Over on Sanderson’s Youtube channel, when asked about his thoughts on the show’s cancellation, he replied

I wasn’t really involved. Don’t know anything more than what is public. They told me they were renegotiating, and thought it would work out. Then I heard nothing for 2 months. Then learned this from the news like everyone else. I do think it’s a shame, as while I had my problems with the show, it had a fanbase who deserved better than a cancelation after the best season. I won’t miss being largely ignored; they wanted my name on it for legitimacy, but not to involve me in any meaningful way.

Here’s a link to his comment

Hey r/Fantasy

I’ve been meaning to write something up for a while now about what it’s actually like to run a bookstore that specializes in fantasy. In a way, I sort of have a space that reflects r/Fantasy itself—and I honestly love that. I’ve been an author and a writing/lit professor for years, but owning a bookstore for the past year and a half has completely changed how I think about readers, books, and what actually moves on shelves. I thought some of you might find this perspective useful or just interesting—especially if you’ve ever daydreamed about running your own little shop or if you’re a creative who would benefit from “customer behavior” thoughts. But also, I just wanted to say hello to all you fine people and thank you for being… well, fine people!

A few takeaways approaching 2 years in the bookstore space:

• Fantasy readers are the best—but they’re almost all women. I don’t say that in a “rah rah” way. I mean it statistically. Obviously, this …

I’ve been thinking a lot about the demise of The Wheel of Time and how it is yet another example, no matter how much quality grew past its initial season, why alienating your original fanbase is just bad business practice and terrible marketing.

It comes to the question of: why even make an adaptation rather than an original work?

Corporations don’t care about putting out a good product, only in so far as a good product will more often times than not, make them money.

So, adapting a work isn’t necessarily because they care that the original story is “good”, they care because it has a name and fanbase attached that will make them cash, as opposed to starting from a base of zero with an original story.

So why do studios think that time and time again, making major changes to the story and characters, will go well for them from a business sense?

It’s bizarre because there’s so much precedent that this not only destroys the initial advantage …

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Per the latter’s FB account. I thought the book was a solid, fun, and reliable piece of genre storytelling so it makes sense that the master of mainstream genre filmmaking should want to pick it up for his next project.

Although I did enjoy some of this series, all I can think about is how it could have been so much more. The worldbuilding was unique, the premise was strong, and the characters compelling at first. However, as the story went on, it became a messy, convoluted rush of historical parallels, new plot threads, and unexplored ideas. There just wasn’t enough space for proper character or narrative development.

Here are some of my issues: 

• Too many major events within just 3 books. With most fantasy series, it’s always multiple events adding up to a final war/revolution in the final book (Hunger Games, LOTR, Harry Potter, etc.). Whereas with this trilogy, there’s a different major war happening in each book (first book is the 3rd Poppy War, 2nd book is the Yin house vs Daji civil war, third book is Rin vs Nezha). The trilogy attempts to tackle genocide, colonialism, nationalism, identity, addiction, trauma, fascism, revolution, and classism without the narrative room to unpack those themes …

I saw this article where Schwab talks about how her initials stand for “Victoria Elizabeth,” which inadvertently led to the characters in Vicious being named Victor and Eli. Honestly, I would have never noticed if she hadn’t pointed it out, and I think it’s pretty funny.

I mostly read ARCs so I am habituated to noting down typos but I recently started reading Good Bad girl by Alice Feeney.

There was a line “don’t be rude said the most rude women on the planet”. It obviously should have been most rude woman.

Then there was some other just a few pages later.

Publishing companies should stop running an extremely tight ship due to this very reason. Obviously Alice Feeneys books are good and much better than almost all ARC I’ve read till now but it’s very frustrating. As a wannabe writer myself I understand that such things are missed by writers, but the company is to be blamed. Not enough editors or proofreader.

Do you have any weird (or completely justified) hangups about books? Title formats, cover art, font size in print, narrator’s voice in audio, etc.

For me it’s when the author’s name is a much larger font on the cover than the title (for no good reason). No thanks, I just want the book, not you. It’s understandable for, say, the memoirs of a famous person or if the title is long and needs a smaller font size, but not for a two word spec fic title.

A few days ago I made a thread asking users to post the all-time, single best sci-fi book they’ve read. The post blew up way more than I expected, and there was a huge amount of unique, diverse picks (that I’ll be adding to my ever-growing TBR). I thought it would be fun to count the number of votes each individual book received and rank the top 50 to see what books this sub generally consider to be the “best”.

Obviously this is not a consensus of any kind or a definitive ranking list by any means - it’s really just a fun survey at a given point in time, determined by a very specific demographic. And hey, who doesn’t love arguing about ranked lists online with strangers?

Some factors I considered while counting votes:

• I looked at upvotes for only parent/original comments when counting the votes for a specific book. Sub-comments were not counted
• Any subsequent posts with that book posted again would get the upvote count added to their total
• if a …

Just like the question from yesterday about the single best book, what is the single best SF series you’ve read and why?

I think we’d all agree that reading science-fiction is good for stretching the mind, so I was wondering which idea made you go all fluttery inside when you first discovered it?

I think I’m still recovering from the shock of reading Philip K Dick’s “Beyond Lies the Wub” as a young kid. SPOILER ALERT: >!When the Wub begins to speak through the human who had eaten him, I was totally shocked. How could identity persist after death? And how could it transfer from one being to another?!<

It really made me see the world in a different light. So what was your most mind-expanding SF notion?

EDIT: Wow, thanks for all the insightful comments! Enough ideas here for a lifetime of contemplation.

EDIT II: Actually, this is enough for several lifetimes! I’ve read and enjoyed all the comments and will be going through the books mentioned (that I haven’t read) over the next few months! Many thanks, all!

I heard that Artemis was a misfire, and so I skipped it. After that, I didn’t think much going in to PHM, but wow, this book is really good. For once, the hype was real. I had a few minor issues with the plot, but nothing major. I especially liked the hard science and the overall story.

I don’t want to spoil anything, so I think it best if you go in as cold as you can (as cold as you can anyway for a four year old book). Don’t read the reviews, book jacket or the critical praise if you can help it.

I am also looking forward to the film version with Ryan Gosling that’s coming out next year. I just hope they can do the story justice.

I’m looking for suggestions of a book that the title of this post describes. It should be from the 60s or 70s, and under 300 pages. I know PKD probably has some books that fit. I’ve only read Flow My Tears, and couldn’t get into it. It’s ok if the book isn’t PC, or if it’s not a literary masterpiece.

I recently read Moderan and loved it. It’s already one of my all-time favorite novels, in any genre.

Thanks!

Hey reddit, I’m Kevin Smith. I got the rights back to Dogma and I’m putting it out in theaters for a limited time for its 25th Anniversary starting Thursday June 5th. Ask me anything!

Give me your questions!!!

Dogma 25th anniversary trailer:

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Synopsis:

Two fallen angels who were ejected from paradise find themselves banned in Wisconsin. They are now headed for New Jersey where they find a loophole that can get them back into heaven. The only catch is that it will destroy humanity. A group bands together to stop them.

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Back out in theaters starting June 5th.

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I have to go with Toy Story 4. Toy Story 3 had the perfect send off for the toys, with Andy making Bonnie promise to take good care of Woody….only for her to neglect Woody immediately and cause him to bail on everyone.

I really wish they left the franchise be. Toy Story 3’s ending was so iconic, and the first Toy Story was such a massive part of my childhood. That and Lion King were the two Disney VHS tapes I used to watch all the time as a little kid. I even had some of the toys myself. I can’t wait to skip Toy Story 5.