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What’s Next For District 9 Creators? Stone Monsters And Gritty Worlds

We checked in Oscar-nominated writer Terri Tatchell, the day after District 9 picked up four Academy nods. She talked about District 9 director Blomkamp’s new project, her next scifi movie, and why this nomination is such a mystery to her. District 9 is currently in the running for the Academy Award for Film Editing, Visual…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Time Travel Back To The London Blitz In Connie Willis’ New Novel “Blackout”

Famed SF author Connie Willis‘ first novel in five years, Blackout, returns to a scenario she’s explored before: Time-traveling scholars find themselves changing historical events they’re only supposed to observe. This sprawling novel veers between historical travelogue and futuristic thriller. One of Willis’ strengths as an author is her attention to detail, both in terms…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Nearby Galaxy Is Running Out Of New Stars

The Hubble telescope has detected the end of an era in the dwarf galaxy NGC 2976.The galaxy is quieting down after eons of furious star creation, with just a few stars in the galaxy’s central core continuing to form. Located just twelve million lightyears away in the M81 group, NGC 2976 should still be going…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Imagining The Fate Of Data After The Apocalypse

If modern civilization collapsed, could the survivors hope to rebuild using our massive stores of data? Unless we can come up with something way more permanent to put them on in the near future, we probably shouldn’t bank on it. A recent article by Tom Simonite and Michael Le Page in New Scientist tackles this…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Welcome to Snaiad, The World We Will Colonize

Welcome to the strange, lush world of Snaiad, home to a future Earth colony. Currently it supports a variety of shocking fauna, which creator Nemo Ramjet has meticulously documented, also providing maps and a geopolitical history of the planet. If you want to start somewhere, there’s a great timeline for Snaiad’s development, which helpfully includes…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Iranian Aerospace Program: Turtles In Space, Or Death From The Skies?

Does the thought of Iranian president Ahmadinejad with his fingers on a rocket launch button make you nervous? Iran unveiled these new satellites today, along with a model of a new Iranian light rocket which some fear might be dual-purpose. Pictured above are three Iranian satellites: Navid (left) Tolo (center), and Mesbah-2, on display in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Watchmen 2: Wrath Of The Electric Boogaloo May Actually Happen

Even though original Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons warned DC against making a sequel and we all know Alan Moore is going to hate it, rumors suggest the DC Comics’ new leadership thinks Watchmen 2 is a dandy idea. https://gizmodo.com/weve-seen-rorschachs-face-plus-gibbons-talks-watchmen-5148716 Bleeding Cool is reporting that now that Paul Levitz is stepping down from DC, his stringent…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Brutal Master Plan That Can Keep Your Dystopian Epic From Turning Into A Disaster Movie

You have a brilliant script for a short science-fiction film that’ll blow the doors right off of the internet. You’ve even managed to find enough people with the expertise to help you get this thing off the ground. Now what? Congratulations, and welcome to pre-production! Though often maligned and groaned about incessantly, pre-production is actually…

Movies Mary

New Studies Reveal That Schizophrenia Isn’t Just A Mental Illness

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that the effects of schizophrenia appear to extend beyond the brain. And now there’s talk of a blood test to diagnose schizophrenia being rolled out within a year. Because schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder, it was previously believed that the signs of the illness would be contained…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Orci and Kurtzman Sign Three-Year Fox TV Deal

Powerhouse writing team Orci and Kurtzman aren’t done with Fox’s TV line-up just yet. The Fringe duo signed a deal with Fox promising three more years of NEW mind-warping TV. Our pitch: a Walter Bishop origins series, Acid Dreams. [THR]

Television Meredith Woerner

TiVo HD Disappears, Making Room For _______

TiVo’s website is listing the TiVo HD—the company’s core product—as completely out of stock. This isn’t a retailer we’re talking about here: TiVo is official out of TiVos. Is TiVo clearing the way for new models? Basically, yes. https://gizmodo.com/premiere-tivos-next-hd-dvr-possibly-revealed-in-instru-5437422 The TiVo Premiere, which looks like a minor hardware evolution of the existing TiVo HD, was…

Television John Herrman

Help Haiti, And Get A Limited-Edition Dollhouse T-Shirt Or Signed BSG Schwag

It’s not every day that you can raise awareness of the Cylon threat and help the victims of a terrible natural disaster. The Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan has added some sweet BSG and Dollhouse schwag to her Haiti charity auction. Besides a pair of BSG propaganda posters (including the one you see above) Ryan is…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

How Fig Trees Kill Cheating Wasps

Figs and fig wasps have lived in symbioses for centuries — wasps lay their eggs in figs, and pollinate the trees as recompense. But it’s not all altruism. The trees will fight back if the wasps renege on the deal. The symbiotic relationship has been in existence for around 80 million years, with the wasps…

io9 Tim Barribeau

Re-Elect PresidentBot! You Know It Makes Sense.

Vote for DominatorDroid 3000 in this year’s Presidroidal election. We gave the old PeaceBot regime a chance, and it suffered fatal Blue Screen errors. You can register your vote by going to the robot art show at Gallery 242. The exhibition I… You… We… Robot is subtitled “A Visual Homage To Our Inner Geek,” and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sexy Crime Fighting Noir Frankenstein Gets The Big Screen Go-Ahead

Move over, neutered sparkle-vamps: the brooding undead detective from the I, Frankenstein comic book is getting a film. Slap on the trench, Frank. It’s time to bust Mob Boss Dracula, stop for a smoke, then go ravage your hairless bride. You may think we’re kidding, but we’ve been jazzed for the director Patrick Tatopoulos’ monster-noir…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How Does Star Trek Online Fit Into the Star Trek Mythos?

The Federation is trying desperately to maintain peace in a chaotic galaxy shattered by war. Violent Klingons and bizarre alien invaders threaten. Sounds like the earliest days of Star Trek, but this is the galaxy’s future in Star Trek Online. Star Trek Online begins in the year 2409, 30 years after the events of Star…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

A Science Fiction Reading Set To Music, Beat Poetry-Style

We’ve been fans of Sue Lange‘s writing since we came across her unsettling chapbook We, Robots, from Aqueduct Press. And now if you’re in Landsdowne, PA later this month, you can see her do a beat-poet-inspired reading of her new story collection Uncategorized, with musical accompaniment by guitarist/vocalist Gary M. Celima. We’ve seen science-fiction authors…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Science (Fiction) Of Embodied Cognition

Science fiction has long played with the idea of projecting unified personalities/minds/”souls” into different bodies. The premise is baked into the plots of stories like Avatar and Caprica. But how would it work in the real world? That’s what the science of “embodied cognition” is all about. The basic idea in this new(ish) research area…

io9 John Pavlus

It’s Astro Zombies For A New Generation – Now With Cloning!

If you missed schlockmeister Ted V. Mikels’ classics Corpse Grinders (a great evil cat movie) and Astro Zombies, now you can catch up with the Z-movie master in his latest: Astro Zombies M3: Cloned! [via Avery Battles]

Movies Annalee Newitz

Repo Men’s Organ Home Shopping Channel Offers Sex For Mattresses

Universal has created a web page for Union, the company that sells robotic organs to those in need — until they default on their payments, that is. Check out the goods and the highly sexualized commercials of our near future. According to the site, The Union has: The world’s most cutting-edge technology in organ replacement.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

What’s Next For District 9 Creators? Stone Monsters And Gritty Worlds

Time Travel Back To The London Blitz In Connie Willis’ New Novel “Blackout”

Nearby Galaxy Is Running Out Of New Stars

Imagining The Fate Of Data After The Apocalypse

Welcome to Snaiad, The World We Will Colonize

Iranian Aerospace Program: Turtles In Space, Or Death From The Skies?

Watchmen 2: Wrath Of The Electric Boogaloo May Actually Happen

The Brutal Master Plan That Can Keep Your Dystopian Epic From Turning Into A Disaster Movie

New Studies Reveal That Schizophrenia Isn’t Just A Mental Illness

Orci and Kurtzman Sign Three-Year Fox TV Deal

TiVo HD Disappears, Making Room For _______

Help Haiti, And Get A Limited-Edition Dollhouse T-Shirt Or Signed BSG Schwag

How Fig Trees Kill Cheating Wasps

Re-Elect PresidentBot! You Know It Makes Sense.

Sexy Crime Fighting Noir Frankenstein Gets The Big Screen Go-Ahead

How Does Star Trek Online Fit Into the Star Trek Mythos?

A Science Fiction Reading Set To Music, Beat Poetry-Style

The Science (Fiction) Of Embodied Cognition

It’s Astro Zombies For A New Generation – Now With Cloning!

Repo Men’s Organ Home Shopping Channel Offers Sex For Mattresses

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

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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