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more about #overmind more comments → CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton): I enjoyed this book. Easy read, great story environment all the makings of a good rpg. more » ♠ Final ♠: Going shopping on Friday made me want to reclaim some cold, hard humanity and make a statement against American consumerism. more » ♠ Final ♠: Boarders had this for half price the day before Thxgiving. I picked it up along with Santa Olivia. I'll probably get to it after the next book club ... more » MargaretMoony: I will now do my dance of joy! more » FrankenPC: What's even stranger is the possibility of neutron life on a white dwarf star. (read Dragon Egg) more » bookling: I loved this book. Scott Westerfeld is awesome -- if you haven't read his Uglies series, try that as well. One of my favorite things about Leviathan ... more » goldfarb: here's the trailer: more » Smeagol92055: Am I mistaken, or was this presented in podcast format a few months back? I remember listening to a few episodes of something called The Leviathan Ch... more » EdificeComplex: I've just started this book. So far it's grabbed my interest and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes. I truly love sci-fi/historical mash-ups. more » LittleDragon: Damn damn, double damn. :( I want to read this one but can't buy any more books for the rest of the year and the library here won't have anything this... more » Klebert L. Hall: They should have called it Wank Bank. Nice, memorable trademark, that tells you everything about the product. -Kle. more » Klebert L. Hall: People (many of them, anyway) enjoy violence, and watching it on a screen is probably better than going out and comiting it upon the innocent. Very f... more » David Grossman: Excellent essay. There's never been an exactly clean way to deal with massive body counts in movie. Like in The Terminator, when the terminator kills ... more » Sproing: A great video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz, about Eastwood movies, touches on a lot of these points. And since Eastwood's heroes are the proto-Wolverine... more » bookwench: I shall believe it when I get goods and services from it. more » -
#bookreview
Steampunk Comes Of Age With Westerfeld's "Leviathan"
Plenty of young-adult novels feature teens reaching adulthood in a world that adults have royally buggered. And there's no shortage of books about a British Empire with improbably high technology. But Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan makes both of those themes epic.
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#whuffiebank
You're Rich! In Reputation, Anyway. The Whuffie Bank Is Here At Last.
If you wished you could live off your sterling reputation, like the people in Cory Doctorow's Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom, then rejoice — the Whuffie Bank has arrived. More » -
#rant
Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
Wolverine, out on DVD recently, is a great example of one of the silliest clichés in escapist entertainment: someone reclaims his/her true humanity and unique individuality — by killing everyone in sight. What the hell is this about?
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#megaengineering
The Wild Center Of Our Galaxy Could Support A Mega-Civilization
Could a super-advanced civilization live inside the acretion disk, the super-dense area around the black hole at the center of a galaxy? Author Mike Brotherton has played with this idea, and a couple of scientific papers say it's possible. More » -
#top10
12 Movie Adaptations That Did The Books Justice
Whether or not you loved The Road, most people seemed to feel it captured Cormac McCarthy's novel. Sadly, most adaptations do violence to the original books, but not all. Here are 12 SF/fantasy adaptations that did right by the books. More » -
#books
Pavane Is Alternate History's Lost Masterpiece
Looking for a stocking stuffer this holiday season that's a bit off the beaten path? Want to discover a forgotten classic of alternate history? Then you might want to give the 1968 novel Pavane by Keith Roberts a try. More » -
#doctorwho
5 Lessons We Hope RTD's Learned From His Past Doctor Who Epics
If history is anything to go by, Russell T. Davies will try to top all his previous gonzo conclusions with his final Doctor Who, "The End Of Time." Is it too much to hope he's learned from his past mistakes? More » -
#rant
Six Things I'm Thankful For In Science Fiction
Science-fiction fans sometimes focus too much on the negative, in a world where remakes run rampant and Sarah Connor Chronicles dies so that Til Death might live. But here are six things I'm thankful for in science fiction right now. More » -
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#rant
Where Are All The Space Pilgrims?
As the U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving and we all prepare to watch Avatar, yet another movie where we invade the aliens, it's worth asking: why aren't there any movies or TV shows where humans come in peace and try to coexist? More » -
#moviereview
Awesome 1980s Retro Satanism in "House of the Devil"
A weird indie horror gem crept into theaters last week while you weren't looking. Called House of the Devil, it's a smart, spare homage to early-80s B-grade horror movies that pleasingly overturns nearly all the conventions of the genre. More » -
#postapocalypse
How To Make Yourself Apocalypse-Ready
We often talk about fictional apocalypses here at io9, but what if the collapse of civilization actually happens in your lifetime? Here are some things you can start doing right now to make sure you're ready to ride it out.
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#counterprogramming
Weirdest Movies Ever Released On Thanskgiving Weekend
You might think it's odd that The Road and Ninja Assassin both came out just in time for Turkey Day. But those aren't the only counter-intuitive movies that studios have put out for Thanksgiving — here's a complete list. More » -
#moviereview
"The Road" Leads to a Sentimental Post-Apocalypse
The vast, dying landscapes in The Road are edged with flame, telling a story of the world unmade in stark images. While the design in this film is eloquent, its characters aren't. What lurks beneath their silence? More » -
#mediatieins
Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
Some of science-fiction's greatest writers have stepped into ready-made universes and created media tie-in novels. From small beginnings some forty years ago, media tie-in books have become a huge part of our publishing universe. Here are some of the highlights.
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#bookreview
As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth
In Little Brother, Cory Doctorow showed how a grassroots, technology based movement could ensure our civil liberties. With his latest novel, Makers, he asks whether a similar movement could save American capitalism from itself.
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#vpreview
Tomorrow's V Asks Who You'd Rather Have As Your Mom: Erica Or Anna?
It's the final V of 2009 tomorrow night, and we've already watched it. The resistance ramps up, the Vs move forward with their nefarious plans, and Chad is a man-whore. But mostly, it's all about the cult of Morena Baccarin.
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#v
Does V Mean We Love The '80s Too Much?
With Watchmen, GI Joe, Transformers and now V, American pop culture seems stuck in a particular part of its past. Why are we so fascinated with taking things from the 80's and making them our own? More » -
#bookvortex
How Should SF Magazines Fight Off Extinction?
Print may be dying all over, but is that any excuse to let science-fiction magazines retreat to the internet or non-existence? Of course not! Here's our five step guide on potential ways to save this venerable tradition.
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#blacksuperheroes
Why James Rhodes Is Comics' Ideal Black Hero
When it comes to superhero fiction, there are certain iconic archetypes; Superman is the iconic whitebread hero, Batman the iconic OCD loner. But did you realize that Iron Man's James Rhodes is the accidental iconic black superhero? We'll explain.
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#freeadvice
How Do You Bridge The Gap Between Two Cool Moments In Your Novel?
What do you do when your novel has a cool moment, followed by another cool moment... but something kinda boring has to happen in between? Your characters have to travel somewhere or make something. How do top authors handle this? More »
