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Chronology is Back!

We’ve heard your criticisms of the new comments system, and are taking action. For those of you who were disturbed by the “ranking” of threaded comments, we have good news. We’ve kept threading, but gone back to organizing the comments chronologically. So now you can read comments in chronological order, the way they should be.

io9 Annalee Newitz

You Can’t Escape The Beastwizard! (As If You’d Want To)

This moment from last night’s Sarah Connor Chronicles illustrates perfectly why the Terminator spin-off show is one of the most inventive and bizarre on television. Our bad Terminator has stolen the identity of an out-of-work actor, George Lazlo, and then gone and wasted 20 FBI agents to the strains of Johnny Cash. Now Lazlo is…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes Trailer Actually Makes Some Sense

The trailer for Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes sheds some light on the whole plotline about a pink mummy-wrapped psycho and the horrors of meeting your own past/future self. Finally the trailer has been released, and we can see that it’s really a love story. This is the type of low-budget scifi flick that doesn’t…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Sci Fi Goes Beyond In Search Of New Brand

Is the SciFi Channel about to call it a day and finally admit that it’s giving up the sci fi label? That’s the rumor going about these here internets after a fairly revealing question in what seemed like a rote online survey from the channel. Is the home of Stargate, Battlestar Galactica and, um, Extreme…

Television Graeme McMillan

Little, Brown Snaps Up Scifi About Peak Oil

Awesome eco-scifi author Paolo Bacigalupi reports that he’s just sold an intriguing-sounding dystopian novel to publisher Little, Brown. Bacigalupi writes, “The book in question is Ship Breaker, a young adult novel about all of my favorite things: global warming, peak oil, genetic engineering, poverty and collapsed societies. You know, happy fun stuff. Fortunately, it’s also…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Singing Spidey Will Dance Across Broadway Sooner Than Expected

Julie Taymor’s webslinging Broadway musical featuring Peter Parker has upped its release date to 2009 instead of the original 2010. Also, set descriptions and a review of the Spidey workshop between Taymor’s old cast from Across The Universe, Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess, have finally leaked out. I can’t wait to hear these two…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Onion Imitates Middleman?

It was just two months ago that the Middleman was showing us how to use traffic cones to keep unsuspecting civilians away from a hole in time and space. Now The Onion News Radio’s latest headline is “City Places Orange Traffic Cones Around Space-Time Portal.” Is someone a fan? Or will the Middleman have to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Mark Millar on Sarah Palin: “Terrifying”

Comics creator Mark Millar, writer on Wanted and Kick-Ass, is Hollywood’s newly-minted golden child of all stories violent. In his latest mini-series for Image Comics, War Heroes, Millar-a Scot and self-professed liberal-has created quite the stir by anointing John McCain as the fictional president-elect of the U.S. who ups the wartime ante by giving soldiers…

Movies Nisha Gopalan

What Did Diane Duane Think Of Star Trek: Nemesis?

Novelist Diane Duane took Star Trek’s Romulans and gave them a fully fleshed out culture beyond “they’re Vulcans who turned into Romans somehow.” Her Rihannsu books gave the pointy-eared warriors a complex backstory and a believable world. So we were dying to ask her what she made of the last Trek film, Nemesis, with its…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Heroes: Why Don’t We Do It In the Lab?

You can tell that Tim Kring, creator of mega-mutant soap Heroes, was overcompensating in a big way last night. In the exciting two-hour premiere, he proved to the world that he can make his scenes smaller, shorter, and faster than anybody else’s scenes. No more of those long, dreary trips to Feudal Japan like last…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Netflix Fires Shots Across Traditional TV’s Bow by Signing Deals with CBS, Disney

Netflix has just inked deals with CBS and Disney to start adding shows to its streaming service the day after they air. The shows will include crime dramas your parents like such as CSI and NCIS as well as shows your younger cousins like such as Hannah Montana and The Suite Life of Zack &…

Television Adam Frucci

Toonami Becomes A Toon-Trickle, Then Subsides

It started as a mighty wave, but the Cartoon Network’s action-anime programming block Toonami dwindled to nothing and then splashed harmlessly into the gutter. The Network finally put the Toonami block, which had played host to such classics as Gundam and Cowboy Bebop, out of its misery as of last Saturday. This coming Saturday will…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Sharp Aquos Contest Winner, Answers to Burning Questions Announced

Congrats to Thomas Kash on winning the 37-inch Aquos TV from Sharp. The Super Bowl party is at his house this year. For everyone that didn’t win, you still have an opportunity to take away a bit pride in knowing that you got the right answers to the contest entry questions. Those answers are available…

Television Sean Fallon

Steve Niles’ Futuristic City Of Dust Cops Keep You Safe From Thinking

Why does every future city feature a class system where the poorer you are, the lower in the city you live – literally? It’s like our future is doomed to include the craziest kind of caste system. Steve Niles’ new thrilling comic City Of Dust follows the Judge Dredd-esque Phillip Khrome, a jet pack riding…

io9 Meredith Woerner

History’s Greatest Robot Hoaxes

From our earliest dreams of golems and Galatea, people have wanted to create artificial beings with human characteristics and abilities. But in our haste to see a future of walking, talking mechanical humanoids, we’re easily fooled by con artists looking to exploit our sense of wonder. Hoaxers and engineers, magicians and advertising agencies have sold…

io9 Lauren Davis

British Broadcasting Corporation To Officially Invade US

We’ve mentioned the rumors before, but it’s finally official: Jane Tranter, the woman responsible for bringing Doctor Who back to television screens (Not to mention Life On Mars, Jekyll and, okay, Spooks: Code 9), will be moving to Los Angeles in January 2009 to head up a new American office of the BBC dedicated to…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Tiffani Amber Thiessen’s Cyborg Soldier BF Is Pissed

This is Isaac, the Intuitive Synthetic Autonomous Assault Commando. He’s a cyborg soldier who escapes his makers, and now the company is tracking him down. So it’s like Short Circuit but with more killing.Stunt genius John Stead is directing the film and the cyborg is none other than UFC fighter Rich Franklin. Cyborg Soldier will…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Let’s Hope Get Smart Sequel Doesn’t Get Too Dumb

Despite her ongoing reinvention as a serious actress (see this week‘s Entertainment Weekly with the weird cover) Anne Hathaway is dying to do another Get Smart movie. Since the first one did respectably ($129 million domestically, $223 million worldwide) she may get her chance. Unfortunately, her idea for what would happen in a sequel is…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Astro Boy Is Just A Year Away

Summit and Imagi studios have announced that Astro Boy is going to be rocketing into theaters on October 23, 2009. And you can bet there’s going to be some sweet toys lined up to proceed the release date. According to CEO of Summit Rob Friedman “We have lined up some key marketing partners for the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Luke Skywalker Owns The Classic Releases Of This Week’s Comics

Do you happen to have a fetish for Luke Skywalker? Or perhaps your name is Mark Hamill? (Not that that means that you don’t have a fetish for Luke Skywalker, let’s be honest.) Then this is definitely your lucky week in terms of comics haul. For the rest of us, it’s all Savage Worlds, reissues…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Chronology is Back!

You Can’t Escape The Beastwizard! (As If You’d Want To)

Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes Trailer Actually Makes Some Sense

Sci Fi Goes Beyond In Search Of New Brand

Little, Brown Snaps Up Scifi About Peak Oil

Singing Spidey Will Dance Across Broadway Sooner Than Expected

Onion Imitates Middleman?

Mark Millar on Sarah Palin: “Terrifying”

What Did Diane Duane Think Of Star Trek: Nemesis?

Heroes: Why Don’t We Do It In the Lab?

Netflix Fires Shots Across Traditional TV’s Bow by Signing Deals with CBS, Disney

Toonami Becomes A Toon-Trickle, Then Subsides

Sharp Aquos Contest Winner, Answers to Burning Questions Announced

Steve Niles’ Futuristic City Of Dust Cops Keep You Safe From Thinking

History’s Greatest Robot Hoaxes

British Broadcasting Corporation To Officially Invade US

Tiffani Amber Thiessen’s Cyborg Soldier BF Is Pissed

Let’s Hope Get Smart Sequel Doesn’t Get Too Dumb

Astro Boy Is Just A Year Away

Luke Skywalker Owns The Classic Releases Of This Week’s Comics

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

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Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

How to watch UFC Fight Night Adesanya vs Pyfer live this Saturday

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