April 25, 2008 – LucasArts is best-known for its endless supply of Star Wars games, but the company really hit a peak in the adventure game genre from 1986 to 2002 when they combined elements of interactive fiction with graphics and a new interface. More »
The Secret Interior of a Vogon Captain’s Quarters
April 25, 2008 – The other day we told you about the artwork created specifically for an online version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game that was created for the new BBC editions of the Hitchhiker's radio drama that came out a few years ago. More »
Jules Verne Wants You To Shoot The Moon
April 24, 2008 – Jules Verne first published From The Earth to the Moon, or De la Terre à la Lune, in 1865, pre-dating our first real visit to our lunar neighbor by over 100 years. More »
What If The Moon Crashed Into The Earth?
April 24, 2008 – Well, we'd be screwed for one thing. Plus it's doubtful that the chunks of the moon would remain identifiable and intact like they are in this piece of concept art... More »
The Science Fiction Gadgets That Make You Go… Wha?!
April 23, 2008 – We have a serious love affair with the cool gadgets of science fiction, but every now and then one will come along that will make you scratch your head and say "What!?" Yes, even in the world of scifi, you can sometimes go a bit too far. More »
Murakami Tells io9 About His Secret Love For J.J. Abrams
April 23, 2008 – We had a chance to see the amazingly eye-blistering @ Murakami exhibit in Los Angeles a couple of months ago before they packed everything up and headed to Brooklyn. More »
Inside the Heart of Gold That You Never Saw
April 23, 2008 – If you haven't seen the BBC television version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, then you need to get off your lazy duff and give it a whirl. It's extremely different from the movie version, and much closer to the novels and radio drama. More »
Forget Warp Speed, Try One Of These Alternative FTL Ideas
April 22, 2008 – In Star Wars and Star Trek, the main way to get around the galaxy is to use warp speed or flip on your hyperdrive, which is a bit like hitting the gas pedal as hard as you can so you'll get there a bit quicker. More »
Raiders of the Lost Saucer!
April 22, 2008 – What would have happened if Raiders of the Lost Ark met Sid and Marty Krotfft's Lost Saucer? It might have looked a little something like this. Of course, you might have a chance to see this scene for real if the rumors about extraterrestrials in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull... More »
Going Halfsies With the Best SciFi Half Breeds
April 21, 2008 – Human-alien hybrids are everywhere in scifi. Whether they come from interplanetary love or mutant genes quietly sneaking into our DNA, we're all about hooking up the Human factor with anything else out there. More »
The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It
April 18, 2008 – The London Science Museum finally completed work on the Victorian era's greatest supercomputer, the Difference Engine No. 2, 120 years after the death of inventor Charles Babbage. More »
The Massive Solar-Orbiting Electro-Mechanical Analytic Engine, Mark 6
April 18, 2008 – In some circles of the steampunk Star Wars universe this is known as the "Death Star," and it generates billions of calculations all day long in an effort to work with Arcane Mathematics and find a "Unified Force Theory" that can destroy entire planets.Artist Eric Poulton has put together a More »
The Most Badass Robot Army Dream Team
April 17, 2008 – We've talked about the toughest scifi soldiers, but those were made out of blood, muscle and bone. What about their robotic counterparts? It's goes without saying that if the Bot Army met the Meat Popsicle Army, the robots would clean house. More »
Damn Kids Joyriding Again in their Flying Cars
April 16, 2008 – Once we finally have flying cars, authorities are going to have a bitch of a time keeping people from doing what these two hotshot pilots are planning: More »
It’s 1980, And You’re Commanding A Tank On Another Planet
April 15, 2008 – Ever wanted to pilot a tank on an alien world while blasting enemies and flying saucers to bits? Well, once upon a time in 1980, that was possible. And when Battlezone comes out on Xbox Live tomorrow, you can do it all over again. More »
Oops, A Robot Accidentally Killed Queen
April 15, 2008 – The coolest thing about the cover artwork for Queen's 1977 album News of the World was that it was inspired by a cover from the October 1953 edition of Astounding Science Fiction magazine (later called Analog). More »
The Large Hadron Collider Will Gobble Up The Earth (Or Maybe Just France)
April 14, 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at the CERN research facility near Geneva, Switzerland won't be going on a luau in Hawaii anytime soon, since the state is suing to stop the activation of the enormous research project. More »
Getting Ready for the Final Battle
April 14, 2008 – This looks like the poster for an awesome science fiction film that we'd like to see: a girl in a giant hulking exoskeletal suit of armor with her comic-effect tiny little robotic pal perched on her shoulder. More »
The Scifi Sound Effects That Take Over Your Brain
April 11, 2008 – Even if you just hear a science fiction movie or TV show playing in another room, you'll instantly recognize it thanks to the weird sounds of alien spaceships and laser weapons. More »
Not A Bad Place To Crash a Spaceship
April 9, 2008 – It's not clear if the two travelers in this concept art have crashed into this glowing cavern, or if that's simply their parking place. Maybe there's a swarm of flesh-peeling mites just out of view, but it looks like a good place for an adventure to us.French artist Mathias Verhasselt works as a... More »
