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io9 - Sep 21, 2008
If there's one thing that science fiction has taught us, it's that it's almost a certainty that Earth will be invaded by an alien force at some point in our lifetime. Luckily, we've also learned that humanity will most …
Also tagged: doctor who, feature, v, mars attacks, invasion of the body snatchers, independence day, the day the earth stood still, the invaders, know your enemy, secret invasion, the hitchhiker s guide to the galaxy
io9 - Sep 3, 2008
The Russian version of Spider-Man actually has a couple of extra arms coming out of his butt, and he has a bit of a drinking problem as well, in this bizarre mock-medieval print about the wall-crawler. The same Russian …
Also tagged: star wars, spider man, terminator, scifi art, russian art, lubok
io9 - Aug 19, 2008
This short, silent clip of Ray Harryhausen's stop-action Martian emerging from its crashed spaceship (a 1940s study for an unmade War of the Worlds) cries out for some Don Martin/Mad magazine-esque onomatopoeia - but …
Also tagged: aliens, ray harryhausen, silent but deadly, retro futurism
io9 - Jun 25, 2008
One of the most widely-read science fiction novels across the globe, H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds has been in print continuously since the late nineteenth century. And it's had a lot of book covers: artistic, fancy …
Also tagged: art, books, hg wells, concept design
io9 - May 14, 2008
The greatest alien visitors in science fiction are totally invulnerable — except for one crucial weakness. And the best almost-unstoppable aliens have a weakness that is more poetic than Sylvia Plath and William Blake …
Also tagged: doctor who, top, clips, superman, footprint, alien nation, larry niven, sontarans, jerry pournelle
io9 - Apr 23, 2008
The awesome thing about science fiction is that anything can happen — including the occasional incredibly convenient miracle. Sometimes circumstances become so desperate and dire in a science fiction tale that even the …
Also tagged: doctor who, star trek, top, the matrix, signs, space 1999, reset button, joe haldeman
io9 - Apr 12, 2008
Even if you just hear a science fiction movie or TV show playing in another room, you'll instantly recognize it thanks to the weird sounds of alien spaceships and laser weapons. No genre of entertainment has ever …
Also tagged: doctor who, sounds, star trek, star wars, top, battlestar galactica, sound effects, sound design, superfriends, triviagasm
io9 - Mar 31, 2008
Everyone knows about Orson Welles' famous 1938 radio version of War Of The Worlds, which panicked the nation by (accidentally?) convincing those who tuned in late that New Jersey had been invaded by Martians. But how …
io9 - Mar 19, 2008
There are two ways of taking a science fiction classic and bringing it to the screen: You can bring it up to date, setting it in the present day and revamping the characters accordingly, like Steven Spielberg's War Of …
Also tagged: ask the readers, watchmen, retro futurism