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Mars Needs Moms trailer shows how the aliens will abduct your mother

The first image we saw from Disney’s animated Mars Needs Mom feature was a bit terrifying. But today’s trailer is all heart, except for the part where aliens sedate and kidnap a small boy’s mom. Watch it now! https://gizmodo.com/first-picture-from-disneys-mars-needs-moms-is-terrifyin-5689955 The more we see of this adaption of Berkeley Breathed’s kids book, the more we’re starting…

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

Greg Egan’s writing a trilogy set in a universe where light moves at variable speeds

Greg Egan’s next novel, The Clockwork Rocket, takes place in a universe where the laws of physics are different… and if a spacecraft travels fast enough, its journey takes no time for those left behind, but decades for those aboard. The Clockwork Rocket is the first book of the Orthogonal trilogy, and it comes out…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

First look at the zombie-riffic sequel to Mira Grant’s Feed

Mira Grant, the alter ego of Seanan McGuire, had a fresh take on the role of blogging and communications after the zombie apocalypse, in Feed. Now check out your first look at the cover of the second book, Deadline. Here’s the newly blurb, via the Orbit Books blog: “I guess in the end, it doesn’t…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Horror is fantasy’s older sister

Maybe Horror is Fantasy’s evil older sister…. They are definitely closely related, at least in my creative approach… Our senses tell us our world is “real”, the tangible is our proof. We believe in it more than we believe in words. So, to make the fictional world (created through words!) come alive, I take care…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Jason Stackhouse’s pulls on the pleather for his superhero film Griff

Jason Stackhouse is a pivotal part of the True Blood team, thanks to Ryan Kwanten’s two greatest assets: his abs and his acting. But can he pull off the role of social outcast/superhero in his latest flick Griff the Invisible? Here’s a collection of stills from Leon Ford’s Australian superhero rom-com. Griff is based off…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Just found: Crazy pulp fiction from the early days of the space colonies

io9’s intrepid art intern Daniel Spitzer just discovered an old trunk of Atomic Glory pulps from back when humans were first colonizing the solar system. Check out this gallery of covers – they’re a glimpse at scifi of the future. Says Daniel: Hey, just found some old pulps and comics from when my Grandfather was…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Another dystopian YA trilogy gets a half-million dollar book contract, plus a movie deal

Think the dystopian young-adult novel craze has died down? Guess again. A post-apocalyptic dystopian trilogy just scored over half a million dollars from a major publisher, plus a movie deal. We talked to author Julianna Baggott about her PURE trilogy. According to last night’s Publishers Marketplace, Julianna Baggott scored a “major deal” (which means more…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Filming of A Game of Thrones “obliterated” the ecosystem on a protected beach

In George R.R. Martin’s A Game Of Thrones, nobles wreak unimaginable destruction in their power-lust. But one environmentalist is calling HBO real-life Lannisters: They covered a protected beach in Malta with fake sand, resulting in “total elimination” of the ecosystem. According to the Times of Malta, an enviromental management expert is accusing the government and…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Google Wrote a Book! And It’s All About the Internet

Google wrote a book! Good for them. It’s called 20 Things I Learned About the Web, it’s free, and it will teach you all about HTML 5 and web apps, cookies and IP addresses. Christoph Niemann illustrated. Why not! [20thingsIlearned]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Next Too Fast Too Furious: Disney’s Hovercar Movie

Disney must still be huffing the fumes from the Tron Legacy cycles, because a Hovercar movie is in the works. The LA Times is reporting that Disney is working on a story about a young boy who enters an elite racing school, to become the world’s best hovercar racer. And then the hovercar racer gets…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Want to work at an up-and-coming science fiction publisher? Night Shade Books is hiring!

Night Shade Books, publishers of Paolo Bacigalupi’s multi-award-winning The Windup Girl and many other great books, just put out an ad seeking a full-time editor. If you live in San Francisco (or can move there) and want to edit science fiction books for a living, this is a great opportunity. Details at the link. [Publishers…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

New footage from I Am Number Four shows the alien-Glee love connection

New teen action alien movie I Am Number Four has released a new featurette with lots of new footage. We’re down – except for them trying to convince us that Quinn from Glee is playing an unpopular “loner.” Looks great, but you’re not fooling anyone Disney. Dianna Agron could sit in the senior quad munching…

Movies Meredith Woerner

There’s Only One Place I Want to Catch Up On My Reading In…

It’s the ciiiircle of liiiiight. Apologies if you now have an Elton John earworm. WELCOME TO THE CLUB. The antidote is to put up your feet, and get chewing on a novel in this $9,600 bookcase-cum-chair. [Ifsodoso via Yanko]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Fan-made Hunger Games clip gets us excited for dystopian kid-on-kid murder

Let’s hope director Gary Ross is open to taking some hints on the Hunger Games movie, because this fan-made recreation of one scene is right on the money. Watch Katniss and Rue together in this (SPOILERY) homemade Hunger Games clip. The Hunger Games takes place in the future, after the fall of North America. The…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Robert Kirkman Talks Walking Dead in Episode 25 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Robert Kirkman, author of The Walking Dead, joins us this week on io9’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast to talk about zombies, comics, and AMC’s The Walking Dead television series. The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. You can download the MP3 for this episode…

Books & Comics Johnjosephadams

When anything in books can become real, you should watch what you read

We’ve seen stories about worlds where anything from a book can become real, but Jim Hines has a clever twist. In his new series, the popularity of paranormal and urban fantasy novels leads to a plague of book-spawned monsters. Hines just sold Libriomancer, the first book in his Magic ex Libris series, to Daw Books,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The retro-psychedelic adventures of Alice

Artist and book cover illustrator Jonathan Coulthart, whose curlicues and Victorian textures are always pleasing, has released a 2011 calendar. It’s a gorgeous, weird look at Alice in Wonderland that combines imagery of the 1960s with the 1860s. See all twelve months, and order your own calendar, via Coulthart’s blog Feuilleton.

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Book club reminder: Read “How To Live Safely In A Science Fiction Universe” for 12/7

This month, the io9 book club is reading How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu. What’s this io9 book club, you ask? For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here’s how it works: You read the book. We create a special book club post on io9 when the meeting…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Year’s Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Books for Kids: Origami Yoda, Six-Armed Trolls… and the Were-Wiener!

Your children need to be prepared for the things they’ll face in real life — like an origami Yoda puppet, and a six-armed troll. And cafeteria food that bites you. Here’s Kirkus Reviews’ list of the best kids’ SF/fantasy books.

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Give Me More: An Introduction to the World of Harry Potter Fan Fiction

I stumbled upon Harry Potter fan fiction shortly after the sixth book in the series arrived. I was quickly addicted. Fan art by Hito, via The Leaky Cauldron With one book left, the worldwide fandom for the boy wizard went into rampages of speculation about what might happen, including a frenzy of fan fiction production…

Books & Comics Cecilia Tan

Mars Needs Moms trailer shows how the aliens will abduct your mother

Greg Egan’s writing a trilogy set in a universe where light moves at variable speeds

First look at the zombie-riffic sequel to Mira Grant’s Feed

Horror is fantasy’s older sister

Jason Stackhouse’s pulls on the pleather for his superhero film Griff

Just found: Crazy pulp fiction from the early days of the space colonies

Another dystopian YA trilogy gets a half-million dollar book contract, plus a movie deal

Filming of A Game of Thrones “obliterated” the ecosystem on a protected beach

Google Wrote a Book! And It’s All About the Internet

The Next Too Fast Too Furious: Disney’s Hovercar Movie

Want to work at an up-and-coming science fiction publisher? Night Shade Books is hiring!

New footage from I Am Number Four shows the alien-Glee love connection

There’s Only One Place I Want to Catch Up On My Reading In…

Fan-made Hunger Games clip gets us excited for dystopian kid-on-kid murder

Robert Kirkman Talks Walking Dead in Episode 25 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

When anything in books can become real, you should watch what you read

The retro-psychedelic adventures of Alice

Book club reminder: Read “How To Live Safely In A Science Fiction Universe” for 12/7

Year’s Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Books for Kids: Origami Yoda, Six-Armed Trolls… and the Were-Wiener!

Give Me More: An Introduction to the World of Harry Potter Fan Fiction

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