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Tron’s Light Cycles Could Have Looked Much Stranger

As sleek and cyber-looking as the light cycles were in VR-game epic Tron, some of the original light-cycle concept art looks even more arresting. Some of the light cycles look almost industrial, like machines made out of pixels, while others look abstract and chaotic, just squiggly lines moving around. Even though the light-cycle concept art…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Music of Genetic Disease

When you develop cancer, the disease creates a musical dissonance in the functioning of your genes. That’s the strange finding of Harvard researcher Gil Alterovitz who used the activity of genes over time (modeled here with dots and lines) to set the human genome to music. He assigned specific notes to relationships between genes and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Don’t Middle-Panic! Middleman Not Canceled, Says ABC Family

Contrary to reports on message boards, the awesome Men In Black-style show The Middleman has not been cancelled, a rep from ABC Family tells io9. “No decision has been made” as to the show’s future, but all of the show’s first season episodes will air as planned. “We stand behind this show” and the network…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Serial Killer Joss Whedon Faces His Public

As you probably know, something dreadful happened in the last episode of Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog, Joss Whedon’s internet supervillain musical. Online critics were somewhat dismayed, and when Whedon went on a live chat at the Washington Post, he found himself facing his critics. Whedon’s response to the neigh-sayers, plus other Horrible tidbits, after the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Who Chief Abandons Spielberg, Teenage Boy For Childhood Love

Just how much did Steven Moffat want to take control of Doctor Who? Apparently enough to turn down half a million dollars and tell Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson that he’d rather not work with them after all, according to a recent newspaper interview that the new Who-master gave over the weekend. Given the choice…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Preview of Cool New Novel “By Schism Rent Asunder,” Free Online

I am excited about David Weber’s new space opera By Schism Rent Asunder, despite its slightly silly name. The novel comes out today, and luckily you can preview this tale of a renegade planet of innovators fighting a galaxy-spanning Church for free online before you pick up a copy at your local bookstore. The sequel…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Tori Amos And Suicide Girls Invade This Week’s Comics

What’s that, you’re saying? You’re expecting this week’s load at the comic store to be light because everyone’s going to be at San Diego talking about comics instead of publishing them? It’s an understandable assumption to make, but also one that’d do its best to fulfill that whole “making an ass out’ve u and me”…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Comatose Loser Beats The Popular Kids, Thanks To The Power Of Drugs

When will these kids learn? Don’t drink and kill! When you kill someone while drunk or high, he or she never stays dead, and will eventually come back to kill you. A bunch of overworked medicine students have one drug- and booze-filled night out and reluctantly let the class loser, Freakdog, join in. They end…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Exclusive Look Inside Terminator 4 Shows A New Wheel In Town

Click to viewLook at this set photo from Terminator: Salvation. Is this John Connor’s new BatPod? Or something more sinister? This is just one of the behind-the-scenes pics io9 just obtained. Click through for more pics, plus speculation about the nature of this wheeled beast. Spoilers ahead. Call me optimistic but I don’t think it’s…

io9 Meredith Woerner

The First Space Wargame Prepares for Relaunch

You might be familiar with E.E. Smith’s Lensman novels, but you’ve probably never played the 1969 classic Lensman wargame. Out of print since the 70s, copies of the original Lensman game are so rare they’re hard to find even on ebay. Now, original designer Phil Pritchard is overhauling the game for re-release, hopefully later this…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Star Trek Con Gives Vegas Reason To Exist

If you’re already bored with all this talk of Comic-Con, it’s worth remembering that there are other conventions around the corner… like, for example, the Official Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas. Sure, it may not have JJ Abrams popping by to talk about his new TV show and that little franchise reboot movie he’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Instant Moon Base to Be Delivered by Ares Rocket

Click to viewWhen the Ares V rocket lands on the moon next decade, part of its payload will be a full-functioning, instant moon base that will be ready for a several-month long habitation. At least, if experimental architecture firm Architecture and Vision has anything to say about it. The firm’s design, called Moon Base Two,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Sci Fi Channel To Take Over The World

It seems that Sci Fi isn’t just for television anymore, if the recent move by the Sci Fi Channel to “reach beyond the television screen to become a total global lifestyle brand” is anything to go by. The people behind the Sci Fi Channel have announced the formation of Sci Fi Ventures, a new business…

Television Graeme McMillan

Dragonball’s Goku Dons His Costume, Watchmen’s Sally Jupiter Doffs Hers

Some new photos are both spoilery and shiny this morning, including our first look at Goku in costume from the Dragonball movie, some 1940s Watchmen pictures (including a Sally Jupiter pinup), and a new Land Of The Lost still. Ronald D. Moore spilled some details on his new pilot Virtuality, and Jamie Bamber mentioned a…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Trailer Proves Caprica Shouldn’t Be Tied To BSG

The Sci Fi Channel just released its first trailer for Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica that shows the origins of the Cylons. The trailer shows glimpses of some of the issues the show will raise: about cyber consciousness versus “real” consciousness, and faith versus the randomness of the universe. But watching the trailer, I…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Tilda Swinton Finds Her Husband In A Shocking State Of Undress

This is probably the weirdest moment in Possible Worlds, the alternate-reality-hopping movie from 2000. It’s a bizarre, dreamlike story of the relationship between George (Tom McCamus) and Joyce (Tilda Swinton) across various realities. It reminds me of The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, especially with Tilda’s hair changing color across each timeline. And then…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Michael Crichton: Evil, Or Just A Crazy Luddite?

Arguably the science fiction writer who’s achieved the most mainstream success in the past few decades is Michael Crichton, whose works include the Andromeda Strain, Westworld and (most famously) Jurassic Park. So it’s too bad Crichton achieved his success by being an evil luddite, writes Star Dragon author Mike Brotherton. A common theme in Crichton’s…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Saddest Robots in Eurasia

The sad robot has become a cross-cultural symbol of . . . something. This bit of graffiti was captured in Tel Aviv, combined with a strange little bot (which you can see below). Why does the image of a sad robot haunt the streets of Israel, the gardens of Japan, and the novels of the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Living Doll Tries to Survive a Workers’ Revolution in “The Alchemy of Stone”

With a face made of porcelain, a wind-up heart, and a talent for alchemy, Mattie is hardly a typical science fictional robot. While most novels about robots focus on how these humanoid machines are stronger and smarter than humans, Ekaterina Sedia’s The Alchemy of Stone (in bookstores this month) explores the vulnerability of mechanical beings…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Mailmen Have Unrealistically Hot Girlfriends, In Heroes Webisodes

In what alternate reality does a postal worker get to come home to a sexy Latina in Victoria’s Secret undies? That’s just one of the pressing questions raised by the second Heroes webisode, “Unexpected Guest.” There’s also more horrendous acting from The Constrictor, raising the question of just where the Company gets its second-tier hench-monsters.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Tron’s Light Cycles Could Have Looked Much Stranger

The Music of Genetic Disease

Don’t Middle-Panic! Middleman Not Canceled, Says ABC Family

Serial Killer Joss Whedon Faces His Public

New Who Chief Abandons Spielberg, Teenage Boy For Childhood Love

Preview of Cool New Novel “By Schism Rent Asunder,” Free Online

Tori Amos And Suicide Girls Invade This Week’s Comics

Comatose Loser Beats The Popular Kids, Thanks To The Power Of Drugs

Exclusive Look Inside Terminator 4 Shows A New Wheel In Town

The First Space Wargame Prepares for Relaunch

Star Trek Con Gives Vegas Reason To Exist

Instant Moon Base to Be Delivered by Ares Rocket

Sci Fi Channel To Take Over The World

Dragonball’s Goku Dons His Costume, Watchmen’s Sally Jupiter Doffs Hers

Trailer Proves Caprica Shouldn’t Be Tied To BSG

Tilda Swinton Finds Her Husband In A Shocking State Of Undress

Michael Crichton: Evil, Or Just A Crazy Luddite?

The Saddest Robots in Eurasia

A Living Doll Tries to Survive a Workers’ Revolution in “The Alchemy of Stone”

Mailmen Have Unrealistically Hot Girlfriends, In Heroes Webisodes

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