Posts Tagged ‘ game of thrones ’

But Everyone’s a Geek Now, Right?

Thanks to thirty years of "Revenge of the Nerds" and "geek chic" headlines, we all "know" that computers, the Internet, and successful sci-fi, fantasy, and comic-book movies have made geeks chic. We all "know" that we should be nice to nerds because someday we'll be working for one. Indeed, we all "know" that *nerd*...

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HBO Plays with Fantasy in A Game of Thrones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fRZJpX4AdAM “Win­ter is com­ing,” and so is HBO’s adap­ta­tion of the first novel in George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire, A Game of Thrones. For those of you unfa­mil­iar with the series, A Song of Ice and Fire is about the Realpoli­tik of a fan­tasy king­dom called Wes­t­eros. Its inspi­ra­tion is...

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