Annihilation (the book) also owes a decent amount to Solaris (the book).

If I remember correctly, Danielewski’s contract for it specifically forbids it ever being filmed.

I think you’ve put your finger on what makes the third book seem so disappointing. In effect, it just keeps pulling away the tools we use to make sense of things. It breaks chronology with all kinds of time-lapses and flashbacks. It chips away at the idea that individual identity can be authentic or self-contained by…

remember, you can’t make anything unless you’re the original culture that made something. Movies? Those are only for eccentric Frenchmen who like shooting space bullets at the moon.

Good music is good. I don’t care if it’s a current Jack White song, Beasties from the 90s, the Stones from the 60s or Mozart in the... well hell I don’t know when Mozart was alive.

Eh, you know, I’d even agree that they’re cultural icons.

Fantastic!

I encourage you to read one of the twenty-five other fucking responses I’ve already made to this comment. “Cultural appropriation” is apparently a fucking bat signal for easily-offended internet commenters who choose not to understand what words mean. It’s not inherently an insult, unless you’re trolling io9 looking…

So much of the book revolves around the biologist’s perception of things (which she frequently acknowledges may not be accurate) that I’m honestly not even sure how you could adapt all of it faithfully. At multiple points, she admits that she’s an unreliable narrator of her own story. That kind of thing is extremely…

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell fact from fiction. Russia’s apparent misuse of social media during the last US presidential election showed the potential for state actors to use social networks in nefarious ways.

My honest opinion is that I think it’s kind of an apples-to-oranges comparison! Gimme Shelter was relatively period-appropriate for the time period depicted in the movie. There’s no Star Wars universe in which Han Solo is cruising the galaxy listening to Ill Communication, but there were plenty of drug dealers and…

Yeah, a Lando movie would be, I expect, miles ahead of what we’re going to get. So much of Han Solo’s charisma is tied, very directly, to Harrison Ford and his own natural charisma. It’s pretty difficult to see how this actor will be able to replicate that, even if he’s really good.

Today, I’ve learned that, amongst io9 readers, pointing out that white guys from middle class families performing music traditionally performed by black Americans (and packaging it for white audiences) is, apparently, responsible for the entire right-wing in America.

It’s the same take Public Enemy had on Elvis, and they were right, too.

Someone with the screen name “Taxation is Theft” calling me a moron because I dare to mention cultural appropriation is fucking hilarious.

So busy trying to make your point extra-ridiculous, you overlooked two songs from 1957 that would pair much better with First Blood II - Presley’s ‘All Shook Up’ and Jerry Lee Lewis’ ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On’.

Well, if Sports is Life says so...

That would’ve been better! Hell, Intergalactic would’ve been, too! It’s not just that it’s old. I’d say at least a third of my record collection comes from around the time Ill Communication came out. It’s that it’s old and it’s stale.

I’ll freely admit that some of my complaint comes from the fact that I think Sabotage is the most overrated, overused Beastie Boys song in the history of Beastie Boys songs.

Culture-appropriating white guys - scoff. Nice try but when you want to spit on someone make sure they actually suck or they are on fire. You sound silly trying to put-down a group pretty much respected by everyone in the genre.