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Polly Pocket Meets Gotham

Here are miniature versions of Gotham City’s inhabitants, made with love for you by Detective Comic’s Dustin Nguyen. I want to play with these little guys so bad, especially baby Bane. [Welcome To Gotham City]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Now You Can Major in Cult Movie Studies

Want to live your life in the Ivory Tower, but uncertain about whether you can devote your scholarly energies to zombies, giant monsters, and low-budget horror movies? Well, fret no more. A film scholar named David Church has set up a new social network, Cult Media Studies, for academics who study cult movies. Contributing to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

X-Files Movie Proves Some Things Are Better Left Buried, Say Critics

The first early reviews of the new X-Files movie have shown up online… and they’re not encouraging. Phrases like “Where’s the action?” and “nothing more than an extended episode of the TV series” are being bandied about. But the truly horrifying part is the explanation of Billy Connolly’s weird character — the one with the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Which Technological Invention Changed the World?

Scientists like Jared Diamond argue that human history is essentially the story of technology. Our technological advancements are what propelled us from caves to cities, from gaslight to nuclear reactors, and from horseback to orbit. But with each advance comes a potential dark side: deadlier warfare, toxic pollution, or social alienation. Taking into account the…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Drag And Drop Kirk’s Scary Bedroom Eyes

Want Captain Kirk leering lasciviously from your computer desktop while you work? Then you’re in luck. The official Star Trek movie site has put up high-res images of the four Trek posters that’ll be handed out at Comic-Con. The site also has a discussion forum, where the hot topic at present is “Why is Captain…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Great Moments in Martian-Earthling Relations: Tim O’Hara Meets Uncle Martin

Let’s get it out at the start: My Favorite Martian was no Lost in Space. The latter had Robot, after all, and Dr. Smith, not to mention cool mod spacesuits. Despite its title, MFM had little-to-no outer-space trappings (at least as I remember it) and the lamest laugh track this side of Gilligan’s Island. If,…

io9 Lynn Peril

Transformers 2 No Empire Strikes Back, Says Bay

To anyone who thinks that the upcoming Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is going to be another in a long line of sequels that plan on making things darker in order to set up the triumphant final part of a trilogy, then director Michael Bay has some bad news for you: As far as he’s…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The 10,000-Year-Old Clock that Inspired Neal Stephenson’s Anathem

The Long Now, a futurist think tank, is the organization behind the millennium clock — a time-counting device that is designed to last 10,000 years. A device like it shows up in Neal Stephenson’s forthcoming novel Anathem, and today the Long Now explains how the scifi author was involved in the conceptualization of the clock…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Terraforming A Barren Planet — With Your Bare Hands

Once again, the best thing in the current Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is a very political novella about spying during wartime. Like Robert Reed’s “Five Thrillers,” which we praised a few months ago, “The Political Prisoner” by Charles Coleman Finlay features spies, political turmoil and genetically altered human colonists at odds with the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Get Your Daily Dose of Scifi Authors at Tor.com

Tor Books, one of the biggest and most venerable publishers of excellent science fiction writing, has just launched a new blog that promises to bring the crunchy goodness of a Tor book to your RSS reader every day. With contributors like scifi authors Charles Stross and John Scalzi, as well as scifi art maven Irene…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

See the Sketches That Captured The Crazy

The Dark Knight concept art from legendary comics artist Bill Sienkiewicz shows Heath Ledger’s Joker looking more crazed than ever. Sienkiewicz was the go-to guy for TDK, and it’s no wonder. He pretty much captures exactly why the Joker is the scariest of all in Gotham. His concept drawings are pretty much a spot-on rendition…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Once You Know How BSG Ends, You’ll Revisit Its Past. And Middle.

The final episode of Battlestar Galactica could be spread out over as much as four hours, allowing for a full explanation of the robot-apocalypse show’s complex mythology at last. And the BSG TV movie that’s in the pipeline wouldn’t air until after the final BSG episode — which could allow it to revisit some events…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Clash Between Fictional and Real-Life Supervillains

Although Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible may have come and gone, his effects are still being felt across the internet… especially by another blogging supervillain who feels that his thunder has been stolen by Neil Patrick Harris’ deadly alter ago. Real-life supervillain Dr. Steel – who claims that he’s been doing this kind of thing since…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Playing Around with Plutonium and Neptunium

Superconductivity, a state where metals lose their electrical resistance, has been for a long time a dream of physicists. It could change the way we use energy and allow us to do things like levitate trains. But currently, superconductivity can be achieved in supercooled metals for brief periods, which severely limits its applications. Now, however,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Bat-Mania, Destructo-Robots And A Doctor Who Reunion, On This Week’s TV

There’s a lot of great stuff on TV this week, if you know where to look. For one thing, there are more attempts to cash in on Bat-fever with some fun-sounding Batman shows. For another, The Middleman is finally clearing up all your nagging questions about boy bands. Doctor Who cranks it up to 11…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

90s Actor + Giant Animal = Sci Fi Original

If you’re addicted to the Sci Fi Channel’s made-for-TV movies about large creatures and the humans who chew scenery near them, then you’re in luck. Next year, Sci Fi is making 36 original movies instead of the usual 24 — including prehistoric sharks, pirates and a version of National Treasure, only worse (if that’s possible).…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A Terrible Black Ooze Seeps From The Internet, Called Pulse 2

The people who brought you suicide by ethernet cable, in Pulse, are working on a second your-computer-will-kill-you movie. Pulse 2, the movie we didn’t know we wanted, has released a few stills, which show all the hallmarks of a truly awful sequel, including lesser copies of the first movie’s special effects and the addition of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Star Wars Invades Japan, and Vice Versa

Star Wars has at last officially invaded Japan, as the first official Japanese Star Wars convention kicked off last week with insane numbers of cosplayers and artists descending on Tokyo in an orgy of fandom. There were tons of cool toys, as well as Japanese artists contributing to the Vader Project’s collection of weirdly-painted Vader…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Was World War I The Result Of Science Gone Wrong?

A few days ago, we asked what would’ve happened if we had had advanced technology during the Second World War, but a new graphic novel from San Francisco publisher AiT/PlanetLar is going one step further and asking, what if advanced technology was accidentally responsible for World War I happening in the first place? https://gizmodo.com/what-if-we-had-advanced-alien-tech-during-world-war-ii-5025657 The…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Bizarre Loop Building Nears Completion

This 755-foot tall building is actually two interconnected skyscrapers built at an angle and then joined at their tops, forming a continuous loop that houses offices in both the vertical and horizontal sections. It’s one of the many instant architectural wonders that Beijing has crafted for the Olympics. You’ve got to see the weirdness on…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Polly Pocket Meets Gotham

Now You Can Major in Cult Movie Studies

X-Files Movie Proves Some Things Are Better Left Buried, Say Critics

Which Technological Invention Changed the World?

Drag And Drop Kirk’s Scary Bedroom Eyes

Great Moments in Martian-Earthling Relations: Tim O’Hara Meets Uncle Martin

Transformers 2 No Empire Strikes Back, Says Bay

The 10,000-Year-Old Clock that Inspired Neal Stephenson’s Anathem

Terraforming A Barren Planet — With Your Bare Hands

Get Your Daily Dose of Scifi Authors at Tor.com

See the Sketches That Captured The Crazy

Once You Know How BSG Ends, You’ll Revisit Its Past. And Middle.

Clash Between Fictional and Real-Life Supervillains

Playing Around with Plutonium and Neptunium

Bat-Mania, Destructo-Robots And A Doctor Who Reunion, On This Week’s TV

90s Actor + Giant Animal = Sci Fi Original

A Terrible Black Ooze Seeps From The Internet, Called Pulse 2

Star Wars Invades Japan, and Vice Versa

Was World War I The Result Of Science Gone Wrong?

Bizarre Loop Building Nears Completion

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