Sci-Fi

Before We Vanish Gives a Quirky Philosophical Twist to the Alien Invasion Genre

Though the space creatures visiting Earth in Before We Vanish can inhabit the bodies of homo sapiens, they don’t know what it means to be human. But the more they learn about it, the closer we get to possibly becoming extinct. [Click here to see io9’s statement on this year’s Fantastic Fest.] Before We Vanish…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Here’s How the Sixth Terminator Movie Can and Should Save the Franchise

The news broke last week that Linda Hamilton would reunite with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the new Terminator film, to be directed by Tim Miller (Deadpool) with James Cameron producing. The stars are aligned for the first great Terminator film in decades—but what will it take to get it right? Here’s what we already know about the…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

A Time Traveler Goes on a Desperate Personal Quest in Scifi Short Cradle

In David Holechek’s scifi short Cradle, a man haunted by the worst day of his life frantically tries to figure out a way to time-travel using precise calculations and, ultimately, his mind—think Somewhere in Time, but with a tragedy driving the narrative instead of a corny romance. Many of Cradles’s story elements are intentionally left…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Everything You Need to Know About Star Trek: Discovery Before It Premieres

Hey, did you hear there’s a new Star Trek show starting September 24? Anticipation is mighty high here at io9—but for everyone who hasn’t been cataloguing every bit of info that CBS has revealed about Star Trek: Discovery on the long road to its debut, we’ve assembled this handy guide to get you up to…

Television Cheryl Eddy

It’s Looking Very Good for Syfy’s Adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Scifi Horror Tale Nightflyers

We’ve known since May that Syfy was circling an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s 1980 scifi horror novella Nightflyers—and now comes word that the project is moving forward at a rapid pace. Multiple sources are reporting that a straight-to-series order is very close to being announced. Both Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter shared the news that…

Television Cheryl Eddy

A Time Traveler Evades the Law Again and Again in Scifi Short Echo/Back

In Tristram Geary’s Echo/Back, a strange virus strikes that enables the infected to time travel, but only in very short bursts—mere seconds into the past or future. The results are mostly chaotic, both for the world at large and the film’s protagonist, a thief who uses his strange ability to outmaneuver police in an extended…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Neil Gaiman’s ‘Cinematic and Strange’ Likely Stories Are Coming to Shudder

Later this week, genre-focused streaming network Shudder will be releasing all four chapters of Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories, short-film adaptations of strange and twisted tales by the author of American Gods and Coraline. The miniseries originally aired on the UK’s Sky Arts last year, and it’s described by Shudder as follows: Adapted from Gaiman’s dark…

Television Cheryl Eddy

A Wry Teenager Tangles With the Supernatural in This Awesome Proof-of-Concept Short

Meet Baxter—a deadpan teenager who’s been accused of murdering his girlfriend, when really it seems she’s been spirited away into Cape Town’s supernatural underworld. Can the city’s drunkest mystical bounty hunter help him get her back? And where did that big-ass monster come from? Michael Matthews’ Apocalypse Now Now is based on Charlie Human’s bestseller…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Twenty Years Later, StarCraft‘s Story is Still an Engrossing Take on Space Opera

StarCraft was unveiled to the world twenty years ago, and in the time since it’s become a legendary fixture of the competitive gaming scene. Which makes it easy to forget that it’s also a fantastic space opera. Earlier this month, Blizzard, StarCraft’s developers, released StarCraft Remastered, a face lift to the original title meant to…

io9 Julie Muncy

Get Your First Look at Black Mirror‘s Freaky Fourth Season Right Now

Oh man, is that a Star Trek parody/pastiche/homage? The next season of Black Mirror needs to get here ASAP. It’s just a list of episode titles intercut with snippets of high-tension footage but these glimpses are more than enough to get folks hyped for the upcoming refresh of Charlie Brooker’s award-winning sci-fi anthology show. The…

Television Evan Narcisse

A Synthetic Human Fights to Survive in Visually Stunning Scifi Short Seam

In the not-too-distant future, a tenuous peace between humans and remarkably humanlike “machines”—some don’t even know they’re not real—is tested when synthetics begin spontaneously exploding. A military-led search for these unwitting suicide bombers begins, sending a terrified machine woman and her human partner on the run. Seam—named for a volatile border area sandwiched between the…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

How Terminator 2: Judgment Day Changed the Blockbuster Game

When Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released, it was a blockbuster to end all other blockbusters—the most expensive movie of all time that actually lived up to its price tag. It was the kind of movie that, if it was made today, would have been the subject of thousands upon thousands of bullshit internet articles…

io9 Germain Lussier

The Cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Had Way Too Much Fun on Set

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 cast and crew had an inordinate amount of fun with one another working on the film. How are you supposed to make a movie in which a talking raccoon helps blow up a living planet if you’re not laughing…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The First Order’s Latest Insane Vehicles From The Last Jedi Resemble a Gorilla and a Deadly Slice of Pizza

One of the best parts of returning to the galaxy far, far away in Star Wars: The Force Awakens was finally getting a chance to see how a new generation of filmmakers would approach the franchise’s vehicles and technology. We’ve known for some time now that we’d see much more of the terrifying (and stylish)…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Newest Blade Runner Footage Shows Surprises in the Future

Those flying cars you wanted? They’re coming in 2049, with guns and missiles and drones. Too bad the world will have gone to hell by then… The latest TV teaser for Blade Runner 2049 gives viewers a few new glimpses of the three-decades-after sequel to the scifi classic. In the new footage, both Harrison Ford’s…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Dave Made a Maze Is a Wacky Fairy Tale About the Folly of Trying to Make Something Perfect

The title character of Dave Made a Maze is a guy who loves making things. He’s also a guy who can’t finish things. When the one project he finally manages to make progress on swallows him whole, his loved ones go on an adventure to try and pull him out. I watched most of Dave…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Tonight’s Zoo Is Gonna Have a Tough Time Topping Last Week’s Giant, Invisible, Human-Gobbling Snake

When we made that recent list of Zoo’s 19 craziest moments, we suspected that the show—currently careening through its the third season—would up the ante and get even more insane. And last week, it did. Like, mega-giant invisible snake insane. In a world that’s under the thumb of a mad-scientist terrorist obsessed with breeding vicious…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo-Winning The Fifth Season Is Being Adapted for TV

It’s a great time to be a fan of scifi-fantasy author N.K. Jemisin. Her latest book, The Stone Sky, just came out yesterday. The previous novel in her Broken Earth series, The Obelisk Gate, won a Hugo last week. And the first book in the series, The Fifth Season (which won the 2016 Hugo), is…

Television Cheryl Eddy

Watch Five Noomi Rapaces Fight Together in This Clip From What Happened to Monday

What Happened to Monday, which drops on Netflix Friday, is a dystopian scifi film where families are only allowed one child to curb the world’s exploding population. However, one father decides his identical septuplets all deserve to live. So he hides them, raises them, and names each of them after a day of the week.…

io9 Germain Lussier

The 9 Most Nightmarish Movies About Nuclear Attacks

Film, especially science fiction, has always loved to explore the future we are most afraid of. That’s why nukes have been lighting up the screen for decades, with recent events have made the theme more timely and scarier than ever. Here are the nine most nightmare-inducing movies about nuclear attacks. Note: Dr. Strangelove, Miracle Mile,…

io9 Cheryl Eddy

Before We Vanish Gives a Quirky Philosophical Twist to the Alien Invasion Genre

Here’s How the Sixth Terminator Movie Can and Should Save the Franchise

A Time Traveler Goes on a Desperate Personal Quest in Scifi Short Cradle

Everything You Need to Know About Star Trek: Discovery Before It Premieres

It’s Looking Very Good for Syfy’s Adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s Scifi Horror Tale Nightflyers

A Time Traveler Evades the Law Again and Again in Scifi Short Echo/Back

Neil Gaiman’s ‘Cinematic and Strange’ Likely Stories Are Coming to Shudder

A Wry Teenager Tangles With the Supernatural in This Awesome Proof-of-Concept Short

Twenty Years Later, StarCraft‘s Story is Still an Engrossing Take on Space Opera

Get Your First Look at Black Mirror‘s Freaky Fourth Season Right Now

A Synthetic Human Fights to Survive in Visually Stunning Scifi Short Seam

How Terminator 2: Judgment Day Changed the Blockbuster Game

The Cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Had Way Too Much Fun on Set

The First Order’s Latest Insane Vehicles From The Last Jedi Resemble a Gorilla and a Deadly Slice of Pizza

Newest Blade Runner Footage Shows Surprises in the Future

Dave Made a Maze Is a Wacky Fairy Tale About the Folly of Trying to Make Something Perfect

Tonight’s Zoo Is Gonna Have a Tough Time Topping Last Week’s Giant, Invisible, Human-Gobbling Snake

N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo-Winning The Fifth Season Is Being Adapted for TV

Watch Five Noomi Rapaces Fight Together in This Clip From What Happened to Monday

The 9 Most Nightmarish Movies About Nuclear Attacks

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

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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

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

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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