in training to kick ass and defend their home from the undead, plus a montage of a few great zombie slays. Though book trailers can be …
The Daily Dose
Friday, Mar. 12, 2010
Today in Techland: Free download: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, chapter l. Mark Millar interview, part ll. The Techland Show, Episode ??? Who knows?
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the Web:
Valuable nerdiness: The list of the Top 10 Most Valuable Books includes …
E-Readers Get Free First Bite Into Austen Zombie Prequel “Dawn of the Dreadfuls”
Can’t wait for the latest installment of a zombified Jane Austen world? Don’t.
Quirk is offering the first few chapters of it’s upcoming monster mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls free for e-readers.
(More on Techland: Natalie Portman to Star in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Film)
Readers can …
Burton to Produce Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
I know, I’m squealing with glee too.
Entertainment Weekly has just reported that Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) will unite to create a film adaptation of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Not bad for a book that only hit shelves hours ago, eh?
(Haven’t read it yet?
Your First Look: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Tomorrow, Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter will hit bookstores, muddling vampirism into the story of our sixteenth president. Grahame-Smith was also responsible for juggernaut Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a delicious zombie infusion of the Jane Austen classic that has spurred a whole line of monster mashing books …
2010: Living In The Future (According to 1972)
Predicting the future is murky business.
Few ever get it right and those who try, easily fall on their futuristic little faces. Still, the absurd outcomes of playing Nostradamus can wiggle their way into the hearts and belly laughs of even the biggest nay-flying car-sayers.
Written in 1972, Geoffrey Hoyle’s 2010: Living in the …
A New Spin On Classic Jules Verne
Art student Jim Tierney of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts has created some really beautiful new skin for Jules Verne.
As part of his senior thesis, Tierney recreated covers for Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Check out the …
Percy Jackson, Who? Meet The Best Child Heroes of All Time
Just before Bastian opens the window and screams out “Moonchild!” to save the land of Fantasia, I thought my chest was about to explode.
The NeverEnding Story brought the perfect amount of suspense. It was the kind you feel rumbling all the way through you – even down in your socks. Bastian and Atreyu saved their world. They were …
Android Karenina? The Monster Mashups Just Won’t Stop.
If the entertainment industry knows how to do one thing, it’s how to beat the proverbial dead horse. (Please see: Spider-Man.)
Publisher Quirk Books found a sprinkle of success with sci-fi infused Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in April, 2009. It was an enticing idea, we admit. But it spurred – what else? – a …