This weekend, Netflix recommended that I watch Heartless, a Danish TV show. I’m not a fan of subtitles, but the premise sounded intriguing:

Look what I got in my inbox this morning! A download for Pwning Tomorrow: Stories from the Electronic Frontier from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And the authors include io9’s Charlie Jane Anders and former io9er Annalee Newitz!

In a rare fit of festivity, I compiled a list of holiday time books with science fiction, fantasy, horror, or superhero themes. So when you get bored between December 25 and January 5, here is a great way to spend the 12 Days of Christmas — reading!

Earnest Cline (author of the FANTASTIC Ready Player One) will be discussing his new book, Armada, at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on July 14th at 7:30pm. This is a FREE EVENT — reserve your seat through Brown Paper Tickets.

ABC just announced that they canceled Forever, starring Ioan Gruffudd, Alana De La Garza, Judd Hirch, and David Joel Moore. This was my favorite show this year! Such depressing news.

I just saw the season 1 finale of Forever — SO GOOD! I couldn’t find any discussions on io9 about it, so I thought I would start a place to discuss the episode, the season, and my dreams for a second season. Spoilers ahead!

I’m a little surprised to see that io9 has not posted a review of Hulu’s original show Deadbeat, about a medium, Pac (Tyler Labine — LOVE HIM), who has one friend (his drug dealer, Roofie, played by Brandon T. Jackson), no job, no money, and no life. To get by, Pac solves mysterious hauntings by talking with the dead…