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Who Wins, Brienne or Captain Phasma? Gwendoline Christie Answers

Gwendoline Christie kind of became the queen of Comic-Con in 2015. In addition to being there for The Hunger Games and her signature role on Game of Thrones, she was finally introduced to the world as her Star Wars character, the evil chrome trooper Captain Phasma. So, of course, she was immediately asked who would…

io9 Germain Lussier

This Library Contains an Unusual Book. Can You Say What It’s About?

In this week’s Sunday Puzzle, we’re heading to the library. But not just any library. Sunday Puzzle #40: In Search of an Unusual Book In a certain library, no two books contain the same number of words, and the total number of books is greater than number of words in the largest book. How many…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Here’s the Nominees for the 2015 World Fantasy Awards

The World Fantasy award is one of the major awards for fantasy literature published in the prior year, and the nominees for 2014 have just been announced. Here’s the nominees: Novel: The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor) City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher) The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Random House; Sceptre) Area…

io9 Andrew Liptak

The Most Spectacular Cosplay of Comic-Con 2015, Day Three!

There’s no need to fight! We have yet another giant gallery of the best costumes and cosplay that the third day of the San Diego Comic-Con had to offer! And don’t forget to check out our Day One and Day Two galleries as well! ThatGuyYouKnowww: John Austin: Victor Gamez: And last but certainly not least,…

io9 Rob Bricken

Orphan Black‘s Jordan Gavaris Explains the Insidious Nature of Sexism

At the Entertainment Weekly Brave New Heroes panel at Comic-Con yesterday, moderator Lynette Rice asked a panel full of men who have played an assortment of badass heroes about their experiences with sexism in the industry. But it was Orphan Black’s Jordan Gavaris who nailed the question. On the panel were Michael Cudlitz (The Walking…

Television Katharine Trendacosta

This Fantastic Poster Shows Off 63 Women of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Last year, we found Scott Park’s fantastic Hall of Heroes poster, which featured an incredible selection of women in genre movies and television. He’s now back with another poster, featuring another 63 fantastic women. This is a great poster, lead off by Agent Carter, and has the likes of Black Widow, Ellie Sadler, Padme Amidala,…

io9 Andrew Liptak

The Creepy First Trailer for Robert Kirkman’s Exorcist TV Show Outcast

Now that The Walking Dead is a huge hit, there’s another Robert Kirkman comic coming to TV: Outcast, the tale of a man whose loved ones have been plagued by demonic possession since he was a child. The first trailer showed today at San Diego Comic-Con, giving us a taste of the new supernatural horror…

Trailers Lauren Davis

The X-Men, Deadpool, Fantastic Four And Gambit Casts Take One Epic Photo

20th Century Fox ended its Hall H Comic-Con panel on Saturday by bringing together the casts of Fantastic Four, X-Men Apocalypse, The Wolverine, Deadpool and even Channing Tatum as Gambit for an awesome group photo. Even Stan Lee joined in on the festivities. Moderator Chris Hardwick thought it may have been the biggest collection of…

io9 Germain Lussier

Pluto’s Mysterious Dark Splotches Come Into Focus

At this point, it’s safe to say that we’re going to be receiving a new ‘highest resolution image ever’ of Pluto on a close to 24 hour basis. Yesterday, we got our first peek at geologic features on the dwarf planet’s surface. And today, New Horizons beamed back the best image to date of four…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone

Live From Comic-Con!

It’s time for your daily friendly reminder that we’re on the ground at San Diego Comic-Con all weekend long, along with our friends over at io9. Check us out on Vine and Instagram for awesome cosplay, towering batman toys, life-sized Minecraft mines, Star Wars dance parties, and, well….they’re not actually related, so you know what,…

Tech News Maddie Stone

We Got Our First Real Look at HBO’s Intense New AI Series Westworld

A woman is sitting in a chair, her face slightly battered, paralyzed. A fly is slowly walking across her face, and she can’t move — even when the bug walks over her opened eye. She can hear a male voice in her head, asking, “Do you want to wake up?” It’s the first extended look…

Television Annalee Newitz

The First Deadpool Footage Massively Exceeded Our High Expectations

Marvel Studios may not be at San Diego Comic-Con in 2015, but their characters sure are. Deadpool, Fantastic Four and the X-Men are all expected to be part of a massive panel being put on my 20th Century Fox in Hall H and we will be liveblogging it as it happens. Follow along with us.

io9 Germain Lussier

The Expanse Is the Show We’ve Been Wanting Since Battlestar Galactica

Welp, we have a new favorite show. At San Diego Comic-Con, we got to watch the entire pilot of Syfy’s The Expanse, based on the books by James S. A. Corey—and we were blown away. This is a show that digs into the politics of our spacefaring future, but knows it’s the characters that make…

Television Lauren Davis

The Algerian Sahara Looks Stunning From Orbit

When you think ‘Sahara desert’ your mind’s eye probably conjures images of tawny, windswept dunes stretching monotonously into the horizon. But satellites have a way of giving us a strikingly different, often much more interesting view of our world. This image of the Sahara in central Algeria, captured recently by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Joss Whedon Just Explained The Meaning Of Life To Us

No kidding. Here at San Diego Comic Con, the creator of Buffy, Firefly, Dr. Horrible and Dollhouse, and the director of two Avengers movies, just told us the nature and purpose of existence. He also revealed one of his next projects: a “Victorian female Batman” called Twist. So during Joss Whedon’s big one-man show panel…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Vixen Cartoon Trailer Proves the CW Needs Another DC Show ASAP

Hey, watch this trailer for the upcoming CW Seed cartoon, set in the Arrow/Flash TV universe, and tell me you don’t think it would work as a live-action series. Heck, we’ve got Stephen Amell, Grant Gustin and their co-stars voicing their same roles—it’s another hit waiting to happen! For the record, that’s Megalyn Echikunwoke of…

io9 Rob Bricken

This Amazing, Giant Hulkbuster Toy Has an Iron Man Figure Inside

Update: Guys, I got this totally wrong. Not about the figure being giant and awesome, but it was made by Comicave, not Hot Toys, and it is totally not for sale at this point. My apologies to Comicave for misattributing this stunning achievement (I still think black magic was somehow involved). Original Wrong Article: I…

io9 Rob Bricken

Read The Story That Sets Up Syfy’s Expanse Series

We’re ridiculously excited for Syfy’s upcoming adaptation of James S.A. Corey’s Expanse novels. Want a quick and thrilling introduction to the world of the books? Now you can read one exciting short story that sets the whole saga in motion, “Drive.” The short story was originally published in 2012 in Jonathan Strahan’s Edge of Infinity…

Television Andrew Liptak

Finally, A Guided Meditation That Speaks My Language

We’ve all been there: So wound-up from bills, emails, missed deadlines, and the general bullshit of existence that we need some way of just letting go. They say meditation helps, but a soothing voice telling me to discard the weight of my IRS reconciliation form like it’s some sort of fur serape makes me want…

Tech News Maddie Stone

We’ve Just Seen The First Amazing Footage From The Warcraft Movie

2015 is the third year director Duncan Jones has brought his big-screen adaptation of Warcraft to Comic-Con and he finally had something huge to show. He debuted about a 5 minute trailer from the film that featured a unique blend of CG visuals with intimate character moments and massive action. It sounded like the footage…

io9 Germain Lussier

Who Wins, Brienne or Captain Phasma? Gwendoline Christie Answers

This Library Contains an Unusual Book. Can You Say What It’s About?

Here’s the Nominees for the 2015 World Fantasy Awards

The Most Spectacular Cosplay of Comic-Con 2015, Day Three!

Orphan Black‘s Jordan Gavaris Explains the Insidious Nature of Sexism

This Fantastic Poster Shows Off 63 Women of Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Creepy First Trailer for Robert Kirkman’s Exorcist TV Show Outcast

The X-Men, Deadpool, Fantastic Four And Gambit Casts Take One Epic Photo

Pluto’s Mysterious Dark Splotches Come Into Focus

Live From Comic-Con!

We Got Our First Real Look at HBO’s Intense New AI Series Westworld

The First Deadpool Footage Massively Exceeded Our High Expectations

The Expanse Is the Show We’ve Been Wanting Since Battlestar Galactica

The Algerian Sahara Looks Stunning From Orbit

Joss Whedon Just Explained The Meaning Of Life To Us

The Vixen Cartoon Trailer Proves the CW Needs Another DC Show ASAP

This Amazing, Giant Hulkbuster Toy Has an Iron Man Figure Inside

Read The Story That Sets Up Syfy’s Expanse Series

Finally, A Guided Meditation That Speaks My Language

We’ve Just Seen The First Amazing Footage From The Warcraft Movie

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