Your Avatar post was my first experience with moderating folks, and I think that irrevocably broke something in me for the better.

I’m sorry I wasn’t able to contribute to this article in time for deadline. I founded io9 because there was nothing else out there like it, and I wanted a place where I could find all the science and science fiction news that I craved. So I built io9 basically for my own personal needs. But then I discovered there…

Dude I can’t believe you went through that entire post without this link

Hufflepuff would always be the stoner house. Firstly, their name is Hufflepuff. Secondly, there’s a reason the herbology professor is in charge of them.

My heart is bursting with excitement. As if someone was TRYING TO KILL ME WITH A FORKLIFT!!!

I’d go for Hyperion, as long as they ignored those last two books. (And kept Simmons out of the loop — he entered his Frank Miller phase a decade or so ago.)

I feel like I read something by Stephen King that mentioned Zelazny, but my Google searches for it are coming up empty. Definitely agree about Gaiman though, especially American Gods and Neverwhere.

Yeah, I think it would really differentiate the series from shows like GoT or Shannara, with the juxtaposition of mundane, “real world” details and high fantasy. I imagine they’d probably spend more time on Earth (or in Earth-like realities) in order to keep production costs down.

Agreed, I loved how you started off with this mysterious character, and and everything seems fairly normal except for his super strength and healing. And then his brother leads not-quite-human assassins to his sister’s house...and then they travel to another world, like some sort of drug trip. And then a different…

What I always liked about Nine Princes is that it starts out as straight-up pulp noir amnesia, femme fatale), and then over the next forty pages or so it turns into crazy-ass weird fantasy. Zelazny actually wrote a crime novel around the same time, but it wasn’t published until long after he’d died.