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For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Disaster

Hello all. I’m sorry I haven’t been getting this to you as often, but please enjoy today’s Disaster. STAR TREK TOO: The makers of the Trek reboot said that they want to try and tie it in with modern political issues. This is evident from this new leaked promo image showing the Federation’s version of…

io9 GarrisonDean

The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future

The architecture of science fiction has profoundly changed urban design. When building cities of the future, our best guides may be places like comic book megalopolises Mega-City-1 or Transmet. In February of this year I gave a talk at webstock in New Zealand, entitled “The Demon-Haunted World” – which investigated past visions of future cities…

io9 Matt Jones

Death To Future Metro Disaster Porn!

The future of the world is unmistakably urban (UN estimates put 70% of the world’s population living in urban areas by 2050), so why do we still expect the worst about cities? Click through for fictional destructions galore. Last year, humanity crossed the threshold and became more urban than rural, a fact that ultimately may…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Ultimate In Urban Recycling

Canadian artist David Trautrimas creates imaginary cities of the future by digitally-manipulating photographs of found objects into steampunk-esque surreal urban environments as part of his Habitat Machines series. [Habitat Machines] (Via)

io9 Graeme McMillan

7 Science Fictional Bars We’d Like to Visit

Life in the cities of tomorrow is filled with stressful encounters involving flying cars and Robopocalypses, so where can you find a nice place where everyone knows your designation? Here are seven science-fictional bars we wish we could visit. 1.) Club Hel Location: The Matrix‘s Mega City What kind of Crowd? Usually the tie-me-and-gag-me types…

io9 Alexis

Official: Wall-E Demonstrates Best of Humanity

The stars of Pixar’s Wall-E may have been a cute robot and his cybernetic friends, but that doesn’t mean that the movie didn’t have a very human heart, according to the organizers of the screenwriters’ Humanitas Awards. Created to “encourage those who create contemporary media to use their immense power in a humanistic way, to…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Dollhouse’s Season 2 Finale Teased Already!

Have we just gotten our first glimpse of how the second season of Joss Whedon‘s Dollhouse is going to end already? One particular guest star has been talking about when they’ll appear, which raises some interesting possibilities. Spoilers! Speculation! Go! Talking to Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello, Alan Tudyk confirmed that Alpha will be back for…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Nigeria Bans District 9, Demands Apology

Is District 9 racist against Nigerians? The Nigerian government clearly believe so – They’ve stepped in to ask cinemas to stop screening the movie and are demanding an apology from Sony Pictures for the movie’s “unwarranted attack” on the country. Allegations of racism against Neill Blomkamp’s movie have been flying since its release, but this…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Gay Transformers From An Alternate Dimension [NSFW]

Imagine an alternate world where porn stars are actually Transformers who fight lesbian rabbits in steamrollers, all while zooming down a road at a zillion kph. Now you don’t have to imagine it – just watch this bizarro Japanese machinima. If you are unfamiliar with the roiling cauldron of memes represented by this video, you…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Say Goodbye To Eureka’s Favorite Daughter… Oh, And The Season, As Well

Never mind the (latest) world-threatening disaster to come from Oregon’s favorite town of geniuses; last night’s season finale of Eureka offered enough character (and heart) to make sure you’d miss it until it comes back next year. Actually, never mind that “never mind” – the threat at the heart of “What Goes Around, Comes Around”…

Television Graeme McMillan

Cloudy Is The Cherry On Top Of This Summer

After an early helping of movie disappointment this summer followed by a second course of much better from D9, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is the sweet cherry on top of this summer fare. And we relished every morsel. Cloudy takes us where Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett’s beloved children’s book did not: Inside…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Artists’ Portraits of Science Fiction’s Greatest Writers

Steven Gettis’ website Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobberin’ Time!!! collects artists’ portraits of great writers from a variety of genres, creating diverse images of authors from William Gibson and Arthur C. Clarke to Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore. In addition to these author portraits, Hey Oscar Wilde! includes renderings of science fiction characters, including Barbarella,…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

10 Of Our Favorite Space Cases

If there’s one thing that Pandorum shows us, it’s that it’s psychologically stressful to be out there in space. Studies have shown the dangers of space madness, but we have to admit: It makes for good entertainment. “The Last Man On The Planet Moon” Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer and Wally Wood’s August 31st 1952 episode…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Our Cities Are Like Our Brains

Next time you get mad about the growth of cities, take some comfort in the newly-discovered fact that there’s more at work than just inept town planning. Apparently, city bosses are just subconsciously mirroring what’s happening inside their own brains. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have just studied the results of a study that demonstrated…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Do DC and Marvel Need a Special Victims Unit?

They might. They might even need a Very Special Episode or two, because – as Spider-Man has just demonstrated – many rapes in comics are unacknowledged. And they aren’t the ones you’re thinking of. Comics fandom, as any true fan knows, has always been the thinnest skin of enthusiasm wrapped around a bubbling core of…

Books & Comics Esther Inglis-Arkell

Download Your Own Surrogate For Free

Can’t wait to discover the world of Surrogates before next week’s release of the Bruce Willis movie? Get a jump on everyone else by downloading the original comic book to your iPhone. And of course, the first hit is free. iVerse and Top Shelf have teamed up to offer the entire first series of The…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Kick-Ass Creator: I’d Still Do Superman, As Long As They Don’t Ask For A Pitch

In case recent stories have you worried that Wanted and Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar has given up his dream of a Superman movie trilogy, never fear: He’s claiming that it was a joke that got taken too seriously. MTV announced earlier this week that Marvel Comics writer Millar had other priorities besides a Superman movie…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Flash Forward Into FlashForward’s First Third

Can’t wait until next week’s premiere of FlashForward to get a glimpse into the future? ABC has taken pity on you and posted the first 17 minutes of the first episode online. Click through for your own look ahead. FlashForward [ABC]

Television Graeme McMillan

Now THIS Is How You Take Out An Entire Building Full Of Robot Troopers

1995’s Mechanical Violator Hakaider is full of amazing mechanized violence, but nothing is as great as this scene, where Hakaider kills a building full of troopers with one well-aimed shotgun shell. And as they die, the troopers all breakdance.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

On Supernatural, We Meet the First Horseman of the Apocalypse

The Winchester brothers took a break from hunting Satan this week to help out some old friends. And they met a monster older than the world: One of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Hells yes. Spoilers ahead! Months ago I was already excited about this episode, called “Good God Y’All,” because showrunner Eric Kripke…

Television Annalee Newitz

For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Disaster

The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future

Death To Future Metro Disaster Porn!

The Ultimate In Urban Recycling

7 Science Fictional Bars We’d Like to Visit

Official: Wall-E Demonstrates Best of Humanity

Dollhouse’s Season 2 Finale Teased Already!

Nigeria Bans District 9, Demands Apology

Gay Transformers From An Alternate Dimension [NSFW]

Say Goodbye To Eureka’s Favorite Daughter… Oh, And The Season, As Well

Cloudy Is The Cherry On Top Of This Summer

Artists’ Portraits of Science Fiction’s Greatest Writers

10 Of Our Favorite Space Cases

Our Cities Are Like Our Brains

Do DC and Marvel Need a Special Victims Unit?

Download Your Own Surrogate For Free

Kick-Ass Creator: I’d Still Do Superman, As Long As They Don’t Ask For A Pitch

Flash Forward Into FlashForward’s First Third

Now THIS Is How You Take Out An Entire Building Full Of Robot Troopers

On Supernatural, We Meet the First Horseman of the Apocalypse

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