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There's only one thing Hollywood loves than a movie based on a toy: remakes. Dozens of science-fiction classics are slated for do-overs. But instead of remaking films that were fine the first time, here are 20 books Hollywood should film. More »
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The most frustrating, annoying thing about the opposite sex is that they're not you. Why can't you just meet your exact duplicate — except for sex? You'd be a perfect match. Luckily, science fiction suggests 3 ways it could happen. More »
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John Scalzi and David Gerrold are two of science fiction's most prominent writers. And it turns out they have one other thing in common too: They don't want to read your unproduced screenplay. More »
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When you travel through time and space, you're bound to run into yourself occasionally. These meetings can be awkward, embarrassing, or lead to uncontrollable fainting, but there are some things your future self can teach you better than anyone else. More »
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David Gerrold, author of the infamous "Trouble With Tribbles" Star Trek episode, has done a charmingly silly video spot about how you can get a free tribble at Comic-Con. And then take weird pictures of yourself with it for him. More »
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Online books retailer Amazon.com erased untold numbers of books with mature or queer themes from its site, apparently in a drive to remove "adult" material. And some science-fiction authors were hit hard. More »
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Science fiction doesn't just glimpse the future - it invents the scientific vocabulary of the present, according to an editor from the Oxford English Dictionary, who's listed nine scientific terms that came from science fiction. More »
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Science fiction is literature of ideas - it's just that sometimes, those ideas are lifted from elsewhere. Some of the genre's greatest creators have gotten ripped off, or been accused of plagiarism. Here's our list. More »
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People often talk about which science fiction books would make good movies. But which movies would make for excellent novels? And who should write them, in an ideal world? More »
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David Gerrold, famous for writing the "Trouble with Tribbles" Star Trek episode, also wrote an episode that included gay characters - but it was shot down by Paramount. Now you can watch it online. More »
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J.J. Abrams' Lost returns to television tonight, and you'll finally be able to find out what happens when those crazy Losties leave the island. But we're more interested in another (albeit smaller) group of castaways who were busy trying to get out of their own personal hell over 30 years ago. No, we're not talking about Gilligan and company. We mean Marshall, Will, and Holly. They were just a family on a routine expedition, who met the greatest earthquake ever known. It struck their tiny raft and plunged them down a thousand feet below, to the Land of the Lost. Find out more than you wanted to know about this terrific Sid and Marty Krofft show inside, including its connections with Lost, Doctor Who, and Star Trek. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351131&view=rss&microfeed=true You can soon see the story that was too hot for Star Trek: The Next Generation. David Gerrold's AIDS allegory "Blood And Fire" will be an upcoming episode of Star Trek: The New Voyages. Gerrold, writer of "The Trouble With Tribbles" and author of The Man Who Folded Himself, is directing his own script. Still more proof that fan movies are the future of Trek. [NY Times] More »
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Time-tripping mutant Hiro from Heroes is hardly the first guy to get some trans-temporal love action. But if you want the best-ever time travel sex story, you've got to go back to 1973, when David Gerrold (author of the famous "Trouble with Tribbles" Star Trek episode) published The Man Who Folded Himself. A Nebula winner, this short novel explores what happens when a guy inherits a big belt that lets him travel through time, play the stock market to get rich, and build himself a giant mansion where all his alternate timeline selves get together and have giant orgies. More »
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