It’s always great to see someone from io9 make good in the wider world. We all appreciate everything the io9 staff does, but it is definitely nice to see ya’ll get the recognition I truly think you deserve. Good luck with this new part of your life!

I’m very much looking forward to this. Is it next week yet? xD

I just hope this trilogy is the end of Wendig’s involvement with the New EU. If he gets access similar to Aaron Allston or other longtime Real EU authors...I think I might cry.

Well, that’s not something to worry about. Clearly it isn’t an issue at all.

I’ll look into it.

I didn’t downplay the negative reaction in general. I downplayed the reactions of FANS, which is an entirely different group from “bigots who attack any work for including themes or characters they don’t agree with”.

Pretty much what you said.

Glad to see someone caught that joke. I figured it would get lost in the rest of my response. xD

We’re going to get to a point where they announce the sequel before the original is even in production.

I think Ms. Ridley gets it...Sometimes the damn curtains are just blue. xD

Well, this sounds truly exciting. Hopefully the Marvel train will keep chugging along until we get to these.

Long live Tyrion the Dragon Rider! Yeehaa!

My issue wasn’t with the tense, although it was odd in a Star Wars book. I’ve read most of Stephenson’s work, and enjoyed the Sandman Slim series immensely. My issue was that he is obsessed with scenery descriptions and indulges in a truly horrendous number of sentence fragments. While I realize, as has been pointed…

What the hell class were you reading Divergent in?

The backlash over the LGBT inclusion was from an extremely vocal minority of fans that I would argue don’t represent the Star Wars fandom as a whole. Most of the people I’ve spoken to about the book were down on it over the style of writing, not the inclusion of someone who had a sexuality they didn’t like.

This, pretty much. We’ll see whether the risk paid off with Life Debt. If sales are significantly lower than those of Aftermath, I think we’ll be able to say conclusively that the risk wasn’t worth it.

This is correct. For an example of present tense writing done in a readable fashion, check out the Sandman Slim series.

Yeah, I wondered when I posted my initial comment if one of the “You only hated it because of the LGBT character” people would show up. To be honest, I don’t really give two shits about that character, or LGBT characters in general. Do I think the LGBT community deserves greater representation in fiction, regardless…

It’s not always bad. Done correctly, it can encourage greater empathy with the main character. Take Sandman Slim. That’s present tense writing done right.

Who the fuck writes an entire novel in first person???