@mordicai: Yes, you are.

@pollfabairesvp: I'd take Harris if Torres didn't work out, but Torres would only be too old if they went with a Yorick around Shia Labeouf's age- if they went with my dream Yorick, Jake Gyllenhaal, she would only be about ten years older, which is about right for the age difference IMO.

I've been writing almost as much of my entry for io9's environmental writing contest on my iphone as on my PC, and I've been doing it using QuickOffice, which is a pretty full-featured office suite with Dropbox syncing.

@jinchoung: I don't agree that, to be hard SF, there has to be *descriptions* of the intimate details of all your technology, so long as it doesn't operate in a manner inconsistent with what we know to be true about the way the universe works. If you *do* throw something out like a 'uterine replicator', hard SF should…

@frogworth: @anuran001: Yeah, I also don't know what anuran is talking about. When I think 'modern hard SF' what comes immediately to mind is the likes of Alistair Reynolds and Greg Egan. Reynolds' politics never really make an appearance in his work, Egan is pretty obviously quite liberal, and your description of…

@IraeNicole: The series actually goes into this a fair bit. One minor character mentions her FtM boyfriend surviving the die-off only to be killed by a misandrist group, and I believe there were brief mentions of MtFs having died with the men.

@Batlife: How much love do io9 denizens have for Firefly? And yet you all miss the obvious, indeed, the only choice?

I'm not sure if Leterrier is the right man for the job (though I did like his Hulk movie more than most), but he would have to do only one thing to win me over completely:

@goldfarb: It's not easy, in that it certainly requires a great deal of artistic talent, but it doesn't really require the clever inventiveness needed to make do with a limited toolset. Of course, that just means that (ideally at least) that inventiveness can be redirected to dreaming up ever more imaginative sights.

This is hardly fair; it's easy to be convincing when your subject is only shown in extremely low-contrast. Plus, this trick only works when your creature is a scaled-up version of something that actually exists in the real world.

Even my 3GS has occasional hiccups on 4.0, hiccups it never had before. It doesn't really seem to automatically close backgrounded third-party apps when it needs the memory, and so sometimes runs out of RAM, and when i try to launch an app that needs more than available it will just show the app's splash screen, then…

What's the policy on swearing? My story does contain a fair amount, not on the level of say The Wire, but when human beings are dealing with a monumental disaster they often make use of colorful language, and my characters' dialogue reflects that. Will language be censored?

I don't know, I read this book later than most of Clarke's others, and it just never grabbed me the way Rendezvous, 2001, Songs of Distant Earth, or Childhood's End did. But then, I'm one of those weirdos who absolutely loved The Garden of Rama (more than the first book, even), so my opinion is probably worthless.…

@Feetsthss: Well, agnostic is more typically understood to mean recognizing that you can't and don't know whether there is a god or gods, so in that sense not all atheists are agnostics (and obviously neither are most religious folks). This atheist is, though.

@OakesKoopa: We're still decades away from the technology- particularly materials science- to build a space elevator, even if we put every scientist in relevant disciplines on it tomorrow. The technology to build one will be invented organically, from advancements in many seemingly unrelated fields, and focusing…

@FrankN.Stein: There's such a thing as the animation age ghetto, which I think 3D animation doesn't fall into as much thanks to Pixar and the like. I really don't think we're going to see big-ticket traditionally-animated Hollywood films anymore, and except for Miyazaki imports, we probably won't see them in Western…

Not that I don't LOVE DC, but haven't you guys featured them at least once before? Also, new readers should know that the comic updates once a month at best. Understandable considering the huge strips and absurdly detailed art, but frustrating nonetheless.

@ZanipoloLebron: Annalee has said elsewhere in the comments that it is indeed open to anyone regardless of nationality or age.

@sicboi: According to Annalee rights revert back to you, so you could publish it in other mags if they're willing to accept reprints.

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