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New Humble Bundle Nabs Some of the Best Nebula Award Winners for Hours of Scifi Obsession
Humble Bundle has just made friends with anyone looking for a stash of amazing and award-winning scifi and fantasy to add to their collection. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America bundle is an impressive collection of Nebula winners and nominated authors that’s basically an automatic summer reading list.
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A Giant Asteroid Is Headed to Earth and Somehow That's a Secret in CBS' Salvation
What can you say about a trailer that sums up its premise as “Asteroid. Earth. Boom”? Only that summer just got a whole lot more fun.
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Why Marvel's America Chavez, Who Comes From an Alternate Dimension, Identifies as Latinx
She’s beauty, she’s grace. She’s an interdimensional being with a fondness for the American flag and in this week’s issue of Marvel’s America, we finally learn how America Chavez came to identify herself as a Latinx woman.
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The Suspiria Remake Just Added One of Its Most Crucial Collaborators
Dario Argento’s Italian horror classic Suspiria is beloved for many reasons, but high atop the list is the film’s haunting score by frequent Argento collaborators Goblin. A Suspiria remake is due later this year, and the crucial slot of soundtrack creator has just been announced. It’s a name you might recognize.
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Overwatch Incest 'Shipping Tests The Limits Of What's Permissible In Fandom
While it’s possible to play Overwatch and not pay attention to its lore, there’s a part of that game’s fandom that loves it for its lore. These fans theorize about character backgrounds, make fan art, and often obsess over the possible romantic pairing in the game, known as “shipping.” They imagine former friends…
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Sources: BioWare Montreal Scaled Down, Mass Effect Put On Ice For Now
In the wake of BioWare’s polarizing Mass Effect: Andromeda, fans have wondered where the lauded sci-fi series will go next. The answer, according to people familiar with the studio, is nowhere—at least for the time being. BioWare has put Mass Effect on hiatus and turned Andromeda’s developer, BioWare Montreal, into a…
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All Hail the Princess in Her New Unikitty! TV Series
It’s time for sparkles, sunshine, and dance parties! Unikitty, the adorable creature from The Lego Movie, is finally getting her own show on Cartoon Network. Let’s hope Unikitty! includes some enemy smiting as she desperately holds onto her sequined throne.
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Microsoft’s Latest Workplace Tech Demos Creep Me Out
If you’re an employee under the heel of a giant corporation you should probably be terrified by the vision of the future of connected gadgets that Microsoft just revealed at its Build developer conference here in Seattle.
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Doctor Doom Is Teaming Up With the Avengers—And Could Join Them for Good
Superhero team-ups are meant to be fun, but when one of the biggest supervillains around shows up in front of you, demands an alliance, and then tells you that oh, by the way, he’s totally given up being a villain to take the place of Iron Man? Well, those team-ups are fraught with danger... or should be, at least.
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Even Director Rian Johnson Loves This 16-Bit Video Game Version of The Last Jedi Trailer
Oh, Luke, telling the world the Jedi are finished doesn’t feel quite as dramatic when it’s via text bubble. With both Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Battlefront II on the horizon, one fan has started the 8-bit (technically 16-bit) parody trailer wagon rolling... and he’s got the approval of TLJ’s director himself.
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An Amazing Hypothesis for Why the Trappist-1 System Hasn't Destroyed Itself
When astronomers announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, Earthlings immediately celebrated the possibility that one of those planetary neighbors could host life. But to physicists, TRAPPIST-1 presented a puzzle: How could those seven planets, all packed around…
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Scientists Just Named a Newly-Discovered Dinosaur After a Ghostbusters Character
Hopefully, this opens the door for a Jurassic Park and Ghostbusters crossover.
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Judge Dredd Is Getting His Very Own Live-Action TV Show
The odds of Judge Dredd returning to the big screen are pretty slim, but the popular character will indeed be back, just in a different medium.
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Donald Glover Is Making an Adult, Animated Deadpool TV Show
Deadpool’s long-awaited arrival on the big screen ruffled the superhero movie genre a few years ago. Now, the merc with a mouth is hoping to do much the same with his own animated series, due to air on FXX next year—and one hell of a name is in the showrunner’s seat.
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Behold This Treasure Trove of Images From Behind the Scenes of Star Trek's Third Season
The end of April saw the release of the third installment of To Boldly Go: Rare Photos from the TOS Soundstage by Gerald Gurian. The book covers the third season of the show, and it’s got the usual rare and delightful peeks behind the scenes of Star Trek.
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First Look at The Gifted's Polaris Shows the Government's Still Rounding Up Mutants
Fox’s upcoming X-Men drama The Gifted is a Marvel story as old as time. People with powers walk among us, those without powers fear them, and the government is seemingly hell-bent on capturing and imprisoning all of the... well, the gifted.
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Everything New Is Terrible in the Latest Cars 3 Trailer
The baffling (and increasingly disturbing) Cars 3 is all about an intergenerational rivalry between the upstart Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer) and the old star Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson). In this trailer, it’s not just the technologically new and superior Jackson that isn’t good—it’s apparently every bit of new…
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Today's Best Deals: Hoover SteamVac, Sperry, Anker Lightning Cables, and More
Anker’s most durable lightning cable, a Hoover SteamVac, Sperry’s Almost Summer Sale, and more lead Thursday’s best deals.
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The Latest Handmaid's Tale Is About Taking What You Can When There's Nothing Left
The latest episode of The Handmaid’s Tale deals with answering one important question: How does someone cope with having no power? When everything is taken away, how do you keep from falling apart? For Offred, Ofglen, and dozens of other handmaids in Gilead, it’s about taking whatever you can. Because when you have…
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Sleepy Hollow Has Been Mercifully Decapitated
After a turgid attempt to retool itself after an awful third season that saw the loss of one of the show’s most important elements in the form of Nicole Beharie’s Abbie Mills, the desperate, confused mess that was Sleepy Hollow is no more. Fox has officially canceled the show after four seasons.
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