I will say that writing FanFic of a work by an author who has expressed their preference that it not be done would seem to be the height of bad manners.

*All* the new Scifi and Fantasy books coming out in April?

Honestly, I think respecting the wishes of the author whose world one is using seems common courtesy. If they don’t like it, either don’t post it, or use someone else’s world.

Um, did no one have a problem with the entire “boy’s lying and abuse is justified and eventually rewarded because girl didn’t respond to boy’s advances”?

> we continue to believe that violence is somehow acceptable, whereas sex is not, is absolutely confounding, but there it is—American Puritanic hypocrisy in a nutshell.

> I always love how there’s that one woman out there who can destroy feminism in comments like this.

Wow, that drawing brings back memories of high school. Is that from the original 3 books?

I find it interesting that one would advocate that authors make wholesale changes to the fundamental basis for their books based on anything other than what truly speaks to the author.

They want to stay marginalized because it justified their social inadequacies.

I was not as impressed by the movie. I keep waiting for a movie that has robots act human, but actually have no consciousness. Exploring the the effect of that duality on humanity would be fascinating.

This was the worst case of refusal to stop digging that I’ve seen in a while...

I have at least one data point that says the news readers aren’t necessarily brainless. I watched Lloyd Robertson of CTV doing a Federal election. He’s seeing the election results come up (including graphs, tables, etc.) at the same time the viewer sees them and spontaneously talking about the ridings, the candidates,…

Unlikely a teleprompter reader. At least all the weather announcers I’ve watched do their segment live (and it’s been a few) studied the weather maps for a few minutes, and then just ran.

I have to say, I find the obsession with awards somewhat tiring. The books I like never win awards. So what? Why should I care what a bunch of judges or other readers think as long as *I* loved the book?

This is a narrow view pattern based on the scarcity of our planetary resources. Out there, in space, the natural resources are nearly limitless. There is simply no point in invading another ecosystem to take what you want when you have trillions of asteroids and uninhabited planets to sate your need for material…

These awards are not, to my knowledge, funded by public money. Thus if you want *their* money and prestige, then you write books for *them* by whatever outdated criteria *they* want. It’s just like a job.

I will never comprehend why anyone would pay for cable TV.

Humorous, but the economics of things that are mostly fixed cost can be rather curious. I think we all know that channel-by-channel won’t decrease most people’s bills. The first channel will be $50/month to pay for the connection, and then it’ll be $5/channel.

I haven’t hear CoD described as GrimDark, but I have had the privilege of hearing teenage boys going on for hours about how realistic their favorite shooter game (and CoD was one of them) was compared to all the other FPS games. They bickered for hours about which player’s favorite was more realistic (i.e. better),…

Dear God, this equating GrimDark with "realistic" has got to stop. Any medieval historian would laugh at pretty much *any* fantasy out there, and that's because real fantasy isn't realistic, nor is it supposed to be realistic. At best, it's supposed to provide enough verisimilitude to be familiar to the reader.