Can't locate the exact quote at present, but I remember Samuel Delany predicting exactly this backlash some years back. The gist of his point was as, as long as various minorities made up a relatively small percentage of the overall roster of writers, the SF/fantasy field would continue to behave in an apparently…

I love how bitchy the entire exchange is.

Good to see Mal's line here; it was the very first thing that popped into my head.

I'm surprised this hadn't been done decades earlier.

Pass under it and end up in Amber.

That's a great example of how one's discernment as a reader changes over the years. The first time around your radar wasn't attuned to all the "frequencies" of that novel.

"It's really not a big deal at all. Routine. In the morning I grab my keys, phone, wallet, and my handgun."

I'm baffled by the assumptions on display in this controversy. No one has to do anything they don't want to do. If person X likes getting Y but doesn't like giving Y (or Z, or A or B or C), then that's what person X likes and doesn't like. There's no direct reciprocal obligation to give "an eye for an eye" (or, I…

How about a Trek "anthology" show, somewhat after the fashion of The Twilight Zone? A series of free-standing stories taking place in various corners of the Trek universe?

The city is great, but the guy with the gun screws it up for me. He seems so much less interesting than the landscape he's in.

Here's a speedy and amusing version of a childhood favorite:

What is this?

Well, that video certainly gets the Worst Camerawork of the Day award.

That "Howie Scream" sounds rather like a TIE Fighter.

That is one hell of a nebula image.

Like you, I haven't seen it either b/c of what I know happens in the finale. The ending described above would have gotten me into the theater. Stupid, woolly-headed mush does not.

Ah, so you think it's juvenile. Got it.

Are you making a specific assertion about whether and why a moon colony should or should not be built?

"Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester.

I appreciate these responses! Thank you.