Couch is Benjamin Parzybok's Slacker Odyssey #bookreview #couch

The End Of Heroes <em>And</em> Humanity In This Week's Television

The End Of Heroes And Humanity In This Week's Television #whattowatch #lost

The Complete History Of Pandora, According To Avatar's Designers #exclusive #avatar

This Week, io9 Plunges Into The Throbbing Future Of Love #specialfeature #romance3000

On Caprica, Everybody Has A Dysfunctional Family - Even Robots #capricarecap #caprica

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#madengineering

The Science Of Metal Fever, Or How To Build Your Sexbot

Futurama showed us a world with space travel, robot sidekicks, and Al Gore riding the Mighty Moon Worm, but what really made hearts beat faster were the downloadable Lucy Liu robots. How close are we to robot lovin'? More »

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#webseries

50 Science Fiction Webseries, Distilled Into 46 seconds

If you're one of those people who hasn't yet gotten hooked on a science-fiction webseries (other than Dr. Horrible), this trailer for webseries aggregator SciFinal might just change your mind. It's 46 seconds of weirdness, silliness (multi-breasts!) and intriguing drama.

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#romance3000

io9 Plunges Deep Into The Throbbing Future of Love

This week, while many humans ready themselves for a consumer-oriented celebration known as Valentine's Day, io9 takes you away from the hearts and candies and into Romance 3000AD. We're going to get futuristic, romantic, and a little naughty. More »

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#inmemoriam

Remembering Golden Age Science Fiction Author William Tenn

Phllip Klass, who wrote under the pseudonym William Tenn, was the author of off-kilter, humorous Golden Age stories like "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi" and "Venus and the Seven Sexes." He died Sunday at the age of 89. More »

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#thething

The Thing Claims Its First Prequel Victims

The prequel film for John Carpenter's The Thing starts filming next month with newcomer actors Joel Edgerton and Elizabeth Winstead. But does the audience really care what happened to the science team before the monster ran into Kurt Russell? More »

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#bookreview

Couch is Benjamin Parzybok's Slacker Odyssey

Benjamin Parzybok's Couch is an epic for the apathetic, a journey to save the world undertaken by the post-college American slacker - for the essential reason that there doesn't seem to be anything better to do. More »

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#conniewillis

Connie Willis' Next Story: A Robot Who Wants To Be A Rockette

You might think you generate a lot of scrap-paper, but you're nowhere near as scribble-prolific as Blackout author Connie Willis. She just donated 36 containers, with 128,000 pieces of paper, to a university. And they may soon be online. More »

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#planetoftheapes

Who Will Direct Apes' Rebirth?

Producer Peter Chernin may believe in his on-again, off-again Planet Of The Apes reboot, but he's having trouble convincing directors to feel the same way. Which big-name helmers have already said no, and who's in the running to replace them? More »

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#publishing

There Are No Successful Self-Published SF Authors, According To Robert J. Sawyer

The Internet may become sentient in Robert J. Sawyer's new novel Wake, but there's one thing it won't do any time soon, according to Sawyer: Allow you to publish your novel without going through traditional publishers. More »

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#jonahhex

Do The Jonah Hex Reshoots Mean A Bigger Role For Megan Fox?

It was rumored that the Jonah Hex reshoots were required to add additional characters to the film, but the latest set pics make us think that Megan Fox's hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold role has been fleshed out. More »

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#captainamerica

Captain America Movie Gets An International Back-Up Band

Turns out Captain America may not be alone in his upcoming singing-and-dancing movie. According to a new interview with director Joe Johnston, he'll have some buddies at his back, and they're not the Avengers. Is WWII ready to be Invaded? More »

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#conceptart

The Glory And Terror Of Doctor Who's Concept Art

The new Cybermen could have looked much more chilling in David Tennant's first season of Doctor Who, judging from new released concept art by artist Peter McKinstry. He's shared the early concepts behind space stations, Supreme Daleks, and Paradox Machines. More »

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#whattowatch

The End Of Heroes And Humanity In This Week's Television

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Television may be clearing decks in preparation for the Olympics (which start Friday), but that doesn't mean we're missing out entirely, with new Lost, the US debut of Survivors and maybe the final ever episode of Heroes. More »

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#conceptart

Retro-Style Travel Posters For Planets In The Star Wars Universe

Visit the sixth planet in the Hoth system, which looks so groovy that it has zoomy lines behind it. Or visit Cloud City - or Tatooine. Artist Justin van Genderen makes them all look like spots for hep cats. More »

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#ghostbusters3

Bill Murray Decides The Fate Of Peter Venkman In Ghostbusters 3

What's going to happen to Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters 3? We got our first hint from Sigourney Weaver, and now Bill Murray is insisting on it. What's the plot twist that must happen for Murray to be in Ghostbusters 3? More »

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#lost

Does Lost's New Code Spell Out The End?

Love Lost but bored by the numbers? A new code has been released online that claims to explain the end of the series . . . if you make the right choices. Potential spoilers! More »

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#superbowl

The Best And Weirdest Moments From Last Night's Superbowl Ads

The best part of the Superbowl are the commercials, so did last nights super expensive, robot-heavy glamor ads impress? Watch the Lost cameos, monster benders, and sneak first look at the rides on Harry Potter's theme park. More »

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#capricarecap

On Caprica, Everybody Has A Dysfunctional Family - Even Robots

On Friday's episode of Caprica, called "Reins of a Waterfall," we went deeper into the conspiracies that form the deep structure of the show. Plus we got an even darker look at interplanetary family dysfunction. More »

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#morningspoilers

Crazy Rumors And Speculation For Lost, Doctor Who And Caprica. Plus Di Caprio Talks Inception!

Leonardo Di Caprio explains why Nolan's Inception confused him. There are tons of Doctor Who and Lost spoilers. Plus clips from Crazies, Supernatural, Repo Men, Smallville and Percy Jackson. Also: Real Steel casting call! And Heroes, FlashForward and V spoilers. More »

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#cultmovieworship

Screw K-Pax We Want Zonad, French Mutants And Bigfoot's Cousin The Grassman

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#space

X-Shaped Faux-Comet Likely Related to Prehistoric Dinosaur-Smasher

P/2010 A2, the mysterious object streaking through the solar system, appears to belong to the same family of asteroids that sent a huge rock our way 65 million years ago. Maybe it's trying to see whether Tyrannosaurs have re-evolved? More »

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#comicpreview2

Mickey Mouse Vs. Science Fiction: Round 1

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#amazonfail

Sci-Fi Writers of America Reject Amazon Over Macmillan Row

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#watchmen2

How (And Who) To Make Watchmen 2?

Once we got over our shock at the rumor that DC Comics may be planning a sequel to Watchmen, we started wondering: What would be the best way to go about it? And could it ever be worth it? More »

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#tronlegacy

Tron Legacy May Be Only The Beginning

If rumors are to be believed, Disney are so proud of what they've achieved with the upcoming Tron Legacy that they're already working on the next installment in the series... Except that the next installment won't necessarily be a movie. More »

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#hero108

Political Folktale Loses Politics, Gains Multimedia In New Cartoon

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Russian Experiments Go Wrong In Ghost Projekt

The Cold War lives again in Ghost Projekt, a new horror series from writer Joe Harris and artist Steve Rolston in which things go bump in the middle of abandoned labs at night. Here's a preview of the first issue. More »

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#captainamerica

Captain America To Wield Shield, Microphone In New Movie

Wondering how the upcoming Captain America movie will fulfill its own hype about being unlike any other Marvel movie to date? It'll be by having its titular hero singing and dancing. And, no, we're not joking. More »

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#flashforward

Do FlashForward's Showrunner Troubles Leave The Show Without A Vision?

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#doctorwho

Neil Gaiman Confirms That He's Written An Upcoming Episode Of Doctor Who

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#steampunk

Rediscover The Clanking, Hissing Origins Of Steampunk

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#startrek

Rock Out With Your Spock Out

Today's Limited Edition Cheap T-Shirt at TeeFury.com? Kirk and Spock getting a little Wyld Stallions. Ignore the haters in the comments (Although the Star Trek concert pic is awesome); we laughed. Only available for another few hours, so hurry. [TeeFury]

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#physics

Nobel-Winning Physicist Says Time Can't Run Backward

In Hyderabad this week, Anthony James Leggett delivered some unwelcome news: The earth is warming. Good science teachers are increasingly rare. Oh, and we can't manipulate the flow of time. More »

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#smallvillerecap

Absolute Justice Entertains Absolutely... Well, Almost

If Smallville: Absolute Justice was a stealth pilot for a Justice Society show, we're in... But not until someone works out a way to make Hawkman look less ridiculous with those giant wings of his. Spoilers! More »

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#religion

The Bettany Blaspheme-Off

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#smartdust

Smart Space Dust Could Save Us From Solar Storms

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#avengers

Marvel's Heroic Future: About To Be Spoiled By Giant Bulbous-Headed Monsters?

Marvel Comics may be promoting their upcoming plans as a new Heroic Age, but is there something else being sneakily teased for their big name heroes at the same time? Something oddly familiar...? Mild spoilers ahead. More »

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#stretcharmstrong

Twilight's Shirtless Werewolf Spies A Stretch For New Movie

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#iii

Does III Mean An End To Heroes?

Production Weekly is reporting that Tim Kring is working on a new series for NBC, whose working title is III, about alternate world war. Does this mean that Heroes has gone to the great cathode ray tube in the sky? More »

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Friday - February 5, 2010

#moviereview

"District 13: Ultimatum" Delivers Asskickery For Great Justice In Paris

At one point in Luc Besson's District 13: Ultimatum, cop hero Damien intones seriously, "The Constitution is my Bible." The politics in this story of near-future justice are simple, like its pleasures - which include watching parkour badassery in Paris. More »

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