io9 year in review

  • The Highlights And Lowlights Of 2017

    The Highlights And Lowlights Of 2017

    Mercifully, 2017 has begun fading in the distance. It can be easy to look back at the last 355 days or so and see only the bad stuff – super easy, actually – but 2017 wasn’t without its good days, too. We have huddled together to assemble lists of the past year’s happy surprises and…


  • The 10 Best (and Five Worst) TV Shows Of 2017

    The 10 Best (and Five Worst) TV Shows Of 2017

    This year, we were glued to our TVs and/or whatever device was streaming our scifi and fantasy favourites. It was tough narrowing down a top 10 – and you may be surprised by what’s missing. The bottom five took a little less time to assemble, but still, this wasn’t easy either. Here are the shows…


  • The 10 Best (And Five Worst) Genre Movies Of 2016

    The 10 Best (And Five Worst) Genre Movies Of 2016

    The films the io9 team has picked as the best science fiction and genre films of 2016 are a very motley crew. This year we loved superheroes, animation, farting corpses, live action, talking animals, and more. These are films spanning different genres, disciplines, and themes, which experienced varied levels of success. Each is worthy of…


  • The Absolute Coolest Pop Culture Art Of 2016

    The Absolute Coolest Pop Culture Art Of 2016

    Ranking movies or TV shows is easy compared to more traditional art. There are a finite amount of scifi TV shows and movies you can watch, but pop culture art is damn near infinite. Every sliver of the internet is chock-full of it, not to mention the professional galleries, poster companies, on and on.