Failing again. Failing better.
Ever since I read Charlie Jane Anders’s short story “Six Months, Three Days,” I’ve been looking forward to her novel, All the Birds in the Sky. I have been a fan of her work on io9 for ages, but that was the first time I had read her fiction, and it only made me want…
I was going to post a link to the new X-Men movie trailer, but I figure everyone’s seen it at this point. Instead, I’ll post a couple links to some other movie stuff, both from io9. The first is a list of over 50 original movies–no remakes, no reboots, and no sequels. I’m a little…
I’ve been a fan of myth and folklore for just about as long as I can remember. My boyhood bookshelves (and heck, my current bookshelves) had collections from around the world. But it’s always nice to discover a new vein to explore. It’s even more surprising when someone points out that a new field of…
For many people, Mondays tend to be bleak, grey, and gloomy. Therefore, I present to you the Sierra Club’s list of Earth’s Weirdest Landscapes. Colorful, odd, and striking, these should serve as a reminder of just how varied and awesome our planet can be. And this is just “above-the-surface weirdness.” Things get far stranger under…
Yesterday, io9.com highlighted a great tumblr page, Calvin & Muad’Dub. I had to pass it along. By mixing Calvin & Hobbes and Frank Herbert’s DUNE books, two big parts of my childhood are colliding (that probably says A LOT about me). But what I especially love about this is that they are using some of…