io9: The Lost World

Wild 1969 Japanese magazine art imagines the hellhole at Earth's core

Cyriaque Lamar — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:25:00 PST

Here's something that should appeal to fans of Gōjin Ishihara's profoundly weird children's art. In 1969. a Japanese magazine published these exceedingly intense depictions of life at the center of our planet. Taking cues from Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Lost World, these drawings and diagrams are the strange remnants of some plesiosaur-filled fever dream. I love the heck out of them all.

The makers of Jurassic Park talk about the future of (scifi) dinosaurs

Alasdair Wilkins — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:46:40 PDT

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We recently asked three of Jurassic Park's special effects wizards what they'd do with dinosaurs today, using all-new technology and cutting-edge paleontological knowledge. Here's what they had to say, and how it will affect the new Jurassic Park blu-rays. More »

The 3-D craze comes to classic science fiction book covers

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:30:00 PDT

It's not enough that Peter Jackson's The Hobbit will be filmed in 3-D — now your favorite science fiction books will have 3-D covers too. Are you excited yet? Vintage Classics is reissuing five books with 3-D covers: Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle and The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales by H.P. Lovecraft. And yes, the books will come with 3-D glasses. Says Random House Group Creative Director Suzanne Dean: More »

Scariest Dinosaur-On-Dinosaur Violence Ever Filmed?

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:30:00 PST

Just how crazy were film-makers willing to get to convey the awfulness of dinosaur combat, back in the day? Check out this horrendous sequence from 1960's Irwin Allen spectacular The Lost World, in which lizards covered with makeup battle. More »

The Lost World Gets a Makeover and a City Full of Readers

Lauren Davis — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:30:00 PST

Claymation characters Wallace and Gromit have a new gig: encouraging Scots to read. The plasticine pair grace the covers of thousands of copies of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, which are available for free in libraries and schools throughout Edinburgh. It’s part of the city’s annual campaign to foster literacy, community engagement, and local pride. And, with this year’s pick, the city hopes to spark conversations about not only literature, but science as well. More »

The Original Cloverfield Had Less Yuppie Drama

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:11:06 PDT

The 1925 movie The Lost World is the precursor to everything awesome in the world. Based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel, the movie follows a group of explorers beyond the edge of civilization, where they encounter cute sloths, camp-follower bears... and a weird apeman. Then they find dinosaurs, leading to cute claymation fights between Allosaurs, Stegosauruses and T-rexes, to the sound of classical-ish music. Finally, they take a Brontosaurus back to London, leading to a sequence that looks like the old-timey version of Rampage, my fave video game. [IMDB] More »