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io9 - May 6, 2008
Two spies, one trained in the art of lying and the other in the art of reading people for signs of subterfuge, have been sent to steal alien technology from Amazonia, a planet ruled by man-enslaving lesbians. Our spies …
Also tagged: books, carnival, elizabeth bear
io9 - Apr 29, 2008
You can't have great science fiction writing without great books about science. Ever since the nineteenth century, when Charles Darwin's classics On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man took the reading public …
Also tagged: books, science, top, science fiction, inspiration
io9 - Apr 29, 2008
I was incredibly excited when I saw that Adam-Troy Castro, one of my favorite short-story writers, had finally published a novel. And Emissaries From The Dead is as great as I'd hoped, a noirish murder mystery set …
io9 - Apr 22, 2008
My new book Urawaza is a collection of over 100 tips and tricks from Japan for honing your survival skills, fine-tuning your appreciation of Japanese culture, and eventually making you superhuman. The book is full of …
Also tagged: books, lifehacker, lisa katayama, urawaza
io9 - Apr 20, 2008
Bewildered by the death of her father, a woman named Rima finds her balance by plunging into a thicket of half-true tales and half-real avatars on the web. Online, she meets her father again — or at least, the many …
Also tagged: books, karen joy fowler
io9 - Apr 9, 2008
In Nick Mamatas' weird political cartoon of a novel, Under My Roof, a man named Daniel Weinberg decides to build his own nuclear bomb out of hundreds of used smoke detectors, and then declares that his house, and its …
Also tagged: books, nick mamatas
io9 - Apr 4, 2008
Although it's easy to love scifi author Vernor Vinge for his most lauded work, like Rainbows End or Fire Upon the Deep, some of his lesser-known novels are more memorable than the great ones. Such is the case with …
Also tagged: books, science fiction
io9 - Apr 3, 2008
Though you may never visit Second Life, you know about it for the same reason you know about MySpace: it's a digital social space that's transforming how we use the web. Except instead of being a bunch of webpages …
Also tagged: books, virtual worlds, nonfiction, wagner james au
io9 - Mar 17, 2008
The stand-out piece in the current Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is clearly "Five Thrillers," a novelet by Robert Reed about an antisocial maniac who takes on genetically modified insurgents. "Thrillers" …
Also tagged: robert reed
io9 - Mar 13, 2008
In Japanese, the word urawaza means "secret tricks," like knowing that Superman is vulnerable to kryptonite or that certain moves will lead you to the song at the end of the game Portal. Now io9's Lisa Katayama has a …
Also tagged: books, superpowers