Charlie Jane Anders, Author at Gizmodo

This Week’s TV: Iron Man’s Most Dangerous Battle Yet! Plus the Return of 6 Awesome Shows!

This week on television, it’s a time for tough choices. Several of your favorite television shows are back this week, plus Syfy introduces its new mutant super-team show Alphas. And Iron Man and War Machine both face impossible battles. Check out the inside scoop on all the TV shows coming back this week. We’ve also…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 11 '11

University Library gets Theodore Sturgeon’s original notes for More than Human and “Amok Time”

Science fiction giant Theodore Sturgeon’s papers are being donated to the University of Kansas, after having been privately held in two separate parts until now. This treasure trove of information will prove a boon to researchers studying the process of the award-winning novelist and Star Trek writer (who coined the Vulcan phrase “Live long and…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 11 '11

io9 Roundup: July 8, 2011

FINAL JOURNEY | The Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off on its final mission to the final frontier. https://gizmodo.com/lets-light-this-fire-one-more-time-the-space-shuttle-5819426 With Miracle Day, Torchwood becomes first-rate science fiction about ideas https://gizmodo.com/with-miracle-day-torchwood-becomes-first-rate-science-5819599 There’s seldom been an hour of television that brought up as many fascinating ideas about the nature of humanity as Torchwood: Miracle Day’s first episode, which…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

With Miracle Day, Torchwood becomes first-rate science fiction about ideas

There’s seldom been an hour of television that brought up as many fascinating ideas about the nature of humanity as Torchwood: Miracle Day’s first episode, which just aired. Russell T. Davies may have hit on his most fertile premise yet. The previous Torchwood miniseries, Children of Earth, had a darkly sardonic premise that could almost…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

Syfy’s Monday Night Lineup: Pretty Darn Solid

Syfy comes back strong this Monday, with a block of new programming designed to get your attention. There are new episodes of Syfy’s two most successful shows, Eureka and Warehouse 13, plus a 90-minute pilot of Alphas, a new series. We’ve seen screeners of all of Monday’s programming, and it’s pretty solid. This could be…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

High-Res Captain America Stills: F*@% Yeah!

Launch your weekend in heroic style, by gazing upon the full pyrotechnic glory of Captain America The First Avenger. Marvel has released a treasure trove of high-res stills from its second superhero movie of the summer, and they look fantastic. As usual, click the bottom right corner (where it says “expand”) to enlarge, or right-click…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

The Legion of Art Nouveau Heroes

What we need in this troubled world is heroes. Who look cool. And what looks cooler than Art Nouveau? The European art style popularized in the late 19th century is synonymous with beauty, grace and total mind-blowing radness. Some amazing artists have reimagined our favorite heroes in the Art Nouveau style — both superheroes and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

One Reason to be Glad the Live-Action Akira Movie is Dead

It’s apparently official: The live-action Akira film is dead. Director Albert Hughes walked away from it a while back, and by all accounts nobody else is stepping up. https://gizmodo.com/what-does-the-future-hold-for-kick-ass-2-and-the-live-a-5806109 Top image: Petraleo on Deviantart But there’s at least one reason to be glad that we may never get our live-action Akira movie. Designer Chris Weston…

Anime Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

“Let’s light this fire one more time”: The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off

The Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off for its final flight, in spite of predictions that weather might have delayed this final shuttle mission. Click this image to make giant, or right-click and select “open link in new tab.” According to Associated Press: “Let’s light this fire one more time,” Commander Christopher Ferguson said just before…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

Zookeeper is a horror movie about evolutionary biology

Everybody knows that talking-animal movies are really about the human condition. Marmaduke, Cats & Dogs, Yogi Bear… they all reflect human personalities filtered through the lens of silly animal stereotypes. They’re like a kind of heightened reality. Or maybe they just celebrate our all-too-human masochism. Bored celebrities do silly voices and pick up a quick…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8 '11

io9 Roundup: July 7, 2011

FINAL JOURNEY | The Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off on its final mission to the final frontier. https://gizmodo.com/lets-light-this-fire-one-more-time-the-space-shuttle-5819426 https://kotaku.com/could-bloodrayne-iii-the-third-reich-be-uwe-bolls-mast-5819114 Could Bloodrayne III: The Third Reich be Uwe Boll’s masterpiece? Vampire Hitler attacks Rayne, the sexy young half-vampire heroine, in a crazy-pants dream sequence from Bloodrayne: The Third Reich. Yes, Uwe Boll’s World War II epic…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 7 '11

Everything You Need to Know about Torchwood

Torchwood is reborn tomorrow night, as a big-budget co-production with the American cable network Starz. But with three seasons of this British science fiction show already out there, what do you need to know to enjoy it? The short answer is: Absolutely nothing. The new series brings you up to speed pretty easily. But there’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 7 '11

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction goes online for free

You’re soon going to have an awesome new resource for finding out about science fiction — the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, with some 12,000 entries and 3 million words, will be online for free. Would you make use of this sort of resource? Would you still want to buy a copy,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 7 '11

George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons: Worth The Wait

This Tuesday, the years of anticipation will be over, and the fifth book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series will finally be here. So does A Dance with Dragons live up to the near-insurmountable hype? Yes. For the most part. It’s a brilliant, horrifying, depressing book that takes the characters…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 7 '11

10 Characters that Game of Thrones season two could leave out

There were two miracles about Game of Thrones season one: that it was so true to the book, and that it was so brilliant on its own terms. For season two, the show will have to choose one miracle. With the second book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 7 '11

A storm circles Saturn so fast, it catches up with itself

Check out the most intense Saturn storm that the Cassini spacecraft has ever recorded. You can see it overtaking its own tail as it zooms around Saturn’s Northern hemisphere. (The tail is the blue clouds to the South and West.) The storm started months ago, and is still active today. The storm’s surface area is…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 7 '11

io9 Roundup: July 6, 2011

SNOWBALL’S CHANCE IN A DINOSAUR FIGHT | Dinosaurs battle in the snow, in a scene from The Great Dinosaur Escape, airing tomorrow night on National Geographic. Details here. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-tv-torchwood-goes-big-budget-plus-two-dose-5817852 https://gizmodo.com/what-the-creators-of-torchwood-miracle-day-promise-you-5818770 What the Creators of Torchwood: Miracle Day Promise You’ll See Torchwood: Miracle Day starts airing in a couple days on Starz, and we have pretty…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6 '11

What the Creators of Torchwood: Miracle Day Promise You’ll See

Torchwood: Miracle Day starts airing in a couple days on Starz, and we have pretty high expectations for the Doctor Who spin-off. But when the show’s creators spoke to us on a conference call, they only raised our hopes further. We were lucky enough to be on a call with producer Russell T. Davies, plus…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6 '11

Angry Robot Books offers a full year’s subscription for just £69

Here’s a business model that could help use the internet to save publishing from the abyss. Angry Robot Books will offer you e-book versions of every book it publishes in a year — up to 24 books — for £69. Other small publishers have tried a subscription model before, but given the tech-savvy nature of…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6 '11

Why a Supervillain Team-Up Could Be DC’s Best Answer to The Avengers

DC Comics may never build a movie universe to rival Marvel’s. We may never even get our Justice League movie to match Marvel’s Avengers. But there’s one thing DC can do better than anyone: supervillain team-ups. If DC really wants to throw The Avengers back in Marvel’s face, they need something bold and awesome, something…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 6 '11

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This Week’s TV: Iron Man’s Most Dangerous Battle Yet! Plus the Return of 6 Awesome Shows!

University Library gets Theodore Sturgeon’s original notes for More than Human and “Amok Time”

io9 Roundup: July 8, 2011

With Miracle Day, Torchwood becomes first-rate science fiction about ideas

Syfy’s Monday Night Lineup: Pretty Darn Solid

High-Res Captain America Stills: F*@% Yeah!

The Legion of Art Nouveau Heroes

One Reason to be Glad the Live-Action Akira Movie is Dead

“Let’s light this fire one more time”: The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off

Zookeeper is a horror movie about evolutionary biology

io9 Roundup: July 7, 2011

Everything You Need to Know about Torchwood

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction goes online for free

George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons: Worth The Wait

10 Characters that Game of Thrones season two could leave out

A storm circles Saturn so fast, it catches up with itself

io9 Roundup: July 6, 2011

What the Creators of Torchwood: Miracle Day Promise You’ll See

Angry Robot Books offers a full year’s subscription for just £69

Why a Supervillain Team-Up Could Be DC’s Best Answer to The Avengers

Apple’s Incoming CEO Makes His Earnings Call Debut

Spotify Will Now Verify Non-AI Artists

‘Macross Plus’ Is an Ultra-Romantic Classic That Refuses to Age

Stick It to Jeff Bezos by Turning Your Defunct Kindle Into the World’s Worst Typewriter

‘De-extinction’ Startup Wants to Revive Antelope Killed Off by South African Colonists

The Best Toys of April 2026

Dreame L60 Ultra Robot Vacuum and Mop With 35,000Pa Suction Is Now Over $400 Off as a Launch Exclusive Deal

Under-Oath Elon Musk Seems to Run a Different Company Than Public-Figure Elon Musk

Ambitious Experiment Aims to Test Tiny Nuclear Reactors for AI Data Centers

Here’s the Very Normal Reason the ‘Lanterns’ Trailer Disappeared

Steam Controller Review: Trackpads Change Everything for PC Gaming

Soundcore Space 2 Review: A Shockingly Stellar Value for Budget ANC Wireless Headphones

Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything… If You Know What You’re Doing

HP’s EliteBoard Keyboard-Computer Proves We Can Stick a PC in Anything

Sleep-Tracking Earbuds Didn’t Fix Me, but They Did Open My Eyes

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages