Exactly. We shouldn't condemn a company for making (what they perceive to be) the best decision for their employees and themselves. At the same time, it is right for us to fight for these books to be published, for characters who represent persecuted minorities to be shown and exemplified, and hopefully become more…

Yeah, I think I read that somewhere. I'm surprised io9 hasn't covered that yet.

I know it will be, and at the end of the day it can only be a good thing that these books are being published. I'm just saying that the publishers don't have a responsibility to do a 'good thing': they have a responsibility to sell their book.

Because it's still the safer option. Don't get me wrong, I don't think any author should be forced to compromise their work for the purposes of marketing: their job is to make the best novel they can. But the publishers have to look at the demographic, the market they're putting the book into, and the best way of…

To be fair, those original agents were just doing their job: to make the book as marketable as possible. Not that they should have had final say in the matter (the author needs to decide whether it would affect the story/tone/message they were trying to deliver), but the agents have a duty to their author to make the…

I suppose that everyone is raised differently, but you're right that it does seem barmy that they could so oppose something we take as rational and entirely in sync with our own way of living. Much how I felt when I learnt that some people hated other people because of their colour, or because they were gay. It still…

Church of England. Raised C of E, went to Sunday School, went to a C of E aided infant school and junior school, and yet was never under the illusion that evolution was a lie. True, I was taught the Genesis accounts first (I was at Sunday School from the age of about 4, and I don't think we got onto the theory of…

Beautifully horrifying.

He is updating it though, with information from non-English sources to get a broader view.

Except the Christmas one. That would have been dull at 20.

Maybe Jackson can convince Moffat to take a bit more time with his stories. Not that they need to be 12 hours long, but pretty much all of the episodes Moffat's written over the last year would have been better at 90 minutes rather than 45. Something like Let's Kill Hitler could have done with being of a more…

Identical problem with The Dark Knight. Two epic 2 hour movies compressed to hell. You can even see where one film should end and another begin!

Oh oh oh Talons is TOO big a miss not to mention. Stylish, atmospheric, fun, Victorian, what more could you want? But good calls on Genesis, City, Androzani and Fenric. I don't think there can be many naysayers to those.

It's actually a village just outside of Nottingham, UK. True story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham,_Nottinghamshire

Phase Two is the description for the sequence up to Avengers 2.

Question: Is this definitely MCU, maybe MCU or definitely not?