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Superheroes of the Midwest Unite

Given the curve-ballish nature of reality, it makes perfect sense to me that the people who finally develop superpowers will live in Madison, Wisconsin. They won’t have a Gotham City or Metropolis packed with a high per-capita rate of supervillains to fight. They’ll just be regular people, struggling with ordinary things. That’s the premise of…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

X-Files Movie Brings Us a Conflicted, Bitter Scully

The English language version of that Russian X-Files: I Want To Believe trailer we showed you yesterday has gone up, and the actual dialog gives way more of a clue as to what’s going on in this film. In particular, the hints that Scully’s religious faith might be tested seem to have some weight to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

New Japanese Trailer For Machine Girl Is Full Of Bloody Goodness

The sexy Asian ladies of The Machine Girl show us how to kick ninja ass with heavy weaponry and loads of screaming. The movie makes its US debut this week at the SF Indie Fest. Check out the new Japanese trailer, that sprays its wonderful gore all over the lens, including the deadly sharp drill…

io9 Meredith Woerner

TBS, I Can Pause My Own TV, Thanks

TBS has opted to not only advertise during television shows through those pesky lower third banners, but to go so far as to pause the show you are watching to do it. A particularly offensive case of interstitial marketing, needless to say, it’s not going to do wonders for the network’s ratings. Oh, and for…

Television Mark Wilson

Welcome To The Summer Of White Guilt

As we lurch into the slow-motion hysteria of the summer election season, movies aren’t serving up the pure escapist crack we depend on them for. Instead, almost every movie stars a tormented Gen-X or Baby Boomer white guy, who’s trying to atone for using his power to make the world a worse place. Welcome to…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Michael Chabon Defends His Genre-Bending Ways

If you need something to listen to during lunch, tune into this interesting edition of Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” featuring writer Michael Chabon discussing his alternate history novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. He also talks about how science fiction can be just as beautiful and intellectually rewarding as literature. Plus…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Ingestible Robots Survey Your Esophagus, Stomach, and Intestines

Your body will soon be teeming with tiny robots. Last year, robotics researchers managed to guide micro-robots through a pig’s bloodstream using a magnetic field from an MRI machine (just a dry run before the bots infest us humans). Now scientists have invented a camera-bot you can swallow that will slide down your gastrointestinal tract,…

io9 Michael Reilly

Own Your Own Robot Killing Machine

Okay, I’ll agree: It sounds like a great idea to own your own replica Cylon from Battlestar Galactica right now, but we’ll see if you still feel the same when it turns out that you’ve accidentally brought a seven-foot-tall “frakking” killer into your house in some kind of Trojan Horse collectible replica trick that’ll end…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Go On A Wild Date With Get Smart’s “Uncle Handsome”

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shares a behind the scene look into how he crafted Agent 23 for the comedy Get Smart — or, as he calls him, “Uncle Handsome.” Watch in a special clip as Agent 23 throws people against walls, staples a mans head, and gets into random bouts of silliness with Agent 86…

io9 Meredith Woerner

In WALL-E’s World, We’re All Shopaholics In Spandex

A new commercial for the future super-store Buy N’ Large shows how the humans of tomorrow will live in WALL-E’s world: we all get matching tight singlets. Draped head to toe in red and white spandex our future is looking pretty constricting, yet leisurely. BNL’s robots serve our every need, so their human masters can…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Cthugrosh and the Lords of Cthul Are Pure Evil in Sculpted Plastic

Of all the monster factions in the upcoming miniatures game Monsterpocalypse, the Lords of Cthul are the evilest. In the words of designer Eric Yaple, “Fueled by the worship of their cultists, these fiends seek to draw life from the Earth as a starving man sucks the marrow from a bone.” We’ve got inside info…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Less Torchwood, More Often in 2009

Fans of Doctor Who aren’t going to enjoy 2009 at all. There’s the already-announced lack of a regular season for the Time Lord’s own series next year (the show will instead be represented by four special episodes before Steven Moffat takes over with the 2010-slated fifth season). But worse, now it’s been confirmed that Torchwood,…

Television Graeme McMillan

It’s Reptisaurus!!!

Those of you who have been following the never-ending PR machine for Reptisaurus may already know about this amazing dino scifi flick. Now there is new concept art (above), and a completely awesome trailer (below). Just how awesome? First of all, it’s about a giant flying dinosaur-esque monster that preys on humans on a remote…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Have Superhero Movies Killed The Summer Movie Season?

It’s the argument that quite literally some people are talking about: Are superhero movies responsible for the death of the high-quality summer blockbuster? You may be scratching your head, wondering when the last high-quality summer blockbuster wasn’t a superhero movie. (First person to say Independence Day gets punched.) But Entertainment Weekly isn’t afraid to take…

io9 Graeme McMillan

New Clips From BSG And Hancock, Plus A New Hulk Review

The new issue of Entertainment Weekly is full of hand-wringing about spoilers, and how they’re ruining things like the Lost season finale for everybody. According to our critics, spoiler whores are really just attention whores — which isn’t necessarily true. We just love finding things out early. Like the secrets of how Incredible Hulk sets…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Han Solo Is Not a Loser

Once in a while I veer outside my pure SF diet to consume something else — you know, like Grey’s Anatomy. What do you want? It has hot people doing science, OK? Anyway, last week’s season finale on Grey’s involved a bizarre sequence where the docs have to break a guy out of some quick-dry…

Television Annalee Newitz

Leaked Terminator 4 Ending Is False, Says Director

That rumor we posted earlier today? About what happens to John Connor in Terminator 4? It’s totally not true, says director McG in a new entry on his production blog. “By the way, there are only three people who know the ending,” he says. And then he tries to change the subject with some info…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Is Indiana Jones a Pinko?

Now that Indiana Jones has joined the cold war in recently-released flick Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, it’s time to consider what exactly Indy would have thought about communism. He might be working with the US government to stop the bad guys, but a cloud of suspicion hovers over his head. Even the intelligence agents…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Rush-Hour Traffic On The Moon Is A Bitch

Moving to the Moon won’t solve all our Earthbound problems, such as overcrowding and traffic jams — especially if we have to stay within tunnels and domes. This ridiculously cute art piece by the University of Memphis’ Justin Burns won NASA’s lunar art contest for its mildly dystopian look at a future Moon colony. At…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Secret Blueprints For Battlestar Galactica

Want to see the meticulous planning that went into the Cylon massacre on Caprica at the start of the new Battlestar Galactica? British broadcaster Sky One (which co-produced the new BSG) has a gallery of production drawings online, including images of the vipers, the raptors, the Battlestar itself… and the new cylons, including how their…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Superheroes of the Midwest Unite

X-Files Movie Brings Us a Conflicted, Bitter Scully

New Japanese Trailer For Machine Girl Is Full Of Bloody Goodness

TBS, I Can Pause My Own TV, Thanks

Welcome To The Summer Of White Guilt

Michael Chabon Defends His Genre-Bending Ways

Ingestible Robots Survey Your Esophagus, Stomach, and Intestines

Own Your Own Robot Killing Machine

Go On A Wild Date With Get Smart’s “Uncle Handsome”

In WALL-E’s World, We’re All Shopaholics In Spandex

Cthugrosh and the Lords of Cthul Are Pure Evil in Sculpted Plastic

Less Torchwood, More Often in 2009

It’s Reptisaurus!!!

Have Superhero Movies Killed The Summer Movie Season?

New Clips From BSG And Hancock, Plus A New Hulk Review

Han Solo Is Not a Loser

Leaked Terminator 4 Ending Is False, Says Director

Is Indiana Jones a Pinko?

Rush-Hour Traffic On The Moon Is A Bitch

Secret Blueprints For Battlestar Galactica

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

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

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

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