SAN FRANCISCO, 12:25 PM, SAT JUL 5 | 6 POSTS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS | tips@io9.com | RSS
Posts Tagged “

Media

”
rant

What Chicks Don't Like About Science Fiction

I love when clueless humans tell me to my face that women don't like science fiction. Usually they tell me this at a science fiction convention, after we have talked about scifi for an hour and I have said that I edit a science fiction blog. These humans have an amazing ability to not believe their eyes, which is the only way I can explain what's happening when somebody says to my face that women like me don't exist. And unfortunately, the SciFi Channel seems to have the same problem: There's an article in the New York Times today about how the channel boosted its ratings among women by de-emphasizing spaceships in Battlestar Galactica ads and airing supernatural horror movies. I cannot believe the stupidity here. More »

3:30 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Annalee Newitz
34,255 views, 271 comments

Latest by n/a: Cheers Annalee. I started reading the NYT article thinking "This isn't so bad" but when I got to the few comments singling out female audiences and how exactly they think they won them over, I felt pretty nauseated. Oh, and by more »

movies

Telepathic Alcoholics More Common In Books Than Movies

Why can't movie science fiction be as creative as the books? Brendan at Balancing Frogs just read a collection of 1950s science fiction novellas about ancient telepathic civilizations, crystalline alien explorers and super-advanced humans who despise their primitive Earth cousins. Each story has at least one loopy plot twist. Why can't the movies have that manic zeal? Says Brendan: More »

12:20 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By charliejane
97 views, Comment