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Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Series That Started Out as Trilogies

Star Wars isn’t the only universe that started out as a tight little trilogy and then expanded to include more installments and added adventures. Plenty of authors start out intending to write just three books… and then wind up with a sprawling 12-book series, with no end in sight. Here are some examples of longer…

Books & Comics Ben Vrignon and Charlie Jane Anders

Even Mars has cloudy days

It can be easy to forget, but Mars has clouds very similar to the the ones you find here on Earth. Don’t believe me? Here, check out the first photograph ever taken of an overcast Martian sky; or this picture of some stratus clouds, captured about 40 minutes before a Martian sunrise. The thin sheets…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

First Trailer for The Host: Could a Stephenie Meyer movie be… good?

Here it is: the first teaser trailer for The Host, the movie adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s non-Twilight novel. It’s very much a teaser, which doesn’t really contain any proper footage from the movie, but I like the creepy voiceover a lot. This movie is being directed by Andrew “Gattaca” Niccol, the master of creepy dystopias…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why did we evolve to experience “runner’s high”?

We recently learned that women can have orgasms from exercising, and now it seems the pleasures of exercise are even more deeply woven into our evolution. The “runner’s high” experienced after strenuous exertion was actually key to our species’ success. https://gizmodo.com/women-can-have-orgasms-from-exercising-say-scientists-5894406 The runners high is something most athletes experience at one point or another. It’s…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Everything you need to know about the season’s final episodes of Fringe!

Fringe returns from its hiatus tomorrow with the eight final episodes of the show’s fourth – and hopefully not last – season. The cast and creative team recently told us all about the crazy twists and revelations that lie ahead. While at WonderCon, we got the chance to chat with executive producers Jeff Pinkner and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Emma Stone explains how Gwen Stacy’s relationship with Spider-Man is “reverse-Oedipal”

What’s it like dating a masked avenger? Does Gwen know that her beloved Peter Parker is actually the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man? We asked Emma Stone about dating the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, and being torn between her boyfriend and her dad. And we talked to director Marc Webb on making the movie he wants versus the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Ask Ernest Cline anything you want about Ready Player One

In March, the io9 Book Club read Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. Now Cline is coming to answer your questions about the book tomorrow, March 23. https://gizmodo.com/the-io9-book-club-is-in-session-lets-talk-about-ernest-5894931 He’ll be popping into the comment thread on this very post on March 23 between 12:00-1:00 PM Pacific Time. Start posting your questions for him now, and he’ll…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A New Dystopian Novella by Margaret Atwood

When Margaret Atwood isn’t quibbling over the definition of science fiction, she’s creating some of the most fascinating visions of the near future out there. And she’s just published a new short novella, published as a Kindle Single, called “I’m Starved for You.” https://gizmodo.com/if-it-is-realistic-or-plausible-then-it-is-not-science-5847421 In this near-future dystopia, unemployment and crime in America have reached…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How Battleship Changed the Way Our Navy will Fight Alien Sea Monsters, FOREVER

Battleship doesn’t just show the U.S. Navy locked in combat with alien monsters — it’s also changed the way the Navy would respond to an alien invasion in real life. In our interview with Peter Berg and actress Brooklyn Decker the director reveals a few of the battles he won while arguing with his Naval…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Science Brings Us One Step Closer to Implanting False Memories

Researchers say they’ve succeeded in giving mice a “hybrid” memory that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. They forced the mice to recall memories while they were already busy forming new ones, by reactivating specific neurons in their brains. This could even represent a step towards implanting full-blown false memories. And this could mean…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

In author Joshua Hale Fialkov’s rad horror comic I, Vampire, bloodsuckers both good and bad regularly run afoul of the DC Universe’s superheroes. For example, the series’ heroic vampire Andrew Bennett recently had a run-in with Batman, and the upcoming story arc — “Rise of the Vampires” — guest-stars the magic users of Justice League…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Street Artist Shepard Fairey Convinces Hollywood to make another 1984 movie

Break out your overalls — there’s a new adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 on the horizon. The world’s most famous dystopian narrative is coming back to the big screen. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s production company (Imagine Entertainment) is teaming up with LBI Entertainment to bring back the Ministry of Truth. But the real mastermind…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed

The wildest ride in the galaxy is found on hypervelocity planets. These worlds got too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and have been flung away at a twentieth of the speed of light. While rogue planets are common enough, these hypervelocity planets represent a much rarer case and…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Syfy still has no plans to make Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome into a TV show

You’ve seen the slick-as-hell trailer for Battlestar Galactica’s Cylon War prequel Blood and Chrome. But even though the trailer has revived the world’s fervor for frakking toasters, it didn’t change Syfy’s postion on demoting Blood And Chrome to the status of webseries. But there’s a silver lining! https://gizmodo.com/totally-badass-trailer-for-battlestar-galacticas-cylon-5895080 According to the President of Syfy’s original…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator is the ultimate extracurricular activity

For the 2012 Maker Faire, five high-school students from the Bay Area have embarked upon an awesomely ambitious project: to construct a homemade flight simulator depicting the cockpit of a Viper from Battlestar Galactica. After launching a successful Kickstarter campaign, the team produced this video showing off their progress: The basic idea is to mount…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

10 of the Most Awesome Sword Fight Scenes Ever

Let’s face facts. No weapon is more badass than a sword. Fight scenes are often great in science fiction and fantasy movies, but fight scenes with swords? They’re the stuff of legend. Here are ten of the very best sword fights in cinematic history. Since we’re all about facing facts today, I’m just going to…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Why does falling asleep sometimes feel like falling down?

We’ve covered sleep twitches, the unconscious twitches that people make while they’re asleep. They’re the result of the unconscious and conscious brain both being online at the same time. Sometimes people twitch themselves awake. This is preferable to another strange sleep tic — the sudden sensation of falling that can cause the person to wake…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

These carefully crafted photo-sculptures look like portals to another world

Captivating photography will often convey a sense of depth. Raleigh-based artist Scott Hazard extends this concept to a literal conclusion, merging photography with sculpture to create 2D scenes with 3D elements. Hazard uses carefully torn, layered photographs to represent clouds, smoke, and portals — adding a weird, transdimensional element to his work that is at…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How does 1Q84 stack up to Haruki Murakami’s classic novels?

For the past few months, everywhere I go in San Francisco, I see young people in cool outfits all reading the same book: Haruki Murakami’s long-awaited 1Q84. Not long ago, I was in a café where three out of the dozen patrons all had identical hardcovers, with the same blank stare gazing upwards from their…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Maryland’s Enchanted Forest is like Candyland after a neutron bomb strike

After entertaining happy families for decades, the Enchanted Forest amusement park of Ellicott City, Maryland was forced to shutter its premises in 1989. In the ensuing 23 years, the gumdrop cottages and fantasy castles began rotting away, giving the park the veneer of some weird post-apocalyptic fairy tale. Welcome to the happiest place at the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Series That Started Out as Trilogies

Even Mars has cloudy days

First Trailer for The Host: Could a Stephenie Meyer movie be… good?

Why did we evolve to experience “runner’s high”?

Everything you need to know about the season’s final episodes of Fringe!

Emma Stone explains how Gwen Stacy’s relationship with Spider-Man is “reverse-Oedipal”

Ask Ernest Cline anything you want about Ready Player One

A New Dystopian Novella by Margaret Atwood

How Battleship Changed the Way Our Navy will Fight Alien Sea Monsters, FOREVER

Science Brings Us One Step Closer to Implanting False Memories

Meet a villain who makes Batman run away, in this preview of DC Comics’ I, Vampire

Street Artist Shepard Fairey Convinces Hollywood to make another 1984 movie

Hypervelocity planets are zooming out of our galaxy at warp speed

Syfy still has no plans to make Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome into a TV show

Building a Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator is the ultimate extracurricular activity

10 of the Most Awesome Sword Fight Scenes Ever

Why does falling asleep sometimes feel like falling down?

These carefully crafted photo-sculptures look like portals to another world

How does 1Q84 stack up to Haruki Murakami’s classic novels?

Maryland’s Enchanted Forest is like Candyland after a neutron bomb strike

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