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LIGHTSPEED Presents: ‘Critical Mass’ by Peter Watts
io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Critical Mass” by Peter Watts. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on Lightspeed’s website. Enjoy!
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10 Spectacularly Silly Depictions of the Moon in Sci-Fi Movies
Over the weekend I rewatched master of disaster Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall (I paid $2.99 on Amazon Prime for the pleasure), I’ve got the Moon on the brain. Not the semi-plausible or at least seriously considered depictions seen in movies like Moon, 2001: A Space Odyssey or Ad Astra, but the full-on goofy treatments that put the…
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Mad Max Director George Miller Almost Made Carl Sagan’s Contact
Hollywood is filled with fascinating “What if?” scenarios. So and so director almost made so and so movie. Actor X was the second choice for role Y. It’s an infinite rabbit hole and director George Miller is often a big part of it. He famously got very close to making a Justice League movie long…
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Hocus Pocus 2’s First Teaser Summons Forth the Sanderson Sisters
The black flame candle has been lit once more, and that can only mean one thing: our first look at the long-awaited sequel to Hocus Pocus is here.