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io9MoviesThe Friday Gif Party Celebrates the Oscars, Starting With Isaac
The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will be held this Sunday, April 25. Given the pandemic, they’re going to be weird since so few movies made it to theaters, but they’ll also be bad, since the Academy is demanding nominees come in person to accept their awards. So let’s screw those Oscars, and celebrate the good … Continued
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io9For All Mankind’s Season 2 Finale Featured Some Lunar Leaps That Require a Discussion Zone
Have you been watching Ronald D. Moore’s sci-fi series For All Mankind on Apple TV+? If you haven’t, you should, because the alt-history space race tale is quite good. If you have, then chances are you need to process all the objectively incredible things that occurred in today’s season two finale, “The Grey.” Suffice to … Continued
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io9MoviesIn Sci-Fi Short Muse, an Android Finds Good Reason to Rebel
Kay (Taj Atwal) may be an android, but her moral compass proves stronger than the increasingly unstable artist (Paul Ready) who claims she’s his muse—even though his eerie paintings hint at something far darker lurking behind his methods. That’s the set-up for Muse, a new sci-fi short by Azhur Saleem. Saleem sent io9 his short, which was … Continued
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io9MoviesThe 10 Best Movies Mystery Science Theater 3000 Ever Watched
Not all bad movies are bad in the same way. Over its 30-plus-year history, Mystery Science Theater 3000 has proved that time and time again by watching movies that suck in a cornucopia of unique ways, some better than others—in fact, some so much better they could be considered fine, if not actually good. In … Continued
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io9Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Adding Pen15 Co-Creator and Star Maya Erskine
Things on Tatooine are about to get a little more middle school. That’s because Maya Erskine, best known as the co-star and co-creator of the brilliant Hulu comedy Pen15, has been cast in the upcoming Obi-Wan KenobiStar Wars show on Disney+. According to Deadline, Erskine will be in “at least three episodes” of the show. … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Stowaway Soundtrack Sets a Deceptively Gorgeous Mood for Deep-Space Danger
Tomorrow, Netflix will release Stowaway starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Toni Collette, and Shamier Anderson. The sci-fi tale features a Mars mission that’s unexpectedly thrust into peril when the crew discovers… well, read the title. Today, io9 is debuting an atmospheric track from the soundtrack by Volker Bertelmann to help get you in the mood … Continued
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io9The A to Z of Star Trek‘s Q
Star Trek’s galaxy is filled with mysterious alien races, unexplained phenomena, and incomprehensible technology that our Starfleet heroes would love to explore and understand. And then there’s the Q Continuum, a group of beings that a lot of those Starfleet officers wish would leave them alone instead. But you can’t keep a good omnipotent being … Continued
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io9MoviesAvatar: The Last Airbender Accidentally Trolled Its Fans Hard
Last Friday, Nickelodeon announced a brand-new Avatar: The Last Airbender series! Then, uh, it kind of changed its mind. Seriously, the official Avatar YouTube channel posted about a “new original series” coming this Earth Day, April 22—a highly appropriate date for a new TV show, given the importance of the natural world in Avatar and … Continued
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io9In Love, Death, and Robots Season 2, Poop Droids Are the Future
Netflix’s wild sci-fi animated anthology Love, Death, and Robots returns next month with tales of post-apocalypses, children in haunted houses, and flying techno-whales. But it’s the AI pooper-scooper in this new trailer for the show that has me the most intrigued. Partially that’s because the trailer does highlight a big dog-turd, which is abducted by … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsAuthor N.K. Jemisin Shares Her Sci-Fi Expertise for Masterclass Online
In a press release, MasterClass announced that three time Hugo award winning author N.K Jemisinwill share her knowledge and expertise by conducting one of her own classes for the educational subscription platform. Jemisin will join the likes of authors like Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood, where students access pre-recorded tutorials and lectures by experts in … Continued
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io9MoviesCarey Mulligan Boards Adam Sandler’s Netflix Sci-Fi Drama Spaceman
Why Adam Sandler would agree to travel to Venus when he’s married to Carey Mulligan, we don’t know—but that’s what happens in a new movie coming to Netflix. The film is called Spaceman and it’s based on the novel The Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar. Sandler will star as an astronaut who takes a … Continued
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io9Out of The Order‘s Ashes, Netflix Finds The Imperfects
The streaming giant may have canceled the well-regarded The Order last November, but it isn’t done with the show’s creators by a long shot. Netflix has announced The Imperfects, a new sci-fi series from the same team. Not to be confused with Netflix’s other similarly named recent series The Irregulars, the Hollywood Reporter says The … Continued
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io9Andor Star Stellan Skarsgård Has the Sickest of Burns for the Rest of Star Wars
Stellan Skarsgård is considered a stellar (not sorry) actor for his roles in projects like The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Good Will Hunting, and Chernobyl. But chances are he’ll be best remembered for his genre roles, like whoever he ends up playing in the upcoming Star Wars TV series Andor. That doesn’t mean he’s necessarily … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsAn Epic Space Journey Awaits in This Excerpt From Tade Thompson’s New Sci-Fi Tale
The latest from Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade Thompson (Rosewater) isn’t out until October, but io9 has a sneak peek today with an exclusive cover reveal and an excerpt from Far From the Light of Heaven. It’s a standalone sci-fi novel that follows a high-stakes mystery that unfolds aboard a colony ship. Here’s a … Continued
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io9Star Trek: Picard Started Out as a Mere Scene in a Short Trek
Mega-producer Akiva Goldsman has a lot of say about thenew era of Star Trek, which stands to reason as he’s one of the people making it. And he’s revealed that the show that eventually became Picard wasn’t supposed to be a show in the first place—hell, it wasn’t even supposed to include Patrick Stewart. In … Continued
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io9Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor Who Return Could Mean Multi-Doctor Stories Someday
We never thought we’d see Chris Eccleston’s beloved Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who again…and I guess we technically haven’t. However, the actor has finally returned to the role that relaunched the beloved sci-fi franchise in the new millennia, so we’ve heard the Ninth Doctor through his new Big Finish audio adventures. But this might be … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Live-Action Gundam Movie Taps Jordan Vogt-Roberts to Direct and Heads to Netflix
It would seem the director behind the long-in-limbo Metal Gear Solid movie saw one Japanese parallel for nuclear war and decided “no, there must be more.” Netflix has announced that Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts will direct Legendary’s adaptation of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise. Oh and also, it’s a Netflix production now. Vogt-Roberts—who … Continued
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io9Star Trek’s John de Lancie on Bringing Back Classic Characters for Revivals
Season one of Star Trek: Picard is filled with nostalgia and characters Star Trek fans know and love. Season two will continue that legacy by having John de Lancie reprise his role as the high-powered entity Q. While it was a nice surprise to learn last week, in a new interview, the actor talks about … Continued
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io9Supergirl Is Gaining Another Magical DC Comics Imp
The CW is not playing around and is dominating the nerd news cycle this weekend. Supergirl is heading into the final stretch as the upcoming season six will be the show’s last, and actress Peta Sergeant (The Originals) is now a series regular. Deadline states that Sergeant will play Nyxly, a quirky, fifth-dimensional Imp. Imps … Continued
