I'm totally okay with this, for some reason.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender is always the correct answer. It's the best-written, best-realized complete piece of television. Period. The only other one out there is Breaking Bad, and I like Avatar a little better.

This is my pick, too. Fox, ironically, did us all a favor by canceling the show, because they killed it before it could ever get bad. As a result, there's not a weak episode in the entire run. That's a big part of the reason Firefly achieved such legendary cult status - it left people wanting more. That's actually the…

This is very cool, but I'm going to complain anyway:

I want to know more about this sheep-feeding dog.

You've got "Gem" right there in your username, so I trust you on this.

Y'know, it's funny - the US Northeast, known for being a godless hive of sin, was originally colonized by intensely religious folk who came there to essentially found a theocracy, while the US South, know for being the one true home of God's faithful, was originally colonized by corporations looking to harvest and…

That's what I've been saying this whole time!!

A number of these are pretty cool, but I'm surprised that people can get such vivid imagery out of that book. I liked Neuromancer overall, but I really hated the descriptive prose. Everything was all boxes and cylinders and lights - there was nothing specific or interesting or evocative about the way things were…

Yes, you've summarized my position succinctly.

If you want to turn your brain off and look at pretty lights, you can sit in an empty field and stare into a kaleidoscope. It'll be a lot cheaper than whatever you're paying for game hardware and software, I promise. Here is an a article about how to make one with some common household items:
http://www.pbs.org/parents/…

I'm more curious about the numbers for the under-18 set. Are kids starting to read ebooks? I know that teachers, parents, and librarians always have their fingers crossed, waiting for the next Harry Potter or Hunger Games to come along and get their kids reading, all the while complaining that said kids can't get…

What about ebooks as an independent publishing platform? I don't expect you to agree given that you work for a major publishing house, but being able to circumvent media gatekeepers and directly access a readership has major advantages for independent authors. Ebooks lower the barrier to entry into the publishing…

I'm assuming, based on the fact that you're posting a comment on a gaming site, that you're a gamer. You do realize that, every time you say something is "just a game", you're dismissing your hobby as a meaningless waste of time, right?

I had pretty much the same reaction when reading Greg's comment. Until today, the idea of writing a licensed novel on spec and then trying to sell it to the licensor never even occurred to me. Like, the idea of doing that was so outside the realm of possibility as to be conceptually nonexistent. Obviously, the…

Google, as always, solves everything:

Yes, but who did that fantastic cover?

Great analysis here - you hit on everything that made that show good and challenging and worthwhile. I still maintain that the Battlestar reboot is Western culture's best piece of post-9/11 fiction, for all the reasons cited above.

Great analysis here - you hit on everything that made that show good and challenging and worthwhile. I still maintain that the Battlestar reboot is Western culture's best piece of post-9/11 fiction, for all the reasons cited above.