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io9 - Sep 29, 2008
It's never great to watch a beloved science fiction hero die — but sometimes a memorable heroic death can help turn a science fiction story into a real epic. And some science fiction characters are unforgettable and …
Also tagged: doctor who, star trek, star wars, top, sunshine, cowboy bebop, terminator, neal stephenson, terminator 2, mission to mars, h g wells, anathem, blake s 7, science fiction deaths, space above and beyond
io9 - Jul 2, 2008
By now you've probably heard the news about our solar system not quite being the shape that everybody thought. A study in Nature today shows results gathered from the two Voyager space probes launched in the 1970s …
Also tagged: heliosphere, space porn, galactic sphere
io9 - Jul 1, 2008
In two of this summer's biggest action movies, the hero's mentor turns out to be a lying, manipulative sack of villainy. And nobody in the audience is surprised, because it's a scifi fact of life: mentors lie to you …
Also tagged: star wars, top, batman begins, batman, iron man, wanted, battlestar galactica, the 4400, mentorship, triviagasm, lying mentors
io9 - Jun 4, 2008
The latest issue of IEEE Spectrum, a journal for speculative engineering geeks, is devoted to "the singularity," that moment when our society changes so dramatically that it becomes incomprehensible to people who lived …
Also tagged: books, magazines, singularity, ieee spectrum