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Concept Art Writing Prompt: A Shopping Trip at the Body Parts Store

Transhumanism meets commerce in today’s Concept Art Writing Prompt. What happens when you can shop for feet the same way you used to shop for shoes? Come up with your very own flash fiction piece and share it in the comments. This week, we actually have a handful of related art pieces to get your…

io9 Lauren Davis

SpaceX’s first bid at cab service to ISS is a bust

The first attempt to send a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station was aborted less than a second before liftoff this morning, after an onboard computer detected a problem in one of its launch vehicle’s nine engines. It was anticlimactic to see the engines of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ignite, rumble, and belch out…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Photographs of video games acted out in the real world

Patrick Runte’s photographs don’t just imagine what old video games might look like in the real world — with blocky characters translated into three dimensions. They also imagine how those games might be played in our world — and they look like a good deal of fun. Hedge maze Pac-Man would be a blast, and…

io9 Lauren Davis

Coors Light goes down slightly better than a Prometheus alien larva

Why would you use an Alien universe movie to market anything you would ingest? Coors Light has taken the chance that you might associate its beer with edible alien larvae with this co-branded Prometheus TV spot. I just hope that the doomed members of the Prometheus crew get something better than Coors Light as their…

Movies Lauren Davis

The only evidence left of a mystery tribe is bodies in jars

A long lost Cambodian tribe has left only one trace behind, but it’s a significant one. Human remains have been found in jars. The latest have been found about one hundred and sixty feet up a cliff. The Cardamom Mountains hide an unappetizing secret. Scattered over the hills are bodies, or what remains of them,…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

See Pixar characters cosplay as the Avengers

What do you dress up as when you’re already a superhero or a giant fuzzy monster? How about a crew of box office-busting superpowered movie stars? See several Pixar characters recast as members of the Avengers. Artist JM Walter created this mashup piece. Nice to see that Brave’s Lord MacGuffin has already made it into…

io9 Lauren Davis

Dan Harmon fired from Community. Not cool, not cool.

Community is getting its fourth season, but it probably won’t be the show we’ve grown to know and adore. Sony has fired Dan Harmon from his show runner role. We’re channeling Abed here and making unhappy noises. Yesterday, Sony Pictures Television, which produces Community, announced that they are replacing Harmon as showrunner with David Guarascio…

Television Lauren Davis

Sacred Heart is a webcomic tale of punks and murder, without adult supervision

High schoolers on primetime TV shows never seem to have parents. Adults are often relegated to the background, occasionally trotted out to dispense discipline, emotional abuse, or words of network television wisdom. The webcomic Sacred Heart takes parental absence to a new level, placing high schoolers in a mysterious town with no visible adults —…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

The Most Successful Self-Published Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors

Everybody wants to be successful. And if you’ve ever told anyone that you’re writing a novel (or screenplay, short story, comic book, rondel, etc.) you’ll find out that most people you know are writing or planning on writing or want to write something too. This means there are a lot of people who want to…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs

In a new Brave clip, King Fergus relates his battle with the demon bear

Everyone has a story they love to tell again and again, and Brave’s King Fergus has a doozy. In this new clip, he tells the story about the demon bear who took his leg, although one of his children delights in spoiling his storytelling fun. This clip was actually in the 30 minutes Pixar showed…

Movies Lauren Davis

Thor mocks Spider-Man’s costume & obscure DC heroes moonwalk!

This week, a serial hugger is loose on Adventure Time! Also, Marvel continues to pop in some amazing guest stars on Ultimate Spider-man and The Avengers: EHM, a forgotten DC hero moonwalks in a DC Nation Short, and we get a sneak preview of Tron: Uprising! Minor spoilers ahead! Adventure Time – “Hug Wolf” Imagine…

io9 Keith Veronese

Now that, people, is how you end a freakin TV season — with a conspiracygasm!

Last night’s season ender of Person of Interest confirmed that this show is one of the few places you’ll find action-packed, thoughtful science fiction on television. And this finale — what an amazing payoff. All season, POI kept multiple, interlocking conspiracies in play, and last night managed to bring them all together in a shivering…

Television Annalee Newitz

Behold ORBIS, a Google Maps for the Roman Empire

Have you ever wondered how much it would cost to travel from Londinium to Jerusalem in February during the heyday of the Roman Empire? Thanks to a project helmed by historian Walter Scheidel and developer Elijah Meeks of Stanford University, all of your pressing queries about Roman roadways can be answered! This is ORBIS, an…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How alcohol is formed naturally in space

The Sagittarius B2 cloud has ten billion, billion, billion liters of alcohol floating in it. Most of it is undrinkable, but there are some of them are ethanol, which is drinkable by humans. Scientists still don’t know for sure why the booze is out there, but they have a theory. In order to get a…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Victorian Hugos: 1891

The Hugo Awards are given to the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Unfortunately, they’ve only been awarded since 1953. That’s where this column comes in – Jess Nevins will be awarding honorary Hugo Awards to the best novels of the Victorian era… and beyond. Science fiction was hardly unknown to…

Books & Comics Jess Nevins

Holy hell, this guy built a handheld Tesla coil gun

Inspired by steampunk graphic novel The Five Fists of Science, Dr. Horrible Rob Flickenger set out to make his own handheld, field-generating Tesla coil gun. He succeeded. It’s effectively a portable electrocution machine, with an arc draw of about 12 inches; “you pull the trigger,” explains Flickenger, “and lightning comes out the front.” It looks…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

The Raw Beauty of Battleship‘s Alien Concept Art

The coolest thing about Battleship? The sleek look of its alien spaceships and war machines. Tasked with creating a whole new alien race from scratch, designers who’d worked on Star Trek and The Matrix created some downright beautiful killer starships. Check out an exclusive first look at the concept art of Battleship, by designer George…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Meet the entire cast of 1950s greaser Batman’s Gotham City

A wee while back, we featured Italian artist Denis Medri’s designs for a rockabilly take on the Dark Knight. Since then, he’s expanded his roster with some inspired 1950s Americana reinterpretations of Gotham’s heroes and villains. His version of Two-Face — who is a “mix of Richie Cunningham and a Evil Fonz” — might just…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Slick new Harry Potter web series takes place in New York City!

The trailer for the Harry Potter web series Auror’s Tale follows the newest member of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, as he cleans up the magic streets of New York City. This (obviously unofficial) series trailer is actually pretty impressive. Or maybe we just love the look of the NYC skyline dotted with dueling…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

There’s a good chance you’re a human chimera

Chimerism, the phenomenon of having parts of a body made from a completely different being, is a much more common occurrence than previously thought. Are you a mother? Were you gestated by a mother? I’m betting that at least one of those things is true. Which means an entirely separate person could be part of…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Concept Art Writing Prompt: A Shopping Trip at the Body Parts Store

SpaceX’s first bid at cab service to ISS is a bust

Photographs of video games acted out in the real world

Coors Light goes down slightly better than a Prometheus alien larva

The only evidence left of a mystery tribe is bodies in jars

See Pixar characters cosplay as the Avengers

Dan Harmon fired from Community. Not cool, not cool.

Sacred Heart is a webcomic tale of punks and murder, without adult supervision

The Most Successful Self-Published Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors

In a new Brave clip, King Fergus relates his battle with the demon bear

Thor mocks Spider-Man’s costume & obscure DC heroes moonwalk!

Now that, people, is how you end a freakin TV season — with a conspiracygasm!

Behold ORBIS, a Google Maps for the Roman Empire

How alcohol is formed naturally in space

The Victorian Hugos: 1891

Holy hell, this guy built a handheld Tesla coil gun

The Raw Beauty of Battleship‘s Alien Concept Art

Meet the entire cast of 1950s greaser Batman’s Gotham City

Slick new Harry Potter web series takes place in New York City!

There’s a good chance you’re a human chimera

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