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Noir Posters Capture the Pulpy Joy of Superhero Movies

With all the dark superhero movies flying through the theater of late, perhaps it’s time to return to the pulpy advertising of the film noir genre. Artist Timothy Lim steps in with his noir-style reimaginings of recent superhero movie posters. His over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek descriptions of the films capture the dark side of their plots,…

Movies Lauren Davis

Could The Survivors Cure Your Doctor Who Withdrawal?

Going into Doctor Who withdrawal yet? With the BBC’s time-traveling soap opera pretty much taking a year off, and spin-off show Torchwood also doing a shorter season, you’re going to need an acceptable Who substitute. So it may be worth looking into The Survivors, the remake of a classic show by Dalek co-creator Terry Nation…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Is Grant Morrison Writing The Fastest Movie Alive?

MTV’s Splash Page blog may have accidentally discovered the writer of the much-rumored movie based on DC Comics’ speedster hero The Flash – During an interview with comic writer (and the man behind DC’s current Batman RIP and Final Crisis mega-storylines) Grant Morrison, an innocent question about the rumored movie got Morrison giving the kind…

Movies Graeme McMillan

The Killer-Robot Comedy Stylings Of The Thing And The Hulk

The Thing and the Hulk, Marvel Comics’ two biggest inhuman bruisers, usually just pound the stuffing out of each other when they meet up. But it turns out they have an awesome buddy-comedy chemistry, judging from this amazing panel from The Incredible Hulk & The Thing, a 1987 graphic novel drawn by the one and…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Robotic Sculptures Are Surveillance Cameras in Disguise

Viewers may be mesmerized by the whirling propellers and twitching legs of Bjoern Schuelke’s interactive sculptures. But these robotic artworks come with a sinister surprise. Armed with tiny cameras, the sculptures stare back at the viewers, quietly recording the people around them.Schuelke’s sculptures feature motion sensors that allow the robots to identify and take aim…

io9 Lauren Davis

Neon Scarface Rifle Lamp Threatens Consequences Beyond Tackiness

You may be tempted to buy the Neon Scarface Rifle Lamp, and you may even notice that it has an affordable $67 price tag. But we don’t recommend the purchase because somewhere, deep beneath the Earth’s crust, there lives a little mole-like man who keeps a very large list, and people who buy things like…

Movies Mark Wilson

The Toxic Fridge That Fell To Earth

Here’s a lesson that they apparently don’t teach in Astronaut school: No matter how old something may be, don’t throw it out of your space station. Just in case it, you know, only manages to stay in orbit for a year or so before plummeting to Earth. Especially if said object is a tank of…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Is Woody Allen Finally Going Back to Science Fiction?

In the latest New Yorker, Woody Allen has a near-future tale of smart drugs that feels like it was written as the beginning of a pharmaceutical dystopia flick. Called “Think Hard, It’ll Come Back to You,” the Provigil-addled prose unwinds the story of a guy who is about to sample a smart drug. But then…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Fans Remix Gort The Robot Enforcer

Fox has unleashed fans on the face of Gort, Klaatu’s robot bodyguard from The Day The Earth Stood Still. The studio asked artists and enthusiasts to dream up what the giant robot guardian would have looked if they’d had a say in the remake. Apparently a lot of them wanted him to look like the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

It’s the Smog Monster on Acid

It’s a toy! It’s a pile of guts! Its name is translated from the Japanese as “organ bat”! Click the picture to see this glorious piece of WTF at full size. [via ToyCyte.]

io9 Annalee Newitz

It’s X-Files Meets Eureka… In A Warehouse! But It May Be Good Anyway.

The Sci Fi Channel is gearing up to produce another 11 hours of its fledgling spooky-warehouse series, Warehouse 13, in addition to the previously shot pilot. Which still begs the question: now that the pilot for the Battlestar Galactica prequel, Caprica, has been in the can for months, when will Sci Fi make a decision…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly

Best known for five-minutes-into-the-future science thrillers like Jurassic Park and Andromeda Strain, biogeek author Michael Crichton has died. The 66-year-old, who was also behind major media hits like medico-drama ER, authored several works of science fiction such as Congo, Sphere, Next, and underrated cyborg revolt movie Westworld. He had been struggling privately with cancer for…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Snuggle Up With Monsters This November at the Bookstore

The election is over, and it’s time to return to the fantasy worlds that always provide us with more fulfillment than reality. This month, we bring you news of a treasure trove of new scifi books packed with monsters, interstellar politics, mad scientists, and shadow worlds filled with underwater cities of the dead. Plus, a…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Sir Ken Adam Guides You Through The Greatest Evil Lairs From James Bond

The BBC has a wonderful audio interview world famous James Bond’s Production Designer Sir Ken Adam about how he built an evil doer’s hangout inside a volcano and (my personal favorite) created an entire submarine on set for The Spy Who Loved Me. The amazing interview is accompanied by a slideshow of Adams’ concept art,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Are We Feeling Dehumanized Yet?

Now that we’re living in a technological wonderland, you’re in constant danger of losing your humanity. It’s just a fact — every scientific or medical advance makes us that little bit less human, and every time you play with your Google Android or eat another stem-cell sex donut, a few cells of your body transform…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

British Libertarian Party Fights Surveillance with George Orwell

Over 400 years ago today, Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators placed 20 barrels of gunpowder beneath the British House of Lords. Today, the Houses of Parliament are getting a much more peaceful, but perhaps equally incendiary, delivery. Chafing beneath Britain’s widespread surveillance and increasingly restrictive laws, the Libertarian Party UK is sending each Member of…

io9 Lauren Davis

Cthulhu Rising, Abstract German Style

The great and horrible Cthulhu is rising from his aeons-long slumber, and it’s up to you to either stop him and send him back to his watery resting place, or aid him and give rise to the ultimate evil. You can choose either the side of investigator or cultist in Twilight Creations’ upcoming game Cthulhu…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Simon Pegg Demands A Return To Traditional “Zombie Values”

Lovable Brit and part-time undead fighter Simon Pegg (Shaun of The Dead), knows a thing or two about whacking the crap out of some zombies. Which is why he is penning his own article, in the Guardian no less, about how he’s sick to death of all these speedy zombies. After going to a zombie…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Right-Wing Futurists Are Already Predicting the Liberal Dystopia

A little over a week before the election, an astonishing work of near-future science fiction started circulating on the internet. Called “Letter from Obama’s America,” it’s an epistolary short story written by a person living in 2012 and suffering under the horrors of the Obama Regime. Pornography is proudly displayed in gas stations, and private…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A.I.s Are Still Trapped In The Summer Of Love

“Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings… Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Noir Posters Capture the Pulpy Joy of Superhero Movies

Could The Survivors Cure Your Doctor Who Withdrawal?

Is Grant Morrison Writing The Fastest Movie Alive?

The Killer-Robot Comedy Stylings Of The Thing And The Hulk

Robotic Sculptures Are Surveillance Cameras in Disguise

Neon Scarface Rifle Lamp Threatens Consequences Beyond Tackiness

The Toxic Fridge That Fell To Earth

Is Woody Allen Finally Going Back to Science Fiction?

Fans Remix Gort The Robot Enforcer

It’s the Smog Monster on Acid

It’s X-Files Meets Eureka… In A Warehouse! But It May Be Good Anyway.

Jurassic Park Creator Michael Crichton Dies Unexpectedly

Snuggle Up With Monsters This November at the Bookstore

Sir Ken Adam Guides You Through The Greatest Evil Lairs From James Bond

Are We Feeling Dehumanized Yet?

British Libertarian Party Fights Surveillance with George Orwell

Cthulhu Rising, Abstract German Style

Simon Pegg Demands A Return To Traditional “Zombie Values”

Right-Wing Futurists Are Already Predicting the Liberal Dystopia

A.I.s Are Still Trapped In The Summer Of Love

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Scientists Found a Weird New Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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