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5 Great Classic and Contemporary Short Stories That Explore Time Travel

In our new novel, Time to Burn, commercial time travel has become a practical reality—albeit one available only to the very wealthy. Then a trip to 1940s London goes badly wrong, a...

Steve Vertlieb Review: The End of Oak Street

By Steve Vertlieb: I suppose that my lifelong love affair with dinosaurs and monsters began around 1950 or 1951 when I first saw the Fire Dragon sequence in the original Flash Gord...

What Did Jurassic Forests Sound Like? Like This.

Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate Jurassic soundscape.

Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” On the Exact Day When It’s Set

The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it...

The 1980s, feral dinosaurs and a fight for survival

What works so well is the way David Robert Mitchell blends the sci-fi concept with the raw danger of prehistoric life while keeping the film contained.

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Morlocks? We've got 'em! Because on this day in 1960 in my former stomping grounds of Chicago, Illinois, the citizens of the Windy City enjoyed an exclusive theatrical screening...

SF Stories I’m Reading: ARTHUR C. CLARKE “Out of the Sun.”

ARTHUR C. CLARKE “Out of the Sun.” First published in If, February 1958. Collected in The Other Side of the Sky (Harcourt, Brace & Co., hardcover, 1958). Reprinted in The Mammo...

21 Years Ago, an Iconic Time Travel Story Finally Made It to Theaters, and It Was a Disaster From Start to Finish

While the sci-fi genre is one that spans a lot of themes, conventions, and ideas, there is one that is the absolute bread and butter of things: time travel. For as long a sci-fi ha...

Listen to the sound of the Jurassic: Scientists recreate the eerie calls that echoed through forests 165 million years a...

Researchers have recreated the eerie calls that echoed through the Jurassic grasslands, steppes and woodlands 165 million years ago.

“Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain

It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house.

ジュラ紀の虫の音を「再現」　当時の森「コーラスで満ちていたかも」

Journey to the Beginning of Time: A Summer Vacation Filled With Dinosaurs and Megafauna

A prehistoric adventure brought to life through live action, puppetry, and stop-motion animation The post <i>Journey to the Beginning of Time</i>: A Summer Vacation Fil...

A Timeless Novel Turns 10

Revisit this award-winning novel and alternate history from one of our greatest living American novelists.

Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape

The sights and sounds of the Jurassic era are long gone, and we will never know for sure what that ancient world looked and sounded like. Fossils can offer clues, and reconstructio...

How the Bird Sound Effects in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Were Created with a Pioneering Electronic Instrument, the Tra...

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects, though viewers raised on more recent Hollywood spectacles would hardly find its mechanized...

A 50-year-old short story written for today

This just in from reader Theophrastvs: "here's a portentous calendricular note/post for today (only) Bradbury ~May 1950 wrote a short story about robotic assistants doing the daily...

Technology and Agriculture Battle It Out in This Eerily Dystopian Short Story

Read 'Dreamweavers' by Alexander Weinstein right here on io9, courtesy of Lightspeed Magazine.

165-Million-Year-Old Insect Fossils Help Reconstruct What a Jurassic Forest May Have Sounded Like

Learn how scientists are using ancient fossils and machine learning to reconstruct ancient soundscapes. 

Team of scientists recreates sounds of insects from Jurassic period

A multinational group of scientists was able to use the Jurassic fossils of katydid ancestors to reproduce the sounds they made.

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1960, in New York City, legendary director George Pal launched The Time Machine, the first big budget adaptation of the H.G. Wells' novel. Scientist "George" Wells...