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All Six Star Wars Films To Be Re-Released In 3D

For whatever reason, dear George Lucas has supposedly decided to give his blessings on a plan to re-release all six Star Wars films in 3D according to a story by the Hollywood Reporter: Part 1, “The Phantom Menace,” would be first out of star-dock in the early months of 2012. After that, each of the…

Movies Rosa Golijan

“The Event” gets awesome with double-conspiracy goodness

Last night’s episode of The Event took the show from shaky Lost ripoff series to explosively awesome conspiracy weirdness. There were still some rough patches, but for the most part the episode made all the right moves. What was great about last night’s episode, “To Keep Us Safe,” was that it sucked us right into…

Television Annalee Newitz

“No Ordinary Family” is a messy mix of superhero fun and melodramatic cliches

The premiere of No Ordinary Family, ABC’s family superhero drama, featured lots of fun superhero action…but a lot of cliched family drama dreariness. This is definitely a work in progress, but there’s a fun superhero show buried in here somewhere. No Ordinary Family is actually about three different shows that were, at least in this…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

What if…Batman vs. Predator had been a summer flop in the 1990s?

The 1991 miniseries Batman vs. Predator was the apotheosis of a great comic crossover, as it contained a prolonged sequence of Batman beating the Predator with a baseball bat. But what if this comic had been a mid-90s total bomb? For those of you who have never read Batman vs. Predator, it’s an easy plot…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The scenes that were too campy to be included in the campiest Star Wars knock-off

Would you believe that StarCrash, the ridonkulous space opera starring Caroline Munro and David Hasselhoff, was even campier before it was edited for U.S. release? The masterful new 2-DVD set includes loads of deleted scenes, including this batshit supervillain moment. The utterly essential Shout Factory release, created as part of its new Roger Corman Cult…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Will Trent Reznor’s HBO miniseries be television’s next critical smash?

This is clearly the era of ambitious television. But can Trent Reznor’s miniseries project Year Zero, based on his concept album and online ARG about a futuristic dystopia, really happen? Maybe so, because the musician’s project continues to churn forward. It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about Year Zero, the futuristic miniseries…

Television Meredith Woerner

A map of all the dumped munitions from World Wars I and II off the coast of Europe

Mines and munitions dumped in the oceans during twentieth century wars could still kill you today. Atlantic inter-governmental organisation OSPAR helped put together this map of dumped munitions in coastal Atlantic waters. It’s not pretty. According to OSPAR’s Quality Status Report: Vast amounts of munitions were dumped at designated sites or randomly jettisoned into the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Syfy’s next hybrid monster should be Bearantula!

How can Syfy possibly top the awesomeness of Sharktopus? Should they even try? Maybe the answer is to abandon the water, and head onto land, with the unstoppable half-bear, half-spider: BEARANTULA! No, really. Hear us out. Our first thought after watching the rampage of the half-shark, half octopus menace was, “Western civilization has peaked.” With…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Captain America’s futuristic submarine shames Bruce Wayne’s Bat-Sub

New pics from Captain America: The First Avenger show an awesomely futuristic submarine, built especially for our hero. The boat was docked on a closed UK set that had been dressed to resemble 1940s New York. [The Echo]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Why do we keep falling in love with cyborgs?

The allure of the cyborg is so widely-accepted that it’s become a cliche in science fiction, but people rarely ask why. Doesn’t it seem a little strange that humans are so powerfully attracted to synthetic versions of themselves? It all depends on how you interpret human/cyborg love. Is it about romancing a version of ourselves,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin debate science fiction vs. “realism”

Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood are two of SF’s most famous living writers. Claire Evans was lucky enough to join 2,000 other people in listening to them discuss Star Wars, fantasy… and telling the truth in fiction. Earlier this year, when I went to an event to meet NASA astronaut Jim Dutton at…

Books & Comics Claire L. Evans -- Space Canon

Avatar porn trailer reveals the Na’vi-human war over male sexual enhancement

The trailer for Axel Braun’s This Ain’t Avatar XXX 3D is out, and it looks like Avatar if the film had been filmed in the style of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, but you know, with diddling. Trailer is nudity-free. Says makeup artist Lee Garland of the production: We used an alcohol-based paint so that it…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Asteroid-hunting super-camera has found its first dangerous space rock (and that’s great news)

A new telescope, equipped with a 1.8 billion pixel camera, has discovered its first potentially dangerous asteroid. The rock is a lot smaller than any other asteroid we’ve detected before, and that’s great news for our still-developing asteroid defense system. The actual chances of asteroid 2010 ST3 actually hitting Earth are very, very small –…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Read the first chapter of Iain M. Banks’ new Culture novel, “Surface Detail”

Can’t wait to get your hands on Iain M. Banks’ new novel Surface Detail, coming out early next month? Well, you’ll be in a frenzy after reading the first chapter of the book, available on the Orbit Books website. In typical Banks fashion, the book starts with a spectacular chase scene, and a doomed character…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Reminder: io9 Book Club meeting next week to discuss “Zero History”

A reminder that the io9 Book Club is meeting next week, October 5, to discuss William Gibson’s new novel Zero History. What is this crazy io9 Book Club, you ask? Let me tell you about it. For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Total awesomeness: Thundarr The Barbarian vs. the Robo-Snake!

This may well be the coolest video you see today. In a post-apocalyptic far future, Thundarr the Barbarian slices open a giant robot serpent bus with his Sunsword. It’s your exclusive sneak peek at the new Thundarr DVD set. My new catchphrase is, “Ookla, no!” If you missed out on Thundarr the Barbarian, you’re probably…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Birds Of Prey sing about Aquaman’s tiny penis

Last week on Batman: The Brave and The Bold, the Birds of Prey ranked the sexual prowess of DC’s superheroes, in song. Batman landed on top, but Aquaman and the Flash didn’t fare so well. You’re going to enjoy this. All of the credit has to go to Gail Simone, who penned this spectacular episode…

Television Meredith Woerner

Bose VideoWave Shoves Their Tech Into a 46-Inch LCD TV With 16 Speakers

Bose thinks that home theaters are simply too complicated for most of us. Rather than rigging individual speakers and a receiver, they’re banking on an all-in-one approach: the VideoWave, a TV with its own theater. The VideoWave, Bose’s first television, is a 46″ LCD with a secret. Behind its display lie sixteen built-in speakers, enough…

Television Sam Biddle

The motherlode of Tron Legacy concept art and high-res stills!

The world of Tron has never looked so sleek and dangerous as it does in these new images from Tron Legacy. Disney released a slew of concept art, posters and stills. Some new, some just higher res than before. Behold… The latest concept art is especially fascinating because it gives some more insights into how…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Watch Iron Man 2’s Agent Coulson test out a real-life exoskeleton

Clark Gregg may not have have worn the suit in Iron Man 2, but in this video Gregg tries on Raytheon’s XOS 2 exoskeleton — it’s more or less a battlefield version of Ripley’s power loader. This suit is designed to ameliorate lifting large amounts of supplies and ammunition and carrying heavy loads on the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

All Six Star Wars Films To Be Re-Released In 3D

“The Event” gets awesome with double-conspiracy goodness

“No Ordinary Family” is a messy mix of superhero fun and melodramatic cliches

What if…Batman vs. Predator had been a summer flop in the 1990s?

The scenes that were too campy to be included in the campiest Star Wars knock-off

Will Trent Reznor’s HBO miniseries be television’s next critical smash?

A map of all the dumped munitions from World Wars I and II off the coast of Europe

Syfy’s next hybrid monster should be Bearantula!

Captain America’s futuristic submarine shames Bruce Wayne’s Bat-Sub

Why do we keep falling in love with cyborgs?

Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin debate science fiction vs. “realism”

Avatar porn trailer reveals the Na’vi-human war over male sexual enhancement

Asteroid-hunting super-camera has found its first dangerous space rock (and that’s great news)

Read the first chapter of Iain M. Banks’ new Culture novel, “Surface Detail”

Reminder: io9 Book Club meeting next week to discuss “Zero History”

Total awesomeness: Thundarr The Barbarian vs. the Robo-Snake!

The Birds Of Prey sing about Aquaman’s tiny penis

Bose VideoWave Shoves Their Tech Into a 46-Inch LCD TV With 16 Speakers

The motherlode of Tron Legacy concept art and high-res stills!

Watch Iron Man 2’s Agent Coulson test out a real-life exoskeleton

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