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One of our recent listicles featured a film in which a giant praying mantis decimated a military base, but, amazingly, that monster pales in comparison to some of the more far-fetched B-Movie monsters that have terrorized American cities over the last 60 years. mental_floss counts down 9 Ridiculous B-Movie Monsters, which includes parasites, leeches, over-sexed [...]

You may have noticed that we’re huge architecture nerds, and, to a lesser degree, comic book fans. In a weird way, though, we’re maybe even more fond of the places where science fiction and architecture intersect and help to create spectacular, imaginary new constructions. We really enjoyed Architects Journal’s vidsticle of the Top 5 Comic [...]

We love a science fiction film that plunges us into a completely different setting, where we get to rediscover everything from the language to the fashions to the laws of physics. Even better, we love a sci-fi movie that, within its imaginative new universe, sprouts a crazy dream sequence where the laws and rules are [...]

Cartoons these days are pretty complicated–weird Japanese creatures, kids with dangerously spiky hair, a comic taste for wacky non-sequiturs. Things got so out of control that we stopped paying attention, like, two months ago. We pine for the simpler times of decades past, when shows were clearly terrible or brilliant (and never confusing). Most of [...]

We’ve long wondered how we’d handle being in space, what effects it would have on our body and psyche. We’d like to think we would never go Moon- or Solaris-crazy, but who knows. Hopefully we wouldn’t go quite as crazy as the interplanetarily insane folks featured in io9’s listicle of the Top 10 Mental Cases [...]

Ever notice how atmospheric science fiction thrillers have their heroes gazing down ominous hallways before they finally meet the true objects of their fear (be they alien, human, otherworldly or psychological)? The creepy corridor is a sci-fi staple and the meticulous artistry that goes into conveying the off-screen threat is truly something to behold, as [...]

There are so many terrific pop cultural robots to keep track of (funny ones, scary ones, utilitarian ones, oddly sexy ones, oddly human-seeming ones) that we’d really like some sort of encyclopedic chronicle of fictional robot types. Someone has designed the next best thing though, this design (available as a print or T-shirt) of 51 [...]

Comic-Con 09 happened recently, and while much of the coverage (as far as we could tell) was devoted to attractive women in cosplay costumes, the annual extravaganza of all things nerd-tastic had plenty of poorly costumed attendees too. Just look at Costume Pop’s hilarious listicle of 12 Costume Fails from Comic Con, like this fella [...]

Some cupcakes are just pretty baked goods, and some are delicious, spectacular, nerdy cupcakes (or “nerdcakes”). Topless Robot found two dozen of such nerdcakes for this photo-op featuring 24 Awesomely Nerdy Cupcakes. Now we’re going to spend the rest of Sunday eating cupcakes and watching old sci-fi movies and shows.

What’s a good sci-fi or fantasy series without a fascinating, deeply rich urban locale to serve as its backdrop? Batman’s got Gotham, Superman has Metropolis, and any comparable franchise that plans to stick around would do good to create comparable settings from which subplots and supporting characters can emerge to provide new narratives and continuing [...]