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We Prefer Our Aliens With Two Legs, Green And Hot, Apparently

If there’s one thing that this week’s comments have taught me, it’s that you kids aren’t very excited about groundless speculation about the new Star Trek movie – unless we’re talking about sexy green alien women. Gangly legs and sexy gamma gams are the topics for rediscussion under the jump. On Tuesday, Annalee suggested that…

Movies Graeme McMillan

What Happened To November Sweeps?

With December breathing down our necks, one question is on our mind more than any other: “Why was November’s television so boring?” November is a sweeps month, after all, and traditionally, that means stunt-casting, unlikely plots centered around an image or concept that will easily slot into 30-second trailers and all other types of excitement…

Television Graeme McMillan

Barnaby Ward Pits Cute Girls Against Monsters and Giant Robots

Nearly all of Barnaby Ward’s comics and narrative illustrations feature beautiful young girls, slender, hip, with unruly hair and too much eyeliner. But these girls provide an anchor for Ward’s far wilder depictions of giant robots, elaborate machines, and grotesque monsters, creating manga-inspired works with tinges of Edward Gorey. Check out our gallery to see…

io9 Lauren Davis

No Final Cylon Will Ever Be Good Enough

Click to viewWith Battlestar Galactica returning in less than two months, anticipation is at fever pitch over the identity of the show’s Final Cylon. We’ve looked at the clues to date and offered some theories of our own, but with SyFyPortal claiming that it knows the character’s identity for sure – and then offering up…

Television Graeme McMillan

The Ultimate Superhero Bad Sex

Will Smith’s deadbeat superhero comedy Hancock is out on DVD this week, and that means one thing – you can finally watch the infamous ballistic sperm scene. Find out for yourself why Hancock belongs on our list of sexually frustrated superheroes, by watching the clip below. https://gizmodo.com/10-superheroes-who-can-never-have-sex-5015295

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

New Doctor Who Cover Brings Fashion, Hand Gestures

Unconvinced that David Morrissey will make a good Next Doctor? The cover to the Christmas edition of Britain’s Radio Times may change your mind by demonstrating that, if nothing else, he’s got the hand gesture down. Also, Dervla Kirwan channels her best Miranda Richardson as the villainous Miss Hartigan. Click through for a closer look.

Television Graeme McMillan

Hot Flashes: 10 Uses For Lightning That Ben Franklin Never Guessed

Click to viewIt can power a time machine, steal Superman’s strength and even help Zack Morris graduate high school. Oh, lightning – is there anything you can’t do? Long before nuclear energy and genetic engineering joined the team, lightning reigned as the top catch-all explanation for the funky phenomenon of the week, even transcending genre…

io9 Liz Weinbl

Armageddon Into the Holiday Spirit: Why I’m Thankful for the Apocalypse

Ah, irony. It is as delicious as turkey. And Thanksgiving – the day we offer thanks for all the things we have – is perhaps the most ironic of American holidays, in that it is immediately succeeded by Black Friday, the day we trample people to death in pursuit of all the things we want…

io9 Josh Wimmer

Robotic Rickshaws Wander the Streets of Beijing

Wu Yulu may have only a primary school education, but his fascination with robots has inspired him to create 26 automata, a veritable robot army. Rather than leading his robots toward global conquest, Wu has designed them for more socially beneficially uses. His robotic rickshaw Wu No. 25 can pull an individual through the streets…

io9 Lauren Davis

The Universe Literally Smiles on Australia

For stargazers everywhere, the challenge of interpreting the constellations can be a tricky one. What exactly could the belt of Orion or the Gemini twins be trying to tell us? Lucky for those in the Southern Hemisphere, then — this Monday they’re getting a huge break. Venus, Jupiter, and our old friend the Moon are…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Ignorance Is Bliss For Marvel Movies

While one of the geek selling points for Marvel Studios’ movies may be characters crossing over as they build to massive team-up movie The Avengers, such spirit of camaraderie doesn’t seem to have spilled over to the teams working on the movies behind the scenes. Or, at least, that’s what Iron Man 2 screenwriter Justin…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Learn More Than You Could Ever Want To About Star Trek’s Doomed Spaceship

The movie may still be half a year away, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t start learning about the backstory of JJ Abrams’ quasi-Star Trek reboot already. Thanks to Intel, we can meet the man who could’ve stopped the new version of James T. Kirk being such a rebel. Also, clues to how Star…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Aquatic Military Bots of the Twenty-Third Century

Meet S.A.M., a subaquatic mech who only looks swaybacked when he’s trying to carry his modded bulk around on land. S.A.M. is one of many character creations by Daniel Baker, a concept artist at Blitz games in the UK. Check out some of his strange sea-going ships and military bots below. Though I wish they…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Future Cops Fight A Part-Mantis, Part-Scorpion, Part-Bat, All-Woman Villain

The latest movie in the Asian science fiction boom, China’s Future Cops, sounds crazier and more science fictional than CJ7 or Love Story 2050. Directed by action-movie veteran Ching Siu Tung, the movie features cops in the year 2130, wearing black-and-silver jumpsuits and sporting cyborg body parts. And there’s a female villain whose cybernetic attachments…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Hottest Kisses You Never Saw

They’re too racy, too raw. There’s enough tongue in them to make a director blush — and so much grabby-hands that the director, producer, and writer hit the ground in a dead faint. Or maybe it’s just good suspense to deprive characters of some desperately needed mouth-on-mouth. The Blu-Ray release of The X-Files: Fight the…

io9 Nivair H. Gabriel

Discover The Future Of Medical Science

When it comes to future depictions of careers, things are always rather unfairly weighed towards the law enforcement angle – We’ve seen Robocop, Judge Dredd, Minority Report and even Future Cop. But who talks about the medical profession of the future? That was the thinking behind medical blog Medgadget’s Sci-Fi Writing Contest, the winners of…

io9 Graeme McMillan

WHO Predicts How We Will Die in 2030

A global rise in tobacco use in the next two decades will help heart disease remain one of humanity’s leading killers, while HIV/AIDS deaths will peak in 2012 before making a steady decline. This is according to an update of the World Health Organization’s “Burdens of Disease” report, which measures the current sources of human…

io9 Lauren Davis

Which X-Men Should Be First Class?

Now that we know that Fox has brought Gossip Girl and Chuck creator Josh Schwartz on board to write a new X-Men movie, the obvious next question is, which X-Men should the movie feature? The writers of both the Young X-Men and X-Men: First Class comics have weighed in on the subject, but we’ve got…

Movies Graeme McMillan

The 10 Best Apocalypse Novels of Pre-Golden Age SF (1904-33)

With Wall-E director Andrew Stanton working on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s 1917 novel A Princess of Mars, you need a crash course in books from this seminal era in science fiction. Hollywood adaptations of Brave New World and When Worlds Collide, based on books released at roughly the same time as Princess…

Books & Comics Joshua Glenn

Science Fiction’s Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), an Introduction

Earlier this year, I formulated an eccentric but strict periodization scheme, in which the Nineteen-Oughts (not to be confused with the 1900s), for example, run from 1904 through 1913; the Teens (not to be confused with the ’10s) from 1914-23; and the Twenties (not to be confused with the ’20s) from 1924-33. And so forth.…

Books & Comics Joshua Glenn

We Prefer Our Aliens With Two Legs, Green And Hot, Apparently

What Happened To November Sweeps?

Barnaby Ward Pits Cute Girls Against Monsters and Giant Robots

No Final Cylon Will Ever Be Good Enough

The Ultimate Superhero Bad Sex

New Doctor Who Cover Brings Fashion, Hand Gestures

Hot Flashes: 10 Uses For Lightning That Ben Franklin Never Guessed

Armageddon Into the Holiday Spirit: Why I’m Thankful for the Apocalypse

Robotic Rickshaws Wander the Streets of Beijing

The Universe Literally Smiles on Australia

Ignorance Is Bliss For Marvel Movies

Learn More Than You Could Ever Want To About Star Trek’s Doomed Spaceship

Aquatic Military Bots of the Twenty-Third Century

Future Cops Fight A Part-Mantis, Part-Scorpion, Part-Bat, All-Woman Villain

The Hottest Kisses You Never Saw

Discover The Future Of Medical Science

WHO Predicts How We Will Die in 2030

Which X-Men Should Be First Class?

The 10 Best Apocalypse Novels of Pre-Golden Age SF (1904-33)

Science Fiction’s Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), an Introduction

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