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What Cormac McCarthy Insisted On Keeping In The Road Movie

Translating a book into film is hard, especially when it’s Cormac McCarthy‘s simply-worded but powerful novel The Road. Director John Hillcoat told us what McCarthy refused to let him leave out of the movie version. We sat down with Hillcoat and talked about the end of the world, and translating a film into a movie.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

20 Science Fiction Books We Can’t Wait To Read in 2010

You’ve got a list of books to read today, but what will you be yearning to read next year? We’ve picked out 20 scifi and contemporary fantasy books coming out next year that have us filled with excitement. Many publishers haven’t firmed up their winter releases for next year, so most of these books are…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Describe Your Favorite Bookstore and Win Free Books!

What is your favorite place to pick up the latest science fiction books and comics? Tell us a story about your all-time favorite bookstore or comics store, and you could win a box of new scifi novels. Back in the day, I told you about Borderlands in San Francisco, one of my favorite bookstores. Now…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

One New York Times Bestseller Per Year Will Barely Keep You Above The Poverty Line

Paranormal romance author Lynn Viehl bared all last week — she posted her complete royalty statement from her publisher, for her New York Times bestselling book Twilight Fall. And the details might make you reconsider a career as a novelist. Twilight Fall was a top 20 bestseller on the New York Times mass market paperback…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Once Upon a Time, a Book and an iPhone Met…

If I ever have kids, odds are that they’ll turn out to be gadget-obsessed bookworms. But even if they don’t, we’d probably spend a few afternoons flipping through these interactive iPhone-powered picture books together, giggling in delight at the stories. Dubbed Phonebooks, these neat little books combine with your iPhone to create a fun experience…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You’ll Love

Movies may thrill us with their huge ideas and set pieces, but you always know that anything a movie did, a novel did it first… and better. If you liked these dozen recent movies, here are some books you’ll love. If you liked Star Trek… And who didn’t like J.J. Abrams’ breezy reinvention of the…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

A History of 16 Science Fiction Classics, Told In Book Covers

A single book can inspire a wide range of covers, and sometimes those covers can be works of art themselves. We look at some classic science fiction novels and the various covers they’ve worn throughout the years. We’ve collected various book covers from a number of classic science fiction novels to see how different artists…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Gifts for Bookworms Who Live for Lazy Weekend Reads

Bookworms are creatures of comfort who crave for little more than a peaceful corner and a good read. Here are some gifts ideas for them. Feel free to contribute your own suggestions (or argue with mine). BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. https://gizmodo.com/gifts-for-bookworms-who-live-for-lazy-weekend-reads-5404804 Floating Bookshelves:…

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?

Novel-writing is like an interstellar voyage: disorienting and lengthy. Go off course, and it can be nigh-impossible to backtrack. What do you do when your novel’s taken a wrong turn? Scott Westerfeld, Brad Meltzer, Cherie Priest and Rudy Rucker explain. Especially if you’re writing a book for National Novel Writing Month, every day of forward…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It’s A Living, Sort Of

If you love the work of Kelly Link, you owe it to yourself to check out “Six From Downtown,” a collection of six vignettes about despair and alienation by Philippine writer Dean Francis Alfar. Plus, a poet explains magic realism! “Six From Downtown” definitely reminds me of Link at her best, with its stark, dreamlike…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!

When science fiction books depict people living in the distant future, where’s the coffee? Tor.Com’s Jo Walton wants to know. She lists some of the hilarious words authors use instead of coffee, including Anne McCaffrey‘s “klah” and Steven Brust’s “klava.” Notes Walton: Even C.J. Cherryh in the Chanur books does this. They drink gfi. Gfi!…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Tomorrow’s Uprising Against Genre Classification Has Been Canceled. As You Were.

We were kind of excited when we found out that tomorrow was International Science Fiction Reshelving Day, in which an army of guerilla book lovers were going to go into bookstores and smuggle science fiction books by authors like Margeret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Kurt Vonnegut into the “science fiction” section of the store. Sure, it…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In “The Werewolves Of War!”

Possibly the most gripping science-fiction story of all time has gone up online, featuring daredevil air pilots hurling acidic bullets against the implacable Slavs and their disintegrating flame. It’s the futuristic year of 1938, in “Werewolves Of War.” Published in the February 1931 issue of Astounding Stories, “Werewolves Of War” by D.W. Hall takes place…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Geeking Out About Genres With Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon‘s celebrated science fiction and geeky pop culture, and his latest book Manhood For Amateurs is a love letter to fandom. So when we managed to ask him a few questions, we were excited to geek out about genres. Michael Chabon, of course, won the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson

It’s been quite some time since we’ve heard any news about the Neuromancer, but director Joseph Kahn is apparently still working on it. He tweeted about it over the weekend — and William Gibson tweeted back. Kahn wrote on his Twitter feed: Epiphany. I finally figured out how to end the movie. To which Gibson…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Reading Is The Best Brain Implant

This week, io9 celebrates the written word in all its forms with a special series of posts called Book Vortex. We know why you need the time and space to read great books, comics, and short stories. Books are stealthy and portable and will outlast the data apocalypse. With a book, you can hide in…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

See What Life Was Like Before Viggo Hit “The Road”

A few new clips are out for Cormac McCarthy‘s The Road, giving you a glimpse into the lives of Viggo Mortensen’s family before the apocalypse… and a taste of how quickly Viggo responds when the end is near. The Road will be out November 25th.

Movies Meredith Woerner

With Double Star, the Hugos Start to Shine

The original Grand Master brings us the first Hugo-winning novel truly worthy of the award. Hot jets, kiddies! It’s Double Star, by Robert Anson Heinlein, from 1956. A quick recap, for those of you just joining us: The first Hugo winner, Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man, was, in my humble opinion, possessed of some interesting…

Books & Comics Josh Wimmer

What If . . . Jack the Ripper Were A Time-Traveling Chick?

From the department of questions you never wanted answered comes the belated sequel to cult fave Time After Time, where HG Wells and Jack the Ripper travel to the 1970s and duke it out. Now Jack is back as Jaclyn. Jaclyn the Ripper is written by Karl Alexander, who also penned the bestselling Time After…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

“Kicking And Screaming For Science Fiction” Did No Good, On Publishers Weekly’s Best-Of List

What do women authors and science-fiction writers have in common? A notable absence on Publishers Weekly’s list of the ten best books of the year. PW apologized proactively for the omission, saying “We wanted the list to reflect what we thought were the top 10 books of the year with no other consideration….We ignored gender…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

What Cormac McCarthy Insisted On Keeping In The Road Movie

20 Science Fiction Books We Can’t Wait To Read in 2010

Describe Your Favorite Bookstore and Win Free Books!

One New York Times Bestseller Per Year Will Barely Keep You Above The Poverty Line

Once Upon a Time, a Book and an iPhone Met…

If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You’ll Love

A History of 16 Science Fiction Classics, Told In Book Covers

Gifts for Bookworms Who Live for Lazy Weekend Reads

What Do You Do When Your Novel Goes Off Course?

Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It’s A Living, Sort Of

Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee!

Tomorrow’s Uprising Against Genre Classification Has Been Canceled. As You Were.

Acidic Bullets Vs. Disintegrating Flame, In “The Werewolves Of War!”

Geeking Out About Genres With Michael Chabon

Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson

Reading Is The Best Brain Implant

See What Life Was Like Before Viggo Hit “The Road”

With Double Star, the Hugos Start to Shine

What If . . . Jack the Ripper Were A Time-Traveling Chick?

“Kicking And Screaming For Science Fiction” Did No Good, On Publishers Weekly’s Best-Of List

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Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

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Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

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Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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