When we were making Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Robert Wolfe's imagined universe was so huge and rich that we couldn't wait to see it realized onscreen. And then dailies came back, and the reality of making a space opera for 1.1 million dollars an episode with a quarter of that going straight into Kevin Sorbo's…

J.K. Rowling named her daughter after her personal hero, Jessica Mitford. She likely also modeled the Bellatrix Lestrange-Narcissa Malfoy-Andromeda Tonks sisters in the Potter books after the Mitfords.

Hahahahaha. Yeah, like the time the Vidiians assaulted and mutilated one of her crew members, and Janeway...warned them not to do it again. And then they DID IT AGAIN, and actually murdered a crew member, and Janeway...let them get away with it. Again. Worst. Captain. Ever. She made Captain Harriman from Generations…

Has anyone mentioned Doom Force, Grant Morrison's hilarious Doom Patrol spinoff/nasty parody of Liefeld-era X-Force?

I'm normally a big fan of Ms. Newitz, but is a not a good writeup of a very not good article. There's nothing at all mysterious about Russia's demographic collapse during the Yeltsin years— their entire economic and health care systems fell apart and alcohol and drug use skyrocketed.

Oh, Jesus. Pedantic much? By your standards, 95 percent of what's commonly understood to be science fiction really isn't.

Are we really going to aim the well-oiled Internet shame machine at a freaking 12-year-old? Complete with photos? Kids make dumb mistakes, and I'm sure this is humiliating enough for her without the global dogpile that IO9 is contributing to.

Guatemalan-Cuban Oscar Isaac has been a lead in the film from the very beginning, yet never seems to be counted as diverse. Weird.

Didn't the Onion already cover this? http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-s…

Oh, this revisionist love for Alien 3 is pure contrarian fanboy bullshit. And implying that people didn't like it because they just wanted action scenes (and not because it took a giant shit on everything Ripley had fought for and won in the previous films)? Bad form, Annalee. You're better than that.

"Daddy, why did you eat my fries?"

You despise it when you make inflammatory statements and people ask you to actually back them up with evidence instead of taking the word of an anonymous person on the Internet? Nice to know.

The sad thing is that if she appeared in 2014 looking like that, casting directors would order her to lose 20 lbs. first.

Dredd actually predated The Raid, it just had a much longer post-production period. Early drafts of the Dredd script were actually on the Internet before The Raid was written, so if anything, accusations of plagarism should run the opposite direction. Or, more likely, two films used a broadly similar premise at the…

Did someone say something about BJ and the Bear? I love that show!

And he conquered the rest of Europe by himself?

You have heard of that Napoleon guy, right?

Brett Ratner actually gets a bad rap for this movie. He came in a few weeks before production and shot the script that had been developed by others. Nearly all of the stuff he gets blamed for was already in place when he came aboard, with no real time to tinker or fix.

Remember when people were accusing Will Smith of being a homophobe because this same guy tried to forcibly kiss him during a similar press junket?

You can do a lot worse than taking a good, classic book or film & beginning translating it into a science fiction setting. A lot of classic novels do that. Dune is pretty much Lawrence of Arabia in space. The Stars My Destination= The Count of Monte Cristo in space. The Sparrow= Black Robe in Space. Foundation=…