Oh dear. She doesn’t quite sing, she just talks, sounding bored while doing it. Yet follows the pop song structure unimaginatively.

When reboots become sales gimmicks, your universe is dead.

Am I terrible for not loathing the Queen? She can’t help being born a symbol; I don’t follows English Royalty or care about gossip, but even through osmosis she’s not been described as cruel or greedy or philandering or anything. I don’t think she’s a lizard-person or a psychopath, just a frightened young woman of…

Cutting several hundred pages probably didn’t cut it in half, but it certainly helped!

Yes this is the best weather-related interview ever. I hope he was rescued!

As someone who doesn’t subscribe to anything print — apart from unsolicited PBS pledge drive pablum — I find an excerpt/teaser article like this brilliant fun. Is this a regular thing? It should be a regular thing. Asimov’s and Analog print some of the best sf because they are among the top paying markets for it. It’s…

If the villain in a story can’t sing like this, one must question that villain’s ultimate commitment to villainy:

It’s the most poorly organized series I’ve ever seen: the whole thing is called “The Book of the New Sun”, but it’s divided into two separate, physical books, each of which then contains two more “books” with their own titles. Probably not his fault and I guess originally it was four physical books, but still.

Peter Jackson for one; I bet he could stretch the Adventures of Tom Bombadil out into a CGI trilogy.

It’s so narcissistic, it’s like embyronic Rothfuss. Oh a bit rapey.

A series shouldn’t take nineteen years (and counting) to complete. People have died without knowing the end. That’s my knock.

This thing:

I read your comment in a Milhouse voice, it was hilarious! Here, have a cookie.

If you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Everything comes from outer space, technically, so it’s accurate and oh my god that face! That face! You must know it was that face; that spinning, blurry face whose babbling never lets me sleep; that daemon face that slithers through my dreams and beckons me to greater horrors than I have ever known; the face no one…

Sequin High School might not win a lot of games, but they certainly are the best dressed team in the league.

One day Jessie went into the candy store and asked, “Which of your candy is the best?” And the candymaker said, “All of it. All of my candy is the best.” And so Jessie became enlightened.

The game is fun for about three hours. It covers everything it said it does, from amoebas to starships, but each phase of the game is so shallow the whole experience is like a swimming pool that is a mile wide and an inch deep.

And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Tabby’s Star! I love the new name, much peppier than KIC 284250rsa;’awj;dfs