Check out an exclusive first look at the book trailer for Rob Reid's Year Zero, a "Swiftian Satire" about aliens who love our music a little too much. This is the zaniest book trailer we've seen in quite some time, and it showcases what an unusual, offbeat premise this book actually has.

A while back, comedian/erstwhile Four Loko taste-tester John Hodgman saw a photo of actor Maurice Evans in full Dr. Zaius make-up on the set of The Planet of The Apes reading a biography of Mark Twain. Judging from the evidence, Hodgman wondered if Evans had secretly been planning a Zaius-centric performance of Hal…

Speaking to DCist, John Hodgman explains that he felt embarrassed to be reading George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire at first, but then he got over it. For good reasons:

The masters of wrong comedy, the Farrelly Brothers, are making all your weirdest superhero fantasies come true. They've cast a slew of movie stars as a band of "fucked up superheroes" from DC Comics. Leslie Bibb is Wonder Woman (who's sleeping with Batman), Bobby Cannavale is Superman, Kristen Bell plays Supergirl and…

Author Neil Gaiman is putting some of his cultural capital into creating a new boutique audiobook label through Audible.com — and the best part of it is that he may be exposing fans of literary fiction to a few unappreciated science fiction gems. In particular, he's featuring A Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley, …

A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin does a fair number of interviews, but his Sound of Young America interview with John Hodgman might be the best one ever. Hodgman does a great job of getting Martin to talk about his thoughts on writing and geek culture — starting with the fan mail a teenage Martin wrote…

The delightful John Hodgman is certainly having a lot of fun with the public and our obsession with Ghostbusters 3 — but have his latest comments secretly revealed a few plot points in the long-awaited Ghostbusters sequel?

Last night's Emmy awards left a lot of genre fans feeling disappointed: Lost was snubbed left and right, along with True Blood and a few others. But there were also some amazing geek shout-outs.

You've already seen the best thing to come out of last nights Emmys. But there were also a lot of science-fiction gems along the way. Please help us caption this picture of the only two vampires who matter.

Wondering just how professional expert John Hodgman ended up using his medical expertise on Friday's Battlestar Galactica? Showrunner and producer Ronald D Moore explained on the show's official podcast.