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20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade

After much mulling and culling, we’ve come up with our list of the twenty best books of the decade. The list is weighted towards science fiction, but does have healthy doses of fantasy and horror. And a few surprises. This list is alphabetical, and not in order of awesomeness. All are equally great and worthy…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Follow The Fictional Science Adventures Of Squid & Owl

Given everything that squid and owls have in common, why shouldn’t they switch places for a while? That’s the question that designer John Holbo asks in the beautifully-illustrated tale Squid & Owl, a romp through taxonomy, science and retro illustration. Holbo is a philosophy professor when he isn’t concocting weird tales of squid, and it…

io9 Annalee Newitz

What Would Books About Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube From The 1960s Look Like?

Fortunately we don’t have to think too hard about what they’d look like, because French artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal has designed a series of book covers for 10 of our favourite web services. Massa-Bidal sells some of his designs on his online store, but these terrific book covers aren’t available just yet. Perhaps if we all…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Werewolf-Vampire Threeways Upgraded To Angels In A Ménage à Trois

We called the “angels are the new vampires” trend months ago, and already the facts are stacking up to bolster our claims. Disney’s purchase of Lauren Kate’s tween againsty angel book Fallen adds fuel to the sexy angel fire. https://gizmodo.com/could-angels-be-the-new-vampires-5360906 THR reported that Disney has picked up the rights to the brand new YA series…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Extinct Bees and Drugs Haunt Douglas Coupland’s “Generation A”

A science fictional echo of his classic Generation X, Douglas Coupland‘s latest novel Generation A imagines a future where fuel is scarce and bees are extinct. Suddenly, five people are stung. Five people with strange molecules in their blood. After Coupland published the groundbreaking novel Generation X in the early 1990s, surly speculative writer Kurt…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Only A Book Trailer With Nothing To Lose Could Bring So Much Spicy Death Sauce

Here’s the most crashtastic book trailer we’ve seen in ages. A man with a past finds a crashed 747 full of corpses, including the First Lady… and bad guys have stolen a secret technology. Witness the insanity of The Breach.

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

How to Build a Pencil Crossbow

Take your spitball firepower to the next level with this guide for constructing a No. 2 Pencil Crossbow, one of many undersized armaments found in John Austin’s must-read new book Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction. For those familiar with the classic Bic pen’s true function—not as a lackluster writing implement but as the ideal barrel…

Books & Comics Kyle VanHemert

Books, and the iTunes Problem

Ransacked by the internet and teetering on the edge of the real ebook revolution, the publishing world is understandably afraid of what’s next. But their skittish plans to shoehorn digital books into the old publishing cycle are stupid. And doomed. Simon & Schuster sees what’s happening: Real people are buying ebooks now, and the market,…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

French President Implies Google Books Will Strip Their Heritage

While French President Sarkozy didn’t namecheck Google directly, he more than alluded to them, claiming that their aim of scanning out of copyright books and putting them online will damage France’s own book digitization plan. Speaking at an event yesterday about France’s plans to place the nation’s books online, he said: “We won’t let ourselves…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Aluratek’s $179 LCD-Based Libre eBook Reader Goes Cheap

The Libre eBook Reader PRO has a 2GB SD card with a monochrome reflective light LCD instead of an e-Ink display, which puts into a different bucket than the other eBook readers shipping recently. Plus, it’s only $179. The reader has 24 hours of continuous use (not too shabby for an LCD, even if it…

Books & Comics Jason Chen

What Is The Wachowskis’ Secret Science Fiction Project — Guest-Starring Arianna Huffington?

Did you know the Wachowskis were filming a new “futuristic” movie? Neither did we, until Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington tweeted a series of pictures from the set of the mystery film, which is about Iraq 90 years from now. Huffington broke the news that there was a new Wachowski movie, and she was appearing…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

The Lovely Bones: Hitchcock Meets Dali In Purgatory

The man who managed to film Lord Of The Rings has chosen to adapt introspective afterlife novel The Lovely Bones, and once again he’s taken some liberties. But the result is a surprisingly seamless fusion of Hitchcock and Salvador Dali. As with LOTR, Peter Jackson‘s adaptation of Alice Sebold‘s Bones is the sum of its…

Movies John Shirley

Want To Read Some Cutting-Edge Hard Science Fiction? Check Out MedGadget’s Contest Winners

Medical technology site MedGadget just hosted its third annual short story writing contest, and you can read the top three winners online. The winner, “Heartless” by Evan Perriello, takes place in a future where doctors have given up on trying to cure heart disease, and have settled for a more radical preventive approach — who…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Is Tom Waits A Hobbit? And Who Is This New Hobbit Lady?

There’s a flood of Hobbit news: Peter Jackson sounds determined to release his Tolkien adaptation in 2011, in spite of all the delay rumors. There may be a new female character, and Bilbo Baggins may be an unknown. In an interview with Collider, Peter Jackson crushed the rumors about a 2012 release, and confirmed that…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Lily Cole Talks The Bi-Curious Adventures of A Teen Vamp

The adaptation of Rachel Klein’s The Moth Diaries should begin filming this year, and we got an update from the movies head vampire actress, Lily Cole, on her role and the mystery that surrounds this new character. The book is told through the diary of a young teen girl in a private school who is…

Movies Meredith Woerner

NYC io9ers: Talk Vampires And Fangbangers With Meredith Tomorrow

Join yours truly tomorrow at NYC’s Borders, on Park and 57th at 7 PM, for a signing of my book Vampire Taxonomy. We’ll talk all things vampire, from the next wave of lesbian vamps to the Renfields among us. [Borders]

Books & Comics Meredith Woerner

A Vampire Love Story On The Moon, And Our New Favorite Book Cover

Move over, Diamond Star! There’s a new contender for most cheesetastic book cover of the 2000s. It’s the cover art for futuristic vampire romance Those Of My Blood. In the full high-res version, you can see the lunar explorer’s fangs. https://gizmodo.com/catherine-asaro-rocks-out-for-her-latest-science-fictio-5236410 We should stress that authors don’t customarily get much input into their book covers,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The New Real:Livewriting Day 2

Yesterday we were introduced to Mack Darvey, a suicidal cop who is given a suicide mission in the world of interplanetary narcotics control. Unfortunately for Darvey, suicide isn’t as easy as it seems. Not only does he have a complicated world of alien politics to sort out, but his boss wants to kill him, and…

Books & Comics MCM

Keep Up With The New Real

In case you’re just waking up now, catch up with what you’ve already missed of The New Real, io9’s two-day livewriting adventure, and start making decisions on behalf of our fictionauts. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-real-livewriting-day-1-5419588

Books & Comics Graeme McMillan

The New Real: Livewriting Day 1

Welcome to The New Real, a sci-fi livewriting adventure composed entirely on io9. Over the next two days, we’ll bring you into the world of interplanetary narcotics control, where the bad guys are bad, the good guys are iffy, and the heroes are alcoholic and suicidal. Greetings, humanoids! I am MCM, and this is “The…

Books & Comics MCM

20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade

Follow The Fictional Science Adventures Of Squid & Owl

What Would Books About Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube From The 1960s Look Like?

Werewolf-Vampire Threeways Upgraded To Angels In A Ménage à Trois

Extinct Bees and Drugs Haunt Douglas Coupland’s “Generation A”

Only A Book Trailer With Nothing To Lose Could Bring So Much Spicy Death Sauce

How to Build a Pencil Crossbow

Books, and the iTunes Problem

French President Implies Google Books Will Strip Their Heritage

Aluratek’s $179 LCD-Based Libre eBook Reader Goes Cheap

What Is The Wachowskis’ Secret Science Fiction Project — Guest-Starring Arianna Huffington?

The Lovely Bones: Hitchcock Meets Dali In Purgatory

Want To Read Some Cutting-Edge Hard Science Fiction? Check Out MedGadget’s Contest Winners

Is Tom Waits A Hobbit? And Who Is This New Hobbit Lady?

Lily Cole Talks The Bi-Curious Adventures of A Teen Vamp

NYC io9ers: Talk Vampires And Fangbangers With Meredith Tomorrow

A Vampire Love Story On The Moon, And Our New Favorite Book Cover

The New Real:Livewriting Day 2

Keep Up With The New Real

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