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Alien Planets Made of Sugar, Chili Powder, Parsley, And Fur

What terrifying swirl of chemicals created this dark tornado over an alien plain? Cotton and steel wool, mixed with parsley and moss. If those ingredients can make a storm, imagine what’s required to recreate the plains of Mars. Matthew Albanese builds model landscapes out of ordinary materials, from spices to cotton, and then photographs (and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Walter Finally Meets His Match On Fringe

The season finale on Fox’s Fringe will give us the epic genius showdown we’ve been waiting for. We know what team we’re on — do you? Spoilers ahead. The epic two-hour Fringe finale is bringing out the big brains. Walter Bishop (John Noble) and William Bell (Leonard Nimoy) are set to meet and have a…

Television Meredith Woerner

Is Nick Fury In Thor? Don’t Ask Sam Jackson

Last week, it was revealed that Marvel’s favorite Agent of SHIELD, Nick Fury, will be showing up in Kenneth Branagh’s movie version of Thor… which apparently came as a surprise to the actor who plays him, Samuel L. Jackson. Talking to MTV, Jackson said: Nobody’s told me anything… I was reading the trades last week…

Movies Graeme McMillan

How Down-And-Dirty Will Iron Man 2’s Battles Get? New Action Figures Reveal All

Toy spoilers! New action figures reveal Iron Man mayhem. There’s “Skate” drama on Lost. Creators talk Star Trek, Priest and Green Lantern. Plus Last Airbender banners, and Real Steel, Fringe, Supernatural, True Blood, Smallville and Star Wars spoilers! Iron Man 2: Remember that big scene at the racetrack with Tony trying his hand as a…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Non-Erotic Mind Control Stories On Heroes

It’s another night of watching Heroes and blogging at the same time. Can things get any worse than they were last week? No they can’t – because I have reefer, port, and chocolate chip cookies. Also, lesbians!!! The episode is called “The Art of Deception.” I wonder how emo Sylar will be this week? Who…

Television Annalee Newitz

Worst Recastings Of Science Fiction’s Rock-Star Characters

We have high hopes Don Cheadle will make us forget Terence Howard completely, when he steps in as James Rhodes/War Machine in Iron Man 2. But it doesnt always work that way. Here are the worst recastings of science-fiction stars. Welcome back to Monday Hate, the irregular column in which we hate things because it’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

5 Reasons Caprica Is The Season’s Most Promising New SF Series

This Friday brings the first episode of Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica, a noir-scifi drama set on the planet Caprica 58 years before the cylons nuke it into oblivion. Based on the pilot, we think this series could become a classic. Of course there are many reasons Caprica might fail, not the least of which would…

Television Annalee Newitz

Chimp-Directed Chimpcam Project Will Win Every Oscar

The BBC plans to premiere The Chimpcam Project, a documentary shot by actual chimpanzees, this week. Get ready for the inevitable Avatar comparisons, and check out this video preview below. Basically, some researchers encased a camera in a chimp-proof box and gave it to both wild and zoo-bred chimps. Enraptured with the viewfinder, they began…

Movies Dan Nosowitz

Will The Google Settlement Leave Ursula Le Guin Dispossessed?

Now that Google has declared war on China, can it take on a diminutive 80-year-old science-fiction and fantasy author? Probably, but Ursula K. Le Guin is not going down without a fight. It all started when the formidable author of the classic Earthsea novels and, most recently, the Virgil-inspired Lavinia, resigned her long membership in…

io9 Scott Timberg

The Wolfman’s Moulting: All The Reshoots, Redos And Re-Edits

Reshoots, re-edits, rewrites and re-scoring — The Wolfman has been through it all. But have all these re-snips neutered Benicio Del Toro‘s furry monster picture? We re-trace all of the second-guessing that may have doomed this film. The first sign of problems for the big wolf revival was over two years ago, when Universal pushed…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Perfect Near-Future Novel To Get You Through The Recession

Need a book to get you through another year of unemployment, glacier melts or maybe even another oil crisis? World Made By Hand could do the trick. The soft-apocalypse novel, by the sometimes kooky upstate New York social critic James Howard Kunstler, was well received when it came out in March 2008 — it drew…

Books & Comics Scott Timberg

Urban Mars

Over at WebUrbanist, there’s a great post about building cities on Mars, looking at the history of the idea and images of those cities as they might look in the future. [via WebUrbanist, image via Tim Landry]

io9 Annalee Newitz

Caprica’s Ratings: Much Worse Than BSG Or Stargate Universe

Nobody should be surprised that Caprica’s debut pulled in weak ratings on Friday. The pilot was on DVD for months, and viewable online. And the show was opposite a Haiti fundraiser telecast. The real test? This Friday’s all-new episode. [THR]

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Why DC’s Brightest Day Could Be The Comic Story Of The Year

DC’s hyper-successful Blackest Night series will, we know now, be followed by a year-long series/event called Brightest Day. But is this really DC’s answer to Marvel’s “Heroic Age” era of optimism, or should we expect something more ambitious? DC announced Brightest Day – The title of which obviously plays off Blackest Night and the classic…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Gremlins 3D Rumors Make Us Fear The Rise of A CG Gizmo

There have been whispers about Joe Dante’s Gremlins 3 for years. But the latest rumor seems to hint that if Gremlins comes back, it may be released in 3-D. Could that mean CG Gremlins? https://gizmodo.com/original-gremlin-director-hints-at-gremlins-3-5233257 There’s been so much chatter about Dante’s Gremlins 3 masterpiece. Will he make it, would it have puppets instead of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Could This Be The Beginning of the AI Revolution?

A devious device looking suspiciously like the pain box from Dune — or a minimalist sculpture from the ’60s — is now selling on eBay. In fact, that’s all it does. This robot sells itself on eBay every week. Called “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009),” by the artist Caleb Larsen, the imposing cube…

io9 Scott Timberg

“Repo Chick” Trailer Is Even Weirder Than You Thought

The strange glut of movies with "repo" in their titles can end now. Alex Cox, director of the original 1980s weirdo aliens epic Repo Man, rules them all with Repo Chick. The newly-released trailer looks hilarious and awesome. Cox, who also directed brilliant 80s cult fave Sid and Nancy, as well as 2008 Western satire…

Trailers Annalee Newitz

Ganymede Is Jupiter’s Melted, Battered Child

Scientists have figured out a potential reason for the difference between Jupiter’s two moons: One of them has been abused so badly that its metaphorical chocolate chips have sunk to the bottom of its ice cream carton. Or something. For decades, scientists have wondered why Ganymede and Callisto look so different, despite their similar composition…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Philip K. Dick’s Decade in the O.C.

Though he’s thought of as a Bay Area writer, Philip K. Dick spent 10 happy and productive — and sometimes difficult and hallucinatory — years in famously conservative Orange County. What happened to him in the O.C.? This new LA Times story, by yours truly, traces this strange and contradictory period in the writer’s life,…

Books & Comics Scott Timberg

War Of The Worlds Is The Ultimate Mythology For Our Times

To celebrate Penguin Books‘ 75th anniversary, the London Times asked writers to name their favorite Penguin book. Novelist Will Self writes an eloquent tribute to The War Of The Worlds as the ultimate modern book, proof that we can still create enduring myths in the modern era, and a token of H.G. Wells’ genius in…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Alien Planets Made of Sugar, Chili Powder, Parsley, And Fur

Walter Finally Meets His Match On Fringe

Is Nick Fury In Thor? Don’t Ask Sam Jackson

How Down-And-Dirty Will Iron Man 2’s Battles Get? New Action Figures Reveal All

Non-Erotic Mind Control Stories On Heroes

Worst Recastings Of Science Fiction’s Rock-Star Characters

5 Reasons Caprica Is The Season’s Most Promising New SF Series

Chimp-Directed Chimpcam Project Will Win Every Oscar

Will The Google Settlement Leave Ursula Le Guin Dispossessed?

The Wolfman’s Moulting: All The Reshoots, Redos And Re-Edits

The Perfect Near-Future Novel To Get You Through The Recession

Urban Mars

Caprica’s Ratings: Much Worse Than BSG Or Stargate Universe

Why DC’s Brightest Day Could Be The Comic Story Of The Year

Gremlins 3D Rumors Make Us Fear The Rise of A CG Gizmo

Could This Be The Beginning of the AI Revolution?

“Repo Chick” Trailer Is Even Weirder Than You Thought

Ganymede Is Jupiter’s Melted, Battered Child

Philip K. Dick’s Decade in the O.C.

War Of The Worlds Is The Ultimate Mythology For Our Times

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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