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I think that the move towards digital art (and ebooks for that matter) will only serve to increase the value of physical art and books. A similar analogy would be the increase in value of hand-written manuscripts […]

I think you’re making an important distinction between a “characters who are gay” and a “gay characters.” The latter, by definition, are stereotypes and defined by their sexuality.

For example, Willow […]

In the case of the robotic armor, I believe that the actual problem is powering it without a tether. Battery technology has lagged just about every area of high tech; it’s seen incremental rather than geometrical […]

Gregory L. Norris has, I believe, twice written novels during NaNoWiMo that were subsequently published. Or it might be three. I can’t remember.

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, owns at least one fighter jet and had a cameo in Iron Man 2. But he’s not my candidate for becoming a real life Lex Luthor. If I were to choose, I’d go with Jim Levine, one of the […]

Love the reference to the old text-based Adventure game.

Gary,

I’m really sorry if I left the impression I was characterizing your personal beliefs. As I read over what I wrote I can see how it might have seemed that way. Apologies.

My first point is that your […]

I think your knowledge of the history of science may be a bit limited.

Take paleontology, for instance. In England in the early 19th century, when human-made flints were discovered amongst the bones of extinct […]

While it’s not the same thing as actually trying to create the music of the future with audio, genre-writer emeritus Jack Vance has many stories where the musical instruments of the future, and the type of music […]

For me, rereading LoTR now is kinda like remembering how much I liked it then rather than liking it all that much now. I might not, though, that when I *really* loved LoTR, my favorite rock band was the eminently […]

No question high fantasy gets pretty silly. INHO, the burden of having a plot that makes sense should be even greater with fantasy, since there’s so much that’s unbelievable to start with. That being said, here […]

To be precise, Tolkien was a Catholic and C.S. Lewis was an Anglican and their writing reflects those specific theologies, both of which are quite different from biblical fundamentalism.

What you point out as an “inconsistency” in the scientific method is, in fact, the scientific method.

With the scientific method, one’s understanding of what’s true changes to accomodate new evidence.

In […]

Most of the examples you cite are from a period in history when science was largely seen as confirming Christian myths rather than debunking them. Newton, for instance, tried to prove “scientifically” that the […]

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m perfectly happy to accord devout Christians the *exact* same amount of respect that I give to people who wear magical underwear, believe in astrology, or think the planet […]

I doubt if many fantasy writers feel particularly averse to the New Testament. Consider: the main character is born through a magical process, fights off demons, enlivens parties by spiking the water pitcher, […]