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Richard Marpole
A Fantasy Geek’s Guide to YouTube: Mythology
YouTube is an app, a website and a cultural phenomenon. It’s also a vast and only partially explored wilderness full of content that ranges from dynamic to dire. Whatever your…
Game of Thrones: Content vs. Delivery
Zachary A. Matzo
I’ve just finished the fourth episode of the current season and I’m more engaged with both the show and the world of A Song of Ice and Fire than I…
Luke Skywalker Can’t Read and Other Geeky Truths by Ryan Britt
Eric Christensen
I think it is fair to say that nerds tend to be obsessive completists who love to study things at a very granular level. And one of our favorite things…
When The Dust Settles
Aaron Miles
While attending this year’s Nine Worlds convention I went to a session titled “How To Win The 21st Century,” which talked about games as a dominant cultural medium. This and…
The Curious Case of Game of Thrones
Show of hands: how many people believed, back in 1997, that George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire would become a full-blown cultural phenomenon? Anybody? I didn’t think…
The Top Six Nerdy, Fantasy-Related Things That You Can Try When You’re Not In The Mood To Read
Rachel Riegel
I’m a high school English teacher by day—fantasy freak by night. If I were to include a list of all of the fantasy authors that I love, or a list…
What Makes A Fantasy Fan?
Ben Galley
I wrote a blog a long time ago about trying to spot fantasy authors while doing book signings. For anyone who might have read that old dusty post (it’s been…
Of Generational Geekdom
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
There’s this stereotype of the generic geek, nerd, or whatever one cares to label a person who enjoys the science fiction and fantasy genres. Socially awkward, something of a jerk…
Unicorn City
ChrisMB
Last week, I had the privilege of attending the Philadelphia Comic Con with my dad. While a smaller convention than the better-known ones at Chicago, San Diego, and New York,…