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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. More »

8:40 AM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Annalee Newitz
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Michael Gondry's New Flick About How His Son Is A Galactic Dictator


Michael Gondry, who directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the futuristic flick about consumer tech for selective memory editing (see clip), says he's set to direct an animated scifi feature with his 16-year-old son. It will be a space opera about a dictator and a rebel, which Gondry says is an allegory for their father-son relationship - except the son is the dictator. Can you say "needing years of therapy"? Many have speculated that the flick could go the way of another famous father-child scifi collaboration, Robert Rodriguez's Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. (Thankfully Rodriguez has returned to more wholesome fare like Planet Terror.) Then again, the Gondrys' flick could be great. Gondry says it's based on his son's art, and Gondry himself is no slacker when it comes to amazing visuals.

Gondry to direct animated film with his son [via Cinematical]


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11:51 AM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Annalee Newitz
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