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Charlie Jane Anders
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Ex-io9 editor. Author of the Unstoppable trilogy: the third book, Promises Stronger Than Darkness, comes out April 11! Writing New Mutants: Lethal Legion for Marvel. Podcast: Our Opinions Are Correct.

That makes me sad. OTOH I guess it's fair enough — if men won't read women authors, then women shouldn't read male authors either. Read more

If that were true, I would say it's a sign that Romance readers are narrow-minded as well. Read more

Yeah I thought so too... but then I thought: Maybe Khan can save their daughter with his superior intellect? Maybe he knows some secret cure for the child's ailment? Read more

If it's Garth, he'd better have a sidekick who goes around pretending to have written lots of classic Earth poetry, or I'm rioting. (Not really.) Read more

Well judging from the interviews in the book, her memoirs were heavily fictionalized. There's a lot of people, including her daughter, saying "Yeah I got tired of having to remind people that she was a fiction writer when they would ask me about something in one of her memoirs." In any case, this is a different way of Read more

Yeah, I am still kind of amazed that some of the same creators who worked on NOF have been working on Arrow... it's like night and day. Read more

Yeah... it's a mystery. You can quibble about Syfy's current slate, but compared to Painkiller Jane and Flash Gordon... phew. Read more

Yeah, we love Misfits. Hoping the US version gets off the ground and doesn't totally suck. Read more

Ah yeah. That looked weird to me. Will fix, thanks! Update: I guess that's actually what it's called: http://tonywightgallery.com/files/prpresence.pdf Read more

His Captain America has some genuinely great moments. Dollman is super fun. Some of his post-apocalyptic movies are really nuts in an entertaining way. I wonder if we'd like his stuff better if he ever got let into the editing room. Read more

Also, what made you want to get involved in a show about renewable energy and the future of energy production? Was this a topic you were always interested in? Read more

Do you think we'll be able to move to renewable energy before we start to seriously run out of fossil fuels, or will people wait until the last moment to think about this stuff? Read more