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Shirtless Tahmoh In Bondage In First Riverworld Pics

Strap us in and color us blue with excitement: the first stills from Syfy’s adaptation of Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld series are out. They’re full of shirtlessness, cleavage and blue Alan Cumming. Pop in your dreamgum, and check them out. Ah, marketing — you certainly know how to get our attention, tie the boys up…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Del Toro’s The Strain May Come to TV After All

Fox may have dropped the ball on bringing Guillermo del Toro‘s The Strain to life as a television series, but plans are afoot to bring the gonzo vampire tale to the small screen, with a showrunner intimately familiar with bloodsuckers. The Strain began life as a television pitch, but when Guillermo del Toro delivered his…

Television Lauren Davis

Discover The Secrets Of District 9’s Intense Alien Action

We know that District 9 is a movie about aliens who are mistreated and forced into camps by intolerant humans. But what’s really going to happen on film? A new feature goes behind the slums, and runs it all down. Excited now? Looks like it’s going to be an alien-gun-happy, explosive thrill ride, not so…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Corporate T-Shirts From An Alternate Dimension

Would you rather be designing a better Voight-Kampff test instead of a better Android OS? Or waiting tables at Biff’s restaurant from Back to the Future, instead of at TGI Friday’s? Then we’ve got tees for you. You can find these tees and more (including a rare find that references The Last Starfighter) over at…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What’s Tony Stark’s Family Secret? Who’s Gay On Caprica? The Answers Are Spoilers!

An Iron Man spoiler may also give a clue to the Avengers movie. A District 9 review gives away tons of plot twists. And Caprica features two alternative families. Plus Aliens In The Attic, FlashForward, Heroes, Lost and Chuck spoilers! Iron Man 2: Mad Men’s John Slattery plays Tony Stark’s dad Howard, and he says…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Those Who Strip Elves [NSFW]

One of the glorious things about anime series like “Those Who Hunt Elves” is that they don’t really have to make sense. Especially if they’re looking for an excuse to strip elves. You may not have realized this but one of the best ways to gain power from an elf is to strip her. Beneath…

io9 Annalee Newitz

New Pictures Reveal The Giant Star Betelgeuse Is Losing Weight

Betelgeuse is one of the largest stars known to researchers, at over 1000 times larger than our own sun. But it has also lost huge amounts of mass over its lifetime. These new images suggest how this might be happening. The new images are built out of only the sharpest, clearest pictures of the star.…

io9 StephenGoldmeier

The Asteroid Apocalypse Will be Twittered

With Jupiter newly struck by a passing comet, many fear that Earth could also soon have a head-on collision with a heavenly body. But don’t fret yet; if an asteroid should come close, you’ll hear all about it on Twitter. In addition to its main Twitter feed, NASA has just sent its first tweet Asteroid…

io9 Lauren Davis

Is Eli Roth Bringing Brad Pitt And Josh Brolin Into His Scifi Adventure?

We caught up with beloved horror director and writer Eli “Hostel” Roth to grill him about his super-secret scifi PG-13 project Endangered Species. Will there be a monster, a message? And who does he want in it? We grabbed Eli at the Syfy Entertainment Weekly party and hounded him for more answers. He hopes to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Don’t Close Your Eyes When Listening To Scary Music

If you’re the kind of person who covers your eyes at the scariest parts of movies, science wants you to stop. Apparently, you’re really only making it worse for yourself. Neuroscientists have discovered that the amygdala – the part of the brain that senses fear and emotion – kicks into gear when people listen to…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Are Science Fiction Franchises As Popular As Religion?

If you don’t worship Star Trek, then you must worship the Force. But maybe you’re a vampire adept, or a member of the Batman congregation? Fans’ faith in their franchises gets as intense and bloody as zealots’ faith in religion. The Ancient Books Like all great religions, the franchises have mysterious histories, preserved in decaying…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch Singing Skeletor, Jawa Pimp, and Disney Cheerleaders

Yesterday, we showed you the winners of the 2009 Comic Con Masquerade. Today, we’ve got a short, original documentary that showcases the performances – and the judges, talking about what they look for in a costume. https://gizmodo.com/masquerade-winners-show-off-the-best-costumes-of-comic-5324997 Costume designer Wanda Piety and prop master Dragon Drohnet were two of the judges for Saturday nights Masquerade,…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Battlestar Galactica Orchestra Rocked The Frak Out

One of Comic Con‘s most intriguing offerings was at the House of Blues, where the Battlestar Galactica Orchestra performed on all the nights of Con. We were there last Friday, to see a nerdy obsession morph into something else entirely. I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I took the ten-minute cab ride from…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Stargate Treats, Zombie Sanitizer And Crowns: Comic Con Radvertising

Yesterday we showed you the ugly side to Comic Con in our badvertising special. Today we’re focused on the good. Here’s the swag we loved at Con. https://gizmodo.com/boobs-balls-and-batman-comic-con-badvertising-5322379 Additional reporting and pictures from Julia Carusillo, Ray Wert and Cailtin Petrakovitz. While the themed menu was hideously overpriced and frankly we got a bit tired of…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Roberto Orci: Star Trek 2 Won’t Follow Transformers 2 Formula

We cornered Roberto Orci last weekend and asked him whether the second Star Trek would follow the same pattern as Transformers 2: the hero refuses the call to heroism. He explained why Trek will be different, and talked Fringe. https://gizmodo.com/star-treks-third-movie-being-plotted-out-already-5322654 We caught up with Orci on the red carpet at the SyFy/Entertainment Weekly party, last…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Milky Way Glows Over the Devil’s Tower

It’s no wonder the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind chose the Devil’s Tower National Monument as the place to make first contact with humanity. The sky above offers a clear and startling vision of the cosmos. Most geologists believe that Devil’s Tower in the Black Hills of Wyoming was formed by a…

io9 Lauren Davis

Decorating Tip: Tron-ify Everything

If we’d known living in Tron were this easy, well, let’s just a lifelong disfigurement from ramming head-first into a Battlezone cabinet may have been avoided. One Charles Brand Etching Press owner Tron-ified his hardware with a few rolls of 1/8-inch glow in the dark tape, an X-Acto knife and quite a bit of patience.…

Movies Mark Wilson

Global Warming Gave Rise to the Inca Empire

Global warming often evokes images of melting icecaps, disappearing landmasses, and natural disasters. But the results aren’t always so dire. For the Incas, global warming meant 400 years’ prosperity and growth, allowing them to create a formidable empire. With no written record to describe the rise of the largest pre-Columbian empire, paleoecologists have investigated the…

io9 Lauren Davis

Heroes Season 4 Trailer Promises Punk Clownhead and Evil Brunettes

You heard that Heroes season 4 would include Claire going lesbian, Sylar eating babies, and an Irish carnival full of people with bad hair and sucky costumes. Could it all be true? The season 4 teaser trailer reveals all! After wandering through the scary “Heroes carnival” that NBC created across the street from Comic-Con –…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Our First Description Of Iron Man’s Mark IV Suit

Tony Stark looks across a model of the Stark Expo, in a new Iron Man 2 photo. But the workshop surrounding him is also full of clues to the movie’s story (and backstory), judging from a set report. Spoilers below! Marvel.com visited the set of Marvel’s next big movie, and the short write-up is chock…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Shirtless Tahmoh In Bondage In First Riverworld Pics

Del Toro’s The Strain May Come to TV After All

Discover The Secrets Of District 9’s Intense Alien Action

Corporate T-Shirts From An Alternate Dimension

What’s Tony Stark’s Family Secret? Who’s Gay On Caprica? The Answers Are Spoilers!

Those Who Strip Elves [NSFW]

New Pictures Reveal The Giant Star Betelgeuse Is Losing Weight

The Asteroid Apocalypse Will be Twittered

Is Eli Roth Bringing Brad Pitt And Josh Brolin Into His Scifi Adventure?

Don’t Close Your Eyes When Listening To Scary Music

Are Science Fiction Franchises As Popular As Religion?

Watch Singing Skeletor, Jawa Pimp, and Disney Cheerleaders

The Battlestar Galactica Orchestra Rocked The Frak Out

Stargate Treats, Zombie Sanitizer And Crowns: Comic Con Radvertising

Roberto Orci: Star Trek 2 Won’t Follow Transformers 2 Formula

The Milky Way Glows Over the Devil’s Tower

Decorating Tip: Tron-ify Everything

Global Warming Gave Rise to the Inca Empire

Heroes Season 4 Trailer Promises Punk Clownhead and Evil Brunettes

Our First Description Of Iron Man’s Mark IV Suit

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