• “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (1952) — in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 25 per Wikiquote.

I agree that that’s some serious bullshit but I’m honestly more concerned about Star Trek. A Western? A HEIST MOVIE?? Ohhh my God. “Too Star-Treky”. :////

On the other hand, it’s a little weird that the guy who’s writing the next Star Trek movie is coming out against escapism and fun. That does make me worried. And the guy has spent his whole career, by his own admission, being the “poster child” for geek culture and playing on the stereotype of the “geeky man-child who…

One would think, yes. As I said, my best guess is that his role as scriptwriter and the subsequent feedback/rewrite demands killed (or at least gravely wounded) some of his joy. Or possibly he can’t specifically slag off on what’s become of the ST reboot at this stage so he made the deliberate choice to speak as…

As genre fan shouldn’t he know over-broad generalisations are crappy though?

I’m wondering if the studio ordering him to rewrite the Star Trek script because it was ‘too Star Trek-y’ was some kind of tipping point. As someone noted above, he seems to be using ‘genre/SF’ as a synonym for ‘franchise’. I got nothing, otherwise.

It’s seriously disappointing that such a big geek has started using arguments that have been used against genre fiction from the start: that it’s shallow and for children. Arguments that resurface every now and then, especially when geeky things get popular. Because popular things can’t be anything but shallow, I…

So here’s a thing: Star Trek is only slightly younger than my parents. I would honestly be shocked at this point if it were still managing to be as relevant now as it was when it began (or even, hell, when it was a 20 year old in TNG). For better or worse, Star Trek is a brand before it is anything else. Brands are…

So, first off, how inspired were you by Taxi Driver? Because the person who most found that inspiring shot the president. Just saying, if your bar for quality is inspirational then (1) you are making a very different argument than Mr. Pegg because he wants things in the other direction and (2) that’s utterly…

“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in…

"Take a ring, and then another ring, and then another ring,

The Foundation series helped to launch the careers of three notable science fiction authors of the succeeding generation. Janet Asimov sanctioned these novels, which were published in the late 1990s: Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford, Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear, and Foundation's Triumph by David Brin." And…

Or Shockwave Rider.

When we can perform a citizen's arrest against a corporation is when I'd start considering them people. If corporations are people then someone needs to arrest GM for murder.

And yet iCab Mobile (IMHO) the best browser on iOS doesn't get a mention?

Great minds think alike. ;) I too have been using iCab for several months and after using Chrome, iCab is still the best iPad browser out there.

OMG where do I start. The ability to set is to identify as a desktop browser is one. that way I'm not forced to mobile sites.

I was excited when Chrome came out, because I rely on Chrome syncing between my multiple computers. I realized though, that I don't want the setup for my iPad, because I use it for different purposes. I use iCab, with a bookmark bar that contains only the sites I normally visit on the iPad.

Once again, you have overlooked iCab Mobile, which is the best browser I have used on my iPhone. You can change the browser user agent, send screenshots directly to Dropbox and install tons of useful modules instead of tediously adding bookmarklets.

Why isn't iCab listed? iCab is the best iOS browser replacement hands down. The developer is awesome. I always wonder why no one includes iCab in any stories like these.