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This Fall’s Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

What do science fiction and fantasy books have in store for you this fall? There are new fantasy series by Tad Williams and Jacqueline Carey. A brand new Culture novel by Iain M. Banks. Collaborations between Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, and Larry Niven and Gregory Benford. A classic Gene Wolfe novel. A massive Ursula…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Astronomers discover Milky Way’s twin, Magellanic Clouds and all

As a spiral galaxy, the Milky Way is far from unique. But what makes our galaxy particularly special is its pairing with the Magellanic Clouds — two irregular dwarf galaxies that are orbiting around it. Astronomers have never been able to find anything quite like it — at least not until now. A new paper…

io9 George Dvorsky

Watch as clouds convince you that you’re underwater

When you look at this film you know what lobsters must feel like. Looking at the sky above this golf course you can see the clouds literally roll over the sky like ocean waves. What causes these incredible waves to move across the sky? These crazy rolling waves should be enough to convince people that…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

These glow-in-the-dark cockroaches look exactly like jawas

No really, look. The resemblance is uncanny. Right down to the little bandolier. The little bugger on the left is a South American cockroach by the name of Lucihormetica luckae. Pretty wild looking, right? It gets wilder. Stick it under a fluorescent light, and two, eye-like spots (pits in its upper shell, populated with fluorescent…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

R2-D2 Bender gets drunk, swears at you in bleeps and bloops

What happens when you combine two of science fiction’s most cantankerous robots? Namely, a bartender who’s constantly dipping into his own liquor cabinet. Nerd Approved caught this cosplayer at Celebration VI, which kicked off today in Orlando. You can find more photos here.

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

First images from the new Carrie show off the big bloody money shot

Chloë Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore are combining their considerable powers for the remake of Stephen King’s Carrie. Moretz has a pretty big pink prom dress she’ll be needing to fill out, because Sissy Spacek was masterful as her role as the first scared, meek and eventually murderous telekinetic darling. Luckily, a new crop of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Experiments That Tested Out Cleopatra’s Magic Aphrodisiac

Cleopatra, that famous ruler and seducer of all men, is famous for having won the heart and soul of Marc Antony — by melting down a pearl and drinking it, to entrance the Roman with the pearl’s aphrodisiac properties. But could this actually work? In the 1950s, scientists tested it out. So was Cleopatra’s aphrodisiac…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Futurama tries for a social message, and doesn’t quite make it

In last night’s Futurama episode, Viva Mars Vegas, the gang decides to pull off a casino heist. Everything about that’s fun. But the show also tries to hit a social message — and that’s not quite as successful. Also, there’s Zoidberg. We start the episode with a slam on Jar Jar Binks, as the Binks…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Greatest Science Fiction Opera Composer in History

Rock music has Ziggy Stardust, Yoshimi and Rush. P-Funk’s Mothership gave birth to ATLiens, Dr. Octagon, and Janelle Monae’s alter ego Cindi Mayweather. So why hasn’t classical music embraced science fiction the way popular music has? After all, it’s a genre that simply adores mythology. Everyone from Monteverdi to Milhaud has done an Orpheus opera.…

io9 Joe Drew

Transformers 3 screenwriter penning remake of Videodrome

Transformers: Dark of the Moon scribe Ehren Kruger is writing a remake of David Cronenberg‘s creepy classic Videodrome. And the studios want a commercial director, Adam Berg, to lens the project. Yep, basically the worst thing ever. Deadline is reporting that Kruger — who also worked on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and is currently…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Rare neurological patient shows that self-awareness does not require a complex brain

Neuroscientists who study consciousness have suggested that self-awareness depends on the presence of very specific “higher order” regions of the brain. In turn, that means that any serious impairment to these critical areas would virtually eliminate any sense someone has of themselves as a separate person. At least, that’s how the theory goes. But now,…

io9 George Dvorsky

Mark Danielewski is here to answer your questions about The Fifty-Year Sword

Mark Z. Danielewski is famous for experimental, challenging novels like House of Leaves and Only Revolutions. Now he’s back with The Fifty-Year Sword, a strange novella that was originally released in a tiny print run from a Dutch publisher and is now coming out in a 75,000 copy print run. There’s also a snazzy limited…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

13 Creepy Captions From Movies That Let Us Know It’s The Future

You know you’re in the future when a title card pops up letting you know, and giving you a glimpse of the future world. This is one of our absolute favorite tropes from movies and TV. These establishing shots can be delicate (like this shot from Gattaca) or wonderfully obnoxious (like in Demolition Man) —…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Cobra bites Farmer. Farmer bites cobra back. This kills the cobra.

Let this be a warning to cobras everywhere: if you bite Mohammed Salmodin Miya in his rice paddy, you better hope it kills him, and quickly, because he will find you. He will bite you. And he will continue biting you until one of you is dead. “When I realised that a snake had bit…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

And now, some sharks swimming to Massive Attack

Because we have yet to hit our daily quota of carnivorous fish hunting to the dulcet vocals of reggae legend Horace Andy, here are some grey reef sharks swimming off of the Ray of Hope shipwreck in the Bahamas, all set to Massive Attack’s “Angel.” Enjoy. [Sarosh Jacobs via Presurfer]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What if The Magic School Bus was a horror film?

FILE #: COLE-DEGEN-85 | SUBHEAD: MIKE-SIERRA-BRAVO | CLEARANCE LEVEL: SCHOLASTIC | FRIZZLE PROTOCOLS (v) 3.5 If you’re reading this, I’m probably dead already. And if you even know this memorandum exists — I’m addressing Robinson, Rodriguez, and Hooper here — you better pray that you’re packing the wherewithal to pierce the hide of an ornery…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

New Dredd trailer debuts the infamous “I am the law!” slogan

This brand-new trailer for Pete Travis’ Dredd shows off Mega-City One’s latest addiction, a little bit of violence, and the no-nonsense ways of Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd — and it looks absolutely bad-ass. Dredd hits theaters on September 21.

Trailers Meredith Woerner

This gorgeous world map depicts all of Earth’s hurricanes since 1851

Data visualization expert John Nelson likes to illustrate risk. Usually he focuses on individual events, but in recent months he’s directed his design talents towards a series of bigger projects, in the interest of communicating information about “general geographic trends in existential risk.” Translation: beautiful maps depicting the distribution of natural disasters over time. Using…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Your piece of the Berlin Wall is not special

It is one of the greatest moments in televised history — excited friends and family members tear through the Berlin Wall, reuniting East and West Germany after decades of separation. The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War and sparked a capitalist sentiment to distribute and sell portions of the…

io9 Keith Veronese

The Best (And Worst) Texting Scenes in TV and Movies

Text messaging is new enough that movies and TV shows haven’t landed on a consistent way to show viewers what their characters are saying. Done incorrectly, an on-screen text session can look immediately dated or weird. But with the right visuals, the effect can be sublime, as Every Frame A Painting shows us. Tony Zhou…

Movies Bob Sorokanich

This Fall’s Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

Astronomers discover Milky Way’s twin, Magellanic Clouds and all

Watch as clouds convince you that you’re underwater

These glow-in-the-dark cockroaches look exactly like jawas

R2-D2 Bender gets drunk, swears at you in bleeps and bloops

First images from the new Carrie show off the big bloody money shot

The Experiments That Tested Out Cleopatra’s Magic Aphrodisiac

Futurama tries for a social message, and doesn’t quite make it

The Greatest Science Fiction Opera Composer in History

Transformers 3 screenwriter penning remake of Videodrome

Rare neurological patient shows that self-awareness does not require a complex brain

Mark Danielewski is here to answer your questions about The Fifty-Year Sword

13 Creepy Captions From Movies That Let Us Know It’s The Future

Cobra bites Farmer. Farmer bites cobra back. This kills the cobra.

And now, some sharks swimming to Massive Attack

What if The Magic School Bus was a horror film?

New Dredd trailer debuts the infamous “I am the law!” slogan

This gorgeous world map depicts all of Earth’s hurricanes since 1851

Your piece of the Berlin Wall is not special

The Best (And Worst) Texting Scenes in TV and Movies

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