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![When Are Vampire Stories Science Fiction? [Vampires]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/c/3/9/9/0/7/3/5/c/8/41d0dc88c5c9a5012e3ed3.jpeg) |
When Are Vampire Stories Science Fiction? [Vampires]io9 - Aug 17, 2008 By all rights, vampires should make terrible subjects for science fiction. Your classic Bram Stoker-inspired nosferatu is a rather mystical affair – dead, cursed, and in spiritual exile from the Christian God … Also tagged: aliens, technology, virus, vampires, genres |
![Get Your Daily Dose of Scifi Authors at Tor.com [Tor Books]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/b/4/c/c/f/2/7/5/6/e/2c0aac5cde50c8503aa5ee.gif) |
Get Your Daily Dose of Scifi Authors at Tor.com [Tor Books]io9 - Jul 21, 2008 Tor Books, one of the biggest and most venerable publishers of excellent science fiction writing, has just launched a new blog that promises to bring the crunchy goodness of a Tor book to your RSS reader every day … |
![Aldrin Blames Lack of Interest in Space Program on Science Fiction [Blame It On Sci-Fi]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/9/4/1/1/7/d/0/8/c/d/f959931ae0bb5aaaba62db.jpeg) |
Aldrin Blames Lack of Interest in Space Program on Science Fiction [Blame It On Sci-Fi]io9 - Jul 13, 2008 Forget shifting priorities or a de-emphasis on science education; this week, Buzz Aldrin told the Sci Fi Channel that the real culprit behind youth disinterest in space exploration is none other than science fiction … Also tagged: astronaut, nasa, buzz aldrin, space program, john barnes, blame it on sci fi, encounter with tiber |
![How Much Science Do You Need To Know To Write Science Fiction? [Jo Walton]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/d/9/b/6/4/b/2/b/9/7/25f732b1add006f3ea85d5.jpeg) |
How Much Science Do You Need To Know To Write Science Fiction? [Jo Walton]io9 - Jun 16, 2008 Farthing and Tooth And Claw author Jo Walton is widely regarded as one of the best writers of fantasy right now, and she won the John W. Campbell award for the best new writer of speculative fiction. So why does she … |
!["Technology is Another Version of Communism or Aliens or a Large Praying Mantis" [Rant]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/3/1/9/f/e/d/8/6/1/4/d34b7d142c8ae93a22334b.jpeg) |
"Technology is Another Version of Communism or Aliens or a Large Praying Mantis" [Rant]io9 - Jun 5, 2008 Does science fiction appeal mainly to audiences who are ignorant about how technology works? That seems to be the message from creators of some of TV's most innovative science fiction, who talked to Variety about why … Also tagged: television, top, gawker, caprica, chuck, battlestar galatica, virtuality, sarah connor chronicles, technophobia |
![The Evolution of Philip K. Dick's "Cosmic Puppets" [Philip K. Dick]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/2/e/b/8/c/e/a/6/4/f/10b1a5a4e21eb93cdd72c6.jpeg) |
The Evolution of Philip K. Dick's "Cosmic Puppets" [Philip K. Dick]io9 - May 23, 2008 An often-forgotten and misunderstood early Philip K. Dick novel is The Cosmic Puppets , first released in the late 1950s and reprinted over the years with covers that reflect publishers' (and the public's) changing … Also tagged: books, fantasy, philip k dick |
![More Terrifying Than Space is Space Madness [Horrorhead]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/b/a/e/5/a/5/0/4/d/6/b3e6f850c5a4597f8be3c5.jpeg) |
More Terrifying Than Space is Space Madness [Horrorhead]io9 - May 15, 2008 Welcome back to Horrorhead, a biweekly column where we explore the intersection of scifi and horror. If there's one thing more terrible than having a zombie eat the tongue out of your head by breaking your jaw, it's … Also tagged: books, movies, feature, top, horror, horrorhead |
![Scifi Movie Locations in the Real World [Architecture]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/3/d/0/5/6/b/4/d/a/0/ed0c2a502e09ffcaaa50e3.jpeg) |
Scifi Movie Locations in the Real World [Architecture]io9 - May 14, 2008 With movies like Speed Racer and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow creating entire scifi landscapes from CGI, it's easy to forget that some of the most futuristic settings for scifi movies are borrowed from the … Also tagged: architecture, movies, gallery, rollerball, fahrenheit 451, 12 monkeys |
![The Four Styles You'll Wear in the Future, According to Science Fiction [Sci Fashion]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/1/f/d/6/5/2/d/c/7/1/5e525baf3ad7e937a1507a.jpeg) |
The Four Styles You'll Wear in the Future, According to Science Fiction [Sci Fashion]io9 - May 2, 2008 One of the most terrifying parts of any science fiction movie or TV show are the inevitable Future Jumpsuits that everyone seems to wear because somehow every aspect of civilization has advanced except clothing … Also tagged: movies, television, top, fashion, sci fashion |
![On the International Space Station, You Can Watch Star Wars But Not Star Trek [International Space Station]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/b/2/6/d/4/c/3/c/a/3/ffedada1a36ee567681b92.jpeg) |
On the International Space Station, You Can Watch Star Wars But Not Star Trek [International Space Station]io9 - May 2, 2008 In a stroke of weird genius, the people at GovernmentAttic.org issued a FOIA (freedom of information act) request to the US government to reveal the contents of the multimedia library on the International Space … Also tagged: space, international space station, books, movies, television, star trek, star wars, science |