By Charlie Jane Anders This photo by Los Angeles artist Claire Oring looks like a still from a post-apocalyptic sword-and-sandal movie — and now that it’s won Ron Howard’s photo contest, it’s set to be the basis of a short movie directed by Jamie Foxx or Eva Longoria. This photo was one of 91 selected photos in Canon’s “Project Imagination” contest. Check out more of her insane fantasy art below. … [Read more...]

Is Stephen Soderbergh’s final theatrical movie science fiction or not? You decide! That pill that Rooney Mara is taking certainly looks pretty nuts, and Side Effects is from the writer of Contagion. What do you think? … [Read more...]

By Charlie Jane Anders OMNI magazine blended science and science fiction, and was one of the most influential publications in the history of both. We draw on the influence of OMNI Magazine every single day, and so do a ton of other people, whether they realize or not.  So there’s great news — pretty much the entire run of OMNI is available online at the Internet Archive. (And there’s a complete index to the magazine here.) … [Read more...]

By Charlie Jane Anders Lebbeus Woods, the architect who died this past week in New York, might be best known by science fiction fans for suing Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys for allegedly copying one of this designs — that weird suspended chair that Bruce Willis sits in. But his strange designs were science fictional in so many other ways, and his drawings of urban spaces often appear to be attacked by weird parasitic presences. He … [Read more...]