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In science fiction, everybody's always running and flying and questing, and time is always running out. So that makes those occasions when our space heroes and future warriors take the time to kick back and relax in a bar that much more alluring. There's nothing like a tall cold one when you're fighting the Dark Side. More »
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Oh, Slurm. You're green. You're delicious. You're highly addictive. But you're also secreted from the rear orifice of Wormulon's corpulent Slurm Queen. You can't be everything to everyone, can you Slurm? More »
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Usually, when a political figure is photographed in disreputable company, he tries to cover it up. But when pictures surfaced of Russian blogger and protestor Aleksei Navalny meeting with Voldemort, the Terminator, a "gray" alien, and even that notorious lout Bender, he displayed them proudly on his blog. More »
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We've all seen the predictions — both fictional and pseudoarcheological — that the world will end in 2012. But while some of science fiction's predictions for the year 2012 are apocalyptic, some are merely disastrous — and a few are downright upbeat. Let's see what triumphs and tribulations science fiction says we can look forward to in the coming year. More »
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Everybody knows that actual scientific advances have started out as science fiction, including Radar and geostationary satellites. Your tablet computer is basically right out of Star Trek. But that doesn't mean that every scientific idea expressed in science fiction is automatically true. More »
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When you call for a doctor in the 31st century, you have a wide choice of physicians. Hell, you can call up multiple versions of Neil Patrick Harris depending on whether you need a high school MD or a PhD in horribleness. Hopefully, you just want them for their minds. More »
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What would happen if Bender made tiny copies of himself until the entire atmosphere was made up of our favorite shiny robot friend? More to the point, what would a booze-obsessed robot do to our drinking water? Find out, in this exclusive look at a deleted scene from the recent Futurama episode, "Benderama." More »
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Science fiction is overrun with Martians, from monstrous invaders to shapeshifting superheroes to Santa-kidnapping buffoons. To make sense of over a century's worth of Martians, we present this grid ranking scifi Martians on their goodness and just how alien they are (click to expand). More »
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Watch as a wiggly parasite dances about inside the eye of a toad, thus creating a real, stomach-churning Hynotoad. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD! [Arbroath via TDW] More »
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Is there anything cooler than an awesome diorama? It's like fan art that you can walk around. The most awesome dioramas tell a story and burst with amazing details — and tons of awesomely weird humor. More »
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Robots! They're not just our future overlords, they're also our replacements in almost any job you can imagine. America rushed to watch robots duke it out in Real Steel this past weekend — but "robot boxer" is not the most outlandish job a fictional robot has held. More »
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The Planet Express team dons the khaki and takes up ghost hunting in a series of Futurama/Ghostbusters mashups. And Bender takes his rightful place as giant, mystical destroyer of New New York. More »
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There are many actors who help make science fiction and fantasy awesome, but there are some faces you see again and again. And some actors just automatically brighten the screen whenever they appear. No matter what movie or TV show they're in, they make it better. More »
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Welcome to the third io9 music smackdown! We're putting together the ultimate science fiction (and fantasy) playlist - all the music that every self-respecting fan should have on his or her iPod. More »
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Futurama's season finale saved the best for last, with three absolutely hysterical pastiches of classic black-and-white cartoons, 8-bit video games, and - in one of the greatest segments in Futurama history - every possible cliche of ludicrous, poorly dubbed anime. More »
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The indispensable Neil Patrick Harris appears on two different cartoons this week, as a handsome prince and a deadly supervillain — and he sings power ballads both times! Plus there are season finales of Torchwood, True Blood and Futurama. More »
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Need a good crafts project for the long weekend? Want to make something cool and awesome for your kids? How about crocheting your own Spock from Star Trek, or Darth Vader? Or this totally amazing Wall-E and Eve from Wall-E? More »
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Yesterday's Futurama found Bender on the path to omniscience, as an attempt to improve his video game abilities made him a robot god. Meanwhile, Fry tried desperately to salvage things with Leela...even if he's not sure what those things are. More »
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Sometimes we forget that the awesome animated series Futurama is a collection of lobster aliens and cyclops women. These characters could actually be hideous in real life — and that's just what this one artist attempted to show. Behold the real life faces of the Planet Express crew. More »
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If we can't have Game of Thrones Monopoly in real life, then this is the next best thing — a Futurama Monopoly set is available for preorders during the month of September, with the game shipping in November. Watch out for the Hypnotoad! More »
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The man behind Walter Bishop, John Noble, proves that the real world is just as demented as Fringe's bizarre science, as he hosts a new show featuring "twisted but true" stories. MTV gives us C.O.P.S. with zombies and werewolves. And meanwhile, the Doctor ventures into a child's scary bedroom, on Doctor Who. And both True Blood and Torchwood race towards their huge season finales. More »
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Last night's Futurama delved into Fry's relationship with his forbidding, somewhat insane father, as it proved key to preventing a deadly outbreak of the 31st century's most dreaded disease: a little something called the common cold. More »
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A Time Lord may be running out of time, as Doctor Who comes back this weekend. And meanwhile, see the Venture Bros. like you've never seen them before. And somebody finally had the bright idea of giving Summer Glau superpowers! More »
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Yesterday's Futurama revealed Dr. Zoidberg and the Professor's secret history, a shocking tale involving murder pacts, alien Yetis, and some perfectly innocent covert biological weapons research. It also highlighted just how tricky continuity can be on a show like Futurama. More »
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We've all heard of The Klingon Hamlet, a real book that contains a Klingon translation of the text side-by-side with the English version. Some of us have even been . . . let's say 'lucky' enough to see it performed. But what other famous works would be better rendered in science fictional languages? We've got some suggestions. More »
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Why does Fry suddenly look like a member of the Simpson family? You'll have to watch our new Futurama clip to find out. Meanwhile, the Warehouse 13 gang go inside a video game to save Eureka's Fargo...and Claudia's an elf! More »
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On last night's Futurama, Fry took it upon himself to defend a helpless giant egg, and then he promptly fell in love with the monstrous, acid-spewing bone vampire that hatched from it. Fry really is the ultimate glutton for punishment. More »
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Television is about to get interesting again! Doctor Who's coming back soon, and BBC America is celebrating with a look at Matt Smith's tenure as the Doctor. And meanwhile, Firefly's Jewel Staite is back in action, staving off Doomsday. More »
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Yesterday's awesome Futurama gave us the Moby Dick send-up that all the kids have been clamoring for, as an increasingly deranged Leela hunted a four-dimensional space whale in a half-hour full of crazy ideas, great lines, and sci-fi shout-outs galore. More »
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The coin toss, the great equalizer of all odds, is not as random as it seems. When flipped by a human being, the odds are slightly stacked towards one side. More »
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Yesterday's Futurama took us on a psychedelic, president-licking journey through time, space, and disturbingly British alternate futures, complete with a rope-dealing Thomas Jefferson, vomiting Ulysses S. Grant, elbow-fetishizing James Madison, and badger-wielding Benjamin Franklin. Now that's what I call history! More »
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There are only five episodes remaining to Futurama's sixth season, and we managed to see a lot of them at the show's Comic-Con panel. Including the entirety of an insanely funny anime segment! More »
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Yesterday's Futurama showed Leela exploring her creative side and launching a children's show...which inevitably led to an entire planet being plagiarized and orphans being used for cheap labor. It's almost as though Futurama has bad experiences with the TV industry! More »
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Yesterday's Futurama was a fun tale of robotic gangland vengeance, revealing Dr. Zoidberg's deepest insecurity, what Bender would look like as a bumpkin Moon farmer, and why even a psychopathic mafia hitman is a better friend and coworker than Bender. More »
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Last week's episode of Futurama showed Fry becoming a cop and dispensing justice Tron-style. During a high-speed motorcycle pursuit, he and his partner chase a suspect to a place called Fresnel Circle. Suddenly, the man splits into many different versions of himself, all going in expanded, concentric rings around the circle. What's going on? Only physics can explain. More »
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Yesterday's Futurama gleefully smashed together parodies of such modern sci-fi classics as Minority Report, Avatar, Tron...and, uh, Police Academy. It also turned Erwin Schroedinger into a supervillain and gave us the most ridiculous police chief ever. Now this is Futurama. More »
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The Banach-Tarski Dupla-Shrinker recently made an appearance on an episode of Futurama. Using it, Bender got to make two, slightly smaller, copies of himself. The smaller Benders are why they added the 'shrinker' part of the name. The actual Banach-Tarski theorem allows an object to spawn a perfect copy of itself, at its exact size, just by being chopped into bits. More »
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Yesterday's Futurama gave us an old-fashioned story of robots haunting humans, complete with the return of the Robot Devil, the introduction of the Space Amish, and vengeance from beyond the grave...or, in this case, from beyond the global wireless network. More »
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Scientists are all-purpose miracle workers on television. Whether it's a rogue virus or a genocidal computer, there's nothing that a television scientist can't handle. Because they understand Science. But how would they handle the ultimate challenge: tech support? More »
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