I just want to say that “Pushing Ice” is my favorite Alastair Reynolds novel, and one of my favorite hard sci-fi novels ever. There is so much potential in that story to be explored in sequels or a TV series.

Couldn’t the same be said of TNG?

I always felt like THMT was a little too heavy handed, taking a juvenile premise and piling literary pretensions on top of it- consequently I’ve never been much of a fan of Atwood. Tried to read Oryx and Crake and it didn’t grab me either.

Cleganenstein

Ugh. Blomkamp is overrated. He has had one okay film, and a bunch of bad ones. This also looks terrible because it retcons most of the Alien universe.

Yes, Hesitation Marks is an astounding record.

As a teenager I remember reading an interview with him in some guitar magazine where he said that he always considered himself a guitar player above everything else. And boy, could he shred.

“Pop” has to do with the song structure, and the song structure for much of his Nine Inch Nails work (and How to Destroy Angels) is definitely pop. He is less structured in his soundtrack work. But the fact that he is able to take abstract and experimental sound design and work it into pop is a testament to his…

Based on the title of the last book, this one will be called “The Moon Criminal.”

Who cares? We’ll all be dead before any of this matters.

What about Anakin?

No, you are the moron. Free speech is a valuable principle the exists separately from, and predates the enactment of the First Amendment. Individuals and corporations can absolutely take actions that are contrary to that principle, without rising to the level of government censorship.

Yeah there is some definite schadenfreude at the prospect of the whole place going down the toilet and these privileged, condescending NYC millennial “writers” having to look for real work.

I get most of their content through my Facebook newsfeed, just like with io9. And they always post the same stories (at least relating to tv/film/comic news) within minutes of each other.

Mine too. But honestly, I can get most of the same news from Nerdist.

“Unliterate” is a term for people who can literally read, but don’t. The kind of dumb-dumbs who haven’t read a book since they were last forced to do so in high school.

Yes, it is indeed a sad parody of it’s former glory.

That’s a great analogy, but I’d be careful throwing around terms like “slave morality” in here. You might get lynched by the unliterate mobs of professional complainers.

I didn’t coin this phrase, but a quick Google search uncovers this explanation of the phenomenon:

God, io9 has gone downhill. This whole dumb article, like almost everything on Gawker these days, is just narcissistic virtue signaling. You know these idiot writers get giddy every time an opportunity arises to indicate to their mass audience how not-racist, not-sexist, not-homophobic, anti-imperialist and…