Meet the new, err… old Guardians of the Galaxy in Guardians 3000

Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot might all have found success as the Guardians of the Galaxy on the big screen, but they weren’t always that super-team. They weren’t even the first! Marvel are bringing back the original Guardians in a new comic penned by Dan Abnett starting this October. Marvel have released preview pages…

The Walking Dead Creator Knows How It’s Gonna End, Just Not When

Anyone worried that the hit zombie comic or the TV series might endlessly continue until the real world itself was finally overcome by the living dead, you may now breathe a sigh of relief. Creator/writer Robert Kirkman does have an ending in mind for the series, he just doesn’t know when he’s going to get…

Godzilla Honest Trailer Is Painfully Spot-On

Personally, I loved the new Godzilla movie. But the film as a whole wasnot without its problems. Enter Honest Trailers, which has just gleefully eviscerated the many, many problems with this monster movie. Including the MUTO totally being Mothra while not being Mothra.

A Mars One Candidate Explains Why He Wants A One-Way Ticket To Space

Last year, twenty-thousand people were vying for the possibility of a seat aboard the Mars One — the project that aims to stick a human settlement up on Mars. That number has been whittled down to the finalists — and one of them shared his reason with us for trying to get aboard. Last night,…

The Islamic Roots Of Science Fiction

You probably already knew that Islam was having a scientific golden age during Europe’s middle ages, and making tons of scientific and medical discoveries. (Which is why we use words like “algebra.”) But you might not know that some of the earliest proto-science fiction came from the Islamic world. Top image: Cover detail of Hayy…

A New Kind of Baker’s Yeast That Gets You High

The powerful painkiller morphine comes from opium poppies, which only grow in a few places around the world. But now, a group of bioengineers are on the cusp of creating a modified form of baker’s yeast that can synthesize the drug. What happens when we can brew up heroin in a vat of yeast? Photo…

Read an Excerpt from John Darnielle’s Haunting Novel Wolf in White Van

Wolf in White Van is one of the most intense, engrossing novels about gaming you’ll ever read, and we’ve got an excerpt. Written by John Darnielle, creator of The Mountain Goats, it’s a moody, surreal character study of a game designer whose face was disfigured in a mysterious accident. We reviewed the novel here ,…

The Guardians Of The Galaxy‘s Anime Debut Must Be Seen To Be Believed

You may remember Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers, the ridiculous, Beyblade/Pokémon-esque anime series in Japan, designed solely to sell Marvel merch to young kids. Well, the Guardians of the Galaxy are making their debut in the show next week, and OH MY GOD WHY DO THEY LOOK LIKE THAT Ignoring Star-Lord’s almost hilariously stereotypical spiky…

A Pair Of Unusual Princesses Decide To Rescue Each Other

Sadie is a princess who loves dancing, cries at the drop of a hat, and has found herself imprisoned in a tower with a pudgy dragon as her sole companion—that is, until the unicorn riding, butt-kicking Princess Amira shows up to rescue her and throws a wrench in their fairytale story. Strangely Katie’s Princess Princess…

Exclusive Look At Outlander’s Wily Bunch Of Highlanders

Oh Outlander, how we love thee. We love your gorgeous hills and green fields and weird peeing rituals. But most of all, we love your angry highlanders who love to get drunk and fight. So here’s an exclusive tribute to the highlanders who populate the lovely landscape that is Outlander.

The Fonts That Come With Your Computer Are Older Than You Ever Thought

While you may take for granted the basic pack of fonts that came with your word processing software, someone had to invent each and every one of those fonts. And while some common fonts were invented after the advent of the computer, others are centuries old. Above: An example of the memetic use of Impact,…

Greenhouse gases are increasing at the fastest rate they have in 30 years. That means our atmosphere collected more greenhouse gas in the past year than they have in decades, and ocean acidification is moving faster too. The BBC has a report on this new finding.

An Outbreak Turns These Creatures To Blue Goo—But Who Is Responsible?

The creatures in this clever short film are hit by a terrifying outbreak, one that causes them to explode into a blue gooey substance. Be sure to watch to the end to find out who is behind this mysterious menace. Nexus produced It’s Payback Time to promote the Stand Up to Cancer Telethon airing on…

​Don’t Miss Grant Morrison’s Other Mind-Blowing Comic Book Epic

Still have a few firing synapses after trying to wrap your head around Grant Morrison’s unified theory of DC that is Multiversity? Then you’d best not miss out on Annihilator, in which fiction and non-fiction collide — and a struggling writer must keep his mind and the universe from imploding! New Issues Annihilator #1 (Legendary)…

Do Gene-Based Dating Services Pass The Sniff Test?

Singld Out, an online dating service based on “cutting-edge” science, has the solution for busy singles to — quite literally — sniff out the perfect companion. So, should you drop $299 a year for a perfect match and eternal happiness — or is it all just a load of crap? The dating site, in conjunction…

Police Hope 3D Printing Can Help Solve A 1996 Homicide Case

On August 9, 1996, Kobayashi Junko, a 21-year-old senior studying at Sophia University, was murdered in his home in Katsushika-Ku, Tokyo. Today, 18 years later, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police are working with 3D printing technicians to recreate the scene of the crime. As the news site 3Ders.org reports, police were able to conclude that Kobayashi…

Russia Is Building a Star Fort on This Strategic Arctic Island

For decades, Wrangel Island has been classified as a nature preserve. Situated in the icy Chukchi Sea which flows between the Russian and Alaskan coasts, this quiet, hilly island is now home to a rapidly-growing Russian military base comprised of “prefabricated modules” arranged in a star formation. It sounds a lot like the kinds of…

How To Make A Science Fiction TV Show Part 1: Getting The Greenlight

I’m a former Syfy exec who left the network to co-create and write a new TV show called Z Nation, which debuts on Syfy and Space Channel this Friday, Sept. 12, at 10/9c. So how does a genre TV show get on the air? Here’s what I’ve learned from this process, starting with how you…

Boy Gets Prosthetic Iron Man Hand, Repulsor Blasts Our Hearts

Three-year-old Rayven “Bubba” Kahae was born with ABS, amniotic band syndrome, which means one of Bubba’s hands isn’t fully formed. But now he has a prosthetic Iron Man Hand, and we have something in our eye…. KHON2 News interviewed Bubba’s grandma, who shared the footage of her grandson getting his brand new Iron Man-styled hand.…

We’ve Lost One Of The Great Fantasy Writers: R.I.P. Graham Joyce

Graham Joyce was a monumental writer in the fantasy genre. His humane, intense writing was like a masterclass in how to put story first, and he knew how to write people, with all our blind spots and our hopeful mistakes. He died today of lymphatic cancer, and it’s a huge loss to fantasy literature. Top…