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What’s Happening With Neil Gaiman’s Interworld?

Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves’ Interworld has been optioned by Dreamworks Animation a decade after they first pitched it to Hollywood. The story of a boy who can travel between alternate universes is now in the lovely world of development. Although whether that’s development hell or development utopia remains to be seen. Click through for…

io9 Kevin Kelly

The Rise And Fall — And Rise — Of Military SF

David Drake hit a career snag in the late 1990s. Drake, who had helped to create the military science fiction genre with his Hammer’s Slammers books, saw a shrinking market for novels about interstellar warfare. So Drake switched to fantasy, and then space-opera. Now, Drake is back writing more Hammer’s Slammers stories, and military SF…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Kick Back Like The Jetsons

Never mind your forgotten jetpack future. Two new developments in the world of consumer comfort prove the future is now, earthlings. One of them comes from hotel chain Travelodge, and the other, direct from the mind of George Lucas. Which just shows that the paths of science fiction and real science will eventually lead to…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Batman’s Area and McG’s Manliness at the Warner Bros. Museum Party

io9 was on hand last night at Warner Bros. Studios, where their home video department shared plans for the studio’s 85th anniversary celebration this year. They’ll be focusing on superheroes, putting out a mega-collector’s edition of Batman Begins, a Batman Anthology set, and some refreshes of other Batman and Superman DVDs. Check out our highlights…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Dutch Robot Gropes Your Car

The Dutch have built a robot that looks a little Terminator, but is just there to help pump gas while you wait. invented at a cost of $111,100, Tankpitstop is a robotic arm with sensors that figure out what kind of car you drive, and therefore what sort of fuel cap you have and what…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

Don’t Mess With Interdimensional Mercenary Women

With a concept of “Stargate meets Aliens”, Loose Cannons is the best sci-fi comic that you’ve never seen. The series features an all-female team of dimension-hopping mercenaries trapped in a parallel dimension with only one way out. And that way involves killing lots of monsters. Marvel UK folded before it could release this comic masterpiece…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Pollution is Mutating Your Sperm at an Alarming Rate

People living in areas with airborne toxins and pollution are likely to develop 60 percent more mutations in their sperm than people living in areas with relatively clean air. Sperm mutations could lead to infertility for the man, or might make his children suffer any number of birth defects. Will this quickly lead to a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Wearing and Drinking Fluorescent Protein

This masked reveler at last year’s Bio Taiwan Exhibition was enjoying two kinds of fluorescent protein: one on her lips, and one in her drink. At last, synthetic biology that isn’t designed to improve the human condition, cure disease, or revolutionize anything. Nope, it’s just there to look cool. Want to see an even cooler…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Mars Busts Out In 3-D

Here’s an orthoimage of the famous Olympus Mons on Mars, with the different colors representing different elevations. It’s just a taste of the 3-D goodness to come. The European Space Agency is getting ready to release a new high-resolution Digital Terrain Model dataset that will let researchers build their own 3-D models of Mars’ topography.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Cate Blanchett Wants An Indiana Jones-Kebab

Cate Blanchett has totally evil hair as a Russian agent in the new Indiana Jones movie. Can Indy hold his own against Queen Elizabeth? Will her vicious wig block her peripheral vision and give him an advantage? Find out for yourself, below the fold. We also have the first details about season five of Stargate:…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Zontar! You’re Slimy! Use Your Intellect on Me!

A crazy lady points her gun at a hulking thing and delivers a screaming speech right into the camera. Is it a Sam Fuller movie or a Fredric Hobbs movie? Can’t decide? That’s because it’s the amazing Zontar: The Thing from Venus! All you need to know to understand this thrilling confrontation between lady and…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Mega-Galaxy Doesn’t Play Well With Others

NGC 1132 is a “lone wolf” galaxy, far from other galactic clusters, says NASA. Was it always a loner, scorning the company of its galactic peers for the rough-and-tumble life in the far reaches of intergalactic space? Or is it actually a group of galaxies that joined forces, banding together to survive a lonesome cosmos?…

io9 Charliejane

Bollywood Knows Exactly Who They’re Gonna Call

The Indian film industry decided the time was finally right for a Ghostbusters remake, and a Bollywood version of the film is on its way. Sanjay Dutt, who is out on bail after he got busted for buying guns from terrorists, will star and produce. Just how does this all fit in with the Gatekeeper…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Girls In Speed Racer Get Matching Lipstick, Outfits, and Aprons

Christina Ricci wants you to know how her character in Speed Racer gets to kung fu fight, fly a helicopter, and wear matching lipstick. She even has “a specific outfit that she wears when she flies the helicopter.” Ricci says the film celebrates her “as a girl and a woman,” and adds that the Mom…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Is Young Adult Fiction the “Slum” of Scifi?

Over the weekend, NY Times science fiction columnist David Itzkoff wondered “how any self-respecting author of speculative fiction can find fulfillment in writing novels for young readers.” This didn’t sit well with the Boston Globe’s Brainiac blogger Joshua Glenn, who writes: “I attempted to disprove . . . Itzkoff’s thesis that people who write speculative…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Smother Mothers Are Scarier Than Evil Cyborgs

Sarah Connor needs to stop strangling John with her apron strings, according to last night’s Sarah Connor Chronicles. After all, the world ends in just four years, and weedy Thomas Dekker has to morph into Christian Bale by then. Never mind that Sarah’s still the show’s real bad-ass, as seen in this clip. Don’t call…

io9 Charliejane

House Runs on Spinach, Shares Energy with Neighbors

Check out this new concept home by Cradle 2 Cradle. It has a photosynthetic, phototropic spinach skin surface and a vegetated roof system that filters storm water in. Keep reading for its full uber-sustainable features list. The spinach house has: – A vertical core with super-conductive photosynthetic plasma that generates 200% more voltage than ordinary…

io9 LISA KATAYAMA

NASA TV Show Reminds People Of Good Old Days

NASA will celebrate its 50th birthday by going on a charm offensive and trying to remind you that it can still be really, really cool. At least, that’s the impression given by the announcement of a new half-hour series, NASA 360, that aims to show how the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has made the…

io9 Grae

Mr. Wizard Knew That Girls Liked Science Too

At the very same time during the 1950s that some young women wondered why they should study science when all they wanted to do was get married, and magazines aimed at teen girls and women did their best to simultaneously both dispel and uphold the stereotype of the masculine female scientist, Don Herbert was busy…

io9 Peril

The Breakfast Club Meets Mad Max… On Skates!

Corey Haim is initiated into the Rollerboys, a fascist street gang that skates down the street with synchronized arm movements, in this clip from Prayer Of The Rollerboys. Which may be the weirdest dystopian movie ever. America is collapsing, Harvard is moving to Asia, and street gangs like the Rollerboys hold all the power. But…

io9 Charliejane

What’s Happening With Neil Gaiman’s Interworld?

The Rise And Fall — And Rise — Of Military SF

Kick Back Like The Jetsons

Batman’s Area and McG’s Manliness at the Warner Bros. Museum Party

Dutch Robot Gropes Your Car

Don’t Mess With Interdimensional Mercenary Women

Pollution is Mutating Your Sperm at an Alarming Rate

Wearing and Drinking Fluorescent Protein

Mars Busts Out In 3-D

Cate Blanchett Wants An Indiana Jones-Kebab

Zontar! You’re Slimy! Use Your Intellect on Me!

Mega-Galaxy Doesn’t Play Well With Others

Bollywood Knows Exactly Who They’re Gonna Call

Girls In Speed Racer Get Matching Lipstick, Outfits, and Aprons

Is Young Adult Fiction the “Slum” of Scifi?

Smother Mothers Are Scarier Than Evil Cyborgs

House Runs on Spinach, Shares Energy with Neighbors

NASA TV Show Reminds People Of Good Old Days

Mr. Wizard Knew That Girls Liked Science Too

The Breakfast Club Meets Mad Max… On Skates!

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

Watch and Follow Live as NASA Launches Its First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years 🔴

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

DNA Study Casts Even More Doubt on Shroud of Turin’s True Origin

Sam Witwer Is Ready for Maul’s Moment

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