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The greatest mad scientists dabble in forces that... wait for it... man (or woman) was not meant to meddle with. And many of them live to regret it. Here are 20 mad scientists whose journeys ended in remorse and despair. More »
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Mad scientists have haunted science fiction since Mary Shelley created Victor Frankenstein in the 1810s. But what kinds of research have fictional mad scientists done since? I was determined to find out. This chart shows what I discovered. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5646481&view=rss&microfeed=true The Baron Janos makes love to a servant girl, while nearby a lady scientist wanders downstairs and reads up on werewolves. But is the thing that kills the servant girl, immediately after sex, a werewolf or something else? It's NSFW. More »
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Kyle XY discovers the inner sanctum of Latnok's amoral scientists of the future - and it's full of air-hockey and cute Mary-Janes, in this exclusive clip from Monday's new episode. Will he fall for it? More »
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This green-haired alien girl can rip your clothes off AND make you super-horny with just a strobe-flash of her eyes. Some people think science fiction hentai porn is all about tentacle monsters, but they're dead wrong. There are mad scientists who transform women into super-evolved sex-monsters, androids who need human sperm to upgrade their firmware, and women who ride naked on the shoulders of giant robots. Here's our complete guide to the worlds of science fiction hentai, with no tentacles. And yeah, it's not even remotely work-safe, unless you work on a sex-sphere. More »
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A new poster for Igor (at Cinematical) shows more of the animated movie's supporting cast, including Scamper, Igor's roadkill Franken-bunny, and Brain, a scatter-brained brain in a jar. I'm not sure who this hunchback-who-wants-to-be-a-mad-scientist movie is going to appeal to, but since it's coming out in September and there's been almost no marketing so far, I suspect the question answers itself. And yet it has Johns Cusack and Cleese, and could be a great film. Click through for a new plot synopsis. More »
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The first time I ever read the word "anti-hero," it was in an article about science fiction, and it's always seemed a very science fictional type of word — like anti-matter, or anti-gravity. Science fiction has its share of one-dimensional white hats, but the characters who capture our imagination are usually the morally blurred rascals, who have their own best interests at heart. You never quite know what an anti-hero will do next. Here's our guide to the roots of science fiction's greatest anti-heroes. More »
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