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Apple TV+’s New Foundation Series Trailer Feels a Tiny Bit Desperate

"There's more to the adaptation of Isaac Asimov's sci-fi classic than just space math! Promise!"

49 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Keep You Turning Pages in August

There's still time to add a few more volumes to your summer reading list, and we have some amazing suggestions right this way.

N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo-Winning Broken Earth Trilogy Is Coming to the Big Screen

N.K. Jemisin has already made history by winning three consecutive Hugo awards for each entry in her Broken Earth trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky. Now, the perhaps inevitable next step is here, with a just-announced big-screen deal with Sony’s TriStar Pictures that will see the author adapting her own…

Author N.K. Jemisin Shares Her Sci-Fi Expertise for Masterclass Online

In a press release, MasterClass announced that three time Hugo award winning author N.K Jemisinwill share her knowledge and expertise by conducting one of her own classes for the educational subscription platform. Jemisin will join the likes of authors like Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood, where students access pre-recorded tutorials and lectures by experts in…

io9 Co-Founder Annalee Newitz Has a New Futurist Podcast!

The world’s in a pretty miserable place lately, but looking to the future can help inspire us to build a better tomorrow for us all—and novelist, Hugo-Award winning podcaster, and former editor of io9 and Gizmodo Annalee Newitz is here to help! io9 is extremely excited to announce Deep Futures, a six-episode podcast miniseries from Mailchimp…

Dominion Comes for Fox News

Dominion Voting Systems, the company which supplied voting machines for the 2020 election, has slapped Fox News with a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. In a 443-page complaint, published by the Associated Press, the company provides reams of evidence that Fox broadcast Twitter-sourced conspiracy theories about the machines in the full knowledge that the claims were…

Sidney Powell Wants Dominion Suit Tossed on the Grounds That What She Was Saying Was Too Stupid to be Believable

After working for months to advance the baseless conspiracy theory that the voting machine manufacturer Dominion had worked with Venezuela to rig the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump, former campaign lawyer Sidney Powell is requesting that the election software company drop its defamation lawsuit against her on the grounds that nobody with half a…

Mars Rover Landing Site Named After Sci-Fi Legend Octavia Butler

That magical spot in Jezero crater where NASA’s Perseverance rover made its historic landing last month has been named “Octavia E. Butler Landing” in honor of the late sci-fi author. “I can think of no better person to mark this historic landing site than Octavia E. Butler, who not only grew up next door to…

Yet Another George R.R. Martin Short Story Is Getting a Movie Adaptation

Last Thursday, it was In the Lost Lands. Today, it’s Sandkings. Tomorrow: Every other non-novel George R.R. Martin has ever written? Director Gore Verbinski, best known for directing several Pirates of the Caribbean films, announced the project in an interview with Collider. This is arguably a bigger deal for fans than the In the Lost…

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is free on iTunes today as part of its 12 Days of Gifts promo. That’s pretty great!

The 2012 Oscar nominations: Hugo soars, Andy Serkis is ignored

The Oscar nominations are out. Our only hope for a genre win in Best Picture is Hugo or Midnight in Paris, and the odds aren’t in our favor. Biggest snub of all? Andy Serkis in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Hugo is leading the pack with 11 nominations with The Artist close behind…

Our future robot overlords will be obsessed with Martin Scorsese’s Hugo

There’s no actual robot in Martin Scorsese’s new movie Hugo — although there is a totally gorgeous clockwork man, whose workings are nothing short of magical. But the whole movie is a celebration of the earliest roots of our rising cyber-culture, and the ways in which people use technology to tell stories that live on…

What Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Taught Us About the Grandfather of Science Fiction Film, Georges Méliès

Silent movie director, inventor and magician Georges Méliès is easily the grandfather of science fiction film. We even included his adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1866 novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras “The Conquest of the Pole” in our Top 50 Scariest Films of all Time. But you probably know him best as the man who…

Christian Bale says The Dark Knight Rises will show who Bruce Wayne really is

How will The Dark Knight Rises put Batman through more pain than he’s already faced in the first two Christopher Nolan films? And what will Batman learn from this torment? Christian Bale explains how The Dark Knight Rises will force Bruce Wayne to confront who he really is. Plus one possible explanation emerges for Michael…

Has the long-awaited Ender’s Game movie found its young star?

At least one white dude won’t be in the Akira remake. Martin Scorsese explains why his family-friendly fantasy Hugo is in 3D. A Joss Whedon veteran joins Grimm. Plus hints for the upcoming batshit insanity of American Horror Story! It’s spoilers all the way down! Top image from Doctor Who. The Avengers Here’s a bunch…

We’ve seen Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s 3D children’s movie

At the New York Film Festival this Monday, Martin Scorsese was on-hand to unveil the very first showing of his upcoming historical-fiction flick Hugo. It was an unfinished cut of the film — the occasional green screen popped into shots — but this screening gave audiences a taste of Scorsese’s lustrous Parisian wonderland. The director’s…

Fall Movie Preview: 5 Movies We’re Sure Will Rule, and 17 That Could Surprise Us

Summer movie season is almost over, and that means movies are going to change. Get ready for Holiday movies, Oscar-bait, and some lower-budget, lower-concept action films. Some movies will rock your world, others will crumble into dust. Here’s our complete guide to Fall 2011’s movies — with five films we’re pretty sure will kick your…

Hugo Chavez Is Using Twitter to Run Venezuela

You know those jokes about how Twitter’s only good for telling people what flavor coffee you order? Hugo Chavez respectfully disagrees. He’s been using Twitter to govern Venezuela while he’s holed up in Cuba. Chavez is in Cuba recovering from surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. But he’s taken to Twitter to keep in touch…

Martin Scorsese’s first Hugo trailer is full of steam-powered wonders… including a dragon!

Martin Scorsese seems like a most unlikely candidate to offer you something to alleviate your Harry Potter withdrawal. And yet, the first trailer for Scorsese’s Hugo positively screams “Hogwarts Methadone.” It’s full of beautiful imagery, funny moments… and yes, sense of wonder. With lots and lots of steam. The clockwork robot with the heart-shaped keyhole…

Happy Birthday Forrest J Ackerman and Scifi Fandom

Forrest J Ackerman is one of those people that you’ve probably never heard about unless you’re a dyed-in-the-wool fan of all things science fiction. However, the man created science fiction fandom virtually one handed, starting back in 1930. Ackerman just celebrated 91 years of scifi fanatacism, and he doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.…