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Matt Smith Quitting Doctor Who Next Year?

Matt Smith has bowled over even the most conservative Doctor Who fans in his tenure as the show’s time-traveling wizard. So it’s dreadful news that we could be looking at a new Doctor a year from now — just in time for the show’s 50th anniversary in 2013. During an interview with VH1, Smith was…

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Terra Nova will pick up the pace soon. Really.

Terra Nova is a place full of wonders… as well as stock science fiction plots and mysteries that are dangled but not explored. But all that’s going to change soon, claim the show’s producers in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly. This week’s print issue of EW actually contains an article on Fox’s fall TV…

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Spooky Ghost Stories from Science Fiction

Last week, Fringe finally gave us the conclusion to a weird ghost story that’s been simmering since last season. But Fringe isn’t the only science fiction universe to dabble in ghosts — there have been hauntings and apparitions in Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars and countless other science fiction universes. Just because there’s a…

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The Geekiest Toys to Help Turn Your Cubicle into a Lair

If you have to go to work, at least you don’t have to do it alone. You can surround yourself with science fiction and fantasy icons, thanks to a nearly endless supply of cool crafts and merch on the internet. Here are some of our favorite geektastic belt buckles, cufflinks, USB hubs, mugs and random…

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Handy map of the United States showing the scariest thing in every single state

If you travel a lot throughout the United States, you might lose track of which menace you should be irrationally paranoid about in each particular state. Is Maine the one with Lobster People, or is that New Hampshire? Now you’ll never get confused again, thanks to this amazingly informative map from Pleated Jeans. [via Laughing…

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Marvel’s The Punisher Becoming a Police Procedural TV Show?

Two Marvel Comics TV series, Incredible Hulk and AKA Jessica Jones, are both moving slowly through the television pipeline, but now a TV show about the Punisher could be on the fast track. The bad news? It sounds like the people making it will have a pretty loose interpretation of the character. In the comics,…

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Instant nightmare: Watch the entire cosmos turn into the deformed head of William Shatner. Reciting “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

Just when you think William Shatner’s second career in self-parody can’t get any more demented, along comes his latest music video. The night sky resolves itself into a giant smudgy Shatner face, which gazes down on the Earth and intones the lyrics to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” And when Shatner gets worked up, lightning strikes and…

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Picture of the Day: October 20, 2011

Lonesome Monkey | A young golden snub-nosed monkey, high up in China’s Qinling Mountains, keeping its extremities as warm as possible, while its mother isn’t around. This is just one of the year’s best wildlife photos. https://gizmodo.com/the-years-best-wildlife-photos-will-break-your-heart-5851913 Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. Or visit Observation Deck,…

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The year’s best wildlife photos will break your heart

This monkey is insanely cute and lovable — and endangered. This is a young golden snub-nosed monkey, high up in China’s Qinling Mountains, keeping its extremities as warm as possible, while its mother isn’t around. Poor lonely monkey. But that’s not the most distressing of the year’s best wildlife photos, from the Veolia Environnement Wildlife…

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Buffy‘s Clare Kramer is a sexy “spree killer” in the latest movie from the director of Brainsmasher and Cyborg!

Check out the new trailer for Albert Pyun’s latest exploitation film, Road to Hell. When a serial killer meets two hot female “spree killers” in a weird greenscreened landscape that’s somewhere between Hell and Purgatory, sparks are sure to fly. Sparks, in this case, meaning Range Rover bondage and knifeplay. And kissing. But wait —…

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Britain’s Latest Superhero Fetish Looks Like Zack Snyder’s Ultimate Fantasy

It’s hard to believe the director of Watchmen and Sucker Punch didn’t craft this post-apocalyptic S&M fetishwear superhero ad campaign. This is the Snyder aesthetic, dumbed down and turned into a mass retail campaign. With a weird 1960s cartoon “WHAM!” on top, just so you know it’s actually campy. Pop singer Jessie J looks practically…

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Chip Kidd talks about designing the cover for Haruki Murakami’s new novel, 1Q84

One of the year’s most hotly anticipated novels is Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, about alternate worlds, levitating clocks, and… well, true to form for Murakami, it’s really hard to tell what his novel’s about, especially without reading it. Chip Kidd, best known for co-writing the awesome Bat-Manga!, about Japanese versions of Batman, designed the U.S. cover…

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The Only Way Back to the Future‘s Ending Could Have Been Cooler

What if Back to the Future had ended by taking Marty and the Doc to a whole new galaxy? This amazing fan-made video opens up a whole different universe for the BTTF series. The rotoscoping is pretty impressive. [Midians Music on YouTube, via Unique Daily and Slashfilm]

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How H.R. Giger’s Brilliant Madness Helped Make Alien “Erotic”

The new book Alien Vault gives you a terrific insight into the insane amount of craftsmanship — and the craftsmanlike touches of insanity — that went into Ridley Scott’s Alien. Ian Nathan’s new book is a ridiculously comprehensive and beautifully assembled tribute to one of science fiction’s all-time great movies. And nowhere is it more…

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Bradley Cooper wasn’t using his tongue for anything anyway

Add Midnight Meat Train to the list of movies that you think are just slasher movies, but actually turn out to be science-fictional. The other day, we shared a totally insane clip from Triangle — thanks to James for directing us to the Midnight Meat Train as our next stop. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-horrifying-crawling-over-a-pile-of-your-dead-5850708 Yes, it’s a whole…

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Amazing Discovery: Viking tomb includes a warrior’s boat, axe, spear and sword

Yes, you’re looking at a real Viking sword here — and it’s over 1000 years old. This is just part of a new archeological discovery, the 16-foot tomb of a Viking warrior who came to Scotland and never went home again. The high-status warrior was buried with his boat and all his gear. Check out…

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Why do we want to feel sorry for monsters that scare us?

Scary monsters are awesome — there’s something undeniably cool about being scared witless by something that won’t ever stop or show mercy. But some of the most famous monsters, like Frankenstein’s Monster and King Kong, inspire our pity or empathy along with terror. Why would we want to feel sorry for the monsters that terrify…

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A Show About a Family and their Humanoid Robot, from the Makers of Big Love?

First the creators of Nip/Tuck and Glee bring us the weirdtastic supernatural show American Horror Story, and now the men behind Big Love are bringing us a show about a mixed-race family and their humanoid robot. This is a great time to own a television set. Top image: Associated Press (Sure, creators Mark V. Olsen…

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More Proof That the Book World’s Literary/SF Division is Increasingly Meaningless

This week sees the release of Colson Whitehead’s zombie novel Zone One, and he’s been doing a slew of interviews in which he affirms that reading science fiction and comic books (especially H.P. Lovecraft) made him want to be a writer. Talking to the Atlantic, he says the distinctions between science fiction and “literary” books…

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Picture of the Day: October 18, 2011

EAT SNOW, MINOTAUR! | “Minotaur Chase,” concept art by Nate Hallinan. Via Design You Trust. Want to read today’s io9 stories a different way? Check out our blog view. Or visit Observation Deck, our general discussion forum.

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Matt Smith Quitting Doctor Who Next Year?

Terra Nova will pick up the pace soon. Really.

Spooky Ghost Stories from Science Fiction

The Geekiest Toys to Help Turn Your Cubicle into a Lair

Handy map of the United States showing the scariest thing in every single state

Marvel’s The Punisher Becoming a Police Procedural TV Show?

Instant nightmare: Watch the entire cosmos turn into the deformed head of William Shatner. Reciting “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

Picture of the Day: October 20, 2011

The year’s best wildlife photos will break your heart

Buffy‘s Clare Kramer is a sexy “spree killer” in the latest movie from the director of Brainsmasher and Cyborg!

Britain’s Latest Superhero Fetish Looks Like Zack Snyder’s Ultimate Fantasy

Chip Kidd talks about designing the cover for Haruki Murakami’s new novel, 1Q84

The Only Way Back to the Future‘s Ending Could Have Been Cooler

How H.R. Giger’s Brilliant Madness Helped Make Alien “Erotic”

Bradley Cooper wasn’t using his tongue for anything anyway

Amazing Discovery: Viking tomb includes a warrior’s boat, axe, spear and sword

Why do we want to feel sorry for monsters that scare us?

A Show About a Family and their Humanoid Robot, from the Makers of Big Love?

More Proof That the Book World’s Literary/SF Division is Increasingly Meaningless

Picture of the Day: October 18, 2011

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees