charliejane, Author at Gizmodo

Class War Between Mars And Venus

A new web TV show could pick up where Firefly left off, telling gritty stories of class warfare on human colonies. Venus Rises is filming now in New Jersey. Four episodes will be available next year on national video-on-demand cable channel Illusion TV as well the show’s own site. One glance at the first episode’s…

Television Charliejane Dec 4

Tentacled Fungus Attacks The Microverse

This creepy monster skull is actually a snapdragon seed pod, magnified by an electron microscope. Just as you’d always suspected, the microscopic world turns out to contain nothing but slimy textures and sinister craggy shapes, judging from Karin Jones’ haunting microscopy photos. Just check out the image of a fungal growth attacking another snapdragon seed…

io9 Charliejane Dec 4

Which Of These Heroes Is Dead For Good?

We saw two of our "original" Heroes protags die in last night’s finale. Niki was trapped in a burning building when it exploded, and Nathan got gunned down. But sources say at least one of those deaths may not be final. Did Peter fly Nathan away to get medical help? Or did Niki climb out…

io9 Charliejane Dec 4

Superheroes Hit Vegas In Space

The two best graphic novels out this week have to do with superheroes teaming up in the crazy-quilt DC Comics universe. And they both have the loopy “Silver Age” anything-can-happen feeling that DC used to be famous for. The only difference is that The Saga Of The Super Sons really is from the early 1970s,…

io9 Charliejane Dec 4

Superman Fights Batman At The End Of The World

You’ll soon see a poster for Superman vs. Batman, the movie project that’s been in development since long before Batman Begins and Superman Returns. But you’ll never see the movie itself. A poster for the superhero grudge match will appear in the background of I Am Legend, thanks to screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who was supposed…

io9 Charliejane Dec 4

Torchwood Season 2 Neutered For Kids

Torchwood, the BBC’s raunchy Doctor Who spin-off, may be less taboo for season two – depending when you watch it. Every episode of season two will have a grown-up version and an edited version for kids, which will air a few days later in an earlier time slot. At first, you might not think that’ll…

io9 Charliejane Dec 4

Space Capsule Parachutes Onto Jupiter

This image started out as a science illustration, then became science-fiction art. Artist Alan Gutierrez submitted this picture to the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA for its Gallileo Probe project. The painting shows the Gallileo Probe parachuting into Jupiter’s atmosphere. When the JPL ended up not using the image, Gutierrez used it as the…

io9 Charliejane Dec 3

A Model Of Urban Growth In Living Matter

A New Orleans artist has created a bio-art project about the future of cities. Artist Allison Kudla created an algorithm that combines urban growth patterns with the growth of cells. Then she used a robot arm to print a representation of it onto 4 foot-by-6 foot sheets using agar, a living and growing gelatin used…

io9 Charliejane Dec 3

Unanswered Questions for Tonight’s Heroes Finale

Tonight’s episode of Heroes will kinda-sorta cap off the season. But will it answer all of our nagging questions from this year? Maybe, maybe not. Here’s a score card, so you can tick them off as they’re answered. Or not. Why did the company keep the deadliest virus in the universe on ice for 30…

io9 Charliejane Dec 3

Building An Ice Castle On Mars

Martian architecture will have to be different from any existing styles on Earth, say 53 percent of respondents in this poll at NewMars. But weirdly, 15 percent believe that we’ll build in “a mixture of Greek and Roman style” on Mars. And another 9 percent each believe we’ll build in an “Egyptian” or “Celtic” style.…

io9 Charliejane Dec 3

Mark Hamill Is World’s Crappiest Time Traveler

No wonder Mark Hamill is clutching his head in this clip from 1993’s Time Runner, the low point of his post-Star Wars career. Hamill has traveled back in time 30 years to stop an alien invasion, only to crash head-first into every horrendous sci-fi cliche ever, in the space of about two minutes. First the…

io9 Charliejane Dec 3

Space Ninjas Target Our Children

Science fiction is destroying your children, warns a frothy right-wing blog. We can’t decide if Shelley The Republian is a real right-wing blog or a satire. Shelley seems obsessed with Mur Lafferty and Steve Eley, two excellent but not terribly famous podcaster/writers. But he/she also thinks sci-fi is pronounced “see fee” and Isaac Asimov and…

io9 Charliejane Dec 3

New Batsuit Has Bra Cups Instead Of Nipples

Batman’s chest will have special bat-cups which, ummm, lift and separate his pecs. At least he’s not sporting the much-criticized nipples from 1997’s Batman and Robin. New Batsuit images from The Dark Knight from Uruloki, via IESB.

io9 Charliejane Dec 3

Heroes Could Have A Downer Ending

Heroes comes crashing to an end tonight, and it may not be back until next fall. Since the episode was originally designed as the midpoint of the 2007-2008 season, don’t be surprised if it has kind of a downer ending. In any case, a lot will happen tonight to scrunch together a satisfying resolution to…

io9 Charliejane Dec 3

See The Organ Repo Wagon

New production photos of Reposession Mambo tell us absolutely nothing about the more serious of the two organ-repo movies coming next year. You can see allegedly “futuristic” cars and some buildings. Yawn. [ShockTillYouDrop.com] The new Justice League movie is being “cast as cheaply as possible,” says New York Magazine. It’s semi-official that total unknown Armie…

io9 Charliejane Dec 3

New Enterprise Will Look Like Old Enterprise

Fanwankers, unclench: The Enterprise won’t look much different in the new Star Trek movie, except for a “grittier metal texture.” And J.J. Abrams has been shooting desert scenes that could be the birth of Spock. [IESB] Sean Connery’s son will direct an action-thriller about an elite army team who must rescue a scientist from the…

io9 Charliejane Nov 30

Once More, With Horniness

The Southland Tales soundtrack includes Sarah Michelle Gellar singing “Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime.” I’m going to have this song stuck in my head for weeks. MP3 is here. [Slashfilm]

io9 Charliejane Nov 29

Pereira’s Conquest Of Planet Earth

This is what people thought the future would look like, back in the 1960s. The architecture of William Pereira was inspired by science fiction, and inspired more science fiction in turn. This building, the Geisel Library, stars in Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End. Vinge writes that the Library looks “like something brought down from outer space.”…

io9 Charliejane Nov 29

Electric Cabinets Of The Unexpected

You can see — and manipulate — the retro-futurist art of Kenn Coplan tonight. Coplan builds weird wooden machines that include exposed gears and Tesla-esque electronics. You’re encouraged to push the buttons and pull the knobs, to make surprising things leap out of the carnival-esque machines. Many of his devices have a twisted sense of…

io9 Charliejane Nov 29

Ryan Philippe’s Atheist Superhero Fights Psycho Cults

Ryan Phillippe wears a supernatural-looking mask in Franklyn, a British film coming out next year. He plays the only atheist in a city full of religious fanatics. Writer/director Gerald McMorrow spilled the beans yesterday about the film’s weird set-up. Philippe plays a detective named Jonathan Preest who lives in a dystopian alternate world called Meanwhile…

Movies Charliejane Nov 29

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Class War Between Mars And Venus

Tentacled Fungus Attacks The Microverse

Which Of These Heroes Is Dead For Good?

Superheroes Hit Vegas In Space

Superman Fights Batman At The End Of The World

Torchwood Season 2 Neutered For Kids

Space Capsule Parachutes Onto Jupiter

A Model Of Urban Growth In Living Matter

Unanswered Questions for Tonight’s Heroes Finale

Building An Ice Castle On Mars

Mark Hamill Is World’s Crappiest Time Traveler

Space Ninjas Target Our Children

New Batsuit Has Bra Cups Instead Of Nipples

Heroes Could Have A Downer Ending

See The Organ Repo Wagon

New Enterprise Will Look Like Old Enterprise

Once More, With Horniness

Pereira’s Conquest Of Planet Earth

Electric Cabinets Of The Unexpected

Ryan Philippe’s Atheist Superhero Fights Psycho Cults

Pentagon Reportedly Asks Detroit to Use More Car Factories as Arms Factories

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