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Greed Propels a Surreal Battle in Delightful Animated Short Bad Seeds
The set-up for Claude Cloutier’s animated short Bad Seeds is very simple: two hungry carnivorous plants wage a turf war over the flies that enter their shared airspace. But the execution — a surreal series of gorgeous drawings that change as the battle heats up — is simply brilliant (and often hilarious). Check it out!
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48 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Keep You Cosy This November
This month is huge for fans of sci-fi and fantasy books. We’ve got James S.A. Corey’s final Expanse book, Leviathan Falls; a new collection of stories by Gizmodo co-founder Charlie Jane Anders called Even Greater Mistakes; and the latest Brandon Sanderson Skyward Series novel, Cytonic. Plus, new books from Marissa Meyer, Tad Williams, Neal Stephenson, Nnedi…
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These Matrix, Alien, and 2001 Claymation Scenes Are Perfection
Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed an uptick in Gizmodo posts featuring short claymation scenes recreating iconic moments from famous sci-fi movies. We shared Star Trek II and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and now we’ve reached the grand finale. Not one, not two, but three all-time sci-fi classics: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The…
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Magical Girl Friendship Squad Is a Potent Shot of Millennial Wish Fulfillment
Syfy and Kelsey Stephanides’ Magical Girl Friendship Squad is about a pair of well-meaning but aimless roommates who spend their days stressing about paying the rent on time, holding down jobs to pay said rent, and, occasionally, transforming into a pair of magical girls tasked with protecting the planet from interdimensional evils. Also, they smoke…