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The Barnes & Noble eReader iPad App Is On the Way (But Will Apple Maim It?)

As specumalated in yesterday’s Giz Explains, Barnes & Noble is coming out with an iPad version of their ebook app, which will, interestingly, include B&N’s bookstore. Really? https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-how-youre-gonna-get-screwed-by-ebook-form-5478842 I’m not expressing shock at a Barnes & Noble ebook app on the iPad—they have one on the iPhone, after all, and an option to buy books…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

True Blood Goes Brokeback Coffin

Think you’ve seen all the fangbanging True Blood has to offer? Think again, the third season is right around the corner, this June, and sexy details are already starting to leak out. Get ready for vamp/man love. Spoilers ahead! In an interview with About.com Sam Trammell, who plays the shapeshifting puppy and bartender Sam Merlotte,…

Television Meredith Woerner

Is “Science Fiction Humanism” A Contradiction In Terms?

People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction’s explorations put it into conflict with humanism’s tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of humanity, and whether the universe will let us stay human. It’s easy to think of science fiction and humanism as going hand in hand: Science…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Real Scifi Book Covers Of Gentlemen Broncos

In the opening credits of Gentlemen Broncos, the cast and crew’s names are superimposed onto real science fiction book covers. Eagle-eyed io9 reader Lorcan McGrane has found several of these awesome vintage covers. Compare and contrast after the jump! In Gentlemen Broncos, Jemaine Clement plays Ronald Chevalier, a science fiction novelist who steals a book…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Is It Time To Consider Life Without Real, Touchable Books?

Yesterday someone expressed sorrow about forgetting to pack books when he moved to a new city and I felt my heart break on his behalf. I can’t imagine life without being surrounded by shelves of books. But should I? Globe and Mail’s Russell Smith wrote a piece entitled “A Lament for the Bookshelf,” and in…

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Advertising The Space Race

Today we have robots scattered throughout the solar system, but space seems farther away than ever. That’s why it’s amazing to look back at this gallery of advertisements from the mid-twentieth century, when space travel seemed right around the corner. These images come from an incredible article in the New York Times today about Megan…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Watch The 6-Hour Process Of Designing A Book Cover In 2 Minutes

Orbit Books Creative Director Lauren Panepinto has posted a high speed video showcasing her cover for Gail Carriger’s upcoming urban fantasy novel Blameless. Gander at six hours of rapid-fire Photoshopping condensed into a mere 115 seconds! Says Panepinto of her creative process: Over 6 hours of my onscreen compositing, retouching, color correction, type obsessing, all…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Claire Light’s Chapbook Investigates Surreal Crimes of Astrobiology

Claire Light’s new collection Slightly Behind And To The Left (Aqueduct Press), you’ll find yourself drawn into dark, surreal worlds that will leave you feeling shaken for days afterward. In a good way. A collection of ultrashort “drabbles” and four short stories – two of them linked – Slightly Behind And To The Left is…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Chinese Writer Seeks $146 Million From James Cameron For Plagiarism Suit

Add one more Avatar-esque story to the pile James Cameron allegedly cribbed for inspiration. Beijing-based scifi writer Zhou Shaomou believes that Cameron ripped off his online novel Tale of the Blue Crows. What’s Shaomou want? A cool 1 billion yuan. https://gizmodo.com/the-complete-list-of-sources-avatars-accused-of-ripping-5460954 According to Shaomou, much of Cameron’s Oscar-nominated film was yanked from the Chinese author’s…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Publisher Who Refused To Publish Asimov’s Foundation And I, Robot Books

Frederik Pohl is blogging about his relationship with Isaac Asimov, which began as teenagers and turned into Pohl being Asimov’s agent. Learn why a publisher wouldn’t touch Asimov’s Foundation and I, Robot, and the weirdest question in Asimov’s Phd orals.

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Don’t Remake These 21 Movies, Film These Books Instead!

There’s only one thing Hollywood loves than a movie based on a toy: remakes. Dozens of science-fiction classics are slated for do-overs. But instead of remaking films that were fine the first time, here are 20 books Hollywood should film. Seriously, after watching The Day The Earth Stood Still, we’re even more convinced than ever…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Rage, Rage Against The Heat Death Of The Universe?

Are you missing the era of cosmic SF, trippy epics about huge godlike entities and vast eras? Check out “The Final Now” by Gregory Benford, in which twin deities confront their mortal creation as the universe itself winds down. [Tor.com]

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Hollywood Digs Up Pet Sematary For A Remake

Apparently people never quite learned that “dead is better,” because Stephen King’s Pet Sematary is being brought back to life, with a remake. Let’s just hope the remake, from the writer of 1408, doesn’t put little Gage in 3-D. Hollywood Reporter explains that 1408 screenwriter, Matthew Greenberg, is trying his hand at another King adaptation…

Movies Meredith Woerner

World War Z’s Max Brooks To Write “Dark” G.I. Joe Comic

After hitting it big with the undead, World War Z author Max Brooks is penning a miniseries about everyone’s favorite paramilitary action figures. And his comic promises to be a much grittier interpretation of the Joe mythos. From IDW Publishing: The award-winning Max Brooks crafts a G.I. JOE series for an America at war, starkly…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Richard Powers’ Book Covers Look Like The Inside Of Salvador Dali’s Brain

The alien aesthetic of 1950s scifi artist Richard Powers evokes melting clocks, Bruegel-like landscapes, and the surrealism of Paul Klee. One look at Powers’ surrealist planets and you know you’re not on Tatooine any more. Powers illustrated science fiction book covers for several publishers throughout his career, but perhaps his most famous work was his…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Idea That Jews Don’t Write Fantasy Is A Fantasy

A new essay claiming that Jewish authors don’t write fantasy literature has caused a firestorm of criticism online, including an impressive list of Jewish fantasy authors. Is Christianity really embedded in the DNA of the fantasy epic? Noting that neither C.S. Lewis nor J.R.R. Tolkien was Jewish, Michael Weingrad writes in the Jewish Review Of…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Your Military Science Fiction Isn’t Really Military Science Fiction

Futuristic militaries are a staple in science fiction. With their powered armor and laser guns, military science fiction novels are among the most exciting reads out there. Except for one problem. Most are not really about warfare. While military SF involves military personnel and technology, the cores of the stories tend to focus on elements…

Books & Comics AndrewLiptak

Google Books Monster Will Eat Your Library

No matter your thoughts on the Google Books settlement, it’s hard to deny the coolness of Asaf Hanuka’s two-mouthed Google monster from this month’s issue of California Lawyer. Don’t be evil? More like don’t be dinner. Hanuka’s illustration of a ravenous Googly-Moogly (and its pen-wielding prey) is in this month’s issue of California Lawyer, which…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Tim Burton And Timur Bekmambetov To Make Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?

Rumor has it that 9 producers Burton and Bekmambetov are joining together again to film the new Abraham-Lincoln-vs.-vampires novel, making it the second genre-fied classic to become a film. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that: Burton and Bekmambetov are aboard to produce a movie adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the Seth Grahame-Smith novel that Grand…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Terry Brooks Slated For Three New Shannara Novels

Terry Brooks has sold three new installments of his best-selling Shannara series to Del Rey Books. These new books in Brooks’ post-apocalyptic swords and sorcery series will pick up where his High Druid of Shannara trilogy left off. The most recent book in the Shannara chronology was 2005’s Straken. Brook’s series began in 1977 with…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

The Barnes & Noble eReader iPad App Is On the Way (But Will Apple Maim It?)

True Blood Goes Brokeback Coffin

Is “Science Fiction Humanism” A Contradiction In Terms?

The Real Scifi Book Covers Of Gentlemen Broncos

Is It Time To Consider Life Without Real, Touchable Books?

Advertising The Space Race

Watch The 6-Hour Process Of Designing A Book Cover In 2 Minutes

Claire Light’s Chapbook Investigates Surreal Crimes of Astrobiology

Chinese Writer Seeks $146 Million From James Cameron For Plagiarism Suit

The Publisher Who Refused To Publish Asimov’s Foundation And I, Robot Books

Don’t Remake These 21 Movies, Film These Books Instead!

Rage, Rage Against The Heat Death Of The Universe?

Hollywood Digs Up Pet Sematary For A Remake

World War Z’s Max Brooks To Write “Dark” G.I. Joe Comic

Richard Powers’ Book Covers Look Like The Inside Of Salvador Dali’s Brain

The Idea That Jews Don’t Write Fantasy Is A Fantasy

Your Military Science Fiction Isn’t Really Military Science Fiction

Google Books Monster Will Eat Your Library

Tim Burton And Timur Bekmambetov To Make Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?

Terry Brooks Slated For Three New Shannara Novels

Elon Musk’s Lawyer Claims Jury’s 420 ‘Joke’ Proves He Didn’t Receive a Fair Trial

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