I love Ray Bradbury's response.
That sentence should just be the answer to everything.
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Atropa - Dec 06, 2011 5:32:07 pm PST #17007 of 28333
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
§ ita § - Dec 06, 2011 5:38:54 pm PST #17008 of 28333
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think Bradbury and Ellison were my favourites.
Amy - Dec 06, 2011 5:46:25 pm PST #17009 of 28333
Because books.
That sentence should just be the answer to everything.
I'm so tired, I thought for a minute about which sentence you really liked.
Ayn Rand seems like a prickly bitch. Shocker.
Burrell - Dec 06, 2011 8:05:06 pm PST #17010 of 28333
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
"I trust my subconscious implicitly. It is my good pet."
That may be my new tag line.
Tom Scola - Dec 07, 2011 8:45:24 am PST #17011 of 28333
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
A history of descriptivism vs proscriptivism: [link]
Typo Boy - Dec 07, 2011 8:49:32 pm PST #17012 of 28333
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
New rec: "A Samba for Sherlock" by Jose Eugenio Soares. Very dark fiction about Holmes and Watson (and Sarah Bernhardt) in 19th century Brazil. Two warnings: 1) Sherlock is NOT treated respectfully. He is not a good detective in this, not a master of disguise and socially awkward. 2) In spite of being very dark, it has a lot of 12-year old level humor (including at least one joke that actually circulated in my school when I was 12). Tragedy and darkness mixed with burlesque and farce. Which makes it all the darker. The dagger and the pratfall.
Note: new only to me. Ran across a copy while stuck in the waiting room after giving someone a ride to urgent care. The translation was published in the U.S. in 1997. Don't know how much earlier the Portuguese version was published.
sumi - Dec 08, 2011 9:31:44 am PST #17013 of 28333
Art Crawl!!!
A retelling of Cinderella - with robots! (Excerpt at the link.)
Consuela - Dec 08, 2011 2:47:56 pm PST #17014 of 28333
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
io9 compiled the rules of magic for dozens of magical universes: [link]
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§ ita § - Dec 08, 2011 3:18:01 pm PST #17015 of 28333
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IO9 got some shit wrong. Hmmph.
Amy - Dec 08, 2011 3:39:34 pm PST #17016 of 28333
Because books.
The entry for The Witches of Eastwick is a little suspect, for sure. The plot of the book was very different than the movie, and in the movie the whole witchcraft aspect was a metaphor. It's been years and years since I read the book, but even there, it was satire, not serious.