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Doomsday's Neil Marshall Explains Apocalypses Without Monsters

The Descent was one of our favorite horror movies of recent years, so we were automatically excited about director Neil Marshall's new movie, Doomsday. And that was before we found out Doomsday was going to be Mad to the Max. In Doomsday, the government walls off Scotland to contain a deadly plague... only to send a team into the shattered country 30 years later. We talked to Marshall about strong women, genre confusion, and why Doomsday has no monsters. More »

12:07 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,896 views, 20 comments

Latest by IntoAshes: @aspiringexpatriate: They didn't? Looking at those clips you could have fooled me. more »

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io9 Asks Barth Anderson Why Plague Lit Left SF Behind

Where are all the science fiction books about plagues and bioterror? There's been a huge surge in deadly-disease books in non-SF genres since 9/11 — from non-fiction books like Hot Zone to medical thrillers like Leonard Goldberg's Fever Cell to literary works like Thomas Mullen's The Last Town On Earth. But the disease-paranoia wave has mostly passed science fiction by. How come? We asked Barth Anderson, author of science-fiction disease book The Patron Saint of Plagues. More »

12:50 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By charliejane
1,137 views, 21 comments

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Great Zombies Of Science Fiction

When you think zombies, you think weird magic. But really, a lot of the greatest zombies in movies, TV and books have resulted from pure science. Okay, maybe not "hard" science, but at least some kind of scientific process involving lab coats. We list the greatest zombies of science, below the fold. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By charliejane
18,944 views, 32 comments

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Super-Rabies Turns LA Building Into Death Trap In Quarantined

Plagues are the new monsters. Just look at Quarantined, the movie Screen Gems just green-lighted about a reporter and her camera crew, trapped inside a building where a deadly new strain of rabies rages. It sounds very 28 Days Later, but also like a zoom-lens on the future of our overpopulated and psychotic global village. More »

8:00 AM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By charliejane
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