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George R.R. Martin Will Write Almost Anything Set in Westeros Except The Winds of Winter
A Dance with Dragons, the last mainline book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, came out on July 12, 2011. As of this week, that is more than 5,490 days ago, and the sixth book in the main series still has no release date. In that stretch of time, Martin has found room for a peer-reviewed physics paper, a Santa Fe cocktail bar, a res…
Kevin Feige Calls Himself a “Gigantic Loser” Over Blade
Kevin Feige told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast he feels like “a gigantic loser and failure” that Marvel never got Mahershala Ali’s Blade off the ground. He should feel that way. Marvel announced Ali as Blade at Comic-Con in 2019 before the studio had a director locked, a finished script, or any real sense of what the movie was supposed to be. The ann…
Star Trek’s 60th Anniversary Panel Celebrated “Diversity”
Star Trek turned 60 in Hall H on Saturday, and the franchise used its own anniversary stage to spell out exactly what “diversity” means to the people running it now. Rod Roddenberry opened the tribute panel with a speech invoking his father’s Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. “To be 100% clear about this, I.D.I.C. never meant you had to drop your own views and blindly embrace someone else’s,” Roddenberry told the packed room. “It just meant keeping an open mind to new ideas and new points of view.” He closed the speech with a twist on the franchise’s most famous line, throwing up the Vulcan salute and telling the crowd, “May you all LOVE long and prosper.”
Black Panther Casting Reveal Draws Xenophobia Accusation From Sci-Fi Author Nnedi Okorafor
David Jonsson’s reveal as the new Black Panther at Comic-Con drew swift agreement from most of the fandom online, but the small pocket of pushback over his nationality was enough to pull Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor back into a franchise she says she already gave up on.
A Star Trek Author’s Own Words Reveal How Paramount Rewrote Her Novel Twice
A rare self-published fanzine by Star Trek novelist V.E. Mitchell has surfaced, and it lays out in granular detail how Paramount and Pocket Books reshaped her 1990 TOS novel “Enemy Unseen” before it ever reached a shelf.
The Internet is a Transparent Asylum
You open YouTube and the feed presents itself as a single surface. A man ranks the worst genetics for building muscle. Beside him a historian stands before a bronze statue and speaks of open-source weeks at the United Nations. A boxer faces a six-foot-seven opponent called a psychopath. Britain is drawn as a map locked in combat with a cartoon woman in …