LIGHTSPEED Presents: “Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0” by Caroline M. Yoachim

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0” by Caroline M. Yoachim. You can read the story below or you…

Big Hero 6 Is Getting a Much-Deserved TV Series

This is a great idea. It’s a better idea than a series of movies, honestly. Because what is more fitting to a superhero team than a bunch of weekly adventures? The animated series is set to premiere on Disney XD sometime in 2017, and it’ll pick up right where the movie left off: Hiro’s now…

Chewbacca Has More Proof Han Shot First, as If You Needed It

Ever since George Lucas tweaked the original Star Wars movies, fans incensed by the changes have rallied together under one cry: “Han shot first!” For those who maintain that Han blasted Greedo away before the bounty hunter could react, you need to read this early version of the original Star Wars script, courtesy of Chewbacca.…

Director Luc Besson Brings His Talents—and a Fugitive Robot—to TV

For the first time ever, movie director and screenwriter Luc Besson (Lucy) will tell a tale for the American small screen. He’s creating a new show for TNT titled Artificial Intelligence, about a robot gone rogue and the people who must stop it. Here’s the official synopsis: In AI, an artificial intelligence entity escapes its…

We loved a lot of Jessica Jones, especially its gorgeous, Alias-inspired title sequence. Want to know more about how they were made? Art of the Title has a great interview with Imaginary Forces about how the painterly, voyeuristic show intro came together. Contact the author at [email protected].

So What Was This Season of Agent Carter About, After All?

Season one of Agent Carter had a pretty tight storyline—Peggy’s colleagues understimate her, and meanwhile she’s having to lie to them as she works to clear Howard Stark’s name. But season two had a lot of moving parts, and a bunch of detours. What was the point of it, in the end? Spoilers ahead… Judging…

Dory Meets an Old Friend for the First Time in the Latest Finding Dory Trailer

In the second Finding Dory trailer, we’ve got a lot more scenes of Dory and Marlin on the journey to find Dory’s family. It’s completely charming, and yet somehow exactly the same as Finding Nemo—right down to what looks like Dory’s terrifying capture by humans. We’ve also got Marlin hating travel with the sea turtles,…

Hear David Tennant and Catherine Tate’s Hilarious Return to Doctor Who

Sure, Doctor Who might not be on TV an awful lot this year, but if you’re itching for a fix of new Doctor Who, Big Finish’s audio drama series is here to help. And thanks to them, now you can hear the triumphant return of the best Doctor/Companion duo of the modern era. Yes, naturally,…

The Walking Dead‘s Big New Villain Could Show Up Sooner Than You Think

JK Simmons won’t say no to returning to his iconic Spider-Man role for Marvel. Batman v Superman merchandise descriptions reveal some surprising information about Wonder Woman. Plus, Hayley Atwell is hoping for more Agent Carter, and Chris Carter discusses X-Files’ controversial ending. Spoilers! Hidden Figures Kevin Costner has joined Ted Melfi’s movie about the Friendship…

Every Frame of This Van Gogh Movie Is an Oil Painting

Two years ago, a group of artists started a Kickstarter to make an animated movie about Vincent Van Gogh’s life, using artists to hand-paint every frame. Our more pessimistic commenters reckoned it would take 100 artists two to four years to make this a reality. Well, check the date, and watch this trailer. Loving Vincent…

The 9 Most Unforgettable Moments in Last Night’s Supergirl

Last night’s episode of Supergirl was a weird mixture of hacker hijinks that even CSI: Cyber would have been ashamed of, with actual great character drama. This show is often incredibly silly, but it’s always a fun time. We rounded up the nine most unforgettable moments. 1) Here’s the episode’s setup, where an alien supercomputer…

Ms. Marvel Is Going To Be Educating Your Kids About Bullying and Discrimination

Even though Kamala Khan has only been around for a few years, it feels like she’s been Ms. Marvel for ages—inspiring kids all over the world with her amazing comic book. So really, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Kamala will star in a new kids-focused reading book that tackles issues surrounding bullying and…

Well, it looks like that season-ending cliffhanger was not in vain: Zoo is returning for a second season. NBC’s James Patterson-adapted thriller about a global animal uprising will be back this summer, with at least two new characters, one of which is a “mysterious stranger” with a “dangerous secret.” Contact the author at [email protected].

The Fourth Wall Gets Demolished in This Amazing Supercut

What’s better than characters acknowledging the audience directly? Not much. Maybe spit-takes, but that arguable. Still, since no one has made a supercut of 400 movies in which characters doing spit takes, this video compilation of movies breaking the fourth wall over (and over… and over…) currently has the advantage. Warning: This video lasts over…

Zack Snyder Wants to Make a 300-Style George Washington Movie, Because of Course He Does

Oh, Zack. Never change. This delightful/petrifying news comes from an extensive new profile of the Batman v Superman director conducted by Bloomberg Business today. The wide-ranging interview covers Snyder’s career and, rather bizarrely, his beef with short Batmen, but it ends on this fantastic kicker: Meanwhile, Snyder is spending late nights in his cavernous office…

Loki Is Running for President in Marvel’s New Comic

Donald Trump, or the trickster god? You know what, actually, still not even a difficult choice. In the timeliest of moves, given that it’s “Super Tuesday” in the U.S. Presidential garbage fire election, Marvel has revealed an all new series called Vote Loki, in which Odin’s most belligerent child decides to visit Earth and run…

Yep, That Was 1990s Tough Guy Tom Sizemore on Lucifer Last Night

Remember Tom Sizemore? He was in True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Heat, and Saving Private Ryan. In Lucifer, he pops up as the head of a biker gang (“the Diablos,” haaah) who knows more than he lets on about the whereabouts of a stolen shipping container that conceals something very precious to Lucifer. The casting…

The ‘Harry Potter Effect’: Books for Young Readers Got 115 Percent Longer in the Past Decade

It’s not just your imagination—kids’ books are getting longer and longer. Booklist’s Briana Shemroske surveyed middle-grade books (aimed at grades three-eight) and found their average page length was 290 in January 2016, up 115 percent from 2006—and up a staggering 173 percent from 1976. Shemroske did this research in response to an equally staggering survey…

This 1994 Star Wars Style Guide Proves Hindsight Is a Wonderful Thing

In the mid-‘90s, the Star Wars galaxy grew rapidly, thanks to the rise of the then-fledgling Expanded Universe, In fact, there were special writer’s bibles to help people pitch material that felt like Star Wars. Looking back at these style guides with the knowledge of the Star Wars films that came after them, though, can…

Let Gary Wolfe teach you “How Great Science Fiction Works.” Gary K. Wolfe is one of the most prolific and influential commentators on science fiction, including several books, plus criticism in Locus Magazine. And now, he has a 24-lecture audio class on the history of science fiction, “How Great Science Fiction Works.” The class, which…