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I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

Humans have obviously contributed a great deal of carbon to the atmosphere. So we are warming the planet up.

I am sorry you have to live in the time of terraforming, and not in the spring that follows.

To understand the future properly, it's crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.

A hard-hitting investigative report that uncovers a nugget of genuine truth is the ultimate viral hit.

Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world.

Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9.

With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance.

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.

Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.

Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers.

At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.

Put simply, 'Interstellar' has a strong undercurrent of cheesiness.

I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.

If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.

Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.

In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.