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The Return of The Walking Dead Looks More Like an EndingWhen last we left some of the biggest characters on The Walking Dead, they were pretty much screwed. It appears not much will have changed when the second half of season 10 picks up this weekend. In fact, things are only getting worse.
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Alex Garland's Foray Into TV Is a Messy Trip Filled With Intriguing ConceptsAlex Garland has covered a lot of ground in his career—from authoring novels to screenwriting and directing. You might have noticed that he leans toward sci-fi; his directing debut, Ex Machina, dealt with artificial intelligence, and its follow-up, Annihilation, focused on alien life. Devs, his new television miniseries, continues in this sci-fi-adjacent vein, and while it succeeds in asking lots of insightful questions about our world, it unfortunately falls flat in its follow-through.
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The First Trailer for Amazing Stories' Return Imagines Itself Some ImpossibilitiesWill the stories be amazing? Hard to say yet. But our first look at Apple’s take on the beloved anthology show is intriguing, to say the least.
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Harrison Ford on His Star Wars Return: "I Have No Idea What a Force Ghost Is, and I Don't Care"May we all have the same attitude to nonsense fandom debates as Harrison Ford does, frankly.
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The 10 Best Science Fiction PresidentsWhether the country is facing an unprecedented crisis, is desperate for better leadership, or simply needs to have a bit of fun, it helps to have our commanders in chief by our side. But when those actually in power royally suck, you’ve gotta turn to science fiction to find something to believe in.
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10 Weirdest Scientific Theories Proposed in Science FictionEverybody knows that actual scientific advances have started out as science fiction, including Radar and geostationary satellites. Your tablet computer is basically right out of Star Trek. But that doesn't mean that every scientific idea expressed in science fiction is automatically true.
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7 Essential Invisible Men (and One Invisible Woman)H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man was published in 1897, giving sci-fi one of its most intriguing and enduring characters. Thankfully, that Dark Universe version with Johnny Depp never came to fruition, but the latest adaptation—starring Elisabeth Moss as a woman tormented by her invisible ex—is out February 28.
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I Love Star Trek: Picard's Romulan Murder Mom and DadStar Trek: Picard is, obviously, all about the return of The Next Generation’s iconic captain, and a few of his old friends from aboard the Enterprise. But it’s also brought in some new friends of Jean-Luc for us to meet—and two of them have become my surprising favorites of the entire show.
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Play 1984's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text game for free onlineThis warning says it all: "The game will kill you frequently. It's a bit mean like that."
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Star Trek: Picard Finally Finds Its Crew, in Those That Starfleet Left BehindThe first two episodes of Star Trek: Picard have carefully laid the groundwork for a future where the Federation, tired and beaten back by tragedy after tragedy, is embroiled in an existential crisis. Now, one of its most tireless advocates, the veil lifted from his eyes, is ready to do something about it—and has found a crew of likewise heroes to do so.
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Fandoms Collide as the Transformers Finally Team Up With Some Little Ponies [Updated]It’s the epic crossover years in the making. IDW Comics has unveiled the first look at the new Transformers comic, which pairs the robots in disguise with the gentle equestrian creatures of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. It could very well be the thing that breaks the internet.
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This General Grievous Cosplay Has to Be Seen to Be BelievedFew Star Wars characters are more difficult to cosplay than General Grievous. He’s a skeletal being, more machine than anything else, with four arms and a very distinctive way of moving. It’s simply not something a normal person can do.
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In This Exclusive Star Wars Alphabet Squadron: Shadow Fall Reveal, the War for the Galaxy Gets BloodyLast year, Del Rey’s excellent Star Wars novel series gave us a tale of damaged pilots amid the formation of the New Republic in Alphabet Squadron, a spiritual successor to the X-Wing books of the old Expanded Universe. Now, io9's got an exclusive look at the second book in the trilogy—where we’ll really get to know Alphabet’s mysterious remnant foes.
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Meet the Artifact, Star Trek: Picard’s Decommissioned Borg CubeIn the new status quo of Picard’s modern timeline, the Borg, for our protagonists, at least, aren’t an immediate threat. But they are certainly a presence. Meet the Artifact.
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A Robotic Swinging Spider-Man Is Coming to Disneyland This SummerAfter first revealing what many speculated to be robotic stunt doubles several years ago, today the official Disney Parks Blog confirmed that Disney Research’s swinging, posing, self-contained animatronic trapeze artists will be used to create a real-life version of Spider-Man swinging over the upcoming Avengers Campus attraction in Disneyland.
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All the Brand-New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Know About for FebruaryFebruary may be the shortest month, even in a leap year, but we still have a jumbo-sized list of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books for your reading consideration. Dig in for tales of magical assassins, space shenanigans, witches and warlords, scheming royals, doomed planets (including Earth), and more.
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Explore the Sad Origins of Mary Shelley in This Comic Book Celebration of History's Inspiring WomenNext month, Kazoo magazine will release its first book—a comics anthology celebrating the lives of influential, inspiring female figures throughout history. To celebrate, we’ve got an exclusive look at the book’s take on Mary Shelley, who changed sci-fi forever with her tale of tragic monsters and dark experimentation.
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10 Weirdest Scientific Theories Proposed in Science FictionEverybody knows that actual scientific advances have started out as science fiction, including Radar and geostationary satellites. Your tablet computer is basically right out of Star Trek. But that doesn't mean that every scientific idea expressed in science fiction is automatically true.
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'I Do Not Like Working Too Hard or Too Long': A Refreshingly Honest Talk With The Witcher's CreatorThe Witcher continues its trek across the countryside. The popularity of the Henry Cavill-led show has led to a spinoff anime called Nightmare of the Wolf, a soundtrack featuring Jaskier’s tunes, and even a 500,000-book reprint of the original series. We reached out to Andrzej Sapkowski, creator of The Witcher, to get his thoughts on the series and the fan resurgence it’s inspired. His answers were surprising.
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Creators of Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys Promise They Didn't Fridge Nancy DrewDynamite Entertainment recently announced a new installment of the Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys comic book series, whose upcoming release is tied to the 90th anniversary of the iconic sleuth’s creation. There was only one problem: It was revealed that in the comic, Nancy Drew is dead. io9 spoke with the writer and artist behind the series, who say there’s more than meets the eye.
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