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Listen to Charlie Jane Anders Read From Her Inspiring New Book on Writing

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When Charlie Jane Anders was still here at io9—she co-founded the site with Annalee Newitz back in 2008—she wrote several popular posts offering advice and inspiration to both aspiring and veteran authors of sci-fi and fantasy. Those posts gained even more value after she herself became a best-selling fiction author,… Read more.

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HBO's True Blood Looks Back at Itself With a Rewatch Podcast

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When True Blood first hit HBO in 2008, it came at just the right time. The adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries featured vampires and werewolves being sexy in Louisiana and was an extremely easy sell at the time. It’s hard to say if it was actually good , but it was certainly watchable enough for… Read more.

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Disney’s Wall-E NFT Is Exactly What Wall-E Warned Us About

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When Wall-E hit theaters in 2008, the roaming robot’s story was a warning viewers of the societal costs of unchecked waste and environmental degradation. Since then, three billionaires have hurled spacecraft to the edge of space. The United Nations climate reports have only gotten more apocalyptic. E-waste has only… Read more.

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V/H/S/94 Is a Grimy, Gory Found-Footage Throwback

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The first V/H/S movie came out in 2012, arriving at the tail end of the low-budget found-footage horror craze ( Paranormal Activity and REC came out in 2007; Cloverfield was 2008) and capturing the last moment in culture before VCRs became totally obsolete. Two sequels followed, with 2014's V/H/S: Viral embracing phone… Read more.

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Thank God, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio Is Actually Releasing This Year

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It was way, way back in 2008 when he announced his intention to make a movie based on artist Gris Grimly’s illustrations… Read more. Of all the dozens upon dozens of projects that director Guillermo del Toro has signed aboard over the years yet languished in development hell, no film has languished more thoroughly than Pinocchio.

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Thor Shaped the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Truly Important Ways

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On May 2, 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was born. The release of Jon Favreau’s Iron Man was the first part in a story that’s now sprawled over a decade, almost two dozen movies, and changed film history as we know it. However, all of that might not have played out the same way had it not been for what happened a… Read more.

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'Super Pumped' already renewed for a Season 2 that's all about Facebook

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Entertainment Weekly reports the season will be subtitled Sheryl & Mark. The series will likely be set a little later than the film, as Facebook recruited Sandberg in 2008 — the same year it settled its lawsuit with the Winklevoss twins.