The opening episodes of Star Trek: Discovery’s third season have seen Michael Burnham and the ship’s crew realize that their lives have changed forever. Not only that, but the future they sacrificed those old lives for is not what they expected. This week, in an explosive moment of self-reflection, they’re beginning…
Source: io9 – No One’s OK on Star Trek: Discovery, But Thanks for Asking
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue, and this month’s selection is “Schrödinger’s Catastrophe” by Gene Doucette. We’re presenting the story—a long novelette—in two parts; you can read the first part of the story below (or …
Source: io9 – LIGHTSPEED Presents: “Schrödinger’s Catastrophe” [Part 1 of 2] by Gene Doucette
Who could imagine a simple rocket firing could mean so much? But in the season two premiere of The Mandalorian, director Jon Favreau gave knowing fans a huge smile by arming Cobb Vanth with a rocket jetpack that was deployed in a very specific way. We wrote about this in our episode recap, but wanted to explain a…
Source: io9 – The Best Easter Egg in the Latest Mandalorian Was Right on Target
YouTube rabbit holes can be dangerous. You think about one thing, it sparks another, and by the end of the night who knows what you could be watching. That happened to me recently with boy band music videos. Which, I know, sounds a little weird. But if you grew up in the 1980s or ‘90s and listened to pop music, boy…
Source: io9 – The Best Sci-Fi Boy Band Videos of All Time
Even small increases in exposure to air pollution makes people more vulnerable to covid-19, according to a new study published in Science Advances.
Source: io9 – Air Pollution Makes Covid-19 Even More Deadly
Marvel’s live-action adaptations of its classic comics storylines have become the studio’s bread and butter since the inception of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But for decades, Marvel channeled an inordinate amount of energy into animated offerings squarely aimed at children with the obvious intention of selling…
Source: io9 – Avengers: United They Stand Was a Chance for Earth’s Other Heroes to Shine
It’s a new morning in America: stale, beleagured. The old cynicism is still here. We lack faith in our leaders. We’re pessimistic as to what becomes of it all. It really boils down to our ability to endure.
Source: io9 – This They Live Bust Should Be the Official Symbol of 2020
The 2015 scenes in Back to the Future Part II are everything. Even though the “future” has come and gone, the vision of the world Robert Zemeckis and his team created in the 1989 sequel remains as influential and cool today as it was back then.
Source: io9 – The Future Tech of Back to the Future II, Ranked
The Dome Speaks—and Stephen King doesn’t like what it has to say. The horror author has shared some of his thoughts about CBS’s Under the Dome, the series that sometimes seemed to defy logic itself. It turns out that King wasn’t happy with it either.
Source: io9 – Stephen King Thinks CBS’s Under the Dome Inhabitants Had It Too Easy
Considering the movie was meant to come out approximately 300 years ago in the Astral Era known by historians as “earlier this year,” we’ve known that Lashana Lynch’s No Time to Die character was a 00—and the source of many a rumor about whether or not she’d be the next Bond. We’re still waiting on the movie’s…
Source: io9 – Whenever We Actually See No Time to Die, Lashana Lynch Really Is the New 007
Over the Garden Wall, the Emmy-winning 2014 miniseries from Cartoon Network, is a testament to the power of imagination and the love of family. It also has some killer songs. Now, the composers behind the show’s signature sound have released six new songs that had been created for the show.
Source: io9 – Over the Garden Wall Composers Release 6 Tracks Cut From the Show
Once a dangerous pandemic swept the globe, no movie was ever going to gross what it was before that. In fact, most movies and studios are so afraid of how little movies will make during covid-19, release dates have been pushed months, even years.
Source: io9 – Christopher Nolan Hopes Tenet’s Box Office Is Seen From Both Sides
Castle Rock was a worthy experiment—it delivered an intriguing expansion of Stephen King’s stories set around Maine’s most troubled town, and gave us stellar performances from casts that included King veterans like Sissy Spacek and Tim Robbins. But two seasons was probably plenty, and it seems Hulu agrees.
Source: io9 – Hulu’s Stephen King Anthology Series Castle Rock Will Not Be Getting a Third Season
Let’s not beat around the bush: Today is tense. Plus, there’s no indication things are going to let up anytime soon. We’ve got to enjoy happiness where we can find it—so we want to know how you’re keeping things chill as we head into a long, long, long night…and possibly several more after that.
Source: io9 – What Are You Doing to Distract Yourself This Week?
Hideaki Anno, the man who gave us Neon Genesis Evangelion, has already taken a wild spin on tokusatsu in his work with Shinji Higuchi on Shin Godzilla—and now he’s about to do the same for another icon of the genre with Shin Ultraman. But a new up-close look at the movie’s design of Japan’s famous giant-sized hero…
Source: io9 – An Up-Close Look at the Shin Godzilla Team’s New Ultraman Design
Apropos of absolutely nothing going on in the real world this week, The Amazing World of Gumball just aired a very special Vote Gumball event, following the most obnoxious member of the Watterson family as they made a bid to become Elmore Jr. High’s next student body president.
Source: io9 – Gumball’s Election Special Was a Clever Lesson About the Importance of Hindsight in 2020
While 2020 hasn’t been a great year for travel, gatherings, or general overall happiness, it has given many of us the chance to work on new hobbies. Maybe one of those hobbies is knitting—and if you did pick up that skill, a new Star Wars book is going to be your new favorite thing in the world. io9 just happens to…
Source: io9 – The Map to a Perfect Star Wars Blanket Is Hidden Inside This BB-U-Knit
When or if we’ll ever see another Friday the 13th film, we don’t know. What we do know is Jason Voorhees (and his mom) have been hacking and slashing for 12 movies over the past 40 years, and a brand new box set brings them all together in a very impressive package.
Source: io9 – Let’s Unmask the Epic New Friday the 13th Blu-ray Box Set
Science fiction has long existed to warn us about the dangers that await us, but sometimes it’s also there to remind us of how good things could be—and how beautiful they can look.
Source: io9 – 16 of the Most Inspiring Cityscapes in Science Fiction
There’s a reason the Weeping Angels are some of the most-terrifying villains on Doctor Who. Their small screen debut ended with a stern warning from the Doctor, solidifying the angels as a permanent and ever-present threat. But it wasn’t always that way.
Source: io9 – Doctor Who’s Original ‘Blink’ Ending Didn’t Quite Put the Fear of Angels Into Us