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The Shiniest Stories On io9 This Week

There was no Lost this week, but there was plenty of bizarre fungus, creepy dinosaur sculptures, pissed-off aliens, and deformed cowboys. Just like your senior prom! 38 Reasons Why Iron Man is Cooler than Darth Vader Both Tony Stark and Anakin Skywalker took to a suit of armor to live. Both came around to becoming…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The Art Of InObrAS Makes The Real Surreal

Who is the mysterious Russian artist InObrAS? InObrAs (a.k.a. Andrey S. Obryvalin) likes to skew the dimensions of architecture, animals and insects. In his artwork, everyday sights become warped landscapes right out of your loopiest dreams. See more from this amazing Russian artist at his Deviantart page. The Fortress This one is called Street Hunter.…

io9 Ann VanderMeer

“Tideline” Is Scifi’s Answer To The Giving Tree

In scifi, the robot-human relationship is often a relationship that must be watched keenly, as machines with self-awareness cannot be trusted. Elizabeth Bear’s beautiful story, “Tideline”, doesn’t deal with master-slave relationships. Rather, its themes echo a Shel Silverstein children’s classic. Bear’s sparse story is about the friendship between a human boy and a robotic killing…

Books & Comics David Grossman

What Separates The Novas From The White Dwarves?

The Chandrasekhar Limit lets astronomers know which stars will end with a bang, and which stars will end with a whimper. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from tabloids and internet email forwards about psychological studies done in the seventies, it is that inside all of us lies a monster – a remorseless, rapacious, out-of-control…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Whose Famed Weapon Is Tony Stark Building In Iron Man 2?

This may be soundless, low-quality leaked footage of Iron Man 2, but that’s certainly Tony Stark holding one of the most iconic pieces of superhero paraphernalia in comic book history. Spoilers way on! It’s a prototype for Captain America’s shield, natch! We saw this in Iron Man, but here Tony actually gets his paws on…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Berlin’s Abandoned Spreepark Is Where Fun Goes To Die

We recently posted about Michigan’s Prehistoric Forest, a dilapidated amusement park full of decaying fiberglass dinosaurs. Berlin has its own defunct dinosaur funland – the Spreepark – which fell on hard times after the collapse of communism. https://gizmodo.com/michigans-abandoned-dinosaur-amusement-park-is-way-cree-5525873 From 1969 to 1989, Cultural Park Plänterwald was East Germany’s premiere amusement park. After German reunification, the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What Do I Wish I’d Known…Or You’re Kidding, Right?

“What did you wish you knew before publishing your first book or story.” Well, I was going to say, I wish I’d known how long it would take to sell my first work of fiction. But then I thought about that and realized, no, if I’d known how long, I might have quit before I…

Books & Comics Gregory Frost

Ask A Physicist: Why Believe In Dark Matter?

On today’s episode of our “Ask A Physicist” series, Dr. Goldberg tackles the darker side of the universe – Dark Matter, that is. What is this curious cosmic stuff, and why should we care? Today is the final installment in our four-part “Ask the Physicist” series. Our question comes from NorcalRushfan, who should email me…

io9 Dr. Dave Goldberg

Jewish Cosmonauts Take To The Hazy Skies

Inspired by Soviet-era technology and Jewish symbols, Derek Stenning has created a series of paintings in which retro-outfitted cosmonauts travel the skies of an industrial future. Stenning explains the unusual name for his series, Entartete Kunst Entartete Kunst is german for “Degenerate Art”, and was a term developed by Nazi theorists to describe most modern…

io9 Lauren Davis

This Is Why I’m Not A Dork

Finally! There’s a definition of “dork” that allows me to claim that I don’t qualify as one. Although making that claim might’ve made me fit the criteria. Damn it! [Shoebox Blog]

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Can You Update Pulp Science Fiction Without Being F-ed Up?

The pulp science fiction renaissance has begun. Edgar Rice Burroughs and E.E. “Doc” Smith both have Hollywood blockbusters in the pipeline. The Burroughs-inspired Avatar broke DVD sales records. But can today’s creators update pulp storylines without including the cultural baggage? Old-school pulp storytelling is a thing of wonder and fascination. It’s hard not to be…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Christopher Nolan’s Batman 3 Gets A Release Date

Batman 3 finally has a release date, July 20, 2012. Which means it will be coming out the same summer as The Avengers, Spider-Man, Star Trek and the Battleship alien-war movie. 2012 might be the geekiest movie year ever. [THR]

Movies Meredith Woerner

New Pedophile Freddy Isn’t Scary, Just Disturbing

The Nightmare on Elm Street’s big scary reboot is out today. Does Jackie Earle Haley’s new melted head make us more afraid of the new Freddy Krueger? Or does he burn away the only part of Freddy we loved? Spoilers… The Good Starts With A Bang Nightmare on Elm Street starts off with a bang.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Asimov’s Science Fiction Now Accepting Electronic Submissions

For years, the fact that the “big three” science fiction magazines don’t accept electronic fiction submissions has been a source of bafflement among SF writers. But Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine editor Sheila Williams announced she’ll be taking e-subs starting today. She told SF Signal’s Charles A. Tan: I spend much of my working day writing,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Trippiest Scene From Last Night’s Fringe

In mad scientist Walter Bishop’s storytale version of reality, Walter’s a lovable inventor who’s created everything that little children love: rainbows, bubble gum, hugs… and singing corpses. Of course. Also, check out Gene the Cow’s makeover!

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Reason Why Turtles Decided To Become Ninjas In The First Place

A dead turtle lays on the beach, its shell marked with orange paint for easy identification. This year’s number of endangered sea turtle corpses found washed up from the Gulf of Mexico is double the usual amount. [Associated Press]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Scientific Quilt Saves Your Relationship From Blanket Farts, But Not Shame

Yes this is a real commercial for a real thing that exists: a blanket that protects you from your partners bed farts, with activated carbon fabric. It’s called the The Better Marriage Blanket. Yeesh. [via Andrew Sullivan]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Ron Howard is Gearing Up to Scale Stephen King’s Dark Tower

With the rights to King’s massive Gunslinger cycle up for grabs, Oscar-winner Ron Howard wants to tell the sprawling tale of Roland’s hunt for the Man in Black as both a feature film and a TV series. For a good long while, the Lost brain trust — J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Carlton Cuse —…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Who’d You Rather Go On A Date With Tonight: A Starfleet Officer Or A Green Lantern?

Yay, it’s Friday! And over on the io9 Facebook page, we’re discussing the ultimate question: Who’d you rather go on a date with tonight: a Green Lantern or a Starfleet officer? Images via DJWudi and istolethetv on Flickr.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A Movie About the Supervillain Witness Protection Program? Yes, Please.

Incognito, the noir-flavored Marvel comic from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, is heading to Fox. Will this real-worldish, superpowered flick fare better than the latest round of comic book movies? The marketplace has not been overly kind to comic-book movies as of late, with both Kick-Ass and The Losers underperforming — and getting their asses…

Movies Marc Bernardin

The Shiniest Stories On io9 This Week

The Art Of InObrAS Makes The Real Surreal

“Tideline” Is Scifi’s Answer To The Giving Tree

What Separates The Novas From The White Dwarves?

Whose Famed Weapon Is Tony Stark Building In Iron Man 2?

Berlin’s Abandoned Spreepark Is Where Fun Goes To Die

What Do I Wish I’d Known…Or You’re Kidding, Right?

Ask A Physicist: Why Believe In Dark Matter?

Jewish Cosmonauts Take To The Hazy Skies

This Is Why I’m Not A Dork

Can You Update Pulp Science Fiction Without Being F-ed Up?

Christopher Nolan’s Batman 3 Gets A Release Date

New Pedophile Freddy Isn’t Scary, Just Disturbing

Asimov’s Science Fiction Now Accepting Electronic Submissions

The Trippiest Scene From Last Night’s Fringe

The Reason Why Turtles Decided To Become Ninjas In The First Place

New Scientific Quilt Saves Your Relationship From Blanket Farts, But Not Shame

Ron Howard is Gearing Up to Scale Stephen King’s Dark Tower

Who’d You Rather Go On A Date With Tonight: A Starfleet Officer Or A Green Lantern?

A Movie About the Supervillain Witness Protection Program? Yes, Please.

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