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What Scifi Cliche Will Come True First?

So everybody keeps saying we’re living in a science fictional world now, thanks to the ipod nano and the global catastrophes. So we’re just waiting on the edge of our seats for more stock science fiction plots to start coming true. Vote for the summer-blockbuster storyline that’ll be the first to become our everyday reality…

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Five Bollywood Science Fiction Movies You Should Know

Bollywood song-and-dance meets robots and aliens. How can that not rule? If Shekhar Kapur’s Time Machine finally gets made, it’ll be part of a bold new wave of Bollywood science fiction. Including Indian superhero Krrish, fighting a motorcycle gang in the clip above. We have full details on Krrish and four other awesome Bollywood scifi…

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A Bollywood Time Travel Movie

The director of Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth movies could soon be reconstructing a bunch of historical eras, all at once. Shekhar Kapur is finally going to finish his abortive early 90s film Time Machine, with director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. He’s also working on another new Bollywood film about a futuristic Mumbai, which will be his most…

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Judge Dredd Is The Most Underrated Comic Book Movie

If we ever do a “Greatest Scifi Motorcycle Chases” post, this sequence from Judge Dredd will totally make the cut. The flying motorcycles zooming over Megacity One are pretty well realized, and the whole scene is more kinetic and non-stop than the Fifth Element cop chase. I’m not even going to comment on Judge Dredd…

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Subterranean Slaves Of Amsterdam

A Dutch company wants to build a massive underground city beneath Amsterdam, going six stories below the space-challenged city. Strukton, owned by the Dutch railway, wants to drain Amsterdam’s canals one by one and then refill them with water after it builds its enormous troglodyte structure. The “web-like complex” would include parking, sports, movie theaters…

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Tina Brown, Secret Godmother of Science Fiction

The Tina Brown era was the heyday of science fiction at the New Yorker, which also published a decent amount of SF in the 80s. But the magazine has only published one SF story over the past decade, when the genre has supposedly been amassing tons of literary prestige. What’s up with that? Here’s our…

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New York’s Real-Estate Bubble Goes Literal

Aliens scoop up Manhattan, stick it in a giant bubble, and drag it into deep space. No, it’s not another post-9/11 New York-destruction fantasy, it’s the plot of Manhattan Transfer, the 1993 novel by John E. Stith. And now it’s being made into an ultra-low-budget movie by the makers of a couple of Star Trek-related…

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First Look At David Hasselhoff In New Knight Rider

Welcome to Morning Spoilers, where we burn up the shock value from forthcoming plot twists to get a short-time high, instead of saving it like good kids. Today’s spoilers are all TV-related, including a bunch of new pics from the Knight Rider TV movie that don’t show a car. (Except a little bit in one…

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Is Orson Scott Card Bad For Teens?

The controversy over Orson Scott Card receiving an ALA award for young adult literature has reached the Feminist SF blog, which argues that you can’t separate Card’s work from his homophobic views. And also, his opinions have demonstrably shaped his work. Do Card’s anti-gay essays make him an unfit guide to teenagers growing into self-awareness?…

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Christian Bale Looks Bat-rophied

Bruce Wayne looks sort of grumpy, like the Joker disturbed his naptime, in this new promo still from Batman: The Dark Knight. He’s also not nearly as buff as he was in Batman Begins, while the Batsuit has more fake plastic muscles than before. Also released today: a new poster for The Dark Knight that…

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The Naughtiest Dystopian Fetish Comics (NSFW)

Some of the wildest adult BDSM comics take place in elaborate future dystopias, where society has broken down and fetish-wear is the survivalist uniform of choice. Often, the backstory of these sexy post-apocalypses includes plagues, killer cyborgs and nuclear holocausts. Are you feeling turned on yet? Click through for our roundup of the sexiest post-apocalyptic…

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Alien Bestiality, Brought To You By George Lucas

1986’s Howard the Duck may have been the moment we stopped having quite so much faith in George Lucas. His big-screen adaptation of the comic about an alien duck who falls to Earth tried hard to capture writer Steve Gerber’s gonzo sensibility, but veered badly off course. Like this scene, where Howard has a weirdly…

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Joss Whedon Hates Weird Science

That Buffy episode where Warren makes a robot girlfriend, who then goes berzerk? “I Was Made To Love You?” Turns out it’s Joss Whedon’s way of critiquing Weird Science, a movie he loathes. That’s just one of the insights that Joss dropped in a discussion with group of L.A. geeks for the GeeksOn podcast. He…

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A 3-D Look Inside A Virus

The latest electron microscopes can create three-dimensional images of the smallest structures, turning an agricultural pest into a work of art. This is the cowpea mosaic virus, scourge of legume farmers everywhere, vitrified and subjected to a single particle reconstruction procedure by FEI Corp. You can easily make out the blue outer protein shell and…

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TV This Week: Time To Get Lost Again!

The biggest thing happening on TV this week is, of course, the return of Smallville. Or maybe not. Actually, it’s the first new episode of Lost in 10,000 months, answering all the questions the bizarre season three finale left hanging. But there’s also plenty of other great stuff on TV this week. Click through for…

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Beware Google’s Surveillance Death-Ray

What happens when Google street view is no longer content with showing incredibly detailed pictures of the outside of your house? This hilarious science fiction video by the Vacationeers follows Google’s omni-cam to its most invasive extreme… and of course they posted it on YouTube. Our evil video tool cut off the credits from this…

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New Pics From Will Smith’s Hancock

A couple of new pics from Will Smith’s Hancock have turned up, showing off his superhero outfit. (Which we featured months ago.) We also have some major new hints about X-Files 2, and more incredibly, massively detailed Lost spoilers. https://gizmodo.com/will-smiths-cant-miss-formula-for-blockbuster-movies-330985 Here are those new Will Smith pics, courtesy of Rope of Silicon: SpoilersLost has tons…

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io9 Last Week: Art And Romance, With Teeth Bared

We thought long and hard about our spoiler policy before unveiling it last Monday. And in the week that followed, we’ve been remarkably well-behaved, despite one picture that people mistakenly thought was representational. You can now peruse our front page with no fear that you’ll learn anything about upcoming storylines. (I almost said “no fear…

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Genocidal Aliens Have A Pure Artistic Vision

If only Spielberg’s War Of The Worlds movie had looked as cool as this painted concept art, we’d still be rewatching it. The concept art is often grander and bigger than what ends up on the screen — even for movies we love — because of real-world constraints. Click through for a gallery of the…

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Director: Smurfs Rock Harder Than Astro Boy

The CGI movie of Astro Boy has run into trouble: director Colin Brady has abandoned the project, in favor of The Smurfs movie. In his place, Imagi Studios has hired David Bowers (Flushed Away). Imagi’s previous project was last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. Warner Bros. and the Weinstein Co. are still hoping to…

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What Scifi Cliche Will Come True First?

Five Bollywood Science Fiction Movies You Should Know

A Bollywood Time Travel Movie

Judge Dredd Is The Most Underrated Comic Book Movie

Subterranean Slaves Of Amsterdam

Tina Brown, Secret Godmother of Science Fiction

New York’s Real-Estate Bubble Goes Literal

First Look At David Hasselhoff In New Knight Rider

Is Orson Scott Card Bad For Teens?

Christian Bale Looks Bat-rophied

The Naughtiest Dystopian Fetish Comics (NSFW)

Alien Bestiality, Brought To You By George Lucas

Joss Whedon Hates Weird Science

A 3-D Look Inside A Virus

TV This Week: Time To Get Lost Again!

Beware Google’s Surveillance Death-Ray

New Pics From Will Smith’s Hancock

io9 Last Week: Art And Romance, With Teeth Bared

Genocidal Aliens Have A Pure Artistic Vision

Director: Smurfs Rock Harder Than Astro Boy

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