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Welcome to the monthly meeting of the io9 Book Club. In March, we read The Apocalypse Ocean, by Tobias Buckell. Jump…
This month, we'll be reading Tobias Buckell's crowd-funded novel The Apocalypse Ocean. It's the fourth book in his…
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October brings an amazing horde of great books, to keep you reading way into the night. Lois Lowry concludes the Give…
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Arctic Rising author Tobias Buckell has a new story in the first issue of a "multigenre fiction and comics magazine"…
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Most of us have dreamed about controlling giant, computerized armor suits like Iron Man does. But what would it…
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Literary scifi authors from Vonda McIntyre to Jeff VanderMeer and Thomas Disch have written "works for hire" -…
Pandorum's space-zombie rampage was a huge letdown, but at least Zombieland reminded us how great zombies can be.…