As you may have heard , a real - life supervillain has put Gizmodo / io9 ’s parent company through some red cent . io9 is n’t going anywhere , but next calendar week thing will be different than they have been , so it is a sentence of sombre ego - reflection ( as well as ridiculous self - indulgence ) . As such , we’ve asked io9 ’s greatest writers their favorite Post and present moment from the past 14 yr .
Charlie Jane Anders (2008-2016)
My preferent thing about make for at io9 was always the insane conversation I ended up having . I always thought of io9 as just a place to hang out and shoot the shit , and I got up every day knowing I was go to have some of the weirdest and most riveting arguments you could possibly imagine . A lot of those debates and weird discussions were with my coworkers — Meredith , Cheryl , Katharine , James and Rob always had some totally bonkers ideas about Captain America ’s shield versus Luke Skywalker ’s lightsaber . But meanwhile , Esther would be list the 10 best sort of toxicant mushroom or something , and Robbie and George would be geeking out about whether a calamitous kettle of fish could become a supercomputer , and Annalee would be throwing out crazy brilliant ideas every second . Each solar day , there were a million chats about everything from books to art to medicine to movies and TV .
https://gizmodo.com/what-if-greedo-really-shot-first-5323912
Meredith Woerner (2008-2015)
“ When Will White People break off make motion picture Like “ Avatar”?is my all time , preferent io9 story . This was my first year on the job as entertainment newsperson , and I spent the majority of my time on the phone with studio publiciser trying to explain who ( or what ) an “ centre - OH - NINE ” was .
https://gizmodo.com/when-will-white-people-stop-making-movies-like-avatar-5422666
We had nothing to lose ( fact ) and a group of with child editors that would back us at every tone . Never , not once , did CJ or Annalee push back and ask , “ But what if we do n’t get invited back to the lot of Avatar 2 ? ” ( Heh ) . And believe me , Charlie Jane and I fight about EVERYTHING .
There are many , many other stories I ’m majestic of at io9.Cult Movie Worshipwas merely a collection of weird indie films that dropped every Sunday , but it was a celebration of the rightfully break filmmaking folks long before Kickstarter . Our own reader reply to the influx of real life , idiot vigilante with their own real life villain groupR.O.A.C.H.purely for laughter . Also have you ever read an clause by Cyriaque Lamar ? I mean really read it ? Here is a line from one of Lamar ’s stories solely chosen at random with the headline , “ For $ 1,200 , two pistol sculpture out of beat cats ’ bones . ”
https://gizmodo.com/for-1-200-two-handguns-sculpted-out-of-dead-cats-bone-5946420
“ They do n’t elicit gerbil bullets or what - have - you , but these small-arm are disconcerting enough to make any cat ( or gull ) lover on the warpath to momentarily lose focus , furnishing you a morbid leak . ”
That ’s poetry , and it ’s about a gun made of Caterpillar bones .
in person , I had a great deal of fun working out my relationship issues very in public through the strange , rapid stream of knowingness recappingTrue bloodline . That was fun , thank you for reading that .
But overall I loved the people , the uncanny , wonderful people . Charlie Jane Anders enunciate something to me a few months back when she was in LA for a big , fancy book festival ( she ’s legit far-famed now ) that really nail it , she phone the time at io9 special . It really was , there ’s no place on the internet like it . And although many have prove to recreate it , they ca n’t . There will never be another io9 .
Lauren Davis (2008-2015)
It ’s no exaggeration to say that io9 completely switch my living . I was a few years out of jurisprudence schoolhouse and not indisputable what I was go to do with my life when Charlie Jane and Annalee plucked my resume out of the intern covering pile .
When I first arrived at io9 , I was already a moderately respectable research worker . When Charlie Jane asked me for a list ofhumans who punched aliensorsuperheroes who are monumental screw - ups , I could ply that , no trouble . But I was less easy when it came to my own writing . I was pull in my listicles and writing about my favored webcomics , but I was n’t really translating my more personal drumhead thoughts into words .
Then , one October , I strike a turn detail . We ’d had a meeting about out upcoming Horror Week , and I had pitched nothing . Graeme McMillan , who was weekend editor at the time , asked why . “ Do you not care horror ? ” he asked . “ It ’s okay if you do n’t . ” At the metre , I did n’t wish repulsion . I had late lost my sidekick , and every clip I follow a scary movie , I could n’t help but thinking about the poor crime syndicate of all those mass getting murdered . It left me more sorry than stimulated . “ Okay , ” Graeme say , “ so write about that . ” That became the germ of“Why Great Horror is Heartbreaking,”a piece I ’m still very fond of . Years later on , when I was ready , I ’d write,“How Science Fiction help Me Through My Grief . ”It was like a weight reverse off my heart .
https://gizmodo.com/how-science-fiction-helped-me-through-my-grief-513630328
At time , shape at io9 felt like compose on a dare . When Meredith sent me to the Hobbit event in New Zealand , I casually advert that I was thinking aboutposting drawings from my trip . “ You better , ” she sound out . On a few occasions , I crack jokes during slant get together that Charlie Jane and Annalee mistook for genuine pitch . I ended up writing them . The highest compliment Charlie Jane could give you on a post is that it was “ bonkers , ” and Annalee did n’t just permit me postmy ill cast webcomics about early apocalyptical lit — she encouraged it .
That ’s how I found things I really loved . I dig out late into Star Wars and fall forAhsoka Tano . I buried myself in books and article about knightly warfare inan attack to learn about cleaning woman ’s armor . I kept writing about webcomics becauseI still love webcomics and desire everyone else to have sex them too . And sometimes I ’d post silly thing , like theadorable joke of Spider Dog .
https://gizmodo.com/51-awesome-webcomics-the-eisners-have-completely-failed-1563898141
And so when I left io9 , it was for something I lie with : comics . And it was great to bed that , when I herald that I was hang up my blogging hat to go to comic strip school , my coworkers who shaped me would totally get it and bid me a passionate future .
Cyriaque Lamar(2010-2012)
“ A Letter To Batman ’s Shark Repellent Bat - Spray , From A Lover Spurned . ”
I spent most of my time at io9 as the weekend editor in chief and therefore desperately implore the site would n’t wobble into the abyss every Saturday and Sunday . I actually wrote this on a weekday — I have no computer memory of what inspired me to write it , but Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders were nerveless with it because they are endearing . This piece makes me glad because I got to pass 800 or so words mostly dream up shark henchmen for Batman ’s rogues gallery .
https://gizmodo.com/a-letter-to-batmans-shark-repellent-bat-spray-from-a-l-5900810
Robbie Gonzalez (2011-2015)
Charlie ’s transformer recapitulation seem as good a plaza as any to begin . These will always order high on my list of pet io9 posts . Especiallythis one . Or maybethis one . heavily to say . Picking front-runner is tough , and CJ wrote a disproportional figure of my favorite article at io9 . ( See : How to make a scientifically plausible alien life form;10 ledger You Pretend to Have Read , And Why You Should Really take Them;The Deadly Legacy of HIV Truthers ) .
Rob ’s fanboy - prodding spoiler FAQs ( and the ire they pull out from all corners of the Internet , includingour own residential area forum ) were my favored matter about any picture show that land in your crosshairs .
And , okay , not to lean too hard on reviews and recaps , butMeredith ’s True profligate coverageremains some of the best television write to ever grace the internet . Not just video save about vampire humping — I intend telecasting writing , full block .
What else?“Field Cameras Catch Deer Eating Birds — Wait , Why Do Deer use up Birds?”is pure , unadulterated Esther ( smart , hilarious , scientific discipline - y).Every post Cyriaque ever wroteis virtuous , complete Cyriaque ( smart , uproarious , just a touch deranged ) . George turned cerebral listicles into an art shape ( e.g.8 Great Philosophical Questions That We ’ll Never Solve).Weekends at io9 With Lauren Davis ® , which aired from 2012 to 2014 , was the good weekend programing this website ever bunk ( and I say that as a former weekend editor program ) . And while we ’re waxing nostalgic : Long before I came to work at io9 , I cited Annalee ’s clause aboutthe most accurate skill fiction in a range of scientific fieldsin a college thesis . Yeah . My love life for this place run deep .
https://gizmodo.com/six-scientists-tell-us-about-the-most-accurate-science-5644435
That ’s because , whether we were covering exoplanets , Octavia Butler , FTLneutrinos , manhood ’s origins , wacky GoT fan theories , space elevators , or transhumanism , indie io9 was always about optimism , first and foremost . For closemouthed to a X , it ’s been a bastion of humor , humankind , and hopeful futurism in an cyberspace landscape painting rife with scum and villainy . Whoever scores this starship from the auction lot had substantially see that it stays that elbow room .
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