Real Life Muggle Quidditch Is Sweeping The Nation

Gather your quaffles, capes and brooms – Quidditch could be a mere wand-stroke away from joining the NCAA, if the numbers of teams keep growing. College students have taken their intramural Quidditch hobby to a whole new level this year: Droves of wizards and witches gathered at the second Intercollegiate Quidditch World Cup to get…

How Dangerous Is A Little Knowledge?

“Perhaps most famously, Gibson wrote Neuromancer without the aid of a computer, and indeed, without knowing much about computers at all. This ignorance led to a lesson that every scifi writer, fan and everybody else should learn: your knowledge might be crippling your imagination. Gibson was free to imagine virtual social networks and complex visual…

Klaatu’s Ultimate Goal And Smallville’s Legion Villain — Revealed!

Welcome to Black Friday. We’ve collected a shocking number of spoilers to fortify you before your shopping rampage. Including exactly what Keanu Reeves is up to in the Day The Earth Stood Still remake, and what Hugh Jackman says will happen in Wolverine 2. Plus, Geoff Johns totally gave away the identity of the villain…

How to Buy an HDTV Today (or Any Day)

Despite this month looking like the kick-off to the next Great Depression, a bunch of you are probably still planning to (finally) hop on the HDTV bandwagon. And all things considered, that’s not a totally stupid move. A great HDTV—one that will blow away the standard definition puke you’ve been watching for years—can be had…

Terminator Salvation Motion Poster Gives Absolutely No New Information

If I were to have visited the Terminator Salvation set and seen all sorts of crazy stuff, there’s a good chance I’d be under NDA so I couldn’t talk about it until some specially designated time. But I bet it would have been a great trip that I was eager to share with you all.…

Space Troopers Forced Us to Take the Day Off

Sometimes Space Troopers force bloggers to take the day off and eat brains or maybe plants from another dimension. Today is one of those days. We’ll be back in 24 hours! In the meantime, check out these awesome Space Trooper toys, going on sale tomorrow. [via ToyCyte]

It’s Cthulhu’s Special Holiday Meal! [NSFW]

Nothing says holiday celebration better than this fantastic Cthulhu-worship scene from Stuart “Re-Animator” Gordon’s best movie of the new millennium, Dagon. Gordon is a master of Lovecrafty material, and this retelling of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” stays true to the original story, though the director adds a few, um, kinks of his own. While our…

Sometimes A Police Box Is Just A Police Box

Sarah Jane Smith is stuck in 1951, and everything seems lost… until she spots a familiar blue box, in this clip from the latest Sarah Jane Adventures. I couldn’t help getting my hopes up, even though the Police Box looked slightly off… but at least Sarah Jane learned once again that she can’t rely on…

Ten of the Kinkiest Science Fiction Books You’ll Ever Read

When you finally sneak away from family gatherings this weekend, you’re going to want some adult science fiction to take your mind off things. That’s why we’ve got the ultimate holiday counterprogramming for you: 10 kinky science fiction novels that you can hide in your book bag or e-book reader and enjoy late at night…

The Perfect Scifi Thanksgiving Day Feast

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so get thee to the kitchen — but to make sure you don’t get caught pairing the wrong “Jawa Juice” with your “Wookie Cookies” we’ve collected the perfect menu for your science fictional dinner. We’ve scanned through all the many delicacies and bizarre recipes that have turned up in science fiction over…

An Injured Nebula Fingers The Nefarious Star Gang

When stars team up, they can do a lot more damage. Scientists had been wondering how one particularly bright star had managed to erode so much gas in the Carina Nebula, until they rumbled the secret of Tr16-244: it’s actually three stars, working together. Two stars orbit so closely together that they appear to be…

NBC: Happy New Year, But We’re Taking Away Your Television

Fans of NBC’s Monday night line-up of Chuck, Heroes and My Own Worst Enemy aren’t going to have the best start to 2009; the network is putting the first two shows on hiatus for the entirety of January (and, as we already knew, pulling Worst Enemy altogether). NBC announced its January line-up today, and the…

Thanksgiving Dinner is Sadder in Space

Today, millions of Americans are traveling to spend Thanksgiving Day with their loved ones. But for the astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station, going home for the holiday isn’t an option. The station will host a Thanksgiving meal of its own, but while we’ve come a long way from the powders and edible goo…

What to Get Your Favorite Mad Scientist for the Holidays

Wondering what to get that mad scientist in your life for the holidays? We’ve got some ideas that will keep an evil mastermind occupied in the lab for days on end – and will of course result in world domination. Or at least living room domination. Though being a mad scientist can get spendy, we’ve…

Our Economy Needs A Miracle… Like In Science Fiction

Click to view Don’t panic! Sure, our economy is crappier than a crap-monster attacking a crap factory. But that’s the time when you should look to the future. Our economy could be transformed at any moment, by developments like new technology – or first contact with an alien species. And you can prepare for this…

The Cylons’ Origins May Remain A Mystery

Remember Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel that Ron Moore was working on? Moore and co. shot a pilot months ago, and we were supposed to hear by September whether it would become a series. Sci Fi had planned to air the pilot as a TV movie in December, but scrapped the idea. Now the pilot…

Baz Luhrmann Wants To Give The Future A Makeover

Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann is tinkering with the idea of filming a classic futuristic tale, he told io9. We caught up with Baz at his Australia premiere, and he admitted he’d thought about switching from movies set in the past to creating stories set in the future. Baz thinks the future has gotten a…

Apollo Doesn’t Want Brit TV’s Top Job

It was only yesterday that I wondered whether the stars of Battlestar Galactica were cursed to a post-BSG life of bad roles in minor shows, or whether it was their choice to slum it for awhile and recuperate. And now I may have my answer, courtesy of Galactica’s Jamie Bamber, explaining why he wouldn’t want…

Samsung BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 Blu-Ray Players Getting Netflix HD

We’re liking the trend. Not only did the Xbox 360 debut Netflix HD streaming, other Netflix supporters like Roku are slated to receive same update. Now Samsung has announced that their $400 BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 will both receive firmware upgrades in early December to support Netflix HD streams as well. That’s good news, as Netflix…

My new favorite web page is “Stories I’m Glad I Never Wrote,” by some guy named Geoff. It ranges from the story about a psychic cat he came up with in sixth grade, to his weird apocalyptic story that he thought up over a beer recently. Along the way, it takes in the story of…