This Saturday, renowned author Neil Gaiman returns to Doctor Who, with a brand new mission: make the Cyberman actually terrifying again. We talked to Gaiman, along with some other reporters, and he explained how he became the new Cyber-controller. Spoilers ahead...

Next week the Cybermen return in the Neil Gaiman-penned episode "Nightmare in Silver." This promo gives us the Cybermen on the attack and a few quick flashes of Warwick Davis.

We're just a few weeks away from seeing Neil Gaiman's take on Doctor Who's Cybermen in "Nightmare in Silver," and the BBC offers a graphic teaser of what's to come.

Since being revived seven years ago, Doctor Who has had many amazing triumphs — but the Cybermen haven't really been among them. The Cybermen, as reintroduced to the show, were the product of an alternate universe full of zeppelins, and they had a few major drawbacks, including the fact that you could hear them coming…

Artist EatToast transforms sweet, innocent ponies into Doctor Who aliens — the malevolent Cybermen, the creepy Silence, the tentacle-faced Ood. You'll never look at pastel ponies quite the same way. [deviantART via Neatorama]

A man at the UK Cold Water Swimming Championships in London is seen here adjusting his Cyberman swim cap. It's emotionless headgear for a frigid race. How deliciously apropos! [Photo: Kieran Doherty/Reuters via Boing Boing]

The central enigma of Doctor Who's very first episode wasn't the Doctor himself — it was a 15-year-old girl. So Steven Moffat was returning the show to its roots when he introduced the mysterious River Song. Here's why she's awesome.

Film critic Roger Ebert caused two Internet firestorms yesterday. One was when he expressed his distaste for Kick-Ass. The other was when he asked whether there was "any noun that does not accept the prefix 'cyber?'" And William Gibson responded.

It's one thing to talk about Killer Robots, but which ones have actually managed to really rack up the senseless slaughter? Here are our choices for the ten deadliest robots for you to avoid.

Wondering where Daleks, Cybermen and the Borg are? They're over in the "Do cyborgs really count as robots?" corner, although it's arguably worth pointing out that Daleks aren't really robots at all, just aliens inside weirdly-shaped suits of armor... that may as well be robots for all we actually care. I'm sure there…