100% agree. Especially with 4-6. Best High Fantasy ever writen. I can still get chills when reading the Dumai Wells scene.

1-3: Good high fantasy.
4-6: Best high fantasy ever written. Choose your favorite there is only three options.
7-8: Good high fantasy again but slower pace than 1-3.
9-10: The winnowing if you’re here momentum better carry you.
11: Return to form
12-14: Great books! Better than my wildest expectations.

I’m just kind of tired of not being able to actually discuss the books on articles about the books because 95% of the comments are about how he’s never going to finish the books. Can’t you just star one of the 100 other people who said the same thing, so that it’s easier for those of us who would actually like to…

These shows are dead. Luke Cage and Iron Fist will not continue on the Disney streaming service. Disney will not want Netflix’s leftovers. They will make their own new shows. Wishful thinking.

io9 is a surprisingly prudish site, but it seems that the culture as a whole has become more prudish. Porn and nudity are easier than ever to find on the internet, but the internet pushes back. I would say that it was the patriarchy reestablishing its dominance, but it seems that the more liberal media is actually…

Except there’s plenty of “hopeful sci-fi”, you even name one of them. Your complaint comes across more as “I think there shouldn’t be *any* darker sci-fi at all.”

It probably wouldn’t make a lot of sense to make a movie about the African nation of Wakanda with all white people.

Because I’ve heard all these arguments before and they were wrong then and they are still wrong now.

Damn, you are fighting the good fight today! Keep on keeping on!

They are fictional characters. The characters themselves aren’t the ones appropriating culture, since they have no agency of their own: it’s the creators and writers who appropriate the culture.

There are a lot rearry racist comments on this thread.

Appreciate you sharing your experience and I understand your intent. However, I would only say that when you say something like, "Never once did I see Riley as "black", what people of color hear is: "I am not bothered by the fact that Riley is not white."