Would You Give Up Your Privacy to Live in Utopia?
It’s easy to invent a dystopian future — just take the worst aspects of the world around you, and ugly them up. But what about dreaming of a better world, or even a perfect society? Some of the noblest science fiction writers and futurists have imagined a future utopia, in which all of our problems…
Novels that Could Help You Prepare for a Future Pandemic
When you think about pants-wettingly terrifying apocalyptic scenarios, the most horrifying might well be the worldwide plague. A deadly disease could spread around the planet at alarming speed, and kill most of the population before we even knew what was going on. Luckily, some of the best novels (and graphic novels) have dealt with the…
How The CW Could Still Turn its Hunger Games Copycat Into a Good Series
The Selection by Kiera Cass was already being called “the next Hunger Games” when The CW decided to turn it into a TV show. But then The CW put the project on hold, and has started reshooting the trouble pilot. And now that we’ve read the book, we can see why this is going to…
Jon Snow knows nothing, but his portrait took a lot of careful study
In recent weeks, io9 has been the home of exclusive ‘making of’ posts for my George R. R. Martin / A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar artworks, including Eddard Stark, Bran Stark, and Sansa Stark and the Hound. This week, I’m sharing some of the process that led to my Jon Snow and Ghost…
