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  • #booklists

    If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll Love

    Movies may thrill us with their huge ideas and set pieces, but you always know that anything a movie did, a novel did it first... and better. If you liked these dozen recent movies, here are some books you'll love. More »
    11/17/09
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    By Charlie Jane Anders
  • #iainmbanks

    How Will Iain M. Banks' Culture Translate To The Big Screen?

    Iain M. Banks' Culture novels helped energize a whole new movement in vast, thrilling space opera. But the news of a big-screen Culture adaptation makes me nervous. Will the celluloid version of the Culture lose its Minds? Spoilers below. More »
    10/22/09
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    By Charlie Jane Anders
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    10/22/09

    #iainmbanks [io9.com]

    Apparently The Culture is currently being adapted for Hollywood with the short story A Gift From the Culture.

    I've yet to read any of The Culture... so I'm agnostic on this, what does everyone else think?

    [www.slashfilm.com]
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  • #bookreview

    Bad Boys of the Multiverse: An Alternate Universe Reading Guide

    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 »
    10/02/09
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    By Grey_Area
  • #bookreview

    With "Transition," Iain M. Banks Reinvents The Multiverse Novel

    Iain M. Banks' latest novel Transition, in bookstores this week, will jelly your brains in brilliant weirdness. Banks turns political world-building on its head in this exciting tale of an Earth-based multiverse in turmoil, where dimension-hopping assassins jockey for power. More »
    09/23/09
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    By Annalee Newitz
  • #audiobooks

    Listen To Iain Banks' New Novel For Free

    Iain Banks' free podcast of his new novel Transition just launched in the U.S. today, and it's already #11 on the iTunes Top 20 in the U.K. The author is reading 15-minute installments from an abridged version twice a week.
    09/22/09
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    By Charlie Jane Anders
  • #iainmbanks

    Iain M. Banks' New Novel: Literary In The U.K., Science Fiction In The U.S.

    Iain M. Banks is a giant of modern-day science fiction, so it's dispiriting to read his slightly down-at-the-mouth interview in the Guardian. His book advances are getting smaller, but the good news is he'll be writing more books in response. More »
    09/08/09
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    By Charlie Jane Anders
  • #iainmbanks

    Why You Should Discover Iain M. Banks' Evil Twin

    Iain M. Banks, one of the best writers of contemporary science fiction, has an evil twin: Iain Banks, without the M, crafts sadistic, often surreal, novels about religion, politics and disturbed families. Here's why science-fiction afficionados should read both Bankses. More »
    08/07/09
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    By Charlie Jane Anders
  • #lastlines

    Our Favorite Last Lines From Science Fiction Novels

    Science fiction is the literature of the future. So the best SF novels have endings that resolve the story and leave you feeling as though it continues after the last page. Here are our favorite last lines from SF books. More »
    07/31/09
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  • #triviagasm

    The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time

    Some of the hottest hot-shot pilots in space opera are women. It's a longstanding tradition in science fiction to show women taking the controls of starships, space fighters and star-cruisers, and here are our favorite badass female cockpit jockeys. More »

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    07/10/09
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    By Charlie Jane Anders
  • #quoteoftheday

    Michael Moorcock Can't Read "Transhumanist" Fiction Because It's Not About People

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    13 Alien Languages You Can Actually Read

    Inventing an alien language? Easy. Creating an entire writing system to go along with it? Now that's impressive. Here are thirteen alien alphabets (complete with downloadable fonts!) you should totally use to write your novel. More »
    04/19/09
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    By Alasdair Wilkins
  • #sflitinflux

    How Realistic Should Sci-Fi Be?

    Should science fiction make more of an effort to keep up-to-date with science fact? As part of the UK's National Science and Engineering Week, that's the question that the BBC asked four well-known SF authors. More »
    03/20/09
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    By Graeme McMillan
  • #books

    A First Stab At A Science Fiction Canon

    They're ambitious, those Brits — the Guardian newspaper has been publishing a listing of 1000 books you must read, and now it includes every must-read science fiction novel. Let the canon-shredding commence! More »
    01/26/09
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    By Charlie Jane Anders
  • #thewhoeffect

    Brit Actors Want A Part In Sexy Sci-Fi

    For years the property of geeks and nerds, now science fiction is suffering the ultimate indignity: Becoming the next big "sexy" thing for British actors. Is this the beginning of the end for the genre? More »
    01/21/09
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    By Graeme McMillan
  • #democracyinaction

    Scientists Pick The Greatest Books And Movies Of All Time

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  • #bbcradio

    Science Fiction Was Made For Radio, BBC Says

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  • #iainmbanks

    Iain M. Banks: Humans Could Join the Culture via Genetic Engineering

    Apparently scifi author Iain M. Banks (Matter, Consider Phlebas) believes that future humans could conceivably reach the advanced techno-political state of the Culture, a vast, intragalactic society he describes in several of his novels. And we'll get there via designer babies. Over at Biology in Science Fiction, Peggy quotes the author saying we'll become like his A.I.-loving Culture folk by "genetically modifying ourselves, I suspect." And he's figured out exactly how we'll do it. More »
    07/30/08
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    By Annalee Newitz
  • #spacecocktails

    Soak Your Head With The Greatest Cocktails From Science Fiction

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  • #megasentients

    The Largest Mega-Sentients In The Entire Universe

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  • bsgtorture.jpg#horrorhead

    Do We Need Graphic Torture in Our Dystopias?

    Welcome back to Horrorhead, a column all about the connections between horror and scifi. On Battlestar Galactica, there's an ongoing theme of torture: humans gang-rape an imprisoned Cylon; the Cylons beat a man so badly he loses his eye (not to mention all the humans they kill outright); and there's even a little human-on-Cylon washboarding early in the series. These are not scenes that take place entirely offscreen. We see beatings; we see the bloody, freaked-out face of Six the Cylon after she's been raped so many times she can't stand up and has lost the will to eat. The question is, do we need to see these scenes? Would this series be as powerful without them? And by extension, would any torture-laced scifi flick like The Hills Have Eyes or Cube be as enticing if it lost the mutilations or the razor net that falls from the ceiling and reduces living humans to little cubes of flesh? (Spoilers ahead.) More »

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    04/30/08
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