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All the Backstory You Desperately Want to Know About The Force Awakens
If there’s one thing that rankles about The Force Awakens, it’s that a lot of its world-building is left to the array of tie-in media that launched with the movie on December 18th. It’s a bummer that...
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This Fan-Made X-Men Animated Series Is Deliciously Retro
One of the easiest ways to make anything look “retro” these days is to give something a pixelated 8- or 16-bit look to make it look like a classic video game. But this X-Men fan series manages to twist...
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LIGHTSPEED Presents: "The Savannah Liars Tour" by Will McIntosh
io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we’ll be featuring a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Savannah Liars Tour” by Will McIntosh....
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Kepler Has Uncovered a Trove of New Planets in Our Cosmic Backyard
If you thought the Kepler spacecraft’s glory days were over, think again. Today at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers announced a whopping 234 new exoplanet candidates...
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The First Tamil Language Zombie Film Looks Thrilling and Awesomely Nuts
The Indian film industry’s largest realm, Bollywood, dove into the zombie genre with several different 2013 releases. Now Kollywood, which releases films in the Tamil language, rouses the undead with...
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Help the EFF Save the Future, by Reading Some Brand New Science Fiction!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is out there fighting for civil liberties and privacy on the Internet and the digital world generally. And now, you can help support them—by reading a brand new...
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Our First Look at Pee Wee Herman as the Penguin's Dad on Gotham Is Here
Say what you want about Gotham—that it’s a bad show, that it’s insane, that it’s horrifically violent given how goofy it is, or that it’s one of the most fundamentally inaccurate Batman stories ever...
View ArticlePlease Share This Video of Koko the Gorilla Reviewing The Force Awakens
Koko, the gorilla who uses sign language, is capable of discussing almost anything that human beings might want to see Koko discuss. If you enjoyed the video that’s going around the internet in which...
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Game of Thrones Can't Really Spoil George R.R. Martin's Books
It’s now official: George R.R. Martin’s next book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter, won’t come out before the next season of Game of Thrones. That means we’re going to be living...
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Undertale Has One Of The Greatest Final Boss Fights In RPG History
For a few hours, Undertale is a solid, charming game. Then you get to the ending—the real ending—and suddenly you get why everyone’s so obsessed.In fact, I’d argue that Undertale’s true final...
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These Caricatures Of Sci-Fi Icons Are Absolutely Perfect
Some of the best art takes your favorite thing and presents it in a new, fun way. Kevin Greene is a master at this. He takes famous, recognizable sci-fi characters and makes them look like they belong...
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This El Niño-Powered Trash Can Is the Best Gadget We Didn’t See at CES This Year
It was a little behind schedule, but El Niño delivered its wrath upon California today, flushing the state with the first of many punishing rains. And you know what happens in punishing rains. Trash...
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Hermione Shoves Harry Aside: How I Learned To Subvert the "Chosen One" Trope
So I had this idea of Nazi artifact hunters crossed with a Harry Potter-type young hero who inherits one of those artifacts. At the time I was planning on writing a science fiction novel, but when I...
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Netflix Launches in 130 New Countries and China's Not One of Them
The internet streaming company that’s promising 600 hours of new original content next year has just taken a huge leap in its march toward global domination.CEO Reed Hastings made the announcement...
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Last Night's Bradley Cooper-Filled Limitless Was a Roller Coaster of Emotions
Bradley Cooper, star of the original Limitless movie and an executive producer of the CBS TV version, has made most of his appearances on the show in constantly re-aired flashbacks (plus the time he...
View ArticleJust a reminder: We are always looking for cool artists to feature on io9.
Just a reminder: We are always looking for cool artists to feature on io9. Please email tips@io9.com if you’d like us to showcase your art! You can also send news and info to that address. Also, check...
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History Channel Snaps Up Jeremy Renner's Scripted Drama About the Knights...
While it may sometimes seem that History exclusively airs back-to-back episodes of Pawn Stars, the cable channel will soon be adding a new scripted drama to its schedule: Knightfall, about the Knights...
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Captain America: Civil War Figuarts Will Fight For the Right to Empty Your...
It’s January, which means it’s already time for the merchandising market to start salivating over the next Marvel movie, Captain America: Civil War. Kicking of the proceedings in the battle for whether...
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That Documentary About the Ultimate Raiders of the Lost Ark Fan Film Will...
In the early ‘80s, a group of friends decided to do a shot-for-shot remake of Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. The herculean task became an Internet legend, and this summer you can watch the...
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