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Author Austin Grossman is answering your questions from 12-1 PT today!

In May, the io9 book club read Austin Grossman’s intense videogame novel YOU. Now, Grossman is here today from 12-1 to answer your questions about this book, his previous novel (Soon I Will Be Invincible), videogame development, or related subjects. https://gizmodo.com/the-io9-book-club-is-in-session-lets-talk-austin-gros-511296681 https://gizmodo.com/you-is-a-bittersweet-novel-about-how-videogames-remake-476315444 Start posting your questions in comments below, and Grossman will get to as…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

The editor of SFWA’s bulletin resigns over sexist articles

Jean Rabe, editor of the SFWA Bulletin, has stepped down in the wake of tons of criticism of the organization’s official magazine, which featured regular contributors talking about “lady editors” and commenting on how hot they are. (Plus there’s the cheesetastic cover you see at left.) You can read the details of the SFWA controversy…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Don’t Fear the Dark, Or Loki, With These Badass Avengers Nightlights

If they can defeat Loki’s forces, The Avengers shouldn’t have much trouble battling your child’s fear of the darkness at night. At least not with these slick Avengers-themed LED-powered nightlights designed to look like Captain America’s shield, Thor’s hammer, and Hulk’s fist smashing through a bedroom wall. The illusion comes complements of an included cracked…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong is your happy place. With robots.

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong came out about a month ago, and I keep looking back and finding new favorite moments and reasons to celebrate this awesome book about robots and cheerleaders. It’s seriously become my happy place lately. In Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, Charlie and Nate are a weirdly mismatched pair of high…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Read the first chapter of Celebromancy!

If you liked the meta-comic fantasy of Michael Underwood’s novel Geekomancy, you’ll adore the follow-up, Celebromancy. Our urban fantasy author/asskicker Ree is back — and she’ll have to use every pop culture tool in her arsenal to defeat these Big Bads. We’ve got an excerpt! The book comes out July 15. Learn more on the…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Famous Scifi And Fantasy Authors In Their Workspaces

It can be a revelation to see an author in the place where he or she invented your favorite fantasy worlds. Out of these humble machines and cluttered studies come alternate realities. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) with an IBM Selectric (via Isaac Asimov’s Universe and io9) https://gizmodo.com/science-fiction-novelists-reveal-their-daily-writing-ro-5106135 Neil Gaiman (1960-) in his garden office at his…

Books & Comics Vincze Miklós

Kick-Ass, The Crow and Astro City return to rule This Week’s Comics!

Kurt Busisk takes us back to Astro City! The Crow gets ready to fight some Nazis! Kick-Ass must significantly step up his ass-kicking if he wants to save Hit Girl! All this and much, much more, in this week’s comic releases! New Issues Dark Horse: • Empowered Special #4: Animal Style: Adam Warren’s clothing and…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk Austin Grossman’s YOU

Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In May, we read Austin Grossman’s YOU. Jump into comments to get started talking about it! For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when the meeting is…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

William Shatner reads his version of Where the Wild Things Are to kids

Few people know of William Shatner’s personal campaign to get kids interested in reading. The actor read the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are to a group of kids at the recent Denver Comic Con; if he embellished the tale a bit, what of it? A book is merely a doorway to imagination,…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Massive collection of Man Of Steel pics are full of Super Spoilers

Zack Snyder’s Superman movie is about to take flight, and the visuals in the most recent trailers look astonishing. A slew of high-res photos has just been released, and they show off just how pretty this film will look. Plus… some major spoilers. What do these shiny new images reveal? Christopher Meloni and Lois Lane…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Hospital rebrands chemotherapy as DC-themed “superformula” for kids

Chemotherapy is never fun, but A.C.Camargo Cancer Center in São Paulo is trying to make it easier for children to accept the treatment. They’re rebranding the treatment as “superformula” and using comics to help kids understand chemo. Buzzfeed’s Copyranter blog explains that the cancer center is working with ad agency JWT, which also works with…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

What if classic children’s books starred comic book characters?

Why didn’t we grow up reading The Very Hungry Galactus or Are you there, God? It’s me, Rogue? Over at Comics Should Be Good, artists are filling in the gaps in our childhood libraries by reimagining classic books with superheroes and villains. Head over to Comics Should Be Good for the works of Fun with…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

A highly imaginative webcomic filled with absurdity and astronauts

Anyone who longs for the days when The Perry Bible Fellowship updated regularly would do well to check out Jasper Rietman’s TRI/P. Much like Nicholas Gurewitch, Rietman plays with a classic newspaper strip style to create comics that defy our expectations, forcing us to shift our perspectives as we contemplate them. TRI/P is structured very…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Doctor Who‘s Karen Gillan playing a villain in Guardians of the Galaxy

Could the cast of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie get any more insane? Karen Gillan, who played the beloved Amy Pond on Doctor Who, is joining the movie as the “lead female villain.” According to Hollywood Reporter, Gillan will be part of a troika of villains, along with Lee Pace and Michael Rooker. The…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Does the summer’s biggest young adult novel live up to the hype?

The 5th Wave may be the summer’s most buzzed about YA book — but it really does deserve a lot of praise. Rick Yancey’s alien invasion novel plays around with more than a few tropes of the genre, elevating them with dashes of lyrical prose and a plot that just doesn’t stop. Spoilers ahead… Cassie,…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs

What’s the Most Gratuitous Comic Book Death of All Time?

This week, we found out about a completely gratuitous death for a major DC Comics character. Yup, as usual. No doubt it’ll be retconned, or there’ll be a bizarre resurrection. Superheroes tend to do that. But meanwhile, we’re wondering: What’s the most bonkers or pointless death in comics? https://gizmodo.com/uh-dc-just-randomly-killed-the-hell-out-of-a-major-cha-510341170 https://gizmodo.com/10-incredibly-stupid-ways-that-superheroes-and-villains-5971716 https://gizmodo.com/the-15-dumbest-superhero-retcons-of-all-time-5405696 https://gizmodo.com/7-bad-storytelling-habits-that-we-all-learned-from-supe-510497734 https://gizmodo.com/10-reasons-not-to-bring-someone-back-from-the-dead-5916491 https://gizmodo.com/back-from-the-dead-eleven-scifi-resurrections-5209135 Please…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Bruce Timm is back, and teaming up with Zack Snyder for more Superman

It’s A Bird… It’s A Plane… It’s Bruce Timm! Legendary animation legend and executive producer to many of DC’s cartoons and animated movies is teaming up with Man of Steel director Zack Snyder to bring you a Superman short. Guess he’s not leaving after all, thank goodnes. https://gizmodo.com/oh-bruce-timm-is-leaving-dc-animation-463103579 THR broke the news about the Snyder…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

George R. R. Martin is writing the Coffee Table Book of Ice and Fire

While we all eagerly, nervously, nailbitingly await the release of The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in A Song of Ice and Fire, rest assured that GRRM is writing plenty of Westeros-related material — just maybe not as much on TWoW as you’d like. UK publisher HarperCollins says GRRM has writen 250,000 words on…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

Deadpool gets a lesson in language from Marvel’s Legal department

In anticipation of his videogame, Deadpool has been wandering around the Marvel offices and… well, generally just being Deadpool. In the video above, he tries to figure out what Marvel’s Legal dept. will and won’t let him say, This goes about as well as you might imagine. Two notes: 1) This is actually the second…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken

This book is a masterpiece about sisters who are a science experiment

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of mega-bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club, but she has another life writing incredible science fiction short stories. With her new novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, she’s brought her flair for witty character drama together with a tragic story about science. This novel will rip your heart…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Author Austin Grossman is answering your questions from 12-1 PT today!

The editor of SFWA’s bulletin resigns over sexist articles

Don’t Fear the Dark, Or Loki, With These Badass Avengers Nightlights

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong is your happy place. With robots.

Read the first chapter of Celebromancy!

Famous Scifi And Fantasy Authors In Their Workspaces

Kick-Ass, The Crow and Astro City return to rule This Week’s Comics!

The io9 Book Club is in session! Let’s talk Austin Grossman’s YOU

William Shatner reads his version of Where the Wild Things Are to kids

Massive collection of Man Of Steel pics are full of Super Spoilers

Hospital rebrands chemotherapy as DC-themed “superformula” for kids

What if classic children’s books starred comic book characters?

A highly imaginative webcomic filled with absurdity and astronauts

Doctor Who‘s Karen Gillan playing a villain in Guardians of the Galaxy

Does the summer’s biggest young adult novel live up to the hype?

What’s the Most Gratuitous Comic Book Death of All Time?

Bruce Timm is back, and teaming up with Zack Snyder for more Superman

George R. R. Martin is writing the Coffee Table Book of Ice and Fire

Deadpool gets a lesson in language from Marvel’s Legal department

This book is a masterpiece about sisters who are a science experiment

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