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All Your Sex Questions About Trek And Transformers — Answered!

Today’s spoilers include Chris Pine’s Star Trek sex forecast, and official confirmation of a naughty Transformers rumor. Lost’s producers explain everything. Plus dirt on Watchmen, Star Wars, Fringe, Heroes, Supernatural and Sarah Connor. Star Trek: So just how much of a crazy space orgy will this movie be? Journalists asked star Chris Pine, in the…

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Nobody Does Space Opera Like The Italians

In the late 1970s, Italy flooded the world with awesome Star Wars knock-offs, but the greatest may be 1979’s Star Odyssey. What other movie features pilots making strangulated gurgles when their ships are hit? I love the way that one guy jumps over the prone body of the superior officer his buddy has just decked,…

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The Most Ridiculous Evil Twins In The Multiverse

Click to viewBeing evil is supposed to make you smarter, but it doesn’t always work out that way. In science fiction, evil twins are often more idiotic than their good counterparts. Just check out our list! Gordon Tracy from Dick Tracy. In the radio serial, Dick Tracy’s brother Gordon has an equally square jaw (I…

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Buck Rogers Brings Retro Space-Swashbuckling To The Web

Buck Rogers is coming to the twenty-first century. James Cawley, producer of the Star Trek: Phase II fan series, has gotten the rights to do a Buck Rogers webseries with the same attention to detail. Cawley stresses the project isn’t a fan film, because it’s a fully licensed production with professionals behind the camera and…

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Experiment With A Lamp Made Of Test-Tubes

These test-tube lamps, on display at Germany’s “Early Bird” design show, could be the future of design — after mad science overruns the world, we’ll have to use science-gear to furnish our homes. Image by AP.

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Heroes Could Soon Shed More Of Its Original Cast

We mentioned the other day that a major star wants to leave the cast of Heroes at the season’s end. Now we’re hearing it’s actually two stars — who have reason to complain. Spoilers below… https://gizmodo.com/watchmen-pics-transformers-poster-terminator-scoop-an-5127096 E! Online’s Kristen, who started the “star wants to leave” buzz in the first place, apparently mentioned more details…

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Secrets Of Battlestar’s Final Five Revealed! Plus The Naughtiest Transformer!

Spoiler watch! Writers of a Battlestar “Final Five” tie-in comic revealed Cylon secrets. New Transformers rumors — some of them pre-debunked. Watchmen and Chuck videos. Dirt on Lost, Wolverine, G.I. Joe, Dollhouse and Clone Wars. Watchmen: The first TV spot for the movie, which we fervently hope comes out in March on schedule. Transformers: Revenge…

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Possible “Benjamin Button” Snub Proves Oscars Hate Science Fiction

Variety reports that the Oscars are considering passing over Brad Pitt’s performance in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button for a Best Actor nod, because his acting was enhanced by special effects. Especially in the early scenes where he’s an old-man infant, some critics say he’s more of an animated Gollum-esque figure than an actual…

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A Boy And His Giant Robot Stop A Robo Swarm In New Gigantor-Inspired Trailer

A giant robot responds to wristwatch commands, and its eyes change color depending on how much robotic ass it’s going to smash, in this awesome trailer for T-28, from the studio that’s producing Astro Boy. T-28 is presumably short for Tetsujin-28, the original Japanese name for the manga and anime series that became Gigantor in…

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It’s Not Too Late To Get Hooked On Kyle XY!

With Kyle XY season three starting up tonight, and the second season DVDs hitting shelves, it’s a good time to discover that this “family-friendly” show is actually much cooler than you’d expect. I got a review copy of the Kyle XY season two DVDs, and have been watching all the early episodes from the season…

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Poe’s 200th Birthday Is Just As Weird As You’d Expect

Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday is always cause for weirdness — like the strange black-clad figure who leaves roses and cognac at his tomb. But this year, he turns 200, and things are getting more intense. Possibly the weirdest Poe-related event taking place this week is a Poe smackdown in Philadelphia, where a representative of the…

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See Your Favorite Books Through Alien Eyes

If you’ve ever doubted the beauty and variety of science fiction book covers, just check out the new Book Cover Archive. A few of our faves are below. The thing I love about the Book Cover Archive so far is that it’s celebrating books with, not just lovely cover images, but also amazing design. Several…

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New Dollhouse Leaks Make You Question What’s Real [NSFW]

We expected mind-games from Dollhouse, Joss Whedon’s new show about a puppet whose memories have been erased. But now a trippy leaked script and (possibly NSFW) promo pics raise new questions. Update: script is fanfic. I’m not sure if these new promo pics are NSFW, but you might get some funny looks from your coworkers…

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The Terminator Clip That Shreds The Space/Time Continuum

You may have noticed from the trailers for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles that a certain person is coming back, in the mother of all paradoxes. Now a new clip shows him in action. Spoilers! The show’s first official podcast included a clip from the Feb. 13 episode, “The Good Wound”: I have to admit…

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Dragonball’s Ending, Lost Secrets, Battlestar Clues And Torchwood Baddies

Too many spoilers today! Revealing pics from Transformers, Dragonball and Lost. Plus spoilery clips from BSG, Dollhouse and Life On Mars. Discover Stargate Universe characters, Land Of The Lost dinosaurs, and Torchwood villains. Spoiler overload! Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen: Here’s our first look at a new Autobot, Sideswipe, in robot and car mode. And,…

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Would You Boycott Science Fiction Writers Because Of Their Politics?

Most SF authors aim to make you think — but some of them make you think, “I disagree with everything this person stands for.” Would you ever avoid someone’s books based on his/her political views? Would you boycott a science fiction author’s works because of their political views? ( polls)

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When Does Historical Revisionism Become Alternate History?

I hadn’t realized how many quasi-revisionist works about the Nazis and the Holocaust had come out recently until I read this Times article. It’s almost like a stealth Man In The High Castle. Except that in this alternate history, the Nazis don’t win — they get softened. They become not quite so bad. There’s the…

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An Underground Volcano Symbolizes Our Hobbesian Doom

I kind of love this sequence from 1951’s The Unknown World, where a scientist decides to die by underground volcano, because the human race will just self-destruct anyway. It’s nakedly political, and dementedly awesome.

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What Would SF Look Like If Copyright Only Lasted 20 Years?

In Paul Melko’s Walls Of The Universe, our hero visits an alternate world where patents and copyrights only last a short time. What would happen to science fiction if this was true in our world? Suppose we lived in an alternate universe where copyright was 20 years. Period. How would this affect science fiction? (…

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Secrets Of Creation

Ursula Le Guin did an interview with Vice Magazine (of all places) and explained exactly how you can make a mysterious technology, and a universe of 80 wildly different inhabited worlds, feel totally real. Q: For the Hainish Cycle of books you invented over 80 different inhabited worlds, each with its own cultures and physics……

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All Your Sex Questions About Trek And Transformers — Answered!

Nobody Does Space Opera Like The Italians

The Most Ridiculous Evil Twins In The Multiverse

Buck Rogers Brings Retro Space-Swashbuckling To The Web

Experiment With A Lamp Made Of Test-Tubes

Heroes Could Soon Shed More Of Its Original Cast

Secrets Of Battlestar’s Final Five Revealed! Plus The Naughtiest Transformer!

Possible “Benjamin Button” Snub Proves Oscars Hate Science Fiction

A Boy And His Giant Robot Stop A Robo Swarm In New Gigantor-Inspired Trailer

It’s Not Too Late To Get Hooked On Kyle XY!

Poe’s 200th Birthday Is Just As Weird As You’d Expect

See Your Favorite Books Through Alien Eyes

New Dollhouse Leaks Make You Question What’s Real [NSFW]

The Terminator Clip That Shreds The Space/Time Continuum

Dragonball’s Ending, Lost Secrets, Battlestar Clues And Torchwood Baddies

Would You Boycott Science Fiction Writers Because Of Their Politics?

When Does Historical Revisionism Become Alternate History?

An Underground Volcano Symbolizes Our Hobbesian Doom

What Would SF Look Like If Copyright Only Lasted 20 Years?

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Secrets Of Creation

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

Apple Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK Now. Could the US Be Next?

Astronomers Say Recent Rash of Meteor Sightings ‘Warrants Serious Investigation’

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