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Watch the book trailer, and read an excerpt, from this summer’s “it” dystopian satire

Prepare to be overcome with literary wackiness! Gary Shteyngart’s near-future dystopian comedy novel, Super Sad True Love Story, came out the other day. Here’s the celebrity-studded, tongue-in-cheek book trailer, and you can read a zany excerpt at the New Yorker.

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People are still dressing up as Na’Vi at protests

When Avatar was still in theaters, protestors dressed up as the imperialism-battling Na’Vi people. But it’s still happening now, and it’s the clearest proof yet that blue body-paint is the new armband. https://gizmodo.com/avatar-sparks-new-trend-in-protest-chic-5471528 These particular protestors are from a demonstration that just happened in London, and they’re protesting against plans by a mining company, Vedanta,…

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How the hell did Myka become cooler than Claudia? It’s upside-down day at Warehouse 13!

There must have been some strange reality-reversal artifact working behind the scenes at Warehouse 13 when last night’s episodes was made. All of a sudden, Myka’s brilliant and awesome, and Claudia’s kind of a twerp. How did that happen? To be fair, I’ve always liked Myka as a character – she had a few good…

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Geeking out about science fiction movies with Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver is a giant of science-fiction movies. Few actors have had a career in the genre as prolific as hers, and almost nobody’s played such diverse roles. So we were excited to geek out with her about science fiction. While Weaver was doing press for Paul this past weekend, we got the chance to…

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George R.R. Martin brings you sex, drugs and folk rock after the apocalypse

George R.R. Martin’s amazing A Song of Ice and Fire throws in random elements that seem to come out of nowhere… then make perfect sense. So when he introduces a strange drug to his post-apocalyptic story, it’s startling but thought-provoking. Martin’s story, “…For A Single Yesterday,” was originally published in 1975, but it’s just been…

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The #Wookieleaks tag on Twitter is bursting with stuff Darth Vader doesn’t want you to know about

If only someone had been holding the Emperor accountable and publishing the truth, maybe Admiral Ackbar would have known it was a trap in advance. The #wookieleaks tag on Twitter is a work of pure awesomeness, including Ewok intelligent design and the lack of WMDs on Alderaan. Update: As ElSpanielo points out, there’s also a…

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Eat your heart out, Michael Bay: This alien action movie has everything.

Here’s a movie trailer that keeps raising the stakes, all in the course of one minute. There are Mayans, cosmicness, weird artifacts, investigators, lizard people, aliens, big honking UFOs… and then a guy shoots a tracking dart at a UFO! Seriously, check it out. In the minute it takes to watch this trailer for Mexico’s…

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Another round of SF book covers to make you ask, “What were they thinking?”

The proud history of science fiction publishing offers a near-limitless supply of WTF book covers, it seems. Flickr user Zimpenfish just uploaded some real masterpieces of dementia, including one that might be NSFW. Check out more incredibly pulpy, inexplicable covers over at Zimpenfish’s Flickr stream. Here are the ones that baffled us the most. Please…

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Watch Tiffany’s epic pie-fight with Debbie Gibson

Syfy just released a sneak peek from next year’s Mega-Python vs. Gatoroid, in which Debbie Gibson and Tiffany’s catfight becomes a bizarre/obscene pie-fight. We caught up with Tiffany the other day, and she talked about the pop sirens’ pastry assault. Here’s the clip, which Syfy just put out. I have a feeling this will be…

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Why it’s so hard to distinguish between hype and real fan excitement

This past week at San Diego Comic Con, we’ve seen a lot of fans expressing their passion for their favorite stories. But we also got bombarded with manufactured hype. Why is it so hard to tell the difference between two? If you’re honest, you’ll admit that you’ve had times where it was almost impossible to…

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The last Lost spoilers you’ll ever read (or not, if you want to stay pure)

The Lost season six DVD includes a new 12-minute segment that promises to answer some more questions and tie up some loose ends. Does it deliver the goods? A detailed synopsis of it has popped up online. Spoilers definitely ahead… So the SpoilersLost blog, which got so many inside scoops on the show during its…

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Ted Chiang redefines how everybody will write about artificial intelligence

Science fiction’s full of wishful thinking about artificial intelligence: It’ll spring up on its own. It’ll become smarter than us in no time. Ted Chiang’s new novella, The Life Cycle of Software Objects, will change how you think about A.I. Spoilers ahead! Although I’ll try to avoid giving away anything major. And not only that,…

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Ursula K. Le Guin gives away the film rights to one of her stories for free

The Disposessed author Ursula K. Le Guin is famously protective of her copyrights, and has expressed extreme reluctance to let Hollywood touch her work. So how did a group of film students get permission to film one of her stories? After the SciFi Channel (as it was then known) made a miniseries based on her…

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Great summer reading from independent science fiction publishers

We’ve shared our summer book suggestions already, but Nisi Shawl has three suggestions we missed, featuring new voices from independent publishers. The Writing The Other co-author’s picks include sexually-transmitted zombies, probability-altering powers and a world where mammoths still roam. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-science-fiction-and-fantasy-books-for-summer-e-5582419

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Book trailer for the Hunger Games book three made us do a happy dance

I don’t know what’s more exciting: The fact that the third Hunger Games book comes out in a month, or the fact that a science-fictional young adult series is generating Twilight-style excitement. In either case, here’s a new book trailer!

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The biggest winners and losers of Comic Con 2010

Everybody says San Diego Comic Con can make or break a project, and we saw it happening first-hand at SDCC 2010. Here’s our list of the projects that gained supercharged buzz at SDCC… plus a few that lost some buzz. Just to clarify, this isn’t a list of stuff we personally liked at Comic Con.…

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Bender Vs. Alien — the epic battle, made out of sand!

Yes, that’s really an Xenomorph from Ridley Scott’s Alien attacking Futurama’s Bender. And yes, it’s really a sand sculpture. This past weekend, the town of Port Angeles, WA had a science-fiction-themed sand sculpture contest. Bender won, natch. According to the Peninsula Daily News: [Carl] Jara’s sculpture depicts the creature from the “Alien” movies hunting the…

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TV teaches you how to catch a prehistoric monster and survive the apocalypse!

This week doesn’t just bring new Futurama, Being Human, Warehouse 13 and True Blood episodes — we also confront prehistoric monkey-eating fish! The Road becomes a reality TV series! See the solar system’s wonders anew. Tons of sneak peeks below! Monday: Today’s pick of the day is a slam dunk. It’s the first episode of…

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Inception passes the most important test: the second weekend box office

Tons of movies do well in their first weekend, but a lot fewer keep it up for a second weekend. Add Inception to that exclusive club: It’s the number one movie in America two weekends running. Inception’s scored a total U.S. box office of $143.6 million. (Or $228 million worldwide.) Contrast that with Predators, whose…

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Prepare for the holy war against post-apocalyptic vampires, with the first Priest trailer!

Ready to be plunged into a post-apocalyptic war between super-clergy and wild vampires? Check out the first trailer for Priest! [via HeyUGuys]

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Watch the book trailer, and read an excerpt, from this summer’s “it” dystopian satire

People are still dressing up as Na’Vi at protests

How the hell did Myka become cooler than Claudia? It’s upside-down day at Warehouse 13!

Geeking out about science fiction movies with Sigourney Weaver

George R.R. Martin brings you sex, drugs and folk rock after the apocalypse

The #Wookieleaks tag on Twitter is bursting with stuff Darth Vader doesn’t want you to know about

Eat your heart out, Michael Bay: This alien action movie has everything.

Another round of SF book covers to make you ask, “What were they thinking?”

Watch Tiffany’s epic pie-fight with Debbie Gibson

Why it’s so hard to distinguish between hype and real fan excitement

The last Lost spoilers you’ll ever read (or not, if you want to stay pure)

Ted Chiang redefines how everybody will write about artificial intelligence

Ursula K. Le Guin gives away the film rights to one of her stories for free

Great summer reading from independent science fiction publishers

Book trailer for the Hunger Games book three made us do a happy dance

The biggest winners and losers of Comic Con 2010

Bender Vs. Alien — the epic battle, made out of sand!

TV teaches you how to catch a prehistoric monster and survive the apocalypse!

Inception passes the most important test: the second weekend box office

Prepare for the holy war against post-apocalyptic vampires, with the first Priest trailer!

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