Nickelodeon and Team Avatar have confirmed that they are now working on three new Avatar: The Last Airbender-related animated films and a TV series. One of these projects will be CG-animated, the others using the more traditional techniques of the original series.
It was announced in February 2021 that Nickelodeon had set up a new dedicated studio to exclusively focus on new animated projects in the Avatar: The Last Airbender world. Original creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael DiMartino are heading up the studio which will involve a number of different projects. Eric Coleman, who also worked on the original animated series, is on board as well.
Lauren Montgomery, who worked on Voltron: Legendary Defender and The Legend of Korra, will direct the first of the three movies. At the moment the plan is for the three movies to be unrelated to one another, not part of a trilogy. The time period and characters involved are unknown.
Avatar: The Last Airbender ran for three seasons from 2005 …
So, I’ve been reading The Neverending Story (loving it, by the way), and I’m just going along, everything’s going great, and in a litany of weird people/creatures, it mentions ‘a stag with golden antlers who walked erect and wore a Prince Albert.’ Is there… anything that could mean other than the obvious? Could a ‘Prince Albert’ be some kind of hat, or a necktie or… anything? Or does it really mean that this classic fantasy novel that inspired a beloved kids’ movie has a minor character who’s basically a naked furry with a pierced gizmo? I mean, it doesn’t make any difference, because the book’s still awesome and I would still finish it even if it wasn’t… but that’s really just the kind of thing you want to know for sure.
For example, I read Night Angel by Brent Weeks (loved it overall) but couldn’t believe how many times the word “sinew” was used in a single book. I just finished Mistborn and Sanderson had quite a few that almost became funny or a game to me by the last book. For example:
I read the Books of Babel before Mistborn, and the difference in prose is pretty substantial. I didn’t catch any of these in the Babel series.
I can’t say BookTok is to blame per se, because our capitalist roots always find ways to capitalise on culture and pleasure, but it’s worrisome to me how much of this community is based on book hauls. I’m yet to see a famous booktuber that reccomends using the library (physical or digital) to borrow books. It seems like buying books became the new fad, while we could be supporting communal spaces for reading and enjoying books of all genres that are present in libraries, and then maybe purchase the ones we really liked. Everything seems excessive nowadays, and even buying books became this thing where you can’t just buy one every once in a blue moon, you have to get 15 from your famous bookstore to then enjoy maybe 1 or 2 out of them. If it were people from cities or small towns with no access to libraries, I’d completely understand. But there are people living in well served big cities, ordering hundreds of books a year, instead of supporting the …
For example, I think Carrie invented the character type of “mentally unwell young women with a traumatic past that gain (telekinetic/psychic) powers that they use to wreck violent havoc”
Carrie also invented the “to rip off a Carrie” phrase, which I assume people IRL use as well when referring to the act of causing either violence or destruction, which is what Carrie, and other characters in pop culture that fall into the aforementioned character type, does
(Edit: Just want to clarify this isn’t bestselling author Michael J Sullivan—it’s Michael R Sullivan, who appears to have only self-published this one book.)
There are multiple accounts across this sub and others that are promoting a book called “The Final Flaw” by Michael R Sullivan. Several have been fairly high profile—you might have seen them. They generally all talk about how it’s one of the best books they’ve read in recent memory, and how impactful it is to see neurodivergent characters in fiction.
Unfortunately, it seems like they’re all sockpuppet accounts, presumably run by the author (who’s also a Redditor, but I’m not linking his official account).
Most were created in August/September or January. All have the same autogenerated wordword#### username format. All have minimal comment/post history. Oh, and since I’ve started compiling this list, apparently several of them have deleted their accounts. My guess …
I grew up with these books. Those are the books I can recall reading at my earliest outside school. I remember the books being very gripping and always had good, suspenseful stories. Just recently I was looking at my old stuff and found a couple of these books lying somewhere in the store. It brought back great memories and nostalgia of being lost in the English countryside with these adventurous kids.
Blyton’s group of characters was very likable. There was great chemistry between all of them and I particularly appreciate how she also wrote believable flaws in those kids. They made frequent mistakes, were often stupid & irresponsible. But they were good kids who only meant the best and some adventure. Timmy was well written for an animal and a lovable old dog from what I remember.
The best part of the books was the atmosphere Blyton built. The kids get together over holidays and often used to go out to camp, hike or trips in the countryside. The description of the English …
Have had a hard time last while finding science fiction I like. I guess mostly I like stuff like the Hyperion Cantos.
The last real hard sf I read was “Aurora” by Kim Stanley Robinson and I liked it but it made me sad.
Children of Time helped me feel somewhat better looking way way ahead so thank you nameless Redditors I appreciate you talking about it!
He got his PhD in astrophysics, but ended up using that education to write sci fi instead. So glad he did so we got to read all these great books!
If you haven’t read Startide Rising, I really can’t recommend it enough, such an incredibly entertaining book, and I feel like it was a real pioneer stylistically too. He certainly wasn’t the first to write a book with a huge cast of characters and each chapter following a single character, but Startide Rising definitely feels like it refined and popularized that narrative style into the modern space opera, and of course that has been a super-popular method of telling big fantasy and sci fi stories in the years since. It’s also so nice to take a break and read a book where humans are the unapologetic good guys, everything is exciting, and its just a page turner to find out what happens to our little ragtag crew of super-evolved dolphins and humans.
Anyway, a few of my favorite things he talked about in the …
And what a great collection it was !
I’ve found that there was a lot of variety in the different short stories, and the author treats a large panel of themes. There are a lot of thoughtful and exciting stories and I never felt bored while reading them. Some of them definitely made me emotional too.
I usually prefer stories in a longer format but I was impressed over how much Ken Liu could tell in some really short stories.
I certainly recommend it to anyone that likes science-fiction and I’m looking forward to read more from Ken Liu.
I’m not a big fan of pulpy or adventure focused SF novels, but recently reading The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, and the New Sun books has me interested in SF again.
Anybody know books along the same lines - thematically rich, beautiful, poetic, etc.
*Edit: Thanks for all the amazing suggestions guys, this is really helpful.