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It’s September, 2038. What’s the biggest news coming down the feeds?

Science fiction author and livewriting fiend MCM is back with a new novel, Typhoon. He’s livewriting a sequel at the end of November, and he wants your help. Suggest a futuristic news item, and go down in literary history! MCM is the creator of awesome scifi kids show Rollbots, and he loves nothing more than…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

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The Tempest

Movies Meredith Woerner

5 new ultra dark Harry Potter clips: war is hell in Hogwarts

A new batch of clips from the first half of the big Harry Potter finale has been released, and everything has changed. Magical charms and childlike innocence have been traded for death, war, rage and fear. Watch. And here’s a fantastic little feature with a lot of new footage: Harry Potter will be in theaters…

Movies Meredith Woerner

It’s really happening! First set pics and videos of Nic Cage in Ghost Rider 2!

The living spirit of vengeance is back! Nic Cage is in Romania filming Ghost Rider 2, and here are the first set pics and video to prove it. Spooky castles and bad-ass bikes below! There’s really only one reason for optimism about this film — Neveldine and Taylor, the creators of the Crank movies, who…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Increased rate of sunburn found . . . in whales

They’ve been hunted. They’ve been starved. They’ve been poisoned. Now, whales are being fried while they’re still in the ocean. Since 2007, research teams have been following whales around the ocean and shooting them with darts. The researchers retrieved skin samples from the darts, performed biopsies, and tallied up the number of sun-damaged cells in…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

A webcomic about real customer ramblings overheard in a comic shop

Our Valued Customers is a webcomic run by cartoonist MRTIM, who works in a comic book store. MRTIM assiduously records the strange conversations he overhears in his shop for posterity’s sake. The result is nothing short of amazing. Says the site’s founder: This site depicts REAL things said to me (or at least near me)…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

A blimp was on fire at the edge of the atmosphere platform

It was a surprise attack. Martian separatists hit A.I. passenger blimps with cannon balls, and wrecked the space elevator with napalm. Small towns that had once been home to sheep farmers and geoengineers were torn apart. The colonists worked frantically to fabricate defense ships – and pilots to fly them – in time to protect…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Realms of Fantasy keeps coming back from the dead

Once again, reports of the death of Realms of Fantasy magazine have turned out to be exaggerated. The magazine’s been bought by Damnation Books, which will continue the publication schedule without a hitch. [SF Scope] https://gizmodo.com/realms-of-fantasy-closing-its-doors-once-again-5667149

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Roland Emmerich’s low-budget “found footage” alien invasion movie has been canceled

Now we’ll never know what disaster blockbuster director Roland Emmerich can do with 1/20th his usual budget. His $5 million “found footage” alien movie The Zone has been canceled — a week before shooting was supposed to start. THR is reporting that the shaky cam Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity type “found footage” movie The…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Harrison Ford says he wants Indy 5 to happen. Plus Skyline has a mind-blowing secret ending!

Harrison Ford is ready to don the fedora and bullwhip for one more Indiana Jones movie…and George Lucas is working on it. Skyline has a twist ending that will throw everything that came before in a whole new light. Spoileranza! Skyline: Eric Balfour already hinted there’s more to the aliens than what we’ve seen so…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Full Conan Episodes To Be Available Online A Day After Airing

Good news for fans of Conan O’Brien’s new show: TBS will be making full episodes of Conan available online the day after they air. https://gizmodo.com/watch-conan-obrien-drive-a-car-filled-with-high-grade-e-5663407 The catch is that the full episodes will only be available in the United States, so the rest of the world will have to cope with getting only a few…

Television Rosa Golijan

Europeans learned to farm by marrying Eastern farmers 8,000 years ago

Anthropologists have long debated how farming spread from parts of Asia to Europe. Was it cultural transmission, or did farmers immigrate and settle down with European hunter-gatherers? A new study of ancient DNA reveals that intermarriage created agrarian Europe. An international group of scientists compared the DNA of contemporary Europeans with 7,500 year old DNA…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Robbins Barstow, the Father of the Home Movie Revival, Passed Away Today

His name may not be familiar, but you’ve probably seen clips of his classic 50s and 60s era home movies. Barstow famously transferred and uploaded his family’s memories to the internet, and now they’re part of the US National Film Registry. One of his most famous films is “Disneyland Dream”, a clip of which is…

Movies Christina Bonnington

Everything you need to know about The Walking Dead

Today, a mint-edition copy of The Walking Dead #1 sold for an astounding $1825 on eBay…and the issue came out in 2003. If you have no idea what all the fuss is about, here’s the scoop on Robert Kirkman’s zombiverse. NOTE: This article assumes a familiarity with the first two episodes of the TV series…

Television Cyriaque Lamar

What’s next for Edgar Wright’s “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy”

Now that Scott Pilgrim is out and alien road comedy Paul is nearing its release date, everyone is wondering what is next for Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Edgar Wright and the The Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy? So we asked. Last we heard, the third film in Wright’s “The Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy” (named…

Movies Meredith Woerner

British couple receive £325,000 for defending the honor of Doctor Who star Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy didn’t just wear the most question marks of any Doctor — he also played the role the longest. A British game show incorrectly claimed that David Tennant played the role for longer than McCoy, leading to a recount. According to the Daily Mail, the game show Million Pound Drop asked contestants which actor…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Bush-crickets have the world’s biggest testicles (relatively speaking)

A species of bush cricket is in possession of nature’s most ridiculously over-sized testicles – these balls are 14% of the bug’s body mass. The crickets need all that extra sperm storage just to ensure they’ll have offspring. The tuberous bush-cricket is the new record-holder for the world’s largest testicles relative to body size. At…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Edgar Wright answers your hottest movie questions

You asked, and now our guest editor Edgar Wright is answering. Will you ever do TV again? Where did Jason Schwartzman’s mole disappear to on the Scott Pilgrim DVD cover? Who’s funnier Nick or Simon? Here’s a video clip of him answering a few of your questions, in the flesh. Sorry we couldn’t include them…

Movies Edgar Wright

How to write yourself out of a dead end

It’s NaNoWriMo week two — and if you’ve been keeping up with your word count, then chances are you’re already into the tricky middle of your novel. Here’s the part where you’re most likely to go way, way off track. Why is the wrong track always so tempting? It seems like a big part of…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Here’s a highlight reel from the world’s stupidest robot competition

On October 31, the annual Baca Robo (“Stupid Robot”) Contest took place in Budapest, Hungary. Contestants vied for a €2,000 grand prize by displaying their insane creations, who were judged by the audience’s laughter. Witness this cyberpunk Muppet Show. [Via Plastic Pals]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

It’s September, 2038. What’s the biggest news coming down the feeds?

The Tempest Stills

5 new ultra dark Harry Potter clips: war is hell in Hogwarts

It’s really happening! First set pics and videos of Nic Cage in Ghost Rider 2!

Increased rate of sunburn found . . . in whales

A webcomic about real customer ramblings overheard in a comic shop

A blimp was on fire at the edge of the atmosphere platform

Realms of Fantasy keeps coming back from the dead

Roland Emmerich’s low-budget “found footage” alien invasion movie has been canceled

Harrison Ford says he wants Indy 5 to happen. Plus Skyline has a mind-blowing secret ending!

Full Conan Episodes To Be Available Online A Day After Airing

Europeans learned to farm by marrying Eastern farmers 8,000 years ago

Robbins Barstow, the Father of the Home Movie Revival, Passed Away Today

Everything you need to know about The Walking Dead

What’s next for Edgar Wright’s “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy”

British couple receive £325,000 for defending the honor of Doctor Who star Sylvester McCoy

Bush-crickets have the world’s biggest testicles (relatively speaking)

Edgar Wright answers your hottest movie questions

How to write yourself out of a dead end

Here’s a highlight reel from the world’s stupidest robot competition

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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