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05/07/08 16:00
» Meet The New Gods, Not Exactly The Same As The Old Gods [Final Crisis]
They're the core characters behind DC's summer extravaganza Final Crisis , but that doesn't mean that you necessarily know who Darkseid, Orion, Metron or any of the rest of the New Gods actually are. Before "evil wins" in the DC Universe, ..
io9
05/07/08 15:00
» Is There A Giant Robot In Hancock? [Hancock]
newVideoPlayer("/whothahell_io9.flv", 506, 423,""); First a certain Avenger's shield turned up on Tony Stark's workbench , and now some kind of robot may have reared its metallic head in the middle of a fight scene in Will Smith's drunken ..
io9
05/07/08 06:31
» SF Tidbits for 7/5/08
John Picacio shows off the recently finished cover he did for the original fiction anthology Fast Forward 2 edited by Lou Anders. Click the images for larger versions and check out the levels of detail and symbolism. Awesome. Over at Josep..
SF Signal
04/07/08 16:55
» This Week's Free Tor Book: Flash by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
addBookLink("0765349922"); Tor 's latest batch of freebies includes: Free Book: Flash by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (Available in HTML , MobiPocket , and PDF versions.) This week's Free Wallpaper : Chris McGrath 's cover art for Red by Jordan Sum..
SF Signal
04/07/08 07:45
» Thoughts on Wall-E
Today, thanks to our employer, I was finally able to go see Wall-E at the local supermega-plex. This was one of my two 'must see in theater' movies ( Indy 4 was the other). I'm not going to write a review about the movie. There are plenty ..
SF Signal
04/07/08 07:33
» TOC: Interzone #217
The July/August issue of Interzone is out:Fiction: "Africa" by Karen Fishler "The Two-headed Girl" by Paul G. Tremblay "The Ships Like Clouds, Risen By Their Rain" by Jason Sanford "Concession Girl" by Suzanne Palmer "Little Lost Robot" by..
SF Signal
04/07/08 07:29
» SF Tidbits for 7/4/08
addBookLink("B000REQTJU"); Lost scenes from an 80-year-old version of the Sci FI classic film Metropolis were recently unveiled . Free Fiction: @Strange Horizons: " Jimmy's Roadside Cafe " by Ramsey Shehadeh. @ManyBooks.net: " Arena " by F..
SF Signal
03/07/08 22:30
» Whatever Happened To Hyperion, Vurt, Count Zero and Logan's Run? [Development Purgatory]
Welcome back to Development Purgatory, where we check on the status of movies that were announced with great fanfare — but never arrived. This time, we wonder why we're not sucking on futuristic drug feathers while watching a movie of Je..
io9
03/07/08 21:14
» The Pettiest Dictator On Earth, In New "Blindness" Trailer [Blindness]
newVideoPlayer("/blindnazz_io9.flv", 600, 340,""); Jose Saramago's novel Blindness is one of the most memorable examinations of humanity's dark side in literature. So the movie adaptation, directed by Fernando Meirelles, has a tough order ..
io9
03/07/08 16:32
» Prosthetic Speech Implant Turns Your Thoughts to Words [Mad Neuroscience]
Imagine waking up one morning and being unable to speak. Your mind still churns away, trying to form words, but no sounds will come out. It's like the bleak ending of Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream only, you know, real...
io9
03/07/08 13:00
» Powers And Perversions In Heroes Season Three [Morning Spoilers]
It's mostly television spoilers this morning, with a ton of info about Heroes season three, plus a new trailer — and info on what to expect in Heroes season seven, if the show lasts that long. Also, a Florida newspaper posted the first f..
io9
03/07/08 06:19
» Tube Bits for 07/03/2008
addBookLinkWithStyle("B00158K0V0", "bookNoResizeNoBorder"); Artist Direct has posted an interview with David X. Cohen about the latest Futurama release, The Beast with a Billion Backs , which just sounds wrong on so many levels. ABC has un..
SF Signal
03/07/08 06:09
» SF Tidbits for 7/3/08
addBookLink("0441015948"); Charles Stross News: Over at his blog, Charles Stross shows off the UK and US covers for Saturn's Children . (Read this before you sound off about the US cover, sez Charlie.) Orbit has posted an extract from Satu..
SF Signal
02/07/08 17:20
» The Unknown Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Prequel You've Already Read [Douglas Adams]
Seven years after his death, an unfulfilled idea of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy creator Douglas Adams is about to come to fruition, as the BBC prepares to bring unlikely detective Dirk Gently into the Hitchhikers universe in a new rad..
io9
02/07/08 17:01
» What Would The Ultimate Nerd Wish-Fulfillment Look Like? [Kronk Burger]
Movies just aren't doing a good enough job of pandering to our escapist wet dreams. A nerdy guy who turns into a green destructo-ape when you fuck with him? An MIT engineer who builds the ultimate super-armor? A clerk who turns super-kille..
io9
02/07/08 14:00
» Where to Find the Ingredients for Your Next Death Scene [Cause Of Death]
Now you can add to your stack of Star Wars tomes a new volume of factoid porn from George Lucas Books called Cause of Death: A Perfect Little Guide to What Kills Us . Why is Lucas publishing this book full of stats about how many people di..
io9
02/07/08 13:00
» First Awful Glimpse Of Keanu Reeves As Klaatu [Morning Spoilers]
This morning's spoilers include the first image of Keanu Reeves as Klaatu from the Day The Earth Stood Still remake, plus your daily allowance of Joker-isms, from a new Dark Knight Returns trailer. Other clips include TV spots for X-Files ..
io9
02/07/08 07:22
» MIND MELD: Is There Gender Imbalance in Genre Fiction Publishing?
At the risk of starting a flame war - which is not at all my intention - I wanted to address the issue of gender imbalance in genre fiction publishing. I'm not interested in non-constructive finger pointing, but rather a solutions-oriented..
SF Signal
02/07/08 06:40
» SF Tidbits for 7/2/08
addBookLink("1597801259"); Interviews and Profiles: Night Shade Books interviews Walter Jon Williams , author of Implied Spaces . The latest podcast of The Future And You features Kevin J. Anderson . Matt Staggs has 5 questions for Ekateri..
SF Signal
02/07/08 06:15
» Top 10 SF Signal Posts for June 2008
Here are The Top 10 SF Signal Posts for May 2008: MIND MELD: Who Are Tomorrow's Big Genre Stars? (+ The Top 18 Genre Authors To Keep an Eye On) TOC: Eclipse 2 MIND MELD: The 'Responsibility' of Cover Art RIP: Algis Budrys This Week's Free ..
SF Signal
02/07/08 06:02
» TOC: IROSF July 2008
The latest Internet Review of Science Fiction is up with the following table of contents: Editorial: Looking Toward the Future by Stacey Janssen Obituary: Algis Budrys: Teacher by Bridget McKenna Interviews: An Interview with Jack Skilling..
SF Signal
02/07/08 03:43
» The Lady in the Latex Hood Does Not Fear Lasers [Found Footage]
newVideoPlayer("/latexstorm.flv", 506, 423,""); There is very little to love about the Swedish Matrix/Heroes ripoff movie Storm , but this scene almost makes everything worth it. This is near the beginning of the movie, when our hero Donny..
io9
01/07/08 21:58
» Stargate Atlantis Season 5: New Aliens And Cameos [Stargate Atlantis]
We gave you a first look at the Stargate Atlantis season premiere, but what about the rest of the year? Stargate Atlantis producer Joseph Mallozzi and Robert Picardo, who plays the thrillingly uniformed Richard Woolsey sat down and spilled..
io9
01/07/08 19:35
» 9 Ways Hancock Could Have Been A Pretty Good Movie [Hancock Review]
Will Smith's drunk-and-disorderly superhero movie, Hancock , hits theaters today, a full three days early. You can't help but wonder if Warner Bros. is trying to get the movie out there before all the bad buzz, and horrendous reviews, take..
io9
01/07/08 17:50
» The Forbidden Love of Clones in New Alastair Reynolds Novel [Books]
If you want some millennia-spanning family psychodrama written across the galaxy, you've got to pick up House of Suns , the new novel from Alastair Reynolds . Known for his galaxy-spanning space operas such as The Prefect and Absolution Ga..
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