Sci-Fi

Let’s Have Fun Watching The Last Jedi‘s Actors Learn to Kick Ass

As The Last Jedi release date draws near, every bit of new information only whips us into a greater frenzy of excitement—and this behind-the-scenes glimpse of Daisy Ridley, Gwendoline Christie, John Boyega, Adam Driver, and Kelly Marie Tran training to kick ass in the film’s fight scenes definitely qualifies. We give a lot of props,…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Chewbacca Ponders a Post-Star Wars Career Change in This Police Recruitment Video

The Fort Worth Police Department—the same crew that brought you last year’s viral video featuring a wannabe-cop Stormtrooper, and a similarly-themed Darth Vader clip the year before—is back with another Star Wars-themed video. This time, there’s finally a good guy in the hot seat: Chewbacca! As we mentioned last year when we posted the Stormtrooper…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

The Orville‘s 13 Funniest and Most Surprising Moments (So Far)

With just a few episodes left in The Orville’s first season, it’s safe to say that Seth MacFarlane’s Star Trek homage has carved out its own place in the scifi comedy universe. Though not every episode has hit its mark, the show has likable characters and a diverse range of stories—and a big part of…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Like the Original, Blade Runner 2049 Is Scifi Film Noir at Its Finest

It’s easy to look at Blade Runner 2049’s stunning use of shadow and light and declare it a part of the scifi noir genre. But it’s really the film’s narrative and thematic execution that grounds it in the longstanding noir storytelling tradition. https://gizmodo.com/blade-runner-2049-brilliantly-uses-visibility-and-light-1819313798 Noir stories aren’t just depressing detective stories. They’re twisty investigations into the…

Movies Evan Narcisse

An Alien Abductee Awkwardly Returns to Earth in Scifi Short Sisters

Estranged siblings reconnect in Chris Osborn’s abstract scifi drama Sisters, and the reunion shifts from shaky to tense when the more rootless of the two blames her prolonged absence on an alien abduction. Is her wild story true, or is something far more earthbound (like mental illness) to blame? The short film offers suggestions both…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Andy Weir’s Artemis Has a Phenomenal Setting, But an All-Too-Familiar Story

In Artemis , the author of The Martian tries to evolve to a new level of storytelling.

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

An Astronaut Faces His Worst Fears in Impressive Scifi Short Icarus

As Elton John once sang, it’s lonely out in space—so it helps if you have a close family member around to help you get the job done. However, it’s also way scarier when something goes wrong, as it does for the mother-and-son team stationed on Mars in Tom Teller’s suspenseful short Icarus. According to Short…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

In This Stunningly Bleak Scifi Short, a Survivor Struggles in a Post-Apocalyptic Cityscape

Post-apocalyptic tales tend to be set in deserted wastelands—but Brazilian short Lunatique, which takes place in the ash-strewn ruins of what was once a great city, is an oddly gorgeous example of this. It looks like a tinted black-and-white photograph come to life, except maybe “come to death” is more accurate. In Gabriel Kalim Mucci’s…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

November Is Here, Which Means You Can Add These New Scifi and Fantasy Books to Your Shelves

Andy Weir’s follow-up to The Martian, the moon-heist thriller Artemis, is finally here, but that’s just one of dozens of new scifi and fantasy books out this month. The days are shorter, it’s cold and rainy outside, and there’s no better time to pick out a new book or five to stay home and read.…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

A Mars-Bound Astronaut Risks Everything for the Future in Others Will Follow

Andrew Finch’s Others Will Follow is about a mission to Mars gone awry, but this isn’t The Martian. There are no alien potatoes, and no jokes about space pirates—just a lonely astronaut reflecting on his fate, and deciding to risk it all to send one last inspirational message back to Earth. The story is very…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

This Designer’s Sci-Fi Concept Sketches Are Right Out of the Golden Age

Massive spacestations, chittering robots, and majestic spires stretching into the stars. All year, this artist has been posting concept art to his Instagram, and it’s out of this world. Lucas Green is an artist based in Vancouver, doing animation and graphic design, mostly for film and TV. Since the beginning of the year, he’s been…

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A Woman Is Kidnapped Into a Time Loop in the Surprisingly Thoughtful Short reStart

Out for a solo stroll alongside a gorgeous coastline, a woman pauses to take in the view at a lighthouse when she’s suddenly wrestled into the back of a car. Her ordeal gets even worse when she realizes she’s been abducted into a time-travel experiment that she can’t escape from—or can she? Olga Osorio’s reStart…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

I Can’t Stand Seth MacFarlane But I Like The Orville

I’ve never actually met Seth MacFarlane, so saying I don’t like the guy isn’t a personal dig. I’ve just never been a fan of his style of comedy, especially Family Guy (hate it) and the Ted movies (ugh). And yet somehow I’m enjoying the hell out of The Orville, his new live-action Star Trek homage.…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Get a First Look at Long-Lost Doctor Who Story ‘Shada’ in Its New Animated Form

We’re all waiting for the new Last Jedi trailer to drop tonight, but here’s something fun and unexpected to admire as well. It’s the first teaser for the animated version of “Shada,” the legendary Douglas Adams-penned Doctor Who serial that never made it to the screen, thanks to a BBC strike in the late 1970s.…

Television Cheryl Eddy

In a Future Without Books, a Loner Makes an Incredible Discovery

Writer-director Pablo Calvillo’s The Inksect is set in a dark future where books are burned as one of the planet’s few remaining energy sources. But hope is not totally lost—as one lonely survivor discovers, there are still some valuable fragments of the past lingering in this bleak dystopia. It’s a cool story, but the unusual…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

io9 Puzzles Through the Characters of Star Trek: Discovery and Its Giant Water Bear

The fourth episode of Star Trek: Discovery further explored the differences between Captain Lorca and scientist Stamets—and how Burnham’s figuring out how to work with them both. We also caught up with the Klingons, and learned more about the strange creature the crew found on the Glenn. In the latest livestream, Katharine Trendacosta and Beth…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Here Are 51 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Choose From in October

October is here, and our list of new scifi and fantasy books is as overstuffed as a trick-or-treat bag carried by a kid who walked the same candy-rich route three times in three different costumes. In honor of the season, there’s even some horror on this month’s round-up. Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor In the…

Books & Comics Cheryl Eddy

Kids and Their Imaginary Friends Do Battle in Cute Fantasy Short Imaginapped

Short fantasy film Imaginapped is set in a world where every kid has a superpowered imaginary friend—which sounds totally awesome, until you realize that not everybody is in it for fun. There are some little villains out there who are willing to use dark magic to get as much power as possible. The main character,…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

A Farmer and His Robot Make the Ultimate Odd Couple in Charming Scifi Short Brian and Charles

Scifi comedy short Brian and Charles unfolds on an isolated farm in England, where a desperately lonely man builds a robot companion for himself—and soon finds that his new relationship, even though it’s with an artificial human who looks like elderly men but acts like a child, is nothing but work. Jim Archer’s winning mockumentary…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

It’s Official: The Next Terminator Movie Will Be Out in Summer 2019

Hot on the heels of new plot and character details in the next installment of James Cameron’s time-traveling AI apocalypse comes a release date: Terminator 6—or Terminator 3: For Real This Time, or whatever it’ll be called—is coming out on July 26, 2019. The date was announced in Variety on the same day that The…

Movies Evan Narcisse

Let’s Have Fun Watching The Last Jedi‘s Actors Learn to Kick Ass

Chewbacca Ponders a Post-Star Wars Career Change in This Police Recruitment Video

The Orville‘s 13 Funniest and Most Surprising Moments (So Far)

Like the Original, Blade Runner 2049 Is Scifi Film Noir at Its Finest

An Alien Abductee Awkwardly Returns to Earth in Scifi Short Sisters

Andy Weir’s Artemis Has a Phenomenal Setting, But an All-Too-Familiar Story

An Astronaut Faces His Worst Fears in Impressive Scifi Short Icarus

In This Stunningly Bleak Scifi Short, a Survivor Struggles in a Post-Apocalyptic Cityscape

November Is Here, Which Means You Can Add These New Scifi and Fantasy Books to Your Shelves

A Mars-Bound Astronaut Risks Everything for the Future in Others Will Follow

This Designer’s Sci-Fi Concept Sketches Are Right Out of the Golden Age

A Woman Is Kidnapped Into a Time Loop in the Surprisingly Thoughtful Short reStart

I Can’t Stand Seth MacFarlane But I Like The Orville

Get a First Look at Long-Lost Doctor Who Story ‘Shada’ in Its New Animated Form

In a Future Without Books, a Loner Makes an Incredible Discovery

io9 Puzzles Through the Characters of Star Trek: Discovery and Its Giant Water Bear

Here Are 51 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Choose From in October

Kids and Their Imaginary Friends Do Battle in Cute Fantasy Short Imaginapped

A Farmer and His Robot Make the Ultimate Odd Couple in Charming Scifi Short Brian and Charles

It’s Official: The Next Terminator Movie Will Be Out in Summer 2019

This Winter Fly Is Doing Something Scientists Didn’t Think Was Possible

Acer’s Mac Mini M4 Docking Station Drops to an All-Time Low, Supporting Up to 8TB Storage

Sony Is Hiking PS5 Prices for the Second Time in Less Than a Year

This Amazon Smart Plug Deal in the Spring Sale Makes Alexa Smart Home Setup Almost Too Easy and Cheap

Ryan Coogler’s ‘X-Files’ Reboot Has Found Its Other Big Star

Anker’s 100W Power Bank Hits Its Lowest Price of the Year on Amazon, Packing 25,000mAh and 3 Ports

Beats Solo 4 at 40% Off Is Now Apple’s Lowest-Cost Headphone Pick During Amazon’s Spring Sale

Now the Oscars Aren’t Just Moving to YouTube, They’re Moving Out of Hollywood

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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

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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