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Concept Art
The Many Heads Of Boba Fett
Intergalactic bounty-hunter Boba Fett can bring you the head of anyone you seek, in the Star Wars universe. But he's gone through quite a few heads himself, judging from this early concept art that turned up online. Click through to see a gallery of Fett's armor and ship as a work in progress, plus the famous Ralph McQuarrie concept art that spawned its own concept-art action figure. More » -
Sundance
Paul Giamatti Wants To Steal Your Soul, Crush An Astronaut At Sundance
The Sundance festival released its competition lineup today, and it includes two science fiction heavy hitters. One features a soul-stealing inventor (Paul Giamatti) and the other is a Japanese flick about cloning a lost astronaut. Let's not forget, this was the festival that made people stand up and shout about Sleep Dealer and Timecrimes just last year, so I'm equally excited to see what the future of Sundance holds for these two. More » -
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ghostbusters
Ghostbusters Game Is So Lifelike, It's Spooky
Did they steal the souls of the original Ghostbusters stars and force them into this game? Because it is downright scary how much the characters look like their original counterparts. The Atari game, which has seen it's shares of troubles, now has a brand new trailer and an actual release date of June 2009. More » -
No More Space Porn on CNN
CNN just laid off its entire Space/Tech/Environment reporting unit. That means that one of the United States' biggest TV news sources thinks that space and the environment just aren't worth reporting on in any depth or with any consistency. Yes, we are officially grumpy about this. [via BoingBoing]
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Cream of Tank Girl review
Tank Girl Wants To Dominate Your Coffee Table
You may know Tank Girl as many things β comic book character, punk-rock icon, failed movie star... but now you will know her as a fine-art collectible. A new giant coffee-table book, The Cream Of Tank Girl, makes the case for Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett's creation being a work of art with pulverizing intensity. Just check out our gallery below.
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Failed Presidential Candidate Retreats To The '70s
It's not John McCain, sadly, but the next best thing. Fred Thompson - the lawyer-turned-actor-turned-senator-turned-Republican-presidential-nominee - has signed up for a stint as Harvey Keitel's boss in ABC's time-traveling cop show Life On Mars. He'll make his first appearance next year, when the show moves to Wednesday nights, following the return of Lost. [EW.com]
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Maps
World Disaster Map Gives You the Big (Terrifying) Picture
The National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications in Hungary has put together a helpful real-time map of global disasters. In this detail, you can see a series of earthquakes that hit Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Russia today, as well as an explosion in Norway and a flood in Finland.
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Miller Still On Justice League
Looks like we were right to be suspicious of the news that George Miller was off the Justice League movie - Dark Horizons have retracted their original story as bogus after being contacted by a representative of Kennedy Miller Mitchell, adding that their source for the story - "a usually reliable source," apparently - "seems to have vanished into the electronic ether" after the fake scoop. [Dark Horizons]
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Monsters among us
Aquatic Invader Has Time Lordβs Regenerative Powers
When the Time Lords of Doctor Who face a fatal blow, they can always regenerate, taking on a newer, and often younger, body. A certain species of hydrozoa can perform a similar trick, going into hibernation when times are tough and then emerging as a younger version of itself. And researchers say this potentially immortal creature is slowly taking over our seas. More » -
Chronicles Of Riddick
Riddick Is Your Zen Buddhist Philosopher Of Space Murder
As soon as I got done labeling Chronicles Of Riddick a dead franchise, this awesome trailer for the new Riddick video game, Assault On Dark Athena, popped up. It has everything: sleep pods, moody narration, spaceships, a mixture of range and melee combat, first-person shooterhood, and multiplayer modes. Plus it comes bundled with the acclaimed Riddick game Escape From Butcher Bay. It's out next June. [VE3D] More » -
Scifi gift guide
Gift Ideas for the Ten Major Species of Science Fiction Fan
We've got the definitive guide to what you and your fannish pals should have on your holiday lists this season. Not sure what to buy for the Star Wars fan in your life? Got a steampunker or zombie lover on your list and no clue where to look? Wondering what's out there for the Battlestar Galactica watcher, the Trekkie, or the Whedon devotee? Our gift guide offers ideas for the ten major species of scifi fan. More » -
magneto
Magneto Actually Moving His Magnetic Butt Forward?
Looks like someone is finally taking care of the Magneto movie. IndieLondon caught up with Lauren Shuler Donner, big wig X-Men producer and one of the minds behind Constantine 2, Donner is eager to get cracking on the X-Men Origins: Magneto story. More » -
A spider woman puts her mark on a hapless goth kid, in Thomas Roche's awesome erotica story "Spider Bites," which is online at Circlet Press until tomorrow noon. It's part of Circlet's advent calendar β and yes, it's odd for a Halloween story to be part of a December holiday celebration, but let's just run with it. [Circlet Press]
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ESP
Had a Paranormal Experience? We'll Give You Β£5
University of Edinburgh is looking for a few research subjects for some ESP experiments. To volunteer, you must be a native English speaker and have had at least one paranormal experience. No, that does not include owning a season of The Supernatural on DVD. Apparently these experiments only take about 45 minutes and you'll get Β£5. Enough to buy beer for those spirits who keep following you around. [via Public Parapsychology] -
house of the future
P.J. O'Rourke's Going To Tear Your Future Playhouse Down
The future ain't what it used to be. Satirist P.J. O'Rourke took his family to see the newly opened House Of The Future at Disneyland, and it was closed for repairs. ("HoFII has a subprime mortgage, or so it appears," he writes.) But he did get a good enough look at it to discover that it's barely futuristic, and most of its supposedly futuristic ideas are actually annoying as heck. More » -
Comic book economics
The True Scale Of Interplanetary War
Courtesy of San Francisco comic retailer James Sime, a look at the span of Marvel Comics' Secret Invasion series in collected form - 22 books so far, and that's not even the complete story. Is this final proof that the cost of (reading about comic book) war is too high?
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Fringe recap
Fringe Is All About Drugs and Chainsaws
Last night was the last episode of mad science melodrama Fringe until January, and we're going to miss all those gory human experiments and underground, drug-taking researchers. I skipped Fringing out last week, so here's the only clip you need to see from that episode: Walter explaining what is best in life to Olivia. Last night brought some awesome Walter one-liners too. Spoilers ahead! More »
