Sir Terry should be and will be a GRAND MASTER. Does the SWFA not understand DEATH likes his little jokes and expects others to appreciate and honour them.

Why is pending approval the favourite way of labelling posts? Some critics are saying io9 is dead. Certainly lots of bits of it are “ghostly”.

I tried to make sense of this. Some process called reconection causes coronal mass ejections [those I basically understand]. This then hits Earths magnetosphere and the magnetic fields attached to the coronal mass ejection interact with Earths magnetic field causing a reconection which it seems drops the magnetic…

Marvel’s pantheon of stars will surely continue to vaguely talk about Avengers: Infinity War (or whatever it ends up being named) until its first part releases on May 4, 2018.

nothing wrong with speculating as long as all speculations are given an airing and they have some rational argument behind them. Some will appear more “sound” than others, others more “unlikely”. Sadly media will hype the most sensational and then mock when they chose often with intent of making science look stupid…

From memory I think an oxygen rich environment would be poisonous which sounds counter intuitive. So we needed a balance. The first life used the heavy nitrogen atmosphere described here transforming it so that it was usable for other evolving life forms that had the trick of photosynthesis of which oxygen was a waste…

hmmm and still no approval wonder what i said thats an issue

Surprised by the negative and less than ebullient comment on the books of Le Guin. For me there’s always been the ideas mostly depicted at a human /alien level rather than the “Galactic”. Her Ecumen Galactic Federation for example contrasted against Banks “Culture”. Le Guin postulates faster than light travel not so…

More of this type of post please. Hits the mark about what i09 should be. lets have more author interviews. World building ... should have some links back to Charlie Anders posts for extra reference but not that easy to reference past posts so good luck with that

The replies focus on the art and its an art discussion. Its reason for being here from the science editor is because its science in that its a description of a specific disease and whats interesting presumably is this artists model could have suffered from it. Though she was diagnosed as having contracted polio and…

Ever read Terry Pratchett. Leonardo of Quirm one possible clone outcome

oh and forgot Maddie seriously filed in Da Vinci: I would have wanted it.

Interesting but whats missing is any convincing reason as to why. Lots of money would need to be thrown at this and I can see no reason other than some half lame argument about how his senses worked to achieve understanding of his talent. Other than that it seems to be the Mallory Response “because it’s [he’s] there.…

WHAT HAVE LABRADORS TO DO WITH io9?????

after my immediate rant below Ithought it deserved a bit of a buff so I posted something a little more considered on my blog here. [Finally found a use for it]

smiles no just an automatic transfer assumes thats what i want is a re direct had to have a big discussion with amazon till they stopped re directing

Interesting did a check on Gizmodo’s first page covering about 24 hours [Gizmodo australia as it defaults to that source whether i like it or not]. 51 articles from headings Online 12%; Entertainment 46%; Science and Health 8% [ split evenly]; Software design 8%; Gadgets 4%; Mobile 14%; Car Tech 2 %; Software 2 %;…

Charlie please, as you continue to develop as a writer you are going to have thoughts, things to say about the process, and the genre we all love [ I suspect there’s the strong base for a small book!]. Please consider continuing to pass on those thoughts here plus any thing else that tickles your fancy. Thank you for…

just in case anyone missed it here’s a link to Neil Gaiman and Ishiguro discussing Genre and the stirring of waters that Ishiguro’s comment caused.

Basically dont agree with your premise and you assume fans do which is arrogance.