If you love classic characters mashed into bizarre horror stories, then you need Jeff Conner's short story collection Classics Mutilated. We've got exclusive art and a short story from the book so you can sample at will.

Want to hang out with stormtroopers from the 501st, sword fighters from the medieval and Renaissance eras, MC Frontalot, and innocent bystanders attending the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas? Then come to our party!

Monsters and supervillains come from a lot of places, but a perennial favorite is the frozen depths. Defrosted Big Bads have been rampaging through books and movies for almost a century, and here are fifteen of the freezingest.

How do condom manufacturers do scientific tests on their wares? Using this machine, apparently, which imitates the circumstances under which "breakage" might occur.

Doesn't this plate of sliced hard drive look delicious? It was created in less than a minute by a refrigerator-sized machine that can slice hard drives up like bread, using 19.8 tons of pressure. Want to see it in action?

Fresh off his top-selling novel Halo: The Cole Protocol, Tobias Buckell is turning back to original stories with an eco-thriller called Arctic Rising. He talked to us about that, and why the best fight scenes are short.