Aliens

Michael Jackson, Sci-Fi Fanatic

Michael Jackson spent three hours in a Las Vegas book store and came out with boxes of science fiction and other books. His face covered with band-aids, plus sunglasses and a hat and scarf, he looked every bit the visiting alien. Which raises the question: what kind of science fiction does Jackson like? Chris Nakashima-Brown…

Boffins Say E.T. Too Bored By Our Messages To Phone Home

Radio messages we’ve sent whizzing out into space over the years to try to contact aliens may simply be too boring for extra-terrestrial beings to answer, say a couple of Canadian astrophysicists. Tedious bits of math, physics and biology normally on offer may just be intellectual spam to alien minds. Find out what boffins Yvan…

First Look At Stephen Chow’s Alien Creature

The new science fiction movie from Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung-Fu Hustle) features this insanely cute alien dog. It turns out the toy that Chow’s character finds in a dumpster for his son isn’t just alien tech, but an alien creature. It also confirms our original suspicion about Chow’s CJ7. (More cute doggy pics after…

Wikipedia is No Place for Alien Civilizations

George Dvorsky reports over at Sentient Developments that the Wikipedia community has deleted a perfectly reasonable entry on astrosociobiology, “the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies.” People like Carl Sagan and Freeman Dyson are counted among the ranks of astrosociobiologists, as are countless scifi creators. Luckily, Dvorksy…

First Look At Amanda Peet In X-Files 2

X-Files 2 takes place partly at a hospital, and involves organ transplants, judging from new set pics. [XFilesNews] The new Knight Rider’s car will have a supercomputer that “can hack into any system.” Ohhhkay. [SliceofSciFi] Click through to spoil yourself on AVP, Sarah Connor and more. You’ll see an eco-friendly Predator — who is willing…

Watch the New Alien Totally Cremate a Whole Ship Full of Predators

A Predalien, the new Predator/Alien hybrid, takes out a whole ship full of Predators in the opening minutes of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Also, the Strause brothers, the directors, revealed they want to make a third AVP movie, which would be a prequel to the first Alien movie. Sadly, after our action-packed opening, AVP-R shifts…

One-Breasted Man-Killers Get An Origin Story

We’ll learn the origins of those one-breasted psycho killers, the Daughters of the Amazon, in the movie version of Y: The Last Man movie. [Comics 2 Film] Steven Spielberg’s Interstellar, about explorers who travel through a wormhole to another dimension, will come out in 2009 and won’t violate any laws of physics. [Not Even Wrong]…

My Husband’s Alien Sperm Are Controlling Everybody’s Brains

There’s a good reason why the sleeper hit Slither wormed its way into so many B-movie lovers’ hearts when it came out a couple of years ago. Not only is the movie incredibly gross, but it’s also a pretty good satire of small-town life and shitty marriages. In this clip, you’ll see why. You see,…

Video Games That Plunge You Into Existential Dispair

The arrival of dystopian scifi video game Mass Effect has us reaching for our Prozac . . . and our controllers. The darker and weirder the world a video game gives us, the better. Whether it involves an alien invasion, or a maniacal artificial intelligence, we love games that crush our dreams in an orgy…

Aliens-Predator Rematch Has Too Many Humans

Two new trailers for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem came out in Japan today, and they may scare you away from this Christmas release. The Alien/Predator rematch is looking like Transformers without Shia LaBeouf, with a huge cast of allegedly lovable small-towners. We’ll get to know these humans far too well before monsters finally show up.…

Indiana Jones and the Jumping of the Shark

Steven Spielberg has yanked the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind out of mothballs, and plans to stick them in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when Indiana accidentally finds Area 51. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have put little inside jokes and sly references to their other films in…

3 Reasons Why Aliens Are Lame

Sucky aliens are a big reason why most science fiction is so embarrassing. It’s no accident that the two most acclaimed science fiction shows of the past decade, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, don’t feature aliens. Here are some reasons why most aliens are so stupid. The silly talk. Jar-Jar Binks is the poster-monster for this…

Futurama’s Big DVD Comeback Is a Cosmic Suck

Futurama was canceled by FOX four years ago, but thanks to the online agitation of its fan base, the show has been resurrected as a series of four feature-length direct-to-DVD releases. The first of these, Bender’s Big Score, hits the market today, and boy, does it essentially suck. OK, feature-length money plus feature-length production schedule…

Alien bacteria may have seeded life on Earth, says the latest issue of Scientific American. Not only that, but alien bacteria may be among us right now, breeding happily.

Four Theories About Creatures from High-Gravity Worlds

Don’t support crappy science fiction where every planet has the same gravity as Earth. Astronomers say the planets most likely to support life are ten times the size of Earth. When we finally meet aliens, they’ll envy the spring in our step. Movies and other media are squandering the awesome story potential of creatures from…

Alien Visitors Always Look Like Potato Fetuses

Why are aliens always such a cliche? This one is a mockup of the Roswell Alien from the Museum of Science’s new exhibit, “The Science of Aliens,” which opens Sunday. Click through for more images, including figures from Aliens and Alien Autopsy.Images by David Adame for AP.

Science Fiction Farts of Death

Fart danger is everywhere recent science fiction. First there was Greg Bear’s novel Vitals, in which an evil Soviet conspiracy leads to targeted biological mind-control attacks. How do you know somebody has been taken over by mind-controlling bacteria? They start farting. Doctor Who took this idea a step further. In “Boom Town,” which aired during…

Gallery: Lesbian Cylons Gather At Beijing Fashion Show

You have the green tentacle legs, the cylon lesbians and best of all, the head-eating parasol monster. It all happened at the Ordifen Cup 2007 Lingerie Innovative Design Contest at China Fashion Week in Beijing. Warning: skimpy costumes and not-quite-orthohuman shapes ahead. Gallery: China Fashion 2007

Psychedelic Dante 01 Trailer — Gorgeous But Familiar

Marc Caro, probably best known from his collaborative directing with Jean Pierre Jeunet on such films like The City Of Lost Children and Delicatessen, has a new scifi film coming out called Dante 01. It combines the visual look of THX 1138, Aliens (especially the third entry in that series), and even Danny Boyle’s underrated…

Must Read: Invincible

Must-read comics are futuristic classics that shouldn’t be missed. Of course, not every must-read is perfect. That’s why we’ve rated them 1-5 on the patented “crunchy goodness” scale. Title: Invincible Date: 2007 – (reprinting material from 2002 – ) Vitals: Bringing together tropes from all manner of comics, Mark Grayson tries to join the family…