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Artificial Intelligence May Emerge from Software That Recommends Movies

Last week I published an article in the Washington Post about a very real possibility for the emergence of artificial intelligence that we rarely consider. Here’s how the article starts: If machines ever become sentient, science fiction movies have conditioned us to expect one thing: Our new mechanical masters will try to take over the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

How Well Do You Really Know Your Significant Other?

It just never hurts to take the test. I’m just saying. [xkcd via The Daily What]

Books & Comics Adam Frucci

Viral Posters Commemorate Lost’s Greatest Moments

In anticipation of Lost’s final season, ABC has commissioned various artists to create a series of limited edition posters honoring the show’s coolest characters and greatest “water cooler” moments. As part of the viral campaign for the final season, ABC has asked 16 artists to each create a poster based on some aspect of Lost.…

Television Lauren Davis

Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?

Ubernerd Martin Anderson argues in a surprisingly persuasive essay that corridors – from trippy to utilitarian – are crucial to great scifi concept design. Check out these famous scifi corridors and tell us which corridor rules them all. Let us consider the following images. Above, we have the classic corridor that started it all in…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Oswalt: Singing In The Rain Is Science Fiction

Newly-announced Caprica cast member Patton Oswalt knows his stuff when it comes to science fiction… So why does he think that Gene Kelly is more science-fictional than Harrison Ford? Talking to AMC’s Jennifer Vineyard, Oswalt explained what appealed to him about science fiction as a genre: That you can do things in the genre that…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Did Dune Ruin Science Fiction Novels?

Frank Herbert‘s Dune is a sweeping epic, one filled with complex world-building, family drama, religions, economic systems, and space travel. And yet, one science-fiction fan wonders if Dune’s multi-layered success has ruined the science fiction novels that came after. A user on LibraryThing posting under the name bookmonkey00k has set forth the theory that Dune…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Viking-Alien Saga Bound For Valhalla As The Year’s Best Science Fiction Movie?

Scrappy indie movie Outlander satisfied our need for cool aliens as well as our love for viking glory and swordfights. And now it’s up for “Best Science Fiction Movie” in Spike’s Scream Awards. Also in the running: Duncan Jones’ justly acclaimed Moon. The other contenders are all big studio productions like Star Trek, Transformers 2,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Are American Comics Institutionally Racist?

How important is race in comics? We’re not even talking about skin color here, but American vs. Non-American. According to one comics editor, the answer is “very” – even if comics fans would rather it wasn’t the case. Responding to a fan question about the historic problem of comic series with non-American white male leads…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Five New Clips From “The Road” Are Disturbing, Religious

Ten minutes of new clips from “The Road” bring on the post-apocalyptic family bonding as a father and son flee scary truckers, evade cannibals, and eat cheetos in a bomb shelter. Also included are God talk and prayer. In these clips, it appears that the allegorical feeling of “The Road” is going to include a…

Movies Annalee Newitz

V: Not Original, Official

The WGA has ruled: ABC’s V is officially a remake of the original 1984 mini-series, meaning that original creator Kenneth Johnson will get the credit (and the money) he deserves when the new series premieres this November. [Illana’s V Site]

Television Graeme McMillan

The Churning Heart of Hurricane Jimena

A few days ago, megastorm Jimena was a category 4 hurricane in the Pacific, bashing its way to Baja California. As these satellite photos show, Jimena still looked awe-inspiring even when it diminished to a tropical storm. By the time Jimina hit Mexico, it was no longer technically a hurricane, though it still did huge…

io9 Annalee Newitz

When All Hell Breaks Loose, Will The Winchester Brothers Stay Tight? 3 Supernatural Clips

New clips from Supernatural season five show what a huge mess the Winchester brothers have to clean up — there are angel bits in people’s hair, and the biggest monster hunt of their lives afoot. But first? The blame game. Oh, and in case you thought it was possible to watch clips from an upcoming…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Surrogates Conspiracy Unmasked, Plus Life in the Dollhouse After Alpha

Three new TV spots look inside the Surrogates conspiracy, and the Dollhouse cast describes life after Alpha’s attack. Also, the first reviews for The Road and Zombieland, and spoilers for Heroes, Supernatural, Eureka, Pandorum, Smallville, FlashForward, Warehouse 13 and Fringe. Surrogates Below are the first official TV spots for Surrogates: Dollhouse When the season premieres,…

Television Lauren Davis

The Most Exalted Star Wars Religious Art In The Universe

Star Wars is a religious experience for many of us, whether or not we actually feel the Force. But some artists take it even further, depicting Star Wars characters as saints, martyrs and religious icons. Check out our holy gallery. Imperial Saints by Patrick King (tons more great Star Wars art at the link.) Empire…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Are the Triffids A Uniquely British Monster?

James Bradley, author of The Deep Field, has just written a fascinating essay about Day of the Triffids. He calls the monster-plant novel a Darwinian end-of-the-world scenario, and then points out how it’s very different from an American apocalypse story. Bradley writes: Just as much of the power of 28 Days Later comes from its…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Dave Eggers’ “Where the Wild Things Are” Just Doesn’t Have the Same Ring to It

The New Yorker has the first chapter of Dave Eggers’ novelization of the Where the Wild Things Are screenplay. As if a novelization of an adaptation of a children’s book wasn’t odd enough, one edition will be covered in fur. [via Metafilter]

Movies Lauren Davis

Five Short Films That Should Get Big Screen Treatment

This summer has brought us both 9 and District 9, two movies that started life as short films. Are there more to come. We look at some of the shorts we’d like to see on the big screen. We’ve seen a lot of stellar shorts here; some are simply wonderful as brief visits with strange…

Movies Lauren Davis

Meet the Next Generation at Locus Magazine

The science fiction community recently mourned the death of Charles N. Brown, who turned Locus into the SF book industry’s publication-of-record. Now it’s time to look to the future. We talked to new Locus editor-in-chief Liza Trombi about what’s next. I sat down with Trombi and managing editor Kirsten Gong-Wong at the busy Locus booth…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

“Ethical” Beef Cows Could Be Engineered to Feel No Pain

Meat eaters looking for ways to enjoy a guilt-free hamburger have looked to ethical ranches and more humane slaughtering methods. But some suggest that instead of getting rid of factory farming, we should eliminate cow’s pain. In a paper published in this month’s Neuroscience, philosopher Adam Shriver suggested that genetically engineering cows to feel no…

io9 Lauren Davis

Andromeda Surrounded By The Remains Of The Dwarf Galaxies It’s Killed

Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may look benign, but it’s really a massive cannibal, sitting surrounded by the undigested remnants of the galaxies it’s eaten. European scientists have mapped the galaxy anew, and found stars that came from elsewhere. Writing in the new issue of Nature, the researchers explain that Andromeda is surrounded by a halo…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Artificial Intelligence May Emerge from Software That Recommends Movies

How Well Do You Really Know Your Significant Other?

Viral Posters Commemorate Lost’s Greatest Moments

Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?

Oswalt: Singing In The Rain Is Science Fiction

Did Dune Ruin Science Fiction Novels?

Viking-Alien Saga Bound For Valhalla As The Year’s Best Science Fiction Movie?

Are American Comics Institutionally Racist?

Five New Clips From “The Road” Are Disturbing, Religious

V: Not Original, Official

The Churning Heart of Hurricane Jimena

When All Hell Breaks Loose, Will The Winchester Brothers Stay Tight? 3 Supernatural Clips

The Surrogates Conspiracy Unmasked, Plus Life in the Dollhouse After Alpha

The Most Exalted Star Wars Religious Art In The Universe

Are the Triffids A Uniquely British Monster?

Dave Eggers’ “Where the Wild Things Are” Just Doesn’t Have the Same Ring to It

Five Short Films That Should Get Big Screen Treatment

Meet the Next Generation at Locus Magazine

“Ethical” Beef Cows Could Be Engineered to Feel No Pain

Andromeda Surrounded By The Remains Of The Dwarf Galaxies It’s Killed

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

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