“Email From the Future” lays out a scenario for the world in 2084. (Illustration by TierneyMJ / Bigstock)Visions of Utopia go back to the year 1516, when Thomas More literally wrote the book on the subject — but is it an outdated idea to envision a world where today’s biggest problems are...
You’ve felt it. A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... in excitement? Because after the pandemic pushed it back for two years, Star Wars Celebration is preparing to descend on Anaheim, California next week, and io9 will be there in person to bring you...
You’ve felt it. A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... in excitement? Because, thank the maker, after the pandemic pushed it back for two years, Star Wars Celebration is preparing to descend on Anaheim, California in little over a month! As details and...
You’ve felt it. A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... in excitement? Because, thank the maker, after the pandemic pushed it back for two years, Star Wars Celebration is preparing to descend on Anaheim, California in little over a month! As details and...
You’ve felt it. A great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... in excitement? Because, thank the maker, after the pandemic pushed it back for two years, Star Wars Celebration is preparing to descend on Anaheim, California in little over a month! As details and...
Jon Neverdie Jacobs, Kimberly Unger, and Sean Keith talked with Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat Summit 2022 about sci-fi, tech, and games.Read...
Jon Neverdie Jacobs, Kimberly Unger, and Sean Keith talked with Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat Summit 2022 about sci-fi, tech, and games.Read...
Trying to keep track of what Star Trek is coming right now feels like trying to stop a tribble from procreating. Before even more new series get announced, here’s our guide of when to expect all the new Star Trek shows, the returns of familiar favorites, and what else is in the works right now....
Trying to keep track of what Star Trek is coming right now feels like trying to stop a tribble from procreating. Before even more new series get announced, here’s our guide of when to expect all the new Star Trek shows, the returns of familiar favorites, and what else is in the works right now....
Trying to keep track of what Star Trek is coming right now feels like trying to stop a tribble from procreating. Before even more new series get announced, here’s our guide of when to expect all the new Star Trek shows, the returns of familiar favorites, and what else is in the works right now....
Sometimes the only thing better than watching your favorite movie is watching someone talk about it. That might sound counterintuitive, but no matter how many times you’ve seen The Empire Strikes Back, RoboCop, Aliens, Flash Gordon, or The Last Starfighter, you’ve definitely seen the people...
Sometimes the only thing better than watching your favorite movie is watching someone talk about it. That might sound counterintuitive, but no matter how many times you’ve seen The Empire Strikes Back, RoboCop, Aliens, Flash Gordon, or The Last Starfighter, you’ve definitely seen the people...
Sometimes the only thing better than watching your favorite movie is watching someone talk about it. That might sound counterintuitive, but no matter how many times you’ve seen The Empire Strikes Back, RoboCop, Aliens, Flash Gordon, or The Last Starfighter, you’ve definitely seen the people...
Sometimes the only thing better than watching your favorite movie is watching someone talk about it. That might sound counterintuitive, but no matter how many times you’ve seen The Empire Strikes Back, RoboCop, Aliens, Flash Gordon, or The Last Starfighter, you’ve definitely seen the people...
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 premiered in 2020 to middling reviews (including our own), and after some delays, Netflix has finally released a trailer for the second season of the anime. It does not, unfortunately, look that much more interesting than the lackluster season one.
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If last week’s Star Trek: Discovery was the show’s most successful attempt at making Michael Burnham’s personal life the main character of the show in a fun way, “Rubicon,” episode nine of season four, is finally the achievement the show has longed for since its very beginning: the...
In what could be a prophecy for the future of this year’s Academy Awards, Dune: Part 1 has conquered this year’s nominations for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards like a potential Kwisatz Haderach might conquer fear, aka the Mind-Killer. The sci-fi epic will be featured in...
Apple TV+’s loose adaptation of the classic Foundation sci-fi novels has just gotten a little looser. Ten new actors have been added to the cast to play 10 new characters on the show—and six of them appear to be very new, having not appeared in any of Isaac Asimov’s seven Foundation...
Apple TV+’s loose adaptation of the classic Foundation sci-fi novels has just gotten a little looser. Ten new actors have been added to the cast to play 10 new characters on the show—and six of them appear to be very new, having not appeared in any of Isaac Asimov’s seven Foundation...
Apple TV+’s loose adaptation of the classic Foundation sci-fi novels has just gotten a little looser. Ten new actors have been added to the cast to play 10 new characters on the show—and six of them appear to be very new, having not appeared in any of Isaac Asimov’s seven Foundation...
Even geophysicist Mika McKinnon, one of the science consultants for a $140 million disaster movie called “Moonfall,” admits that the moon-crashing tale is ridiculously exuberant. But what’s wrong with that? “A movie is supposed to be fun, and science is allowed to be fun,” McKinnon says...
Even geophysicist Mika McKinnon, one of the science consultants for a $140 million disaster movie called “Moonfall,” admits that the moon-crashing tale is ridiculously exuberant. But what’s wrong with that? “A movie is supposed to be fun, and science is allowed to be fun,” McKinnon says...
If you thought 2020's 23-week-run of Lower Decks into Discovery was a considerable amount of Star Trek to consume, well, 2022 is looking like it’s going to dunk your head into a holodeck and not let go for quite some time.
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Mushrooms grow from the bark of a tree in Olympic National Forest. (USFS Photo / Kelsey Dyer)If you’re going to write a novel about an alien fungus threatening the planet, there are few places more suited for the setting than the damp, dark forests surrounding Seattle. At least that’s how...
A new year is upon us, and what better way to look ahead than by thinking about all the times we’re going to be glued to our desks or sofas watching TV? There’s once again so much content coming along the way in 2022 that we’re splitting our TV preview into streaming and broadcast...
A new year is upon us, and what better way to look ahead than by thinking about all the times we’re going to be glued to our desks or sofas watching TV? There’s once again so much content coming along the way in 2022 that we’re splitting our TV preview into streaming and broadcast...
Back when Star Trek: Discovery was still the only new Star Trek show around, producer Alex Kurtzman had a glimmer in his eye about a time coming where there would be all Star Trek, all the time. Now, we’re basically there, and it turns out that glimmer can be quite blinding.
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Back when Star Trek: Discovery was still the only new Star Trek show around, producer Alex Kurtzman had a glimmer in his eye about a time coming where there would be all Star Trek, all the time. Now, we’re basically there, and it turns out that glimmer can be quite blinding.
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Back when Star Trek: Discovery was still the only new Star Trek show around, producer Alex Kurtzman had a glimmer in his eye about a time coming where there would be all Star Trek, all the time. Now, we’re basically there, and it turns out that glimmer can be quite blinding.
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Back when Star Trek: Discovery was still the only new Star Trek show around, producer Alex Kurtzman had a glimmer in his eye about a time coming where there would be all Star Trek, all the time. Now, we’re basically there, and it turns out that glimmer can be quite blinding.
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