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Great Masterpieces of Anti-Television Storytelling

Although science fiction has been a mainstay on television since the mid-twentieth century, the genre has been consistently critical of television’s power to brainwash the masses. Here are the classic anti-TV tales from science fiction. While there are dozens more stories I could have included in this list, I’ve focused here on the classics –…

Television Annalee Newitz

NASA’s Quirky and Cartoony Mission Patches

Wired Science has a wonderfully weird collection of offbeat patches to commemorate various NASA missions, featuring everything from Marvin the Martian to Stephen Colbert, and the stories behind them. [Wired Science]

io9 Lauren Davis

30 Rock Salutes Science Fiction: Every Great Clip

We’ve all seen the big spoofs of scifi classics. Family Guy just recreated Star Wars and the Simpsons’ Prisoner tribute was perfection. But nobody salutes science fiction better than 30 Rock’s sly one-liners, which just slip it in there. We’re madly in love with the writing on 30 Rock, mainly because each wickedly clever line…

Television Meredith Woerner

Audio From the io9 “SF That Will Blow Your Mind” Panel At Comic-Con

After the io9 panel at Comic-Con, a few of us did a quick interview about mind-blowing SF with a nice guy from public radio station SCPR. Now you can hear us ramble amusingly about our picks, fresh from our panel, with the sound of Comic-Con swirling behind us. [via SCPR]

io9 Annalee Newitz

For The First Time, Microscopes Show Us Detailed Pictures of Individual Molecules

Scientists have long been able to pelt lots of electrons at atoms to “see” them, but this process did too much damage to be used on molecules. Now, scientists have found a new, less destructive way to visualize whole molecules. The research team, working at IBM, have modified an older microscopy technique know as atomic…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

What’s The Matter With Story Arcs On Television?

Used to be, your television heroes explored the edges of the universe and confronted unimaginable nightmares. And then they’d end up back where they started. Now television gives us arcs, that continue from week to week. Is that really better? It’s the classic trade-off: on the one hand, self-contained weekly episodes are newbie-friendly and easy…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

V Shuts Down Production. Are The Aliens In Disguise Having Trouble?

ABC’s new reboot of beautiful-but-secretly-evil aliens epic V is shutting down production for two weeks, which won’t affect its November 3 launch date. This could just be a breathing space — or it could mean the producers need to stop and rethink some storylines, as happened with Dollhouse before its launch. Says production company Warner…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Heroes Is The Most Popular Show! (On Bittorrent)

The file-sharing audience isn’t quite the same as the TV audience, it turns out. According to Bittorrent tracking group Big Champagne, Heroes episodes were the most shared of any TV series on the webotorrents. Top ten Bittorrented TV series, according to Big Champagne: Heroes; 54,562,012 Lost; 51,151,396 24; 34,119,093 Prison Break; 29,283,591 House; 26,277,954 Fringe;…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Original Pilot vs. Official Pilot: Which Shows Changed the Most?

While most shows’ pilots air as their first episode, some shows get a do-over to make creative changes, improve production, or appease the network. We look at some of the pilots that didn’t make it and how the shows changed. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Riff Regan vs. Alyson Hannigan) What they changed: Joss Whedon financed…

io9 Lauren Davis

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Five: River Vs. Buffy

Is there anybody who can stop River Tam’s slaughter of television’s greatest ass-kickers? How about Joss Whedon’s original heroine, Buffy? The Slayer has stopped the apocalypse more times than you can count — surely she can take on one girl? io9 TV badass smackdown day five: River vs. Buffy(polling)

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Doctor Who Set Pics Reveal A Historical Figure And An Old Enemy?

British time-travel show Doctor Who’s taking us back to one of the Doctor’s favorite historical eras, judging from some new set pics — and we’ll be meeting one of history’s greatest legends — and one of Doctor Who’s worst villains. There are spoilers in this post. Please exercise maximum spoiler contamination procedures. So it appears…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

TV Shows Surveyed for “Themes Throughout SF and Fantasy TV” Chart

These are all the shows we surveyed to come up with this chart. https://gizmodo.com/at-last-a-graph-that-explains-scifi-tv-after-star-trek-5347631 100 Lives of Black Savage 3rd Rock From the Sun 4400, The Adventure Inc Adventures of Batman and the Boy Wonder, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., The Adventures of Don Quick, The Adventures of Elektronic, The ALF Alfred Hitchcock Presents…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Classiest Star Wars Action Figure Displays You’ve Ever Seen

Everybody likes to see a beautifully-displayed action figure collection, but Korean collector Cho Woong has taken his display to the next level. His apartment will give you a million ideas about how to make your collection look like art. I feel like I’m looking at some Platonic ideal of the Ikea catalog, in which I’m…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future

Appliance manufacturer Electrolux challenged designers to imagine the appliances households will be using over the 90 years. The finalists include printable foods, waterless washing machines, and fridge that can teleport groceries directly into your home. In honor of Electrolux’s 90th anniversary, its annual Design Lab competition is looking toward the next 90 years, asking designers…

io9 Lauren Davis

First Trailer For George Clooney And His Team Of Goat-Staring Military “Jedis”

The Men Who Stare At Goats features a long-haired drugged-out Jeff Bridges, men trying to run through walls, and hot mustached Clooney-on-goat action. The film, inspired by the military’s secret psychic experiments, actually looks pretty hilarious. The film was inspired by Jon Ronson’s non-fiction book which explained how the government tried to create a psychic…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Favreau on Avengers Movie: “It Might Be A Failure”

Even though he’s still working on Iron Man 2, director Jon Favreau can’t help but worry about Marvel Studio’s Avengers movie, and whether or not the superhero mash-up will be accepted by audiences growing sick of superheroes. Talking to Ireland Online, Favreau – one of the producers of the 2012 movie – said, ‘The Avengers’…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows Of All Time

Science fiction and fantasy have ruled television for over 50 years, but some shows have brightened our screens and supercharged our brains more than others. Here’s our list of the 100 greatest science fiction/fantasy shows of all time. How did we determine these rankings? Using science. That means that if you disagree with the shows…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why Kirby Will Always Be The King

92 years ago today, Jack Kirby was born, and the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy and entertainment would never be the same. Here are just some of the characters he created, and reasons why he was called the King of Comics.

io9 Graeme McMillan

At Last, A Graph That Explains Scifi TV After Star Trek

When have TV aliens been more popular than magic? Do shows featuring time travel fare better than those about space exploration? We chart the popularity of television’s most common themes, and see how scifi television has changed since 1970. We looked at over 300 science fiction and fantasy television shows from 1970, the year after…

io9 Lauren Davis

Hitler On Avatar: 10 Years For A Planet With Cats!

You’ve seen his response to Watchmen, but now the evil Führer tells James Cameron exactly how he feels about the Avatar ending.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Great Masterpieces of Anti-Television Storytelling

NASA’s Quirky and Cartoony Mission Patches

30 Rock Salutes Science Fiction: Every Great Clip

Audio From the io9 “SF That Will Blow Your Mind” Panel At Comic-Con

For The First Time, Microscopes Show Us Detailed Pictures of Individual Molecules

What’s The Matter With Story Arcs On Television?

V Shuts Down Production. Are The Aliens In Disguise Having Trouble?

Heroes Is The Most Popular Show! (On Bittorrent)

Original Pilot vs. Official Pilot: Which Shows Changed the Most?

Television’s Biggest Badass Of All Time, Day Five: River Vs. Buffy

Doctor Who Set Pics Reveal A Historical Figure And An Old Enemy?

TV Shows Surveyed for “Themes Throughout SF and Fantasy TV” Chart

The Classiest Star Wars Action Figure Displays You’ve Ever Seen

Teleporting Refrigerators, Robotic Greenhouses, and Six Other Appliances for the Future

First Trailer For George Clooney And His Team Of Goat-Staring Military “Jedis”

Favreau on Avengers Movie: “It Might Be A Failure”

The Top 100 Science Fiction/Fantasy Shows Of All Time

Why Kirby Will Always Be The King

At Last, A Graph That Explains Scifi TV After Star Trek

Hitler On Avatar: 10 Years For A Planet With Cats!

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

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