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io9TelevisionHelp! I’m Being Carjacked By The Cloverfield Monster!
A weird long-limbed creature attacks this guy’s minivan, from the British time-warp show Primeval, coming to American TV. The show’s producers insist it’s nothing like Doctor Who: it’s a work of total realism, except for the one central plot device of a time/space rift opening and letting prehistoric creatures attack. Primeval, from the creators of … Continued
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Finally, A Science Fiction Novel That’s Really Just For Nerds
If you’re looking for some thrilling science fiction reading this summer, you could do worse (maybe) than Lean 9001: The Battle For The Arctic Rose, a novel that’s designed to teach you to implement the ISO 9001 and “lean” quality improvement standards. It takes place in the year 7278, and follows cut-throat competitors Mark Alexander … Continued
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Gort Was Almost A Cylon Centurion
We almost had a Gort who looked like a new-style Battlestar Galactica centurion, in the Day The Earth Stood Still remake. This is an early piece of Gort concept art, posted by artist Lorin Wood. In the end, of course, we ended up with a CGI Gort that’s based much more closely on the original … Continued
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All Locus Awards Voters Are Not Created Equal
Remember how we called the Locus Awards “possibly the most democratic” of the science fiction awards? Well, uh, never mind. The Locus Awards changed their rules after everyone had already voted, making Locus Magazine subscriber votes count twice as much as other votes, to deny Cory Doctorow the win for best short-story collection after his … Continued
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io9TelevisionYou’ll Never Guess Which Doctor Who Character Is Coming Back!
When Bill Clinton chose “Don’t Stop Thinking About The Future” as his campaign theme song, you know he was really telling you to consume spoilers and obsessively glean info about every upcoming storyline in your favorite movies and TV shows. Right? He would want you to get an early glimpse at the characters from the … Continued
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I Got Them Alien-Possessed Trucks Taking Over The Planet Blues
If you’re going to have to explain the most demented scifi plot in the universe — aliens using a comet to take over trucks and other machines, to wipe out humans before an invasion — it really helps to have someone nice mopping your face with a washcloth. And some bluesy guitar from AC/DC probably … Continued
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Your Spoiler Forecast for 20 Movies And TV Shows
How much do you need to fear spoilers for your most eagerly anticipated TV shows and movies? It really depends on how susceptible to spoilers the movie or show is, and how much you care. We’ve classified 20 upcoming bits of science fiction entertainment, based on how likely you are to know what happens in … Continued
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Hancock Giant Robot Mystery — Solved!
Remember that alleged giant robot that we mentioned, which turns up in drunken superhero epic Hancock for a couple of seconds? The mystery has been solved! Comic Book Movie has tracked down the man everyone is calling “the Hancock monster.” It turns out he’s a guy on stilts covered with seaweed, who roams Hollywood Blvd. … Continued
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You Are Being Watched By Alien Phalanx Monsters
A video-game creature in London warns us that spy cameras are everywhere in public spaces. It’s almost as if the proliferation of CCTV cameras were the real “Space Invaders,” intruding into our lives whenever we go outside and subjecting us to intense scrutiny that might as well be a rain of laser blasts. The Space … Continued
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A New Tribute To Weirdness, From Weird SF Author Paul Di Filippo
My new favorite blog is Weird Universe, a listing of weird happenings and cultural phenomena. It has three contributors: Ribofunk author Paul Di Filippo, one of my favorite writers of bizarre SF, Chuck Shepherd, writer of the News Of The Weird column for decades, and Alex Boese, creator of the Museum Of Hoaxes. They’re joined … Continued
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io9TelevisionFirst Pics Of Battlestar Galactica’s Cool Prequel Caprica
It’s mostly TV spoilers today, thanks to a ton of scans from TV Guide. But today’s spoilers do include some new set pics from the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, which reveal what it would be like to live on Caprica some 50-70 years before the Cylon apocalypse. And there’s one more new Dark Knight trailer … Continued
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Davros Should Have Stayed Dead In 1975
The BBC recently put out a DVD box-set of its time-travel show Doctor Who, focusing on the mad genius Davros, who created the mad-killing-machine Daleks. That means that every single Davros story is now out on DVD, including the painful “Destiny of the Daleks.” And eep, there are a lot of them. Really, Davros only … Continued
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Murdered Galaxy Gets A Double-Halo Memorial
See that cool pattern around this edge-on spiral galaxy, NGC 5907? The one that sort of looks like two halos? Those are the only remains of another galaxy, which NGC 5907 slaughtered in cold blood. (Or maybe cold dark matter?) We’ve shown you galaxies colliding before, but here’s an arresting look at the aftermath of … Continued
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Discover Your Next Favorite Science Fiction Author
Want to discover some cool new authors, and feel in-the-know about one of the most important Hugo awards at the same time? It’s your lucky day. You have two easy ways to get to know the nominees for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer. Arachne Jericho’s Spontaneous Derivation blog has a … Continued
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Thrill-Crazed Space Bugs Swarm Through World’s Longest Novel
Got some spare time? The world’s longest novel is available as a free download! Coppell, TX writer Mark Leach has just published an expanded 12.6 million word edition of his apocalyptic novel Marienbad, My Love. It’s nearly ten times longer than the official record-holding longest novel, Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time, not to mention … Continued
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Look Who Nurse Joker Is Coming To Visit
So that shocking Harvey Dent image we ran in this morning’s spoiler round up? The one I was pretty sure was a fake? It’s looking more like it might be real. Spoiler TV’s movie blog posted a bunch of screencaps from The Dark Knight, including a better version of that image. And it does look … Continued
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io9A Deadly Mailman, In New Heroes Webisodes
Your favorite mutant soap opera Heroes won’t be back until fall, but you can get a few new hits of superpowered angst this month. The show is running a three-part miniseries of “webisodes” online, starting this Monday, called “Going Postal.” They don’t include any indestructible cheerleaders or brain-eating teddy bears, but instead introduce a new … Continued
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io9TelevisionRobots Run Wild In Astro Boy And Sarah Connor Chronicles
There’s a new picture of Harvey Dent’s final destiny, from the Dark Knight. Is it real or fake? You decide. You can also judge whether a new Wolverine promo pic looks suitably stabby, and whether the new Astro Boy movie is true enough to the original. There’s also a ton of new info about Heroes … Continued
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Molly Ringwald Trapped In A Robolympics Of Death
The towering post-apocalyptic cyborg Overdog likes to capture hot young rat pack actors like Molly Ringwald, drug them… and put them into a maze. A crazy robot maze, made out of swinging buzz-saws, knifey monster truck wannabes, and acid pools. Molly can depend only on her wits, her agility, and her 16 Candles charm, in … Continued
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