@mori_arty: The question, you are begging it.
"So it sounds like the book will both celebrate Atwood's science fiction, and continue her attempts to create a distinction between "science fiction" and "speculative fiction" — with her work classified as the latter."
So it sounds like io9 is both acknowledging Atwood's preeminence, and continuing its attempts to get random nerds on the internet angry at her. Frankly, I don't give a shit. I have nothing personally invested in how people classify their own writing, and the author of Dancing Girls would have to say much worse things to put me in a tizzy.
So it sounds like io9 is both acknowledging Atwood's preeminence, and continuing its attempts to get random nerds on the internet angry at her. Frankly, I don't give a shit. I have nothing personally invested in how people classify their own writing, and the author of Dancing Girls would have to say much worse things to put me in a tizzy.
@josephd: Pretty sure that's the core of the "I see what you did there" meme, but thanks!
@Malcontent79: Yeah, I kind of figured that everyone would, so I typed it really fast!
"is the thrust of this new study."
Oh, I see what you did there.
Oh, I see what you did there.
@GunFireRiotBang: In the bizarro-universe where that series is actually made, Bizarro-taxbaby looks forward to proving you wrong!
@Tamírki: If God loves us, he will.
@GunFireRiotBang: Boring(ly historically accurate)? Oooh, sorry to rain on your revisionist television parade.
All of that sounds awful.
Mostly I just want it to be historically accurate, i.e. Poe should be a man who's terrified for almost every waking moment of his existence and seeks frequent solace in the arms of sweet sweet laudanum.
Mostly I just want it to be historically accurate, i.e. Poe should be a man who's terrified for almost every waking moment of his existence and seeks frequent solace in the arms of sweet sweet laudanum.
@Trai_Dep: Not to be a total evangelist, but yes, a membership in Seed Savers means (I think) that you can not only order seeds and starts from their banks, but trade heirloom seeds with other Seed Savers members. (This is probably not true of Svalbard.)
@MissAimee: SHIT YES. AT LAST I HAVE PROVEN MY INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY OVER JAMES FRANCO.
@CuffLinks: Well, yes, but Franco wasn't IN Pyramus and Thisbe, so we don't expect him to know about it. Plus you can hardly expect them to teach that kind of pap at Columbia or Yale.
@Trai_Dep: That's a very compelling argument, but I don't see Esther making it at all. That said, Seed Savers certainly contributes to real-world diversity in a minor way, if only via home gardeners and small farmers.
I know this is a Gawker site, but why blather on about "foodie trendsters" when you could talk about real, effective biodiversity efforts like Seed Savers and the Svalbard seed bank instead?
"Two white people… How many time have you seen the story where two white people can't be together? How many times have you seen that story? Romeo and Juliet! It's 400 years old!"
Actually, according to the press materials for Tristan & Isolde, it's much older than that.
Ahem.
Actually, according to the press materials for Tristan & Isolde, it's much older than that.
Ahem.
I don't know what it is, but I find Valente's writing off-putting. There's something about the rhythm of her writing that seems pat. (Which is weird, because I think she has the same exuberance for language that China Mieville does, and I LOVE that guy.)
"But then one man learns to read, and figures out that men should be equal to women!"
PFFF UNLIKELY.
PFFF UNLIKELY.
The casting on this is... just so crazy it might work?
Or it might crash and burn. Whatever.
Or it might crash and burn. Whatever.
@wookie1901: I was trying to figure out if he had some corset-lacing on the back of his shirt. Don't know if the Camelbak is worse or not.
Is that Vivienne Westwood? Does anyone know?
