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Inception TV Spots! Your Least Favorite Transformers Are Back! And New Leonard Nimoy Glimpses!

Three TV spots sum up Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending Inception, and new Transformers 3 set video includes crazy car stunts. There’s True Blood scandal and Lost romance. Plus Lost, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Fringe, FlashForward and V spoilers! Inception: OMG here are three new TV spots for Christopher Nolan’s new non-Batman movie about a guy who flies…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Inception Break Down

So what do we know? According to the newly released official synopsis, Leonardo DiCaprio is a sexy, and swanky looking dream thief. With the aid of scifi tech Leo has made a living stealing things from peoples dreams. But apparently in the new world this sort of occupation is frowned upon, naturally. So he’s given…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Portraits In Posthumanity: Aimee Mullins

A one-time intelligence analyst with the Pentagon, Aimee Mullins is an athlete, model, and activist. And she does it all using a collection of experimental prosthetic legs. She says her special “cheetah” legs give her superpowers. On her website, Mullins gives a quick background on how she got where she is today: Born without fibulae…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The 10 Weirdest Twilight Zone Villains

So tomorrow is Twilight Zone Day. In honor of this inexplicable holiday, here are the underappreciated baddies of the Serlingverse. Never mind psychokinetic children who’ll turn you into a jack-in-the-box. We’re talking evil genies who’ll turn you into Hitler! Just FYI, this article contains spoilers for episodes that aired almost 40 years ago. Just saying.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Why Can’t Movie Superheroes Save The World?

James Bond saves the world sometimes. So does Captain Kirk. But at least in the movies, superheroes don’t – they’re too busy fighting personal spats. Here’s why superheroes on the big screen should save the damn world now and then. High stakes are a crucial part of why we root for a hero. We don’t…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What Is The Singularity And Will You Live To See It?

If you read any science fiction or futurism, you’ve probably heard people using the term “singularity” to describe the world of tomorrow. But what exactly does it mean, and where does the idea come from? We answer in today’s backgrounder. What is the singularity? The term singularity describes the moment when a civilization changes so…

io9 Annalee Newitz

See The Live-Action Version Of Supervillain Hector Hammond’s Giant Deformed Head

Get a eyeful of Peter Sarsgaard’s swelled head, fresh off the Green Lantern set. Check out the first picture of Sarsgaard’s mutated Hector Hammond look in the flesh. Be warned — it’s a spoiler. This is supposedly Sarsgaard in full Hector Hammond brain-zapped mode, after an object from space gives him mental powers. Also this…

Movies Meredith Woerner

On Smallville, Mother’s Day Is A Conspiracy

On Friday’s Smallville, Martha Kent stopped by the farm (with Perry White in tow), Maxwell Lord practiced some psychic surgery, the identity of the Red Queen is revealed, and everyone (and their mother) needs the Book of Rao. Spoilers on! The penultimate Season 9 episode of Smallville – “Hostage” – was supposed to be a…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

How much magnesium is in 43 cubic miles of fried chicken?

One of the most powerful computational services on the web today, Wolfram Alpha, has provided the world with the definitive answer to this incredibly important question. The answer is “3.8 X 10^7 metric tons,” but you’ll really want to learn a lot more via Wolfram Alpha. This nutritional chart is just one of many bits…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Laura Vandervoort Explains The Easiest Way To Defeat V’s Aliens

Laura Vandervoort has a knack for playing alien princesses: She was Kara on Smallville, and now she’s heir to the alien throne on V. So why does she have to be in her underwear in every episode? We asked her. Tomorrow night’s episode of V is a huge episode for Vandervoort’s character, Lisa. She explains:…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Behold The Worst Book Cover Art Of 2010

Seriously. We loved swords and crazy nudity when the late, great Frank Frazetta did them. But this? This is just… wrong. What do you think this guy is saying? [via Jonathan Strahan and Aidan Moher]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Illusions Right Beneath Your Feet

Former NASA advanced space illustrator Kurt Wenner specializes in painstakingly rendered street paintings that fool the eye and hurt the brain. Wenner has been commissioned by companies, festivals, and the Catholic Church to create his meticulous murals all over the world. Up next: installations in London and Taiwan. Check Wenner’s website for updates.

io9 Marc Bernardin

Is Fan Fiction Really So Wrong?

Why do big-name authors like George R. R. Martin keep yelling about how evil and morally wrong fan fiction is? Especially when their biggest fans are the ones writing it? Catherynne M. Valente has some ideas . . . It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil,…

io9 Catherynne M. Valente

Natali Explains How He’ll Adapt Two Classics: Neuromancer And High Rise

Splice director Vincenzo Natali has two huge movie adaptations in the pipeline: William Gibson’s Neuromancer, and J.G. Ballard’s High Rise. In an exclusive interview, Natali explains to us how he updated High Rise, and his hopes for Neuromancer. While explaining to us the ideas behind Splice’s graphic horror, Natali took some time to update us…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Far-Future Martian Charm and Railway Adventure In “Ares Express”

At long last available stateside, Ian McDonald’s Ares Express is a phantasmagoria of nuclear locomotives and wild Martian awesomeness. It’s a definite must-read. In an unimaginably distant future Mars has been terraformed by machines so powerful that they’re understood as (and might as well be) angels. Across the Martian deserts, enormous trains carry passengers, resources,…

io9 Chris Braak

Zombie Satellite Terrorizing Earth’s Orbit

Galaxy 15, a communications satellite 22,400 miles above the planet, refuses to obey commands sent from Earth. And it’s getting perilously close to other satellites — potentially “infecting” them as well. In an ironic turn of events, a recent solar storm fried the communications systems on Intelsat’s Galaxy 15 geostationary communications satellite — even though…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Research Paper Reveals All The Ways Scientists Hurt Mice

Mice make dramatic faces when they’re in pain, and now their expressions have been cataloged scientifically on a “mouse grimace scale” (pictured below). A paper published in Nature Methods yesterday explains the ways researchers hurt mice, and why. Just to be clear, the reason why this group of researchers studied mouse pain is not to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

R.I.P. Frank Frazetta, The Artist Of Our Fantasies

Frank Frazetta passed away earlier today. The creator of many of the genre’s most iconic barbarians, warriors and monsters, not to mention Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers art, Frazetta’s influence will go on forever. Frazetta’s art defiined “larger than life” and “epic” for generations of science fiction and fantasy fans, and it will live on…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Frazetta Art!!

Battlestar Galactica, As You’ve Never Seen It Before Buster Crabbe The Dancer From Atlantis Famous Funnies Dancer From Atlantis Open Wide Warrior Lost Continent! Solar Invasion! Vampirella and her pet lizard. Awesome! Victorious Weird Fantasy Weird Science! Weird Fantasy!! Death Dealer Death Dealer Maza Of The Moon Luana II Queen Kong! Cornered!

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Most Erotic Rendition Of The Spider-Man Theme Ever Performed

Meet Stan The Man Griffin, scifi author and fedora aficionado. He wrote “Spider-Dance Spider-Man Theme Song,” a smooooth remix of Peter Parker’s angsty existence. With lyrics like “You hear something from above / He has spider-blood,” this song = insta-sex. First off, it’s worth mentioning that Stan The Man Griffin has a book coming out,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Inception TV Spots! Your Least Favorite Transformers Are Back! And New Leonard Nimoy Glimpses!

Inception Break Down

Portraits In Posthumanity: Aimee Mullins

The 10 Weirdest Twilight Zone Villains

Why Can’t Movie Superheroes Save The World?

What Is The Singularity And Will You Live To See It?

See The Live-Action Version Of Supervillain Hector Hammond’s Giant Deformed Head

On Smallville, Mother’s Day Is A Conspiracy

How much magnesium is in 43 cubic miles of fried chicken?

Laura Vandervoort Explains The Easiest Way To Defeat V’s Aliens

Behold The Worst Book Cover Art Of 2010

Illusions Right Beneath Your Feet

Is Fan Fiction Really So Wrong?

Natali Explains How He’ll Adapt Two Classics: Neuromancer And High Rise

Far-Future Martian Charm and Railway Adventure In “Ares Express”

Zombie Satellite Terrorizing Earth’s Orbit

Research Paper Reveals All The Ways Scientists Hurt Mice

R.I.P. Frank Frazetta, The Artist Of Our Fantasies

Frazetta Art!!

The Most Erotic Rendition Of The Spider-Man Theme Ever Performed

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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