I agree. This sounds more like what happens in Ring of Charon. I wish he'd write book 3 as well, though it's been a while...

Wow. I would've read the absolute hell out of this when I was a kid.

I think crosis101 is on to something. It's not about whether you recognize the characters. I'm (ahem) over 35, and I remember a time in my childhood when there were no videogames — and then there were. And for a lot of people, that absolutely changed the world.

Is it wrong that I'm like 10 times more excited to see this than Brave? I mean, I know Brave will be great, but seeing Bowser, Clyde, Q*bert, et al in this trailer made me feel like Wreck-It Ralph was made just for me.

There was a Bradbury poem that has always stuck in my mind (Ode to Trivia, I think) about how scientists came to him for his advice about the multi-generation ships that might take us to the stars and never return to Earth: Storage will be at a premium, so what knowledge and information should we bring with us?

What's the saying? Print is for people who love books, but e-books are for people who love reading.

Reminds me of author Lawrence Block, who said that you have about a million "bad" words to write out before you'd start to get good.

Anyone try this on Parallels?

Yeah, I leafed through this in a bookstore, and that final page ended up giving me nightmares for several nights.

I can't think of any other director than Del Toro that I would trust to get this to work. (Mmmmaaaayyybe Robert Rodriguez. Maybe.)

Stupid sexy nature…

This looks fantastic. Can't wait.

Great chart, and very interesting. I hope you do get enough extra data to break the categories up a bit more. Personally I think I'd go 0-20 (for "five minutes into the future"-type stories), 20-100 (because there's always been a draw for sf creators to say "100 years from now"), 100-500 (for Star Trek-style futures)…

I don't think Defiance sounds idiotic, but it does sound like it depends heavily on the gimmick of being connected to the online game, and successful shows based on gimmicks rarely last. (Unless, of course, they have a Plan B for surviving the failure of the gimmick.)

I'd wager that you're right. Trek2 comes out next year, so that's a bit of waiting, but it's possible that the networks will assume it's going to be a hit, and commission pilots early.

At the risk of repeating myself, I lament that the word "spaceship" does not appear anywhere on that list.

IIRC, in the animated Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, Watson was a cyborg.

Thanks for the new desktop wallpaper.

I was just complaining about The Neighbors looking like a very bad stab at scifi comedy. But coming from Conan, I have higher hopes for Zone Lord. (I'd like a better title though.) Maybe something along the lines of a grown-up Invader Zim.

If you have a good sense of humor about Star Trek V, I highly recommend the RiffTrax for it. [RiffTrax.com] It's a perfect MST3K movie.