We here at io9 absorbed a lot of pop culture this year. A lot. We thought long and hard about what was the best, and what was the worst, and painstakingly put together several posts so our fine readers could tell us how right (or wrong) we were. Here now, for your convenience, are all of them in one handy place.
Another year is over, and we’re all one step closer to the heat death of the universe. Whether that bums you out or you find it strangely comforting, you’re not going to find a more pleasant look back at 2017 than this collection of io9's most-read posts from the last year. Some of them even aren’t about Star Wars,…
It doesn’t matter if a movie’s good, bad, or just mediocre—any film can have a moment that makes your jaw drop in awe or tears come to your eyes, or makes you shudder in irritation and disgust. Here are all the greatest and worst individual moments from the cinematic releases of 2017.
Holy crap was there a lot of television this year. While we’ve already covered our best and worst shows of the year, there were many specific moments in these series, as well as memorable highlights from shows that didn’t make it into our Top 10 list, that we’d be remiss to not highlight—or remind you of how awful…
Astronomers spend their days looking at the sky. Maybe some crazy complex new telescope is helping, or some form of AI is teasing the complexities out of vast piles of data. It’s still just the sky. The sky isn’t immutable, though. Some of the most interesting science happens when brief blips pass into and out of…
Did you agree with every single entry and ranking on our best films and TV series of the year lists? We doubt it. After all, even the io9 staff didn’t agree on everything in there, so why would you? To give these aggrieved souls a chance to speak their mind, here are some of the shows and movies io9 editors and…
Though we’ll miss the many actors, authors, and artists—as well as the favorite TV shows, comics, and characters—who left us this year, at least we’ll always have the joy, thrills, stinging one-liners, breathtaking action scenes, and iconic moments they left behind.
Mercifully, 2017 has begun fading in the distance. It can be easy to look back at the last 355 days or so and see only the bad stuff—super easy, actually—but 2017 wasn’t without its good days, too. We here at io9 have huddled together to assemble lists of the past year’s happy surprises and disappointments, so pull up…
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of several iconic fictional characters. Whether they were cut down in the line of duty, chose to make a noble sacrifice for the greater good, or simply kicked the bucket, all of these characters will be missed... well, almost all of them.
This year’s genre fiction can be defined by many things, but weirdly enough, 2017 has been very big for Captains. Not majors, nor generals, not even sergeants or admirals or petty officers, or any other rank you can think of—just Captains, and here are how they all ranked this year.
It’s been a wild year for comics—full of swirling, grand relaunches and controversial events, but more importantly, some damn good books. As ever, it’s tough to whittle down the multitude of stories and characters we’ve read about this year into a list of the best, but here are 15 of our absolute favorite comics of…
It was a big year for the building blocks of life. Here are the most significant breakthroughs in genetics research of 2017.
This year, we were glued to our TVs and/or whatever device was streaming our scifi and fantasy favorites. It was tough narrowing down a top 10—and you may be surprised by what’s missing. The bottom five took a little less time to assemble, but still, this wasn’t easy either. Here are the shows we loved and loathed…
2017 was full of cuddly critters and sexy beasts—from the littlest baby tree to the evil clown king of Tumblr. That’s why io9's Beth Elderkin and Jill Pantozzi have siphoned out the top 10 creatures who stole their hearts this year. Check out the video below.
It’s really not that hard to write a science news story, I promise. Some new scientific results come out, you talk to a scientist on the phone and ask them what they did, then you ask a few other people who know about the research if the results made sense. It’s a lot like, well, any other reporting.
As 2017 comes to an end, io9 starts to look back at the year that was. In film, at least, the year was excellent. So excellent, in fact, that figuring out the top 10 scifi, superhero, and fantasy films was incredibly difficult. However, while there are at least 25-30 movies from 2017 deserve at least some recognition,…
Remember when everyone was screaming for 2016 to just end already? Well, it did. And 2017 managed to be even more horrific. Twitter has essentially verified that fact with its end of the year roundup of the most popular tweets, accounts, and hashtags. Appreciate them now, because next year is just going to be worse.
The new year is likely to be a tough one for NASA. There’s a decidedly anti-science administration coming into power. Trump has already vowed to cut the Earth science division in order to kill climate change research and it’s unclear if he even knows that we’ve been to the moon. For now, we can look back at some of…
The consensus is that 2016 was a bad year, and like every single other year, a lot of animals died. Unlike every other year, we went crazier over these animal deaths than we’ve ever gone.
To paraphrase Charles Dickens, 2016 was the worst of times, and the pretty good of times. It was a year of wonder (Game of Thrones) and disappointment (Walking Dead), amusement (Deadpool) and aggravation (Suicide Squad), delight (a few things) and loss (too many to count). Relive the year that was with io9's 100…
