Web Round-Up

• Middle grade author Adrienne Kress discusses what young adult fiction is these days, and what it isn’t.  (via Bibliophile Stalker)

• Big Dumb Object has a thirty-five second clip of the unaired Dollhouse episode “Epitaph 1.” Oh, the nerd love for Amy Acker and Felicia Day!

• Apparently it’s old news that my favorite Discworld book, Going Postal, is becoming a movie, but now they have some cast members on IMDB and Jay Tomio has a few more.

• They’ve been going on for a while, but I just discovered Chris Sims’ posts about the Anita Blake comic books. This suits me well because I’m bitter that the comics aren’t better, bitter that the books didn’t stay good, and generally up for unadulterated snark.

• No room for argument, the surviving members of Monty Python (minus John Cleese) are reuniting for the first time since 2002 for a live stage show based on their movie Life of Brian. Eric Idle, who reinvented Monty Python and the Holy Grail as the Broadway musical Spamalot!, co-wrote the show and says it will be “silly.” (via Geeks of Doom)

• What’s “hint fiction,” and why does it sound sort of like one hand clapping? Jason Sanford puts his two cents in; most impressively, he does it without referring to Hemingway.

• Orbit wants your ideas for the book title that would need to have the worst cover in the world. My personal favorite so far is The Hobbits Go to Mars. (via Booktionary)

• Author Pat Rothfuss has done a great video interview with Sci Fi London. He talks about the shape of a story, his world-building process, and the dangers of naming your book The Name of the Wind.

• Amazing vintage-style movie posters by Tom Whalen. (via SciFi Wire)

• Mary Robinette Kowal talks about queens in fantasy movies: evil, married, or otherwise disenfranchised.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer and slash? Well, yeah, but this time Joss Whedon wrote it!

• Turns out, size matters: scientists use dinosaurs’ relatively large size to address the cold- vs. warm-blooded question.

[Image from flickr user myklroventine, licensed under Creative Commons.]