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Samuel L. Jackson On Fire In 17 New Jumper Pics

New images from Doug Liman’s teleporting-mutant thriller Jumper reveal that Hayden Christensen will have one facial expression and Samuel L. Jackson will kick ass. Maybe not the biggest spoiler in history. But we also have a new synopsis of Justice League and a look ahead at Sarah Connor Chronicles. Because Morning Spoilers is all about…

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First Look At Speed Racer’s Japanese Rival Car

The car that Speed’s rivals drive in Speed Racer looks meaner and more next-decade than Speed’s own disappointing Mach-5 from the Detroit Auto Show. This Japanese race car is decked out with tons of weird-looking pistons and coils, a space-cruisery hood and a rocket-looking rear. An actual popular Japanese racing team, the Autobacs Racing Team…

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The Best of io9 Last Week

On io9 last week, we explained the five marks of Clinton-Era science fiction, identified five potential alternate histories of New York City that nobody has written a scifi novel about yet, gave you a NSFW peek at the greatest scifi porn of all time, debated which are the best zombies of science fiction, and told…

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An Interdimensional Spaceport Off the Coast on Titan

Massive futuristic cubes are surrounded by waiting spaceships and transports in this concept set on a moon orbiting a ringed planet. Artist Steve Burg says he intended it to look inter-dimensional. Burg has worked as a concept artist, storyboarder, and matte painter on everything from Buckaroo Banzai to Robot Jox, and has also worked with…

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David Tennant’s Ophelia-Wannabe Stalker

A crazy woman is stalking Doctor Who star David Tennant in Stratford-Upon-Avon, where he’s working on a production of Hamlet. She’s left her husband for Tennant, and keeps writing him science fictional versions of Hamlet with herself as a futuristic Ophelia. She also leaves him pencil drawings of Tennant and herself “being friendly” in the…

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The Cursor Is Your Friend In Scifi Text Adventure Games

Before video games were blasting you into 80 billion megapixels with enough raw processing power to send a human to Jupiter and back, they used to exist as mere words on the screen. Much like audiobooks, text adventure games exist halfway between reading and watching a movie. In the heyday of text games, Infocom quickly…

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A Giant, Glowing Cube in the Middle of Berlin

German railroad company Deutsche Bahn has its headquarters right in the heart of Berlin’s Washingtonplaz. For a redesign, the company chose this cubic construction by Danish architecture firm 3xn. Very, very cube-y on the outside, but the inside is surprisingly airy. Go inside after the jump. The Cube by day: At night: This is what…

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“Monster” Travels Through Time, Rips off Cloverfield Before Opening Day

Cloverfield hasn’t even made it to theaters yet, and knockoffs are already appearing on DVD. Case in point is Monster, which features a semi-Cloverfieldian cover, although it actually shows the monster — which looks like a ginormous Octopus. The movie features characters running around a city while blabbering about the footage from the destruction appearing…

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Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain — Literally

Those Godzilla movies and Mork and Mindy reruns you grew up watching have altered the way you think on a biological level. At least, that’s the implication of a controversial new study MIT researchers announced today, which showed that culture changes the way your brain is wired, and how you think about visual problems. In…

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Astronaut Barbie Conquers Moon, Shakes Groove Thang

As this commercial from 1986 conclusively proves, Barbie can do anything! Especially if she’s wearing hot pink kinky disco space boots.

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Tinkering with the Sleep Gene

Why do our brains need sleep? And can we switch off the genes that make sleep necessary? Medical researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say that they’ve located a gene that regulates sleep, and if they can switch it on and off it’s possible that you’ll be able to take a pill to eliminate your…

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A Gallery Of Fans’ Pimped-Out Battlestar, Star Wars Cars

Dean Shorey built this car, based on the Vipers from Battlestar Galactica, by hand. (It looks like old Battlestar, not new.) Corey’s not the only fan to have customized his car into a starfighter out of science fiction shows or movies. Click through for more fan-pimped vehicles, including a gallery. < My favorite SF car,…

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Does This Woman Look Like She Could Rip Your Head Off?

Summer Glau got all tarted up and de-Terminatrixed for the premiere of Fox’s upcoming Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and we hardly recognized her. We’ll be talking to Summer on Sunday, so if you have anything you really want to know, tell us! This autograph-signing star doesn’t look anything like the quirky, psychic River Tam…

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Corman’s Alien Turns Breck Girl Into Bloodless Mummy

Roger Corman made three different versions of Not Of This Earth, his story about an alien who needs human blood. There was the 1955 black-and-white version, and the campy 1988 Traci Lords version. But most people agree that the 1995 remake finally got it right. In this scene, Michael York uses his mind-control voice to…

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Listen Up — We’ve Got 11 Classic Scifi Audiobooks

Books on tape might be extremely dead technology, but iPods and eBook readers like the Amazon Kindle have reanimated the medium and turned audiobooks into the commuter’s wonder drug. When the book is read well, you’ll find yourself sitting mesmerized in your parking space just listening, instead of heading into work. Check out our list…

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Torchwood Boss Moves To More Traditional Law Enforcement

Chris Chibnall – head writer and producer for Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood – has been signed up for a 13-episode order of a brand new addition to NBC’s Law & Order franchise, Law & Order: London. Chibnall’s new role as showrunner for the series puts into question his future on BBC’s Welsh-set sex-and-spooksathon, just days…

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Fugly-Twin Powers, Activate!

We told you yesterday about the upcoming line of Heroes figures, and now we’ve tracked down more images of the first wave of toys based on the hit NBC show. These are apparently all prototype figures — the real ones will be out later this year. Based on what we’ve seen, maybe that means there’s…

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Come Shelter With The Monstrous Plant Creatures

A former special effects artist who worked on Cronenberg’s The Fly has a new exhibition in New York. The New York Times calls Keith Edmier’s collection of plastic sculptures “one of the more bizarre solo shows to come along in a while.” His work includes weird-looking mannequins as well as monstrous plants that actually exist…

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Dress Like the Inside of a Philip K. Dick Character’s Mind

MAKE: points to a new electro-fashion item: shirts that display randomly-generated I-Ching Hexagrams from the Book of Changes. Those who’ve read Philip K. Dick’s classic alternate-history novel The Man in the High Castle know that the I-Ching makes many appearances there: it takes place partly in California after the States lost World War II, and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Monster Queens Of England

In the title story of Michael Swanwick’s demented new collection The Dog Said Bow-Wow, a monstrous genetically engineered Queen Gloriana rules a dark future England. She’s the size of a truck and has 36 brains, connected by thick ganglia in a “hypercube configuration.” In other words, she’s a huge organic computer with no sex life.…

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Samuel L. Jackson On Fire In 17 New Jumper Pics

First Look At Speed Racer’s Japanese Rival Car

The Best of io9 Last Week

An Interdimensional Spaceport Off the Coast on Titan

David Tennant’s Ophelia-Wannabe Stalker

The Cursor Is Your Friend In Scifi Text Adventure Games

A Giant, Glowing Cube in the Middle of Berlin

“Monster” Travels Through Time, Rips off Cloverfield Before Opening Day

Bad Movies Are Changing the Shape of Your Brain — Literally

Astronaut Barbie Conquers Moon, Shakes Groove Thang

Tinkering with the Sleep Gene

A Gallery Of Fans’ Pimped-Out Battlestar, Star Wars Cars

Does This Woman Look Like She Could Rip Your Head Off?

Corman’s Alien Turns Breck Girl Into Bloodless Mummy

Listen Up — We’ve Got 11 Classic Scifi Audiobooks

Torchwood Boss Moves To More Traditional Law Enforcement

Fugly-Twin Powers, Activate!

Come Shelter With The Monstrous Plant Creatures

Dress Like the Inside of a Philip K. Dick Character’s Mind

The Monster Queens Of England

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This Windows 11 Pro Mini PC Shows Up at a Record Low on Amazon After the Spring Sale, No Need for a Tower Desktop

The ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Moment Designed for You to Gawk at Hugh Jackman’s Chiseled Body Is Now an Action Figure

Marshall Emberton III Bluetooth Speaker Isn’t Supposed to Be This Cheap, Even the New Midnight Blue at an All-Time Low

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What’s Actually the Best Way to Get a Good Night’s Sleep? We Asked Scientists

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