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Shia LaBeouf May Still Be The Last Man (Er, Boy) On Earth

Director D.J. Caruso still wants Shia LaBeouf to portray the lonely male survivor Yorick in gender apocalypse comic Y: The Last Man, which apparently means he’s trying to make a career out of directing movies starring “The Beef.” Caruso’s already made Disturbia and Eagle Eye with The Beef, and now has plans to make a…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Who Greenlit Space Vulture?

The creator of Roger Rabbit and an archbishop have created an homage to pulp scifi that sounds almost unbearably cheesy and derivative — and yet sort of awesome. Space Vulture, just published by Tor Books, is Who Framed Roger Rabbit writer Gary K. Wolf’s tribute to Space Hawk, a pulpy scifi novel he read as…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Seven and a Half Rules for Making Scary Aliens

Welcome back to Horrorhead, a fortnightly column where we explore the intersection of horror and scifi. For every bland, friendly Star Trek alien with a crinkle-cut french fry nose or waffle forehead, there are dozens of insanely scary aliens that could rip your face off. Certain alien characteristics, whether physical or psychological, are enough to…

Movies Annalee Newitz

How To Improve Your Starship’s Feng Shui

When you’re cruising across the galaxy at faster-than-light speeds and battling super-intelligent crystaline beings, the slightest mistake can spell disaster. So it’s vital to have good feng shui on your starship’s bridge. Just look at this flight deck from the movie Red Planet: cramped, ugly and angular, with no way for energy to “flow” around…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Physicists Say Lost Features Realistic Time Travel

Last week, TV audiences boggled at one of the best Lost episodes in recent memory, where a character traveled through time guided somehow by his conscience. The twisty turns in the episode may have been surprising, but not nearly as shocking as what I’m about to tell you. The scientific basis for the time travel…

io9 Annalee Newitz

We Have Some Winners For Our Caption This Photo Contest!

You blew us away and nearly terminated our ability to process comment overload with the over 400 comments on our Terminator caption contest, underscoring the fact that io9 readers rule no matter what the current timeline is. We had a lot of great entires, including several dozen that had John and Cameron interfacing intimately, if…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Anti-Smog Spaceship to Hover Over Famed Paris Canal

French architect Vincent Callebaut imagines this UFO-looking Anti-Smog Innovation Center as a super center of the future where people can hang out, look at art, hold meetings, or grab a meal. The plan is to suspend this building atop the Canal de L’Ourcq in Paris, where it will simultaneously look awesome and remind Parisians of…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Set Phasers On “NBC”

The saddest part of the end of the whole BluRay/HD-DVD format war isn’t the ritual suicide of literally tens of Toshiba obsessives as they realize that their side was crushed by the omnivorous Sony Corporation. No, it’s the fact that, no matter how cool BluRay may be, it didn’t produce anything as jaw-droppingly awesome/pathetic/both as…

io9 Graeme McMillan

What The World Needs Now is Doomlord

While Marvel Comics try and get the world excited about their summer shapechanging alien invader storyline Secret Invasion, it’s perhaps time to consider reviving Britain’s very own little-known human-hating, shapechanging alien comic character Doomlord. With a name like that and writing from Judge Dredd and Batman veterans John Wagner and Alan Grant, you know that…

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

Time Travel for Eco-Tourists

If you could time travel back 400 years to see the thick, green forests and clear streams of pre-urban New York City, would it change the way you feel about the environment today? Ecologist Eric Sanderson thinks so. In preparation for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s arrival in New York’s harbor, he’s been putting…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Is The End Near For David Tennant On Doctor Who?

Rumors keep popping up about the BBC’s time-travel show Doctor Who, including persistent reports that David Tennant will definitely leave the show before or during 2009’s three TV movies, and a replacement has been named. (The show’s fifth season doesn’t air until 2010.) And now some drastic reports have popped up about the show’s adult…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Wolverine’s Arch-Enemy Has Matching Sideburns

The first pictures of Wolverine’s rival Sabretooth (from the Wolverine origin movie) have surfaced, and it looks as though the movie will be about the clash of the gigantic sideburns. We also have a new clip from Doomsday, and crazy Iron Man rumors. Plus we have some news about Smallville, including a shocking development in…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Greatest “What the Hell is in Your Pants” Moment from an Alien Invasion Flick

Travis is a rather confused lad who isn’t quite sure what he wants: his hot blond roommate, his semi-hot brunette best guy friend, or the hot older Christian lady who keeps trying to convert him. What the hero of Australian indie Demons in My Head is sure about is that the alien helmet he found…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Kick-Ass Takes Super (And Hero) Out Of Super-Hero

The first issue of new comic Kick-Ass advertises itself on the cover as “the greatest superhero book of all time” and in its advertising copy by saying that it’s “realistic super heroes taken to the next level. Miss out and you’re an idiot!” But just what is this next level of realism that’s so great,…

io9 Graeme McMillan

The Robots That Launched The Cute-Bot Revolution

Wall-E may be the cutest lil robot ever to hit our screens, but he’s also the latest in a long line. It seems like wherever you go in scifi, you have to step over a cute chirpy little bot, who whistles, or tweets out a little catchphrase — including R2D2 from Star Wars, Twiki from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Injecting Your Breasts with Nanoparticles to Detect Cancer

Next time you need to get tested for breast cancer, doctors may blast a few of your cells with nanoparticles and then run a small magnetic device over them. The device, pictured here, is called a HistoMag, and it can detect cancer cells with far greater accuracy than current techniques, as well as being much…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Slipstream Train From a Mysterious Theme Park Planet

If steam trains had ever looked like this, you can be assured that a) bandits would never mess with them without seriously upgrading their own armaments, and b) people would probably still be using trains for their preferred mass transit vehicle of choice. This is Michael Sormann’s Barracuda steam-powered train, created for his Theme Planet…

io9 Kevin Kelly

I Married A Terminator!

Terminator’s rules for keeping the romance in your marriage: Always think about the other women you’ve strangled during a tender moment, so she’ll see the fire in your eyes. Keep her wine-glass full at all times. Do the finger-lip thing, women love that. The best part about the “I Married A Terminator” scenes from last…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Scifi Obsession Of Dungeons and Dragons Creator Gary Gygax

Gary Gygax, co-inventor of Dungeons and Dragons, will probably be best remembered as the man who brought role playing games into the lives of millions of teenagers in the 1970s, and who helped spawn an entire industry. If you’ve ever rolled an eight-sided dice in a game, it’s thanks to him. While his bread and…

io9 Kevin Kelly

The Science vs. Scientology Timeline

Science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard’s most notorious space opera is the religion of Scientology, which is packed with aliens and space battles and waves of invaders to our solar system. Hubbard even referred to the cosmological timeline behind Scientology as “the space opera,” and for good reason. It reads like a pretty damn trippy…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Shia LaBeouf May Still Be The Last Man (Er, Boy) On Earth

Who Greenlit Space Vulture?

The Seven and a Half Rules for Making Scary Aliens

How To Improve Your Starship’s Feng Shui

Physicists Say Lost Features Realistic Time Travel

We Have Some Winners For Our Caption This Photo Contest!

Anti-Smog Spaceship to Hover Over Famed Paris Canal

Set Phasers On “NBC”

What The World Needs Now is Doomlord

Time Travel for Eco-Tourists

Is The End Near For David Tennant On Doctor Who?

Wolverine’s Arch-Enemy Has Matching Sideburns

Greatest “What the Hell is in Your Pants” Moment from an Alien Invasion Flick

Kick-Ass Takes Super (And Hero) Out Of Super-Hero

The Robots That Launched The Cute-Bot Revolution

Injecting Your Breasts with Nanoparticles to Detect Cancer

The Slipstream Train From a Mysterious Theme Park Planet

I Married A Terminator!

The Scifi Obsession Of Dungeons and Dragons Creator Gary Gygax

The Science vs. Scientology Timeline

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