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Gwenda Bond’s Blackwood is in development as an MTV series!

We really enjoyed Gwenda Bond’s young adult novel Blackwood, which weaves together the mystery of the Roanoke disappearance with a lot of supernatural craziness for a fun story of growing up cursed. And now, on the heels of MTV’s success with Teen Wolf, we could be seeing Miranda Blackwood on television every week. The MTV…

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Why would anyone want to be a good witch? New trailer for Beautiful Creatures goes dark

Here’s our first real glimpse of the magical clan of sexy Southern people with dirty homes and fabulous furniture in Beautiful Creatures. And we find out what happens when you are “claimed” for dark. You see, there is no free will in the Castor world. At 16 you are either claimed for good or bad.…

io9 Meredith Woerner

First trailer for Mortal Instruments, are half-angel demon hunters the new vampires?

Now that Twilight is finito it’s a bloody battle for the tween crown. Who will the kiddies camp out for and scream about next? The first competitor has just released its first trailer titled, The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bone. Based on the supernatural series by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments is about a sexy…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

Game of Thrones will be back in March!

HBO has released the official return date for sex and swords TV series Game of Thrones. The series will return on March 31st, 2013. They also revealed this little teaser poster as well, which… whatever. It’s new GOT so hell, we’ll TAKE IT!

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Three Parts Dead mixes magic with courtroom drama

Max Gladstone’s Three Parts Dead is the fantasy novel I was waiting for without ever knowing it. For all of us who love fantasy but feel that even some of the newest, freshest authors are falling back on old, repetitive ideas, this the book to pick up. Gladstone plays with fantasy conventions without falling into…

io9 Naamen Tilahun

Bigfoot with a Sword on Mars = Best Comic Book Premise This Month

Imagine Bigfoot on Mars, defending the lowly from evil military leaders and terrifying slave masters who are all covered in spines and exoskeletons and other cool shit like that. Reading the new indie comic Bigfoot: Sword of the Earthman is kind of like mainlining the Planet Hulk series while mashing your face into some classic…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford to Miss in November

November’s books are bursting with excitement! There’s futuristic pulp fiction, swashbuckling excitement, reimagined fairytales… and the return of Miles Vorkosigan. Wild adventures and amazing cleverness await, and you don’t want to miss out on all the conversations the cool people will be having about these shiny new books. Here are 16 books that you absolutely…

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Open Source Book Scanner Uses a Household Vacuum To Turn the Page

In an effort to streamline the process of scanning hundreds of millions of titles, Google Books engineer Dany Qumsiyeh has designed a $1,500 automated scanner from sheet metal, dissected electronics, and a household vacuum. It can chew through a 1,000 page odyssey in about 90 minutes, and you’re welcome to build your own since Qumsiyeh…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

9 Reasons to be Grateful for Twilight

This weekend, the final (we think) Twilight movie hits theaters, and then it’s all over. Maybe you love Twilight as much as Mitt Romney, or maybe you’re not crazy about it. But either way, you can’t deny the huge impact that Twilight has had on pop culture. https://gizmodo.com/mitt-romneys-favorite-book-has-changed-from-battlefield-5807541 Here are nine reasons we’re giving thanks…

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First trailer for The Host is sexy Body Snatchers

Now that the Twilight franchise is nearing completion with the release of Breaking Dawn: Part 2, it’s time for Stephenie Meyer to release yet another teenage love bomb upon this world. Behold, the first real trailer for The Host. A story about two kids who find each other and fall in love, despite the rest…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The fascinating and weird memoirs of a Soviet rocketeer

Over at the online science book review Download the Universe (where I am a contributor), journalist Veronique Greenwood has a fascinating review of the dense memoirs of a Boris Chertok, a Soviet rocket scientist. She writes: Academician Boris Chertok’s four-volume remembrances, Rockets and People, were translated into English by NASA between 2005 and 2011. As…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Red Rain, the New R. L. Stine Novel For Adults

Red Rain, R.L. Stine’s latest attempt to scare adults the way he scared children with Goosebumps, Fear Street, and other iconic series, opens with a hurricane. A travel blogger named Lea Sutter goes to Cape Le Chat Noir, a French-speaking island off the coast of South Carolina. During her visit, Lea learns that the island…

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An Anthology About The People Who Actually Keep Your Space Station Spinning

I love the idea of Menial, a new anthology from the peeps at Crossed Genres coming in January. We’ve had plenty of anthologies about space admirals and cosmic heroes — but how about the people who actually get their hands dirty keeping the spaceship flying? The engineers, mechanics, and even sanitation workers? Here’s the official…

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Stare into the eyes of the flying monkeys from Oz: The Great and Powerful

Do you enjoy gazing into a rainbow kaleidoscope of potentially problematic CG? You’re in luck, we’ve got a whole mess of stills from Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful. For everything we love in these images, there’s something we can’t stand. Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams as Oz witches? YES! Flying monkeys?…

Movies Meredith Woerner

20 Essential Books About the Next Step in Human Evolution

Evolutionary theory teaches us that life never remains the same. It is constantly changing and adapting. So what might be the next stages in the evolution of humanity and our planet? Here are 20 books, both fiction and nonfiction, that try to answer that question. Illustration by Alexis Rockman, from Future Evolution 1. The Culture…

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Fake William Gibson tweets authentically clever Gibson-inspired book plots

Twitter novelty account Authentic Wm. Gibson (@AuthenticWmGibs) assures us that it contains “Synopses for William Gibson novels that are definitely 100% real, but only in a timeline with greater authenticity than this one.” While some of the writer’s pastiches of Gibson’s futuristic global politics, explorations of technology, and fascination with the minutiae of design and…

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The Magic School Bus grows up and goes on one last field trip—to Hell

There was never anything quite like a field trip with Ms. Frizzle: blasting off into space, driving through Arnold’s body, traveling back to the days of the dinosaurs. But this imaginary trailer for a Magic School Bus movie trades science lessons for magic as Ms. Frizzle’s class reunites for one last trip—to rescue their beloved…

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The Most Adorable Zombie Ever: Check out the first Warm Bodies trailer!

Yesterday, we witnessed the zombie apocalypse in full-on Hollywood tentpole style, with the World War Z trailer. So today, here’s a chance of pace — the genuinely sweet-looking zombie romance Warm Bodies, in which X-Men First Class’s Nicholas Hoult is R, a zombie with a heart of… well, heart. It’s based on the novel by…

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First Glimpse of Tom Cruise Battling the Relentless Alien Invaders in All You Need is Kill

We loved the gritty “Groundhog Day-meets-Starship Troopers” action of All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. And now it’s being made into a movie, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Doug Liman (Jumper) — and here’s your first look at the ultra-gritty war against the aliens. https://gizmodo.com/japanese-scifi-smackdown-power-armor-warriors-vs-alie-5320912 Here’s the caption for the image, which…

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Why haven’t the Wombles conquered America?

Anybody who’s spent any decent amount of time in the U.K. knows the Wombles — like little furry cousins of the Borrowers, they live in Wimbledon Common and collect the garbage that we humans leave behind. The popular book series by Elizabeth Beresford spawned a pretty iconic TV series and more than one major pop…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Gwenda Bond’s Blackwood is in development as an MTV series!

Why would anyone want to be a good witch? New trailer for Beautiful Creatures goes dark

First trailer for Mortal Instruments, are half-angel demon hunters the new vampires?

Game of Thrones will be back in March!

Three Parts Dead mixes magic with courtroom drama

Bigfoot with a Sword on Mars = Best Comic Book Premise This Month

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford to Miss in November

Open Source Book Scanner Uses a Household Vacuum To Turn the Page

9 Reasons to be Grateful for Twilight

First trailer for The Host is sexy Body Snatchers

The fascinating and weird memoirs of a Soviet rocketeer

Red Rain, the New R. L. Stine Novel For Adults

An Anthology About The People Who Actually Keep Your Space Station Spinning

Stare into the eyes of the flying monkeys from Oz: The Great and Powerful

20 Essential Books About the Next Step in Human Evolution

Fake William Gibson tweets authentically clever Gibson-inspired book plots

The Magic School Bus grows up and goes on one last field trip—to Hell

The Most Adorable Zombie Ever: Check out the first Warm Bodies trailer!

First Glimpse of Tom Cruise Battling the Relentless Alien Invaders in All You Need is Kill

Why haven’t the Wombles conquered America?

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