<![CDATA[io9: The New Yorker]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: The New Yorker]]> http://io9.com/tag/the new yorker http://io9.com/tag/the new yorker <![CDATA[New Yorker short story covers the foibles of a sadistic D&D dungeon master]]> In this week's issue of The New Yorker, Sam Lipsyte's "The Dungeon Master" follows a group of teenagers who roleplay with a creepy, autocratic DM. The hilarious but jarring story illustrates how totally arbitrary dungeon-mastering can ruin a game. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5649325&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Alien Invasion A Deadly Letdown, According To The New Yorker]]> It figures. When aliens finally do invade and take over our planet, it'll be just as much an anti-climax as everything else. Are you ready for space conquest with ennui? The New Yorker hopes so. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5149862&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jonathan Lethem Returns To Science Fiction, With A Gorgeous Downer Of A Story]]> Jonathan Lethem has a haunting new story of astronauts stranded on a space station in this week's New Yorker. "Lostronaut" is a depressingly bleak, yet beautiful, story told in the form of an astronaut's letters home to a loved one. It's the most science fictional thing I've seen from Lethem in ages, and also one of my favorite pieces of his writing ever. And it's the first piece of science fiction the New Yorker has seen fit to publish in ages. Spoilers ahead. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5083920&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Awesome Free Stuff On The Internet]]> In The Garden Of Iden, Kage Baker's fantastic novel about time-traveling cyborgs who work for the 24th century Company, is available as a free download. Five-year-old Mendoza is about to be tortured to death as a Jew in the Spanish Inquisition, when she's rescued by the Company and turned into a time-traveling operative — but her first assignment is to the 16th century, uncomfortably close to her own time. It's available in PDF, HTML, or Mobi formats. Meanwhile, the new New Yorker has George Saunders' bizarre pitch for a version of Heroes where people only think they have superpowers. (Although I didn't like the ending.) And the pilot for J.J. Abrams' Fringe is available for viewing on Surf The Channel, and shows no signs of being taken down. [Beam Me Up and New Yorker and Surf The Channel ] More »
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