SEVENEVES was 2/3 of a great tale, but it just ... ends. Way, way too quickly and neatly. We never have CONFIRMED, in-story closure of the rebels who left for Mars; we never found out what happens with the orbital cold war, nor any finality regarding the “sonar people” (forget their names for themselves). I love…

the supreme irony of the puppies is that by pitching a hissy fit about all the damn liberals and SJWs in their science fiction, they’ve helped highlight the problem of representation at the Hugos, and as a result people who weren’t getting the kind of attention they deserved rallied together with a lot of passionate,…

But did we see Gigalo Joe seduce anyone? See anyone take Gigalo Joe upstairs? Where gigalo Joe got naked? I don’t remember a scene like that.

It’s more that Hollywood uses women to represent sexbots. There is a really disturbing trend of “Let’s make a woman robot, and make her SEXY. A SEXY slave.”

Slave labor is awesome?

Yes, they are.

Can you explain why when there’s a storm, some weather dummy has to stand outside in a puddle and tell us there’s a storm?

colloquialism

What is a colloquialism? Is it sexist?

This sounds actually cool but potentially horrible depending how they do it.

Wouldn’t it be more creative to call it Fort Hecate after the Greek Goddess of witchcraft?

Here’s basically the same thing, in Mario form.

I think they're not because it was a great chapter and now we're anticipating the next one. There's not much more to discuss or dissect at this point.

What you said? That’s why IO9 is my homepage in every browser. that’s why I still check every article, every day. I found things here that I loved that I never would have found without you guys (The Middleman, Snowpiercer, Europa Report, God only knows what else) and the comment section is still full of smart, witty…

Maybe observationdeck.kinja.com will still be running? It’s mostly old folks from io9 comments who run around the place smelling like Geritol and complaining about kids on their lawn.

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to contribute to this article in time for deadline. I founded io9 because there was nothing else out there like it, and I wanted a place where I could find all the science and science fiction news that I craved. So I built io9 basically for my own personal needs. But then I discovered there…

CHARLIE LIVES!

Nobody knows what’s coming. All we know is that any future we’ve predicted has been wrong, the future we get is very different! Instead of jetpacks, we got internet. The singularity? Can’t happen. Everything we learn about neuroscience now says so. Anything uploaded would be a copy of you, but the process would kill…

There are empirical and philosophical reasons to suspect that this is all fantasy. The whole idea that mind is like a kind of software that can be instantiated in any hardware of sufficient complexity - the premise of the ‘singularity’ myth - has been challenged by the very different conception of embodied/enactive…

At your last check? You mean the report that Kurzweil put out in 2010, where he graded himself as having been right on exactly 86 percent of his 147 predictions from three particular books, right?