I’d tell him off too, but to a troll, attention is better than gold. Given what you’ve been through, though, I hope he’ll recognize that you have a more informed opinion on this matter than most people.

Hmmm... I just posted elsewhere on i09 and it seems my ungreying didn’t take. I beseech you again for just this trifle, KBT, that you use your powers to make me followed by i09. Then I can be out of the greys in this part of the Gawkerverse. An i09 writer such as yourself does have the power to follow from i09. I was…

One thing that absolutely blows me away about Steven King is just the steer amount of story he has in him. There are a lot of authors whose creative wells simply dry up. People get old, and fires burn out, but I think Steve could keep going forever if he was immortal.

I still can’t stop laughing!

Thank you, K!

Well, that’s why I recommend anthologies. You seem like a man with not a huge amount of time on his hands, so find yourself a “best of the best” style of anthology. It narrows the field down and distills it to the best examples of what’s out there. In a single anthology like that, I discovered Ted Chiang, Mike…

Harlan’s non-fiction is awesome too. Ever read his book of television criticism called “The Glass Teat”? Oh boy, the high-brow verbiage he uses to savage everything in sight is so awesome. Even though few of the shows he discusses are even remembered today, the insights he gives about why so much tv is so wrongheaded…

If Octavia Butler’s brilliant Xenogenesis trilogy is adapted into a TV show, I truly hope they cast Lilith with a woman of color. I can see why a network might be reluctant to, because the audience is already so fragmented that it’s hard to get an audience for anything these days. The days of a show getting a 34.5…

I love Ken Liu’s writing so much, I’ll read it even if he’s only the translator. Aside from Ken Liu, I can’t think of anyone whose writing is always, always, consistently worthwhile. (Well, yes I can, Ted Chiang has the same consistency)

A few years back, a fantasy novelist I adore asked people to try subscribing to a fiction magazine in order to support the market. She talked about how important it was for authors to have a place to get credibility with audiences, and publishing credentials for when they want to eventually land an agent. She also…

I understand why people like fanfiction. It can be hard to do the heavy-lifting of jumping into a new story and turning a fresh, unfamiliar set of words into a world full of people in your head. Much easier to get into a story that has everything pre-fabricated and assembled.

If you are reading this post, give me a star. I want to see if anyone actually reads this far down into the greys in order to see what I’ll be playing (Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch), or if this article is just a lot of people talking past each other. I suspect people are interested in what they themselves plan…

I agree. The sex didn’t strike me as graphic. No long paragraphs using words like “moist” or “turgid”.

This is exciting! I’ve read all three books in the Xenogenesis series, and they were fantastic. That being said, I’m not optimistic about the prospects of this show finding an audience.

I tell you this from the deepest well of honesty to which I have access: If teenage me was working there and I saw my coworker being sucked out of the window like that, I’d make a dash for a large, but not unwieldy vessel of roiling, blistering french-fry grease, and jog outside with it. Then, I’d fling it at their…

If that’s her solution to getting her car taken away, I wonder if moving into this place will be her plan if she ever faces an eviction:

I hope he keeps writing. He isn’t what matters. It’s the art that’s important.

That mupped friggin’ CHANNELED Meg Ryan right there! If they could have made the puppeteer give it that scrunchy-face-success-look I’d have assumed Meg Ryan was doing a guest spot!

First thing I thought of, too. Dont look it up illegally, though, he’ll hunt you down. The man wants to be paid for his work, and I don’t blame him.