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Monkeys In Wormholes Are Automatically Funny
The summer's most anticipated monkey movie, Space Chimps, goes for the really low-hanging fruit (sorry) when it comes to scifi humor. Either the whole movie is full of jokes like this cheesy "Space, the final frontier" routine, or they just packed all those moments into the trailer to reassure the grown-ups they'll have something to giggle at while their kids laugh at the funny monkeys. In any case, chances are you'll enjoy Space Chimps for the kid-reasons — funny slapstick, wormhole rollercoaster — rather than the grown-up" humor. Luckily the kid stuff looks pretty great. Click through for details. More »
scifi season listings
It's time for the annual science fiction season to begin. Spring and summer are when giant science fiction flicks hit the screens, and even more giant science fiction conventions open their doors to the hundreds of thousands of light saber-wielding masses. New television series will debut (Clone Wars!), and old ones will restart (Battlestar!) Plus, you'll have a chance to snap up copies of awesome new books from Greg Egan, Karen Joy Fowler, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, and Nancy Kress. If you want to know where to go and what to do when you're in a science fictional way from April to August, then look no further than io9's exhaustive, amazing, intensive list of everything scifi this season.
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io9's Complete Guide to Science Fiction Season
It's time for the annual science fiction season to begin. Spring and summer are when giant science fiction flicks hit the screens, and even more giant science fiction conventions open their doors to the hundreds of thousands of light saber-wielding masses. New television series will debut (Clone Wars!), and old ones will restart (Battlestar!) Plus, you'll have a chance to snap up copies of awesome new books from Greg Egan, Karen Joy Fowler, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, and Nancy Kress. If you want to know where to go and what to do when you're in a science fictional way from April to August, then look no further than io9's exhaustive, amazing, intensive list of everything scifi this season.
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meathaus
Exclusive Scifi Pages From The New Meathaus Comics Anthology
Comics anthology Meathus has been showcasing a slew of talented artists for the past eight years, under the Nerdcore banner. The newest edition, Meathaus S.O.S. comes out this May, and features art from superstars like James Jean, Farel Dalrymple, Brandon Graham, Tomer and Asaf Hanuka, Thomas Herpich, Jim Rugg, Corey Lewis, Matt Furie, D-pi, Ross Campbell, Sheldon Vella and Dave Kiersh. Publisher Jon Gibson was nice enough to pull sixteen of the scifi related pages from the book for us to show off exclusively, and you can check them out inside. More »
toys
An Overload Of Scifi Toys
Phillip Torrone of the awesome DIY magazine MAKE: covered Toy Fair in New York City with a massive onslaught of photographs. While we told you about some of the items we wanted, Phillip went through his 500+ photos and tagged everything scifi related for us with "io9." What a guy. You can check out all of his scifi photos in the gallery below, and be sure to check out his blog at MAKE:'s website. More »
robot art
J.J. Abrams loves Eric Joyner's robot art, and so do we. The Bad Robot maestro is a fan of Joyner's paintings of tin robots in outer space, which inexplicably feature giant donuts. And Joyner's art will be featured as a backdrop in a new romantic comedy flick starring Abrams pal Greg Grunberg (the cop from Heroes) and directed by Lawrence Trilling (many Alias eps.) Joyner also has a bit part in the movie. Click through for a gallery of space-robots and donuts.
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The Bad Robot Overlord's Favorite Robot Art
J.J. Abrams loves Eric Joyner's robot art, and so do we. The Bad Robot maestro is a fan of Joyner's paintings of tin robots in outer space, which inexplicably feature giant donuts. And Joyner's art will be featured as a backdrop in a new romantic comedy flick starring Abrams pal Greg Grunberg (the cop from Heroes) and directed by Lawrence Trilling (many Alias eps.) Joyner also has a bit part in the movie. Click through for a gallery of space-robots and donuts.
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triviagasm
The Best Sampled Lines from Scifi in Music
We've already told you about the scifi-themed songs you might be entertained (or tortured) by if you end up stranded on Asteroid B17-X. But the music-scifi relationship goes both ways: music has been sampling your favorite scifi movies and shows for years. When a musician decides to include a line from Solaris (the original, not the Clooney remake) in their work, that frightens us. Sometimes though, they get it right. We've got a list of the most-sampled scifi in the world of music. More »
flash gordon recap
Ming the Micromanager
On SciFi Channel's Flash Gordon last Friday, we were all once again reminded why today's Ming is not as scary nor as campily compelling as Mings of yore. This scene encapsulates everything problematic about today's Ming. He slurps wine instead of growling; he has no awesome makeup nor a funny hat; and instead of punishing Aura with a mind ray he turns her into . . . a Prefect. WTF? Assigning out bureaucratic jobs is supposed to be his big weapon, his big power move? No wonder they call him Ming the Micromanager instead of Ming the Merciless. More »
star trek
Six Reasons Why Star Trek Should Stay Dead
Star Trek was relevant twice: in the 1960s, and then in the late 80s-early 90s. But now, it's become a microcosm of everything that's wrong with science fiction. Here's our list of reasons Star Trek should rest in peace. More »
david cronenberg
Screw "Scanners" Reboot -- Remake "The Brood"
Poor David Cronenberg, the artsy B-movie director who brought you Videodrome, Scanners, and A History of Violence. The guy just wants to keep making subversive indie actioners like his recent Eastern Promises, but the world loves him for his early horror work and just wants to keep remaking it into the ground. He told MTV recently that he never watches remakes of his movies, and doesn't plan to see the reboot of head-esploding psychic gorefest Scanners, coming out in 2008. So that got us wondering — what Cronenberg remake would get Cronenberg into theaters? It would have to be The Brood, one of his lesser-known works about a mad psychologist and a bunch of angry killer babies with no anuses. Our pick for director and revamps after the jump. More »
found footage
Back To What Future?
This "ouch I can't believe they did that" clip showcases everything that's wrong with Back To the Future 2. It's a shot-for-shot reprise of a sequence from the first movie, where Michael J. Fox gets away from some bullies. Except this time, he uses a "hoverboard" and hitches a ride with a flying car. In other words, the future looks just like the past, except with a little pixie dust. That's why the sequel's future isn't as thrilling as the original's past. More »
scifi politics
US Stem Cell Policy Inspired by Anti-Authoritarian Scifi
You may have been wondering why President Bush vetoed bills that would have authorized government funding for stem cell research that could lead to cures for everything from Alzheimers to paralysis. Apparently it's partly due to reading parts of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a classic 1930s scifi dystopia about a world where the government genetically engineers everyone to be obedient workers. What's hilarious is that Huxley was a leftist, and he would have despised Bush's anti-science policies. More »
review
It was a sold-out afternoon show for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem in downtown San Francisco yesterday, and I was sitting in between two huge family groups who had helpfully brought about half a dozen kids under the age of eight. Good call! This was a family movie, starting off on the right foot with a Predator ship full of Alien specimens crashing in the Colorado forest and immediately implanting themselves in a hunter and his young son. You've got to love a holiday monster movie that's not afraid to kill kids in horrible, gut-munching, blood-spewing detail. People who want dialog that goes beyond "People are dying!" should seek out something else; but monster freaks will love this flick.
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Aliens vs. Predator vs. Turducken
It was a sold-out afternoon show for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem in downtown San Francisco yesterday, and I was sitting in between two huge family groups who had helpfully brought about half a dozen kids under the age of eight. Good call! This was a family movie, starting off on the right foot with a Predator ship full of Alien specimens crashing in the Colorado forest and immediately implanting themselves in a hunter and his young son. You've got to love a holiday monster movie that's not afraid to kill kids in horrible, gut-munching, blood-spewing detail. People who want dialog that goes beyond "People are dying!" should seek out something else; but monster freaks will love this flick.
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10:34 AM on Wed Dec 26 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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Latest by Aldrenean: I wasn't going to see this, mainly due to all the horrid reviews, but after reading yours I went and saw it last night. I completely agree with what you said; a great popcorn/monster movie if you don't take more »
rant
We Don't Need Your Stupid A.I. to Have a Good Singularity
Catherine Valente, author of adventure tale The Cities of Coin and Spice, says the singularity isn't about artificial intelligence or nanobots. Instead, that scifi moment at which everything "now" becomes "the future" is personal, too: Valente compares the big Singularity to personal singularities like living as a divorced person when you thought you'd be married forever. She also lays down a much-needed challenge to all those wankers who think the singularity can only come about via specific technologies like artificial intelligence. More »
hellboy ii
Guillermo Del Toro, who directed Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth, is back for Hellboy II: The Golden Army this summer. Expect loads more monsters and an evil fairy tale look that the director says is more badass than the so-called "dark" versions of various other comic books getting made into movies. (Ahem Batman.) IGN just posted the trailer, which features this Cthulian monster, as well as dozens of other dreamy crawlies. Watch the trailer after the jump.
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First Peek at Glorious Freakshow of Hellboy II
Guillermo Del Toro, who directed Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth, is back for Hellboy II: The Golden Army this summer. Expect loads more monsters and an evil fairy tale look that the director says is more badass than the so-called "dark" versions of various other comic books getting made into movies. (Ahem Batman.) IGN just posted the trailer, which features this Cthulian monster, as well as dozens of other dreamy crawlies. Watch the trailer after the jump.
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Kim Stanley Robinson Talks About Off-World Architecture
Over on BLDG BLOG there's a fantastic interview with scifi writer/environmental futurist Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Red Mars trilogy, The Years of Rice and Salt, and the Three Californias trilogy. He geeks out about Antarctica (where he's lived), the decay of Earth's environment, and what civilization might look like on a cold, red planet. Comparative Planetology with Kim Stanley Robinson [BLDG BLOG]
Over on BLDG BLOG there's a fantastic interview with scifi writer/environmental futurist Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Red Mars trilogy, The Years of Rice and Salt, and the Three Californias trilogy. He geeks out about Antarctica (where he's lived), the decay of Earth's environment, and what civilization might look like on a cold, red planet. Comparative Planetology with Kim Stanley Robinson [BLDG BLOG]
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