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Jan

04-29-2006, 08:26 AM

MetroNews Interview (http://www.metronews.ca/books_review.asp?id=15771)

Disappointingly, no mention of Book of Lost Souls.

Jan

manwithnoname

04-29-2006, 01:58 PM

Great interview. Many teasers. I likey.

Called in sick today. Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Karachi Vyce

04-30-2006, 03:02 PM

"Peter, in particular, will go through a huge change at the end of this story. It’s going to be probably the biggest thing to happen to Peter in 30 years. It’s huge."

Oh Jesus.

Translation: We're going fo f!ck up the character yet again!

Just leave it alone. These characters aren't broken, you don't need to fix them.

I'm a little surprised to see him given Sims his HoF introduction, given Sims philosophical views on certain subjects.

Dr Maturin

04-30-2006, 08:44 PM

Jan

05-01-2006, 03:53 AM

I have no energy to look up Sim's opinions on feminism, but just tell me this: Are the responses to Sim's works on the subject being described in this Wiki entry on him overreaction, or were his opinions really off the wall? Because you know certain people have been called misogynists for presenting well-thought-out opinions complete with evidence just because the opinions were against modern feminism.

I guess it depends on what you call 'off the wall' This quote from the Wiki article takes a political disagreement and turns it into an attack against every woman alive:

"What the feminists and their ventriloquist puppet husbands are talking about doing with Government-Funded Daycare is raising children as if they were a herd of interchangeable swine. No surprise coming from a gender which has no ethics, no scruples, no sense of right and wrong."

So, yeah, I'd say off the wall. Like the commercial says "He's got issues."

But as for Vyce's surprise at JMS giving the award, why? I don't recall his ever stating that he had to agree with somebody's personal views in order to appreciate their work. It appears that Sim is exactly the sort that JMS would want to honor, since he believed in what he was doing enough to self-publish for all that time. I'd've enjoyed being a spectator at that lunch, though. The still-atheist discussing Islam with the former atheist. :eek:

Jan

Dr Maturin

05-01-2006, 05:52 AM

Yeah, that comment almost sounds like a rib. The article mentioned that some people believe he is only ribbing.

Jan

05-01-2006, 06:18 AM

I started reading one of his 'Tangent' essays linked from the Wiki article. So far it's almost incomprehensible, full of parenthticals and capitalizations used for emphasis, but I'll reserve final judgement until I finish all (I think) 5. But it's very odd...

Jan

phazedout

05-01-2006, 09:18 AM

Not a bad interview, but hementions "bullet Time" again, it intruiged me when I read about it the first time, anyone know when it's coming out, he said the summer and that starts today (May 1st) but there's no listing for it on amazon.com.
Phaze
on the "like I need an excuse to buy more Straczynski" ID

manwithnoname

05-19-2006, 03:04 AM

Not a bad interview, but hementions "bullet Time" again, it intruiged me when I read about it the first time, anyone know when it's coming out, he said the summer and that starts today (May 1st) but there's no listing for it on amazon.com.

It's called "Bullet Points." It has yet to be published in the monthly format, so that's probably why Amazon.com doesn't have a release date on the collected edition.

phazedout

05-19-2006, 06:27 AM

It's called "Bullet Points." It has yet to be published in the monthly format, so that's probably why Amazon.com doesn't have a release date on the collected edition.
Mia Culpa, I did mean to edit my post and correct the spelling, but I've mentioned it on about 5 forums so far, and just lost track of which ones I was wrong about the title on.
Phaze
on the "I wouldn't be posting so much if I had some work to do" ID