Rejoice, space believers! For there is finally - yes, finally! - someplace you can go on l'Internet to read about such sci-fi-ness (excuse us, "science fiction-ness" for all of you purists) ranging from Samuel R. Delany to Joss Whedon to Small Wonder. Io9, a Bay Area-based blog care of Gawker, launched yesterday, and we couldn't be more thrilled. That is, until we read about their editor, Annalee Newitz.

Newitz seems like a fantastic piece of work. In her bio she says that, "[t]he first time I saw Star Wars I got so excited that I threw up." What's more, she wrote a book about monsters while she was lecturer at UC Berkeley, was obsessed with ending user license agreements while she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and has an RFID tracking device implanted in her arm. Wow. What a dork. (She grew up in O.C.!) We think we're in love with her. Just awesome. (At last, someone new for us to stalk!)

Find out what on earth io9 means after the jump.

According to the site, io9s were some sort of devices - "input-output devices that let you see into the future."

io9s were marketed as cheap time machines in the 2070s. They were actually just low-grade input/output devices for the brain that tuned tachyon waves and gave users vivid images of possible futures. The things were so addictive, and drove so many people insane, that io9s were eventually outlawed. Today the word is just slang. io9ers are the early implanters who obsessively upgrade themselves with beta tech. People who tweak out on buggy brainware are sometimes said to have "gone io9." Science fiction writer Ken MacLeod has another term for io9ers. He calls them rapture fuckers.

So... there you have it.