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When the Sea Withdraws, the Spawn of Cthulhu Find Shelter Here

No, we haven’t obtained early concept art from the sequel to Cloverfield. This structure is the home of an actually-existing seaside dweller on Earth. What kind of creature builds such a facehugger-esque structure? Flickr macrophotographer P/UL took this on a Texas beach, where tiny sand crabs tunneling under the sand kick up these dwellings as…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Starbuck Freaks Out, And So Do We All

The more footage we see from Battlestar Galactica season four, the more excited we get. This new promo spot gives away some more developments from the new season, including a startling ultimatum from Starbuck and a problem with Anders. If you want to stay spoiler free for the new BSG, you may have to avoid…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Learn Why James Cameron’s New Movie Is Called “Avatar”

Welcome back to morning spoilers. We’ve got some juicy rumors about James Cameron’s new movie Avatar, which come with a new photo of an alien life form. And we’ve got the inside scoop on a shocking plot twist in the Wolverine solo movie, with a few new set photos to back it up. And there’s…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Tom Paris is F*cking Sarah Silverman

With all this talk around the interwebz about Matt Damon fucking Sarah Silverman, and Sarah Silverman’s boyfriend fucking some other dude, we were reminded of the first time somebody got to fuck Sarah Silverman on TV. Of course, it was Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager. What? You don’t remember the freaking two-part episode where…

io9 Annalee Newitz

This Weekend, Start Building a New Life Form

In a few years, your weekend hacking project will involve bits of DNA and a PCR machine instead of a soldering iron or glue. With the help of the Open Wetware Project, and the Registry of Standard Biological Parts Wiki, you too can become an amateur synthetic biologist. But this isn’t about evil mad scientist…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Jesus and Mary Chain Join Cast of Heroes

Heroes the TV show may not return until the fall, but you can spend the countless hours until then listening to Heroes the soundtrack CD. NBC/Universal is releasing the soundtrack on March 18th, allowing fans the chance to hear, amongst the 18 songs on the CD, the first studio recording from the Jesus and Mary…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Get Your Own Glam-Rock Cyborg

Someone’s got their priorities straight. The first wave of action figures from the BBC’s campy Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood won’t include figures of main characters Owen, Tosh or Ianto. But the toys will include the absolutely essential glam-rock Cyberwoman, who’s sort of Torchwood’s mascot. Tosh actress Naoko Mori takes the news pretty well — but…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Secret Scifi Love Affair Between Almodovar And Spillane

When I was in college, I had two obsessions: art movies and pulp novels. The art movies were everything foreign or indie, from Almodovar to Egoyan to Greenaway. The pulp novels included some science fiction, but also a bunch of Mickey Spillane and Richard Stark. They were opposites, high and low culture, but they actually…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Relentless March Of Miniature Warsuits

AT 43 is a new miniatures game out from Rackham with bots who battle it out on your tabletop for interstellar dominance. The shot above features a relentless advance of U.N.A. (United Nations of Ava) soldiers, who look a lot more formidable in concept artwork than they will sitting an inch high on your cubicle…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Future Site of the Moon’s First Domed City

You’re looking at the future site of the Earth’s first permanent base on the Moon’s south pole. This picture was created this week using NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’s new, extra-powerful radar antenna dish, 70 meters across, in the California Mojave desert. Says NASA researcher Scott Hensley, “With these data [from the new radar antenna] we…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Lost Goes Time Traveling and We Sort It Out for You

When my husband got home from band practice last night, I had good and bad news for him. Last night’s episode of Lost was the best in a long time, I told him, maybe one of the best ever—but, alas, our VCR didn’t record it. (I know, we don’t have TiVo, we live in the…

io9 Lynn Peril

The Best Scifi Songs To Yell At The Karaoke Bar

Hey, it’s Friday! And if you’re like me, you’re heading out to the Karaoke to guzzle $1 PBRs and holler into a super-echoey mic at a crowd of people who (hopefully) are even drunker than you are. But being an enlightened, forward-looking person, what you really want is to bellow a science fiction song into…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

What Do You Look For In Science Fiction?

Science fiction is really a jumble sale of about twenty different genres. We use the term “science fiction” to label a whole range of material, from space opera to near-future dystopias. But what really matters is what you get out of reading or watching it. What do you look for in your science fiction? Click…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

It’s Raining Bacteria

Biological ice nucleii in clouds cause more rain than non-biological ones. You got that? There is ice in the clouds that has a BIOLOGICAL nucleus. Living ice. And it creates rain. As if that weren’t science fictional enough, Technovelgy has given us a rundown of all the science fiction novels that predicted this would happen.…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Best Little Mad Max Clone In Texas

When Mad-Maxian bikers team up with riot cops with lion badges to attack your little town, what are you going to do? You’re pretty much screwed. That’s the message of 2020 Texas Gladiators, a post-apocalyptic action movie filmed in Italy. (You know it’s Texas because they occasionally write “TEXAS” in big letters on the buildings.)…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Why You’ve Already Heard Science Fiction’s Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream

You’ve probably heard the Wilhelm Scream dozens of times in different movies and television shows without realizing it, but it’s one of those things that once you hear, you’ll always be able to identify it afterwards. It’s now become an in-joke amongst sound editors who try to insert it into their films whenever there’s a…

io9 Kevin Kelly

This. Is. The Black Freighter!

Gerard Butler confirmed that he’s voicing the Captain for scenes in the animatedTales of the Black Freighter for director Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, in a segment solely being created for the DVD. Last year at Comic-Con Snyder said that the Freighter portion of the book (a comic book-within-a-comic book about pirates) would be in the film.…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Peter Petrelli Channels Sylar In New Movie

Milo Ventimiglia is getting away from the “lost little boy” look of Peter on Heroes, and playing a nasty dude in Game, the new Gerard Butler-starring dystopian action movie. His character is a “sick fuck” named “Rick Rape,” he says. He says Game takes place in a “futuristic society” where prisoners fight on a battlefield…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Meet The People Who Give Eliza Dushku Her Brain Modules

Just because Eliza Dushku will be an amnesiac with occasional false personalities in Joss Whedon’s new TV show Dollhouse, doesn’t mean she won’t have friends. A new casting sheet for Dollhouse includes a whole raft of morally gray characters, including friends, mentors, bosses and a love interest. Click through for a list of the show’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

If This Movie Makes A Fortune, Humans Are Doomed

The Weinstein Company released the final movie poster for Superhero Movie today, and it features Pamela Anderson’s boobs, Leslie Nielsen wearing a “With Great Power Comes Hot Bitches” sweater, and not one but two penis jokes (check out Storm’s lightning and Dragonfly’s popcorn). We’re all for parodying superheroes and science fiction, but when it devolves…

io9 Kevin Kelly

When the Sea Withdraws, the Spawn of Cthulhu Find Shelter Here

Starbuck Freaks Out, And So Do We All

Learn Why James Cameron’s New Movie Is Called “Avatar”

Tom Paris is F*cking Sarah Silverman

This Weekend, Start Building a New Life Form

Jesus and Mary Chain Join Cast of Heroes

Get Your Own Glam-Rock Cyborg

The Secret Scifi Love Affair Between Almodovar And Spillane

The Relentless March Of Miniature Warsuits

Future Site of the Moon’s First Domed City

Lost Goes Time Traveling and We Sort It Out for You

The Best Scifi Songs To Yell At The Karaoke Bar

What Do You Look For In Science Fiction?

It’s Raining Bacteria

The Best Little Mad Max Clone In Texas

Why You’ve Already Heard Science Fiction’s Ubiquitous Wilhelm Scream

This. Is. The Black Freighter!

Peter Petrelli Channels Sylar In New Movie

Meet The People Who Give Eliza Dushku Her Brain Modules

If This Movie Makes A Fortune, Humans Are Doomed

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

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

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

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