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The io9 guide to June science fiction awesomeness

Summer here is, and there’s a ton of sizzling scifi on the way! June brings us the returns of True Blood and Futurama, Splice and Jonah Hex at the box office, and loads of author appearances, new books, and conventions. You can download the June calender by clicking here. And here are this month’s convention…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jun 1

A Real, Working Hoverboard Exists

I cannot overstate the significance of this news. French artist Nils Guadagnin has done the semi-possible: He’s recreated the hoverboard from Back to the Future II. And it totally works…so long as no one stands on it. The board floats through simple electromagnetism, but the more brilliant part of the design seems to be a…

Movies Mark Wilson May 27

The io9 Guide To May Science Fiction Awesomeness

What’s May have in store for you? Iron Man 2, the season finales of a ton of shows (including Lost!), and more conventions than you can shake a May Pole at! You can download the May calender as a printable PDF by clicking here. And here are this month’s convention links: – No Brand Con…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar May 1

Inside a Nazi UFO

In an alternative Earth, Hitler had a Plan B: A secret colony on the Moon, founded by troops launched from Antarctica. According to Iron Sky, that’s exactly what happened. And soon, they will be back to fight back, flying UFOs. Click to see the high res version Iron Sky is a movie produced by several…

Movies Jesus Diaz Apr 12

Periodic Table of Imaginary Sci-Fi Elements

All the life-sapping elements dreamed up by TV shows, movies, authors and game studios are here—including Kryptonite, Element X and Vibranium. Classified by media, energy potential and origin, naturally. [RussellWalks via Urlesque via Neatorama via Kotaku]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 9

It’s The April Guide To Science Fiction! We Ain’t Fooling!

What tomfoolery awaits you this April? Kick-Ass, a new Freddy Krueger, spring TV in full swing, and a plethora of conventions and new books. It’s the April io9 Guide To Science Fiction! No shenanigans! You can download the March calender as a printable PDF by clicking here. And here are this month’s convention links in…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Apr 1

NASA Discovers Pac-Man On Death Star Saturn Moon

Hold on to your Spiderman underpants because here’s a planetary-sized nerdgasm. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made the most amazing discovery in the history of science: Pac-Man actually lives on the Death Star. There. Beat that, Large Hadron Collider. This is the temperature map of Mimas, the Saturn’s icy moon that looks like the AT&T logo.…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Mar 29

If You Could See How Fast We’re Really Spinning…

The “Star Trails” photo pool on Flickr is literally dizzying. People set up long-exposure shots or stacked photos on cloudless nights, and the result shows just how small we are against the hurtling stars. Here are a few humbling photos. Star Trails: March 18 by Stephen Little on Flickr. “One hundred and six (106) stacked…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 23

The Periodic Table of Sci-Fi

I think I would’ve done a lot better in 10th grade Chemistry if we’d studied the Periodic Table of Sci-Fi Film and Television. And I get the feeling I’m not the only one. Click to biggie-size. The chart was created by Kris Staub, who sells prints of this and other illustrations here. [TopatoCo via The…

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 16

To Protect and Kill: Morality in Action Manga

Just as Watchmen criticized the morality of superhero comics, manga like Bokurano and Fullmetal Alchemist criticize the “smiles and happy endings” of shonen manga. “I…hate hurting things…and breaking things…I wish we could all get along…If I can avoid a battle…I think that’s best…” — To-Ru Zekuu and Yuna Takanagi, Shiki Tsukai “I’m not going to…

io9 Jason Thompson Mar 11

Fashion as Futurism

It’s hard for a lot of us to relate to what goes on in fashion, but Alexander McQueen, recently deceased, strode across some familiar territory in his final works. Shots like this are as sci-fi as they are high-fashion. [BoingBoing]

Tech News John Herrman Mar 10

In Like A Lion, Out Like A Robot Lion – The March Guide To Science Fiction!

March may be a drab month for weather, but this month has tons of shiny new scifi waiting for you. There’s the return of V, io9’s Time Bender at SXSW, Roger Corman’s Dinoshark, and cons and author appearances galore! You can download the March calender as a printable PDF by clicking here. And here are…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 1

The Best Science Fiction Would Work Without Any Science At All

What makes a great science-fiction story work? Most people say the acid test is whether you can remove the scientific speculation and still have the same story. If so, it’s not science fiction. But one author says it’s the opposite. Guest blogging over at Southern City Mysteries, Cassastar author Alex Cavanaugh writes: No matter where…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Feb 5

Genres Aren’t Boxes, They’re Reading Instructions

Where would we be without genre labels? Free to write new and weird idioms, possibly. But a couple of recent blog posts make the case that genres aren’t cages, they’re toolkits that tell you how to read a particular text. Writing over at Tor.com a while back, Jo Walton quotes Samuel Delany as saying that…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Feb 4

The Ultimate Super Guide To Science Fiction In February

Are you ready to fall in love with science-fiction all over again in February? There’s the final season of Lost, Connie Willis appearances, and a ton of awesome conventions. Peer into your immediate future with the io9 calendar! (Now updated!) As always, you can download the whole thing as a printable PDF by clicking here.…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Feb 1

Welcome To The Soft Apocalypse

By now, the apocalypse story – which goes back at least as far as the ancient Hebrews – has fractured into numerous sub-genres. Our favorite, these days, is the soft apocalypse, where the end has come but life goes on. Sometimes, things are rough. Not everybody plays fair. Nobody drives Beemers any more. The style…

Movies Scott Timberg Jan 29

Amazingly, a Good — and Frightening — SF Play

Any theories on why science-fiction theater tends to be so lame? Does the naturalism of the stage thwart suspension of disbelief? In any case, a good one, called The Assember Dilator, seems to’ve just finished brewing in the East Village. According to this review in The L Magazine, the play is “without question some of…

io9 Scott Timberg Jan 28

Are Today’s SF Magazines Too Wide-Ranging And Eclectic For Most Readers?

“I think almost all of the big respectable science fiction and fantasy magazines have the same exact problem which is that they’re eclectic. And, eclectic products have a much harder time finding an audience who will follow them. I’m astounded at the fantasy and science fiction readership, for example, who is willing to read both…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Jan 28

Population Surge Leads to Micro-Apartments

We’ve seen it in science-fiction books and movies before — the urban dystopia where living space has shrunk to almost nothing to house a teeming humanity. Now it seems to be here… or at least scheduled for 2011. The loft — already a compact, efficient living arrangement that eschews most luxury — is being replaced…

io9 Scott Timberg Jan 28

Kim Stanley Robinson Goes to Jupiter

Kim Stanley Robinson‘s new novel, Galileo’s Dream, takes the titanic astronomer-mathematician from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter in the 31st century to assist in a political battle pitting science against religion. We talked to him about creating worlds. Some spoilers for Galileo’s Dream below. Robinson, 57, is a master at balancing both an…

Books & Comics Scott Timberg Jan 28

The io9 guide to June science fiction awesomeness

A Real, Working Hoverboard Exists

The io9 Guide To May Science Fiction Awesomeness

Inside a Nazi UFO

Periodic Table of Imaginary Sci-Fi Elements

It’s The April Guide To Science Fiction! We Ain’t Fooling!

NASA Discovers Pac-Man On Death Star Saturn Moon

If You Could See How Fast We’re Really Spinning…

The Periodic Table of Sci-Fi

To Protect and Kill: Morality in Action Manga

Fashion as Futurism

In Like A Lion, Out Like A Robot Lion – The March Guide To Science Fiction!

The Best Science Fiction Would Work Without Any Science At All

Genres Aren’t Boxes, They’re Reading Instructions

The Ultimate Super Guide To Science Fiction In February

Welcome To The Soft Apocalypse

Amazingly, a Good — and Frightening — SF Play

Are Today’s SF Magazines Too Wide-Ranging And Eclectic For Most Readers?

Population Surge Leads to Micro-Apartments

Kim Stanley Robinson Goes to Jupiter

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Jamie Dornan Is Your New Aragorn in ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

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