The one genuinely creepy moment from Uwe Boll's BloodRayne 2

Billy the Kid is an evil vampire, and he's rigged a bunch of children to the world's weirdest Rube Goldberg death trap, involving weights, pulleys and nooses, in this bizarrely creeptastic scene from BloodRayne 2: Deliverance. More »

07:13 PM

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#triviagasm

10 new things Roger Corman's Fantastic Four taught us about Marvel's first family

In 1994, Roger Corman produced a $2 million adaptation of The Fantastic Four that never hit theaters. This deranged lost film introduced novel twists to the Four's origin story...like an evil hobo jeweler. More »

06:40 PM

5,508

By Cyriaque Lamar

#sgurecap

SGU breaks open the space drama we've been waiting for

I think I can safely say, if you didn't like last night's SGU, you won't be a fan of this series in general. We finally cracked open all the drama each character has been carrying around for weeks. About time! More »

04:30 PM

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By Meredith Woerner

#madscience

New technology allows us to draw, erase, and redraw wires on circuitboards

04:00 PM

1,362

#thetwilightzone

Leonardo DiCaprio producing a new Twilight Zone series, and Will Smith starring in an evil computer movie?

03:35 PM

2,180

#rankspeculation

Visit our beautiful historical reenactment planet and relive the twenty-first century!

What will humans do in 2,000 years, when we've gained complete control over our environment via geoengineering? My guess is that they'll create historical reenactment planets, terraforming alien worlds to reenact great moments in Earth history. More »

03:10 PM

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By Annalee Newitz

#bookreview

Peter S. Beagle takes you to myth-making school

I have a huge unfair advantage over other struggling fantasy authors, because I've read Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle. Beagle gives a storytelling masterclass, and plants images in your head that you'll carry around for ages. More »

02:34 PM

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By Charlie Jane Anders

#tvrecap

On Caprica, there are too many Zoes and not enough Adamas

In last night's Caprica episode, "Things We Lock Away," Zoe's tangled virtual identity got a lot more tangled than ever. And the Graystones are eclipsing the Adamas in a disappointing way. Spoilers ahead! More »

02:33 PM

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By Annalee Newitz

#terrorism

Scientists invent chemical sensor that can detect shoe bombs

Triacetone triperoxide (TATP) is an explosive that's been used in past shoe-bombing attempts. TATP is a difficult chemical to detect, but researchers have developed a colorimetric sensor array that can expose minute amounts of TATP vapor in the air. More »

02:20 PM

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By Cyriaque Lamar

#walkingdead

Watch just how graphic The Walking Dead is ready to get

One big concern about AMC's Walking Dead television series is the gore. How do you make a zombie movie on TV, and keep the blood intact? This latest clip should answer any lingering questions about the violence in Walking Dead. More »

01:30 PM

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By Meredith Woerner

#publishing

What the next generation of SF magazines should learn from Zynga

Science fiction and fantasy magazines are caught in a bind: print magazines struggle, while electronic mags need a revenue model. Cat Rambo, fiction editor with Fantasy Magazine and author of Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight, has a theory. More »

01:20 PM

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By Cat Rambo

#monsterlove

Rarest movie poster in the world on sale, features Frankenstein demanding sex

What's the rarest movie poster in the world? This 1935 poster for Bride of Frankenstein, which boasts a chained, philandering Boris Karloff. Only one copy is known to exist, and you can own it for a mere $700K. More »

12:45 PM

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#io9bookclub

io9 Book Club Reminder: November's book is Catherynne M. Valente's "Palimpsest"

If you want to join us for the io9 Book Club this month, be sure to start reading Catherynne M. Valente's Palimpsest, to prepare for our November 2 meeting. But wait - what is this io9 Book Club? More »

12:22 PM

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By Annalee Newitz

#madscience

Embed tiny solar cells in your body to fight cancer

By bringing the field of photovoltaics into medicine, researchers hope to create a far more precise method of drug delivery for fighting cancer. That's right - this cancer cure involves tiny photovoltaic particles like the kind used in solar cells. More »

12:11 PM

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#publishing

Books are about to become like mp3s, leaving authors worse off than ever

12:01 PM

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#moviereview

Hereafter: Clint Eastwood's realistic film about seeing dead people

Clint Eastwood's movie Hereafter plays no games with its supernatural premise. There's never any doubt that these characters are really connecting with the afterlife. This is what a fantasy made by an unflinching realist looks like. More »

11:23 AM

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#thecrimsonbolt

Watch Dwight shove his superhero hammer right into your skull, in "Super"

Wow, we did not think that the new superhero comedy Super was going to be this violent. Boy were we wrong. Very, very, very wrong. Watch as Rainn Wilson unleashes his superhero hammer right into someone's skull. More »

10:44 AM

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By Meredith Woerner

#police

Japan's police mascots include robots and sentient grains of rice

Japan has 47 versions of McGruff the Crime Dog, and they range from sentient dinosaurs to miniature swan people right out of Gatchaman to manimal twins who hate drunk driving. More »

10:00 AM

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By Cyriaque Lamar

#tvrecap

No Ordinary Family doesn't understand how football works

Tonight's No Ordinary Family gave us the most ridiculous football story ever told, a mild meditation on what it means to be a vigilante, and a harsh lesson in the dark side of mind-reading. But mostly ridiculous, ridiculous football. More »

09:30 AM

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By Alasdair Wilkins

#spacesensationalism

Mysterious "hot spot" on alien planet leaves scientists baffled

Have we discovered an alien colony? That's one sensationalistic but nevertheless awesome possible explanation for the strange "hot spot" discovered on exoplanet Upsilon Andromedae b, 44 light-years from Earth. More »

09:00 AM

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By Annalee Newitz

#podcast

Catherynne M. Valente is a mythpunk in Episode 23 of The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy

Catherynne M. Valente, author of Palimpsest (a finalist for the Hugo Award), joins us this week on io9's Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast to discuss mythpunk, sexually-transmitted cities, Prester John, and pulp era visions of Mars and Venus. More »

08:30 AM

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#holycrapwtf

Thai Beauty and the Beast movie is a craptacular rip-off of the Disney original

Thai animation studio GM Toons cranks out subpar CG facsimiles of your favorite childhood films with impunity. Their most egregious creation is their scene-by-scene remake of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, which inexplicably replaces the Beast's head with Simba's. More »

08:00 AM

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#exclusive

Watch the book trailer for the next dystopian YA sensation, Matched

07:30 AM

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#madscience

An experiment with surface tension

Here's an easy experiment with pepper and soap that allows you to see surface tension - and its destruction. More »

07:00 AM

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By Esther Inglis-Arkell

#venturebros

What would the Venture Bros. look like in real life? 10 artists' recreations

CGHUB challenged its artists to create the best realistic version of a character from The Venture Bros. Here's the crazy end result: take a look at what Rusty Venture, Molotov Cocktease and Brock Samson would look like in real life. More »

06:30 AM

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By Meredith Woerner

#morningspoilers

The Superman reboot might make the jump to 3D. Plus two more big stars are rumored for the Alien prequel!

Zack Snyder says he likes 3D, but still has to be convinced it's the right choice for the Man of Steel. Captain America turns Scotland into Norway...and brings Nick Fury along. See Mark Sheppard on the Doctor Who set! Spoilerlicious! More »

06:00 AM

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By Alasdair Wilkins

#starwars

This is the Droid You Were Looking For...For Halloween, At Least

It's the age-old conundrum. To go as something sexy, or something full-on nerdy and embarrassing. I go as the latter everytime (this is the woman who dressed as Bill Gates once), but I think this swimsuit solves the problem nicely. [Gizmodo]

01:20 AM

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Yesterday - October 19, 2010

#tvrecap

On The Event, hardened assassins are scared of internet memes

11:47 PM

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#paranormalactivity

The first truly scary Paranormal Activity 2 clip

We haven't seen a lot of Paranormal Activity 2. Then again, we didn't see a lot of the original film before it opened, either. But this new clip is the first time we've seen something actually terrifying from the sequel. More »

11:07 PM

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By Meredith Woerner

#avatardeletedscene

First Avatar deleted scene shows Jake Sully's big brawl on Earth

Tonight the Scream Awards debuted a brand new, never-before-seen deleted scene from James Cameron's Avatar. Get a glimpse of the dystopian future Earth and a bad-ass Jake Sully who kicks serious ass (and gets his ass kicked) from his wheelchair. More »

09:43 PM

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By Meredith Woerner

#moviereview

"Radio Free Albemuth" is Philip K. Dick's vision of a dystopian 1985 (with Alanis Morissette)

06:15 PM

4,380

#politicalsciencefiction

Ben Bova predicted Sputnik in 1949, but no publisher would touch his novel

05:07 PM

2,970

#crow

Mark Wahlberg offered lead role in The Crow

04:30 PM

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#rant

The kinds of slaves that robots will become

04:01 PM

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#triviagasm

15 classic science fiction and fantasy novels that publishers rejected

Science fiction's greatest authors have brilliant ideas, storytelling mojo... and plenty of stubbornness. Many of the field's greatest writers were buried in rejection slips, before they finally broke in. Here are 15 classic novels that publishers didn't want to touch. More »

03:36 PM

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By Charlie Jane Anders and Michael Ann Dobbs

#crime

Teen to Plead Guilty to Staging Bomb Hoaxes For Lulz

02:40 PM

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#futurism

Hala the robot receptionist is like a real-life JARVIS from Iron Man

02:35 PM

2,478

#filmschooled

Click here to read The $795 Shoe, And Other Stupid/Expensive <em>Tron</em> Merchandise

The $795 Shoe, And Other Stupid/Expensive Tron Merchandise

Disney has created a 3D reboot of Tron called Tron: Legacy. which looks okay. Not okay? The aggressive marketing, especially when it comes to crappy, bizarre fashion-y tie-ins meant for women. Like the Tron shoe. [Jezebel]

02:15 PM

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By Dodai Stewart

#deptofsnakeoil

Security company claims to catch criminals by spraying them with human DNA

01:56 PM

7,130

#redwerewolfhunter

Felicia Day, what big werewolf hunting guns you have!

Check out the latest trailer for the Syfy TV movie Red: Werewolf Hunter, starring Felicia Day. Watch as Day karate kicks werewolves, and uses a giant harpoon gun, in her role as the modern-day Red Riding Hood. More »

01:31 PM

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By Meredith Woerner

#horror

The Fourth Kind screenwriter's new film: Cloverfield on the Moon

12:43 PM

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#bookreview

In Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail, a real war over virtual Hells

Iain M. Banks' new novel, Surface Detail, is some of the best work he's done in his galaxy-spanning Culture universe. A story of virtual Hell and true resurrection, it's about the consequences of technology that makes religious afterlives possible. More »

12:40 PM

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By Annalee Newitz

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