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    lightninglouie: Can't wait for the Deluxe Squiddy Blu-Ray edition of Watchmen -- now 99% more vagino-phallic imagery! more »
    bonniegrrl: The movie probably would have been a hit if Mulder was a werewolf. *sigh* more »
    Syrax: I don't get all the Cloverfield hate. Sure the plot sucked, but the narration and photography are flawless and innovative. more »
    Meirelle: Is "wrongest" even a word? Wait. Yes. Yes, it is. ...it shouldn't be. D: more »
    apatheos: I'm taking my time to close the case for Megatron's return. Michael Bay made it clear that misinformation for the sequel would be abundant, and cover ... more »
    Sam Healer: What can we say, you deliver the goods! more »
    Rasselas: I have read none of these, but would pay $50 to watch a Royal Rumble-style cage match among their authors. more »
    dlomax: Wanna know what ticks me off? More than half of these books are unavailable for purchase for my Sony Reader. Why are SF publishers so bloody slow to... more »
    dirtybacon: I'm surprised Saturn's Children isn't on the list. i haven't read it, but I know that it has been mentioned on io9 often. more »
    Baikonur: Being a fan of post-apocalyptic, societal-collapse fiction, and on the basis of positive reviews here and elsewhere, I bought Liberation and was terri... more »
    Grey_Area: Oh no, it's the attack of the Grey Area Book Review! This was a good year for SF novels despite cries that the publishing industry is going down in fl... more »
    Adam Coven: The thing that makes the Doctor's Daughter a "Worst Moment" is the realization that in real life he's sleeping with her...and we're not =[ more »
    spiritkittykat: I like True Blood (for it's trashiness), the Fringe scene didn't bother me, I like it actually and Torchwood is a show I really like. I would have put... more »
    Witera33it: I LOVE Jenny. I would love to see her in a "doctors daughter" show. I also really liked "Meat" and the scene in "Fringe" where Peter was playing the p... more »
    bonniegrrl: Great job as always! Any hints on who we can expect you to probe in 2009? more »
    icy_one: I liked the piano scene in Fringe. If I remember it was the scene with the piano playing kid that was missing, so it wasn't like they hauled a piano i... more »
    bluehinter: There were quite a few ongoing comic series that continued to amaze this year. Paul Dini's run on Detective Comics was absolutely superb, and even if ... more »
    zanyzapper: Can't really say much about the others, but I really liked Jenny. That was one of my favorite episodes in fact. Maybe I'm just easily hooked by certai... more »
    JohnnyZito: Batman RIP was really good. Maybe it'll work better for you in one sitting. more »
    cash907: Jeez Mere... catty much? And Jenny was awesome, but I can see where you might be intimidated by an attractive and powerful female character who gets o... more »
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    The Greatest (And Wrongest) Spoilers Of 2008

    At io9, we don't do gossip — Quinto snorts coke? We don't care, unless it's full of nano-bots! — instead, we do spoilers. Here are the greatest, and most incorrect, spoilers we've posted this year.
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    Best Science Fiction Books of 2008

    2008 was an amazing year for science fiction novels, with Anathem hitting bestseller lists and critics going crazy over slavery tale Liberation and cyborg fantasy Alchemy of Stone. We've got the year's eleven best books. More »
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    10 Worst Moments In 2008's Science Fiction TV

    Ever seen a man give birth to a giant fart in the name of science, a deaf severed head seeking revenge, or an episode of Heroes? They're among this year's worst TV moments.
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    Batman: The Year In Review

    If Time Magazine was honest, then it'd admit that there's only one man to whom 2008 belongs to, and that he has two pointy ears. This was Batman's year, and we've loved every minute.
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    The 10 Most Talked About io9 Posts Of The Year

    During the first year of io9, we've reported stories both close to our hearts and far out in the universe, but one thing has remained constant: You always wrote. Here are our most commented posts.
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    Best of io9's Interviews: 10 Best People We Excitedly Probed

    This year io9 got to quiz some of the galaxy's most interesting people. Meet the Cloverfield Monster's mama, talk to Jewel Staite about bondage and get chatty with theDr. Who genius Steven Moffat.
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    Best And Worst Science Fiction Movies Of 2008

    This wasn't just the year that science fiction dominated the movies — it also featured an amazing diversity of SF stories. Here's our list of the greatest — and most horrendous — films of 2008.
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    Best of io9’s Triviagasm: Most Popular Minutiae of the Year

    All year, we’ve treated you to the trivia, tropes, and minutiae of science fiction with our factoid-packed Triviagasms. For the end of the year, we’ve collected the ten most popular Triviagasms of 2008.
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    2008: The Year Science Fiction Became Science Culture

    This year, the top twenty movies in the US grossed 3.7 billion dollars. Science fiction movies accounted for 2.5 billion of that. In 2008, scifi rocketed out of the basement to become scicult. More »
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    Best of io9's Found Footage: NSFW, Just the Way You Like It

    Nearly every day, io9 brings you a tiny dose of cinematic what-the-hellery called Found Footage. As a year-end treat, here are the ten most popular FF posts of 2008. NSFW, of course.