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This chart ought to make the publishing industry very nervous

Wool author Hugh Howey has been beating the drum for self-publishing for a long time — but now he claims to have data to back it up. His new report on author earnings contains some startling figures, but none more so than the above chart showing indie authors beating traditional publishers on unit sales. As…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Real Life Sonic the Hedgehog is Utterly Terrifying

What if video game legend Sonic the Hedgehog existed in the real world? It would probably look something like this. And this is disgusting. We are not sure where this originated from but thank you to the So Chill Network for pointing this out. Also if anyone knows where this monster was created can you…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What sequel reboot or spinoff would’ve been better as a new standalone?

These days, so many movies and TV shows are sequels, or new versions of things we loved in the past. And they tie themselves in knots trying to live up to the legacy of what’s gone before. Which franchise movie or TV show would be better if it was just a brand new standalone thing?…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

An enigmatic nun hunts real monsters for the Spanish Inqusition

While other members of the Spanish Inquisition busy themselves rooting out false witches, the mysterious Inquisitor Two investigates genuine monsters and demons at the behest of Queen Isabella. But this slice-’em-up nun may have more in common with the creatures she hunts than with the people she works for. Run Freak Run is a fast…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

This illusion shows that you can’t keep track of where your hands go

If you have recently put your hand in something disgusting, take comfort. You haven’t been slimed as thoroughly as you had previously assumed. Your brain is making things worse (and longer) than they truly are. To be fair, the brain has a tough job. Every part of you is taking in information, and that information…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

NASA captures unprecedented 360-degree views of Saturn’s auroras

Like Earth, Saturn features active and radiant auroras at its poles. To date, our impressions of these fantastic features have been fleeting and sporadic at best. But now, using several pairs of telescopic eyes, NASA has caught its best glimpse yet of these massive, swirling auroras. Saturn’s polar auroras become active when energetic electrons fall…

io9 George Dvorsky

In Beautiful Darkness, a fairy tale life is inextricably tied to death

You’ve seen countless stories about cute little creatures living secretly in our world, but you’ve never read one like Beautiful Darkness. It’s a world that’s as adorable as it is cruel, where life is beautiful but also cheap, and where death is omnipresent… in more ways than one. Read our exclusive preview and learn why…

io9 Rob Bricken

What would Google, Apple, and Facebook look like if they built cities?

Large technology corporations like Google, Facebook and Apple already have employee populations that rival those of some small towns. So what would it look if they actually did become their own towns? Alfred Twu of First Cultural Industries created these imagined cityscapes to show what it would like if tech companies were to build up…

io9 Ria Misra

The Robocop remake will shock you because it’s so damn awesome

The Robocop remake, out in theaters today, is a pitch-perfect, badass update of a movie that is practically legendary. As if that weren’t surprising enough, it also manages to revive that lost art of the 80s: the smart B-movie that stumbles a bit but still goes where blockbusters fear to tread. The original Robocop was…

Movies Annalee Newitz

All the studios and the Marvel heroes they own in one handy graph

If you’re not a professional nerd, it can be tough remember which studios have the rights to which Marvel comics characters, especially since Marvel Studios only has some. So the Geek Twins have made this handy (and adorable) chart to help you keep ’em straight. I totally forgot Universal had Namor. Get on that, guys.…

Movies Rob Bricken

Cabaret-style Game of Thrones posters glamorize the magic of Westeros

I like these caberet-style Game of Thrones posters for a couple reasons: 1) They celebrate the unsung plot devices of Westeros, from the magical incendiary Wildfire to the best steel in the land. 2) They make me imagine a far future where Westeros reaches 19th century technology and culture. These posters come from FRO Design…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A 3D Reconstruction of the World’s Oldest Face

You’re looking at a 3D facial reconstruction of a 410 million year-old armoured fish called Romundina. It’s one of the first creatures on this planet to feature a characteristic many modern animals take for granted — a face. Above: The internal structures of Romundina’s face show a mixture of features of both jawless and jawed…

io9 George Dvorsky

How Your Body’s Unique Biosignatures Are Used for Surveillance

Not long ago, fingerprints were the cutting edge of biometric profiling. Today, the use of biosignatures to identify individuals has expanded to include everything from iris and facial scans right through to DNA profiling and even the unique shape of a person’s ass. Here’s what you need to know about how companies and governments are…

io9 George Dvorsky

A climate map showing every Winter Olympics ever!

Climatologists over at NOAA have mapped out the weather patterns hitting the host cities during the Winter Olympics since their beginning — and, big surprise, the Winter Olympics are heating up, with Sochi among the warmest of the last century. Here it is in more detail: The global rise in temperature could mean that the…

io9 Ria Misra

We want someone to turn this fairytale concept art into a movie now

Artist Matt Rockefeller creates gorgeously colorful fantasy art, with just the perfect blend of cuteness, creepiness and wonder. We seriously wish someone would turn this amazing work into a movie right away. Rockefeller is currently studying illustration with a concentration in animation at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and we could easily see some…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

In the Purge 2 trailer, there’s nowhere to hide

You’ve already seen the home invasion horror movie The Purge. The premise was simple: In the future, America legalizes all crime for one night per year. The Purge 2 takes this wacky premise one step further — check it out. Instead of giving the characters a home base to defend, The Purge: Anarchy strands two…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Love and Sex

Regardless of your stance on Valentine’s Day, there’s no way to avoid being bombarded with romantic imagery. So you might as well take this as an opportunity to learn something new. With that in mind, here are ten things you probably didn’t know about sex, love and lust. Illustration from Saga, by Fiona Staples. Who…

io9 Robert T. Gonzalez

Why did this non-existent town show up on maps of New York?

Up until the 1990s, many maps of New York situated the tiny town of Agloe just north of Roscoe in the Catskill Mountains. The problem? Agloe, New York, was almost entirely fictitious, although it briefly existed on paper. So how does a made-up town end up on a map? Simple: a mapmaker put it there.…

io9 Lauren Davis

Donal Logue joins Gotham as Det. Harvey Bullock

And here’s the best casting news for Fox’s Batman-less Batman show so far: the extremely talented Donal Logue will play Detective Harvey Bullock, joining Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon, and all these people. I don’t know if it’ll make up for a 12-year-old Bruce Wayne, as some rumors report, but it’s a start. Here Bullock’s…

Television Rob Bricken

What was cut to make the “unfilmable” book Winter’s Tale into a movie

Mark Helprin’s epic novel is a lengthy tome that includes flying white horses, evil demon gangs, magical diseases and time travel. The length, gorgeous prose, and utter scope of Winter’s Tale has often made people label it “unfilmable.” Until now. How did they turn it into a movie coming this Valentine’s Day? In our exclusive…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This chart ought to make the publishing industry very nervous

Real Life Sonic the Hedgehog is Utterly Terrifying

What sequel reboot or spinoff would’ve been better as a new standalone?

An enigmatic nun hunts real monsters for the Spanish Inqusition

This illusion shows that you can’t keep track of where your hands go

NASA captures unprecedented 360-degree views of Saturn’s auroras

In Beautiful Darkness, a fairy tale life is inextricably tied to death

What would Google, Apple, and Facebook look like if they built cities?

The Robocop remake will shock you because it’s so damn awesome

All the studios and the Marvel heroes they own in one handy graph

Cabaret-style Game of Thrones posters glamorize the magic of Westeros

A 3D Reconstruction of the World’s Oldest Face

How Your Body’s Unique Biosignatures Are Used for Surveillance

A climate map showing every Winter Olympics ever!

We want someone to turn this fairytale concept art into a movie now

In the Purge 2 trailer, there’s nowhere to hide

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Love and Sex

Why did this non-existent town show up on maps of New York?

Donal Logue joins Gotham as Det. Harvey Bullock

What was cut to make the “unfilmable” book Winter’s Tale into a movie

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