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Personally, I Preferred Airlock As A VP Choice

Yes, yes, we get it already: the Republican Prez/Veep ticket looks just like Colonel Tigh and President Roslin from Battlestar Galactica. In what is either a sign that BSG has achieved cultural critical mass or that at least one of the two Republican nominees to office is actually an alcoholic robot, the similarities between the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Cyberpunk Increases Our Fear of Cybercrime

Last week, experts at a Sicilian conference on planetary emergencies warned us to expect certain doom from cyberattacks, an apparent time bomb that could come from any one of the billions of minds ticking away on Planet Earth. But according to Cybercrime and the Culture of Fear: Social science fiction(s) and the production of knowledge…

io9 Lauren Davis

BBC Takes Another Step Closer To US Doctor Who?

Okay, so we may not have believed those rumors about Doctor Who specials taking place in America with an American cast and crew when we first heard about them, but that was before news came that the BBC is moving to America… with some very Who-friendly faces in charge.News broke yesterday that the BBC is…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Wanted: A Sequel, But Only In The Movies

After the surprise success of this summer’s Wanted movie, you may think that creator Mark Millar is already hard at work on a sequel to the story of why it’s much cooler to be an assassin than just an average schmoe. And you’d be right… kind of. As Millar explains, while he is working on…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Weirdest Superhero Fight Scene Ever — With Captain Banana and Captain Yellow

Party 7 is the touching tale of seven people coming to terms with their pasts, learning to care for their families, and finding out why it’s important to carry on the traditions of voyeuristic superheroes. Captain Banana and the reluctant Captain Yellow, Jr. are heroes who share one mission: To be peeping toms. Their secret…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Villain Cage Match Day 5: The Final Battle!

It’s all come down to this! Only two villains are left standing in our ultimate battle for supervillain supremacy. Who will be the ultimate victor? The almost all-powerful Q, or the ultimate dark lord of the Sith, Darth Vader? You decide! And because you demanded it, we threw in a “bonus round” featuring the confrontation…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Too busy harvesting the dead to find organic replacements for your droid limbs? Me too. Don’t worry, we’ve compiled a list of the best stories of the week, just for you.Is the Earth Quarantined??? Why haven’t we met aliens yet? And why aren’t we sending rockets all over the solar system? There is only one…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Thanks to Our Sponsors

Thanks to io9’s generous sponsors this week — Chevy Fuel Solutions, Star Wars Clone Wars Soundtrack, Infinite Undiscovery, T-Mobile, Unscrew America — we have managed to travel through a wormhole, fight an alien war, and make friends with a guy in a latex outfit named “Harvey.” If you would like to aid us in our…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Vin Diesel Wants To Be A Supervillain Too

Vin Diesel is done playing the unlikely hero. Now he wants to be a part of the bad guy squad at Marvel. In an interview with MTV, Diesel explained, “I’m waiting to do a film where the protagonist is the villain.” Who do you think it is? Diesel drops more clues in the interview.”I’m done…

Movies Meredith Woerner

A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Superpower

Here’s the first trailer for No Heroics, the sitcom about superheroes hanging out in a bar that we mentioned the other day. It looks like a lovely mix of Mystery Men and The Specials, with genuinely funny, neurotic characters. I like the fact that the characters are funny for other reasons besides their superpowers, including…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

A Trip Down Cheesy Memory Lane with the Sci-Fi Channel

If you like to giggle at Sci-Fi Channel original movies (like the new Ricky Schroeder hellhound saga), you’ll want to take a trip down memory lane and check out the kinds of stuff you could have been laughing at on Sci-Fi back in 1992. (There was the original series “Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion,”…

Television Annalee Newitz

Clones And Murder In A Bleak Future Ohio

Flying cars soar over a bleak, dark cityscape, where people will as soon kill you as shake your hand. Welcome to the dark dystopian metropolis of… Columbus, Ohio. Yes, apparently by the year 2045, Columbus will be renamed Gotham, according to Aidan 5, an award-winning short movie. The Sin City-ish Aidan was shot entirely in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Autonomous “Flying Saucers” to Aid Military in Battle

Click to view Small, autonomous “flying saucers” are going to become the next big thing in recon and surveillance on the battlefield — at least, if British firm GFS has anything to do with it. GFS (which stands, charmingly, for “Geoff’s Flying Saucers”) has prototyped its new model of flying saucer (pictured), called the Fenstar…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Panasonic to Mass Produce 150-Inch TV, Requires Your Own Nuclear Power Plant

Panasonic is saying that they are going to start mass-manufacturing their 150-inch 2,106 x 4,096 display, which obviously is not directed at consumers unless a) they have their own Quad-HD video material to play and b) they have their own nuclear power plant, since this beast eats 1,500 watts, which in the Michael Phelps scale…

Television Jesus Diaz

Take A Monster Self-Defense Class… Before It’s Too Late!

Scifi Scanner pulled together a video run-down of how to protect yourself from all the creepy crawlies of the scifi world. I’m at a complete loss as to why there are so many who think throwing water on a Gremlin is a good idea. I weep for the future of our society when the Gremlins…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The Yellow Peril, Fu Manchu, and the Ethnic Future

Click to viewWelcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. Back in the 1920s and 30s, when Asian immigration to the US and Europe was picking up steam, prominent science fiction writers like Philip Nowlan and H.P. Lovecraft created speculative scenarios starring massive hordes of horrible, slanty-eyed, intelligent…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Manson Is A Method Actor, Of Sorts

Wondering what gives Shirley Manson the experience to be able to pull off playing a hard-ass CEO in the new season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Apparently, very tenuous logic, according to the former lead singer of Garbage: “You know, she’s the CEO of a corporation that develops technology… As a musician, we’re dealing…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Meet The Man Who Tells Giant Cat Robots What To Do

Great lion-faced robots – the Voltron script that has been passed around for years finally has a director attached to it. Latino Review discovered that director Max Makowski is now attached to the Voltron project. Which means two things: One, we’re getting a director who could go a little crazy on Voltron, and two, we’re…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Galactic Cluster Collision Divides Ordinary Matter from Dark Matter

Almost six billion years ago, two of the largest gravitational structures in the universe slammed into each other with velocities in the millions of miles per hour. Galactic clusters are collections of galaxies (sometimes thousands of them) that seem to hang together in violation of the known laws of physics. Not only did this ancient…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

At Last, We Get Justice For The Star Wars Prequels

We’ve found one actual funny moment from Disaster Movie. No really, hear us out. The spooftastic comedy that’s in theaters today seriously has one chuckle-worthy joke where Prince Caspian gets to do the one thing we’d always dreamed of doing to the lifeless proto-Vader, Hayden Christensen.I’m pretty sure that after watching that clip, you’ve pretty…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Personally, I Preferred Airlock As A VP Choice

Cyberpunk Increases Our Fear of Cybercrime

BBC Takes Another Step Closer To US Doctor Who?

Wanted: A Sequel, But Only In The Movies

Weirdest Superhero Fight Scene Ever — With Captain Banana and Captain Yellow

Villain Cage Match Day 5: The Final Battle!

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Thanks to Our Sponsors

Vin Diesel Wants To Be A Supervillain Too

A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Superpower

A Trip Down Cheesy Memory Lane with the Sci-Fi Channel

Clones And Murder In A Bleak Future Ohio

Autonomous “Flying Saucers” to Aid Military in Battle

Panasonic to Mass Produce 150-Inch TV, Requires Your Own Nuclear Power Plant

Take A Monster Self-Defense Class… Before It’s Too Late!

The Yellow Peril, Fu Manchu, and the Ethnic Future

Manson Is A Method Actor, Of Sorts

Meet The Man Who Tells Giant Cat Robots What To Do

Galactic Cluster Collision Divides Ordinary Matter from Dark Matter

At Last, We Get Justice For The Star Wars Prequels

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

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

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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Personally, I Preferred Airlock As A VP Choice

Cyberpunk Increases Our Fear of Cybercrime

BBC Takes Another Step Closer To US Doctor Who?

Wanted: A Sequel, But Only In The Movies

Weirdest Superhero Fight Scene Ever — With Captain Banana and Captain Yellow

Villain Cage Match Day 5: The Final Battle!

The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week

Thanks to Our Sponsors

Vin Diesel Wants To Be A Supervillain Too

A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Superpower

A Trip Down Cheesy Memory Lane with the Sci-Fi Channel

Clones And Murder In A Bleak Future Ohio

Autonomous “Flying Saucers” to Aid Military in Battle

Panasonic to Mass Produce 150-Inch TV, Requires Your Own Nuclear Power Plant

Take A Monster Self-Defense Class… Before It’s Too Late!

The Yellow Peril, Fu Manchu, and the Ethnic Future

Manson Is A Method Actor, Of Sorts

Meet The Man Who Tells Giant Cat Robots What To Do

Galactic Cluster Collision Divides Ordinary Matter from Dark Matter

At Last, We Get Justice For The Star Wars Prequels

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

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

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

Let us help find what you are looking for...

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!