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Yes, we have assimilated more autonomous beings into the collective using our io9 brain implants. Now it's time for you to find out who will be installing your implant upgrades and filling this blog with new and strange information. We've got a couple of new contributors, and some new columnists too. Meet the new io9ers below. More »
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I'm Annalee Newitz, editor of io9, and I'll be your pilot on this ride across time and space and your imagination and all that crap. The first time I saw Star Wars I got so excited that I threw up. I learned about sex from reading John Varley novels about creatures with three sets of genitals living inside a giant cyborg orbiting Saturn. When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters. When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements. When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm. I love Octavia Butler, Ken MacLeod, David Cronenberg, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Mignola, Joss Whedon, and watching things explode. And now I have a Scooby Gang. More »
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This new list of the 10 best unfilmed science fiction films includes a lot of sequels. Designer Simon Kitson would like to see followups to the original Star Wars trilogy, Serenity and Aliens. But he wishes the Wachowski sibs had made a Matrix prequel instead of the two sequels. Like most people, Kitson thinks George Lucas' obsession with filling in the backstory has ruined Star Wars: More »
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