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Old-school cosplayers were fucking rad. They'd spend hours constructing costumes, sometimes with zero guarantee that anybody would know who the hell they were. In this day and age, everyone's got the internet hooked up to their earmuffs. Imagine trying to explain who the Dirty Pair were when a hearty portion of the population still communicated via two tin cans and twine. More »
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Science fiction's greatest authors have brilliant ideas, storytelling mojo... and plenty of stubbornness. Many of the field's greatest writers were buried in rejection slips, before they finally broke in. Here are 15 classic novels that publishers didn't want to touch. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5668053&view=rss&microfeed=true Today, Octavia Butler, Roger Zelazny, Richard Matheson, and special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull (2001, Blade Runner) were inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame at Seattle's Science Fiction Museum. More »
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In the first chapter of Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny — which won the Hugo in 1968 — the book's hero preaches a sermon about the futility of taking action in the material world. More »
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One of two Hugo-winning novels from 1966, This Immortal laid the groundwork for later divine masterpieces and turned action on an epic scale into something new and intimate, without sacrificing the sense of wonder. More »
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Have we gone multiverse crazy? Iain Banks' latest novel, Transition, is just the latest of a long line of sideways-traveling books, and this theme is more prevalent than ever. Here are some of my favorites, with spoilers and foul language. More »
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The two smartest cars in the universe get chained up and whipped, until they escape using their super lasers, in this scene from Power Rangers In Space. With Knight Rider zooming back onto our screens this weekend, everybody's acting as though KITT invented the super-smart car. But cars with a mind of their own have a long and awesome history in science fiction. Click through for our roundup of sentient cars that aren't called KITT or Bumblebee. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=354779&view=rss&microfeed=true Hard Case Crime just announced that they'll be putting out a previously-unpublished novel by deceased multiple Hugo- and Nebula-award winner Roger Zelazny at the start of next year. Currently, nothing else is known about the project - not even whether or not it's all Zelazny or an unfinished project completed after his death - but details are sure to be forthcoming. [Fantasybookspot.com] More »
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