http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/soylent green http://io9.com/tag/soylent green

There's only one thing we know for sure about the future: It'll be weird, and you can't really prepare for it. Just imagine trying to tell someone in 2000 how to prepare for life in 2011. But luckily, there's one surefire way to brace yourself for another round of future shock: by reading a slew of great satires, about people trapped in weird and incomprehensible worlds. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5867637&view=rss&microfeed=true

Peeps: delicious to some, disgusting to others. At least we can all agree that these sugary Easter sweets make for some fantastic dioramas, remaking scenes from some favorite scifi movies, books, and TV shows. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5790315&view=rss&microfeed=true

What would People Magazine look like in the world of Soylent Green? Check out this amazing, hilarious mockup. And just imagine, next time you're snacking on a protein cracker, that your cannibalizing a bit of Justin Beiber. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5767333&view=rss&microfeed=true

Video artist Anthony Discenza has made a Heston megamix "Charlton Heston: The Future has Already Been Written," a movie-length video collage of the actor's most depressingly futuristic films all spliced over each other. Says Discenza of the above footage: More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5759147&view=rss&microfeed=true

Marvellous Hairy author Mark A. Rayner is holding a Photoshop contest to create vintage advertisements for futures that don't exist yet. Here's a small sampling of these retrofuturistic print pieces from both the current and past contests. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5642081&view=rss&microfeed=true

Yesterday, we showed you how the corporate websites for science fiction companies might look. But what about their business cards? Designer Fernando Reza has imagined Rolodex fodder for starship researchers, henchmen, and the folks who sweep up zombie guts. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5629939&view=rss&microfeed=true

If you're looking for a job, here's a list of successful, influential corporations you might want to work for. That is, as long as you don't ask too many questions.
More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5217560&view=rss&microfeed=true

A juicy virtual steak convinces Cypher to betray Morpheus, Trinity and Neo in maybe the most famous non-bullet-y scene from The Matrix. When you start paying attention, you notice how important food is in science fiction, whether it's dehydrated Pizza Hut, orgasm inducing desserts or fish biscuits. Even condiments get shout outs: in Dune the special mineral wasn't just Melange, but Spice Melange. That being said, you know that steak tasted like bitter hatred in your mouth After the jump a list of some of the weirdest things stuffed into the mouths of our beloved scifi characters. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=389720&view=rss&microfeed=true

Prices for cornmeal and rice have doubled in Somalia since January, and on Monday food riots wracked the Somalian city of Mogadishu. Thousands of people protested the insane prices for staple foods, and eventually police shot and killed two protesters. Earlier this year, food riots broke out in the African nation of Senegal as well. What's causing these conditions, which sound like the precursors to the apocalyptic food-shortage flick Soylent Green? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=388625&view=rss&microfeed=true

If you hadn't heard the news by now, Charlton Heston passed away Saturday night at the grand old age of 84. His broad-shouldered, square-jawed, teeth-gritting acting style launched historical characters from Moses to Judah Ben-Hur, but we were more fixated on his body of science fiction work, which was considerable as you can see from our breakdown. Hopefully people around the world will be shouting "Get your stinking paws off me!" or "Soylent Green is people!" as a sign of mourning. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=376894&view=rss&microfeed=true

Long before Charlton Heston was strutting his stuff as the gun-toting president of the National Rifle Association, he was lending his iron-jawed profile to films The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. However, he is cemented in the minds of millions of movie fans as the face of the human race in 1968's The Planet of the Apes. The success of this film led Heston into other, equally cheesy, scifi movies. Take a tour of his late 1960s/early 70s flirtation with scifi after the jump, including his own take on I Am Legend. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=333513&view=rss&microfeed=true

• The aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind may make a cameo appearance in the fourth Indiana Jones movie. Steven Spielberg is avoiding CGI in favor of puppets, and he decided to pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of Encounters. There's retro, and then there's crazy retro. [MovieHole]
• The Hollywood writers' strike could be settled by Christmas, says Nikki Finke, a blogger who claims to have inside sources. That could allow stalled TV shows to get back on track, and let movies do some desperately needed rewrites. [Deadline Hollywood]

Chuck spoilers and news about J.J. Abrams' new mad-scientist show after the jump. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=326760&view=rss&microfeed=true