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Oh my gods, this thread was sent forward in time through Sector 14 only to be pulled back in time through Sector 14! Or something! :D

Well, whether your vote is for the 80s Amy or the '00s Amy, it's still a vote! (As long as it's a "10" vote, of course!) :-) Thanks much. Amy

Re: Does anyone have any new info on the Babylon 5 Lost Tails? There was no single service -- they died several years apart. Richard Biggs died in May of 2004, and Andreas died in February of 2006. If you search on some of the forums and newsgroups out there (this one, jmsnews.com, the...

Well, aherm...I was only addressing the people in this thread who'd written letters supporting Andreas's inclusion in the Oscars memorial reel. I presume that most of the people who cared enough to write probably cared enough to watch.

Thank you, Disi! We'll all be watching closely on Oscar night...

That sound you just heard? Sort of a dull, hollow, yet resonant 'pop'? That was my head exploding.

Hi, crazyhorse. There's nothing inherently incorrect about beginning a sentence with "and." It's generally discouraged when you are learning grammar as a young schoolchild because of the tendency to use it improperly. Commas aren't subject to the same hard and fast usage rules as other...

Actually, I think it's much more easily misunderstood than you portray it. And this is no reflection of how much I disagree or agree with Mac, honestly. This is how I read it first time through (and the parenthetical, bold remarks are my thoughts, my interpretation of the statements as I was...

What's the last book -- science fiction book -- you found out about through "Time," or any other mainstream magazine? How about television? What science fiction books have you seen advertised on television, where it wasn't a tie-in book that was being published by the same company as the...

Hmmm, reading all of the information you got from the guy at Del Rey, and factoring in everything I've told you (and Jan and Joe have said as well), do you really think that those posters would have made any difference, especially since most bookstores would have left them in a pile in the back...

Do you know for a fact that they didn't produce posters for bookstores? Bookstores get those one-sheets and small posters for gazillions of books and publishers and imprints, but they don't put them all up. They can't. And SF is the redheaded stepchild of book publishing, just as it's the...

Er, that's exactly how I browse books in a bookstore. And in a library. And there are certain genres that I want to browse, because that's how you find what's newly published that you didn't otherwise know about. I never said that it was required that one go to conventions to hear about new...

You're not really making much sense. If people who are sf fans aren't on the internet, don't go to cons, don't read sf magazines, and don't talk to other sf fans, then how are they finding out about any new book releases in sf?? How do you find out about books (not necessarily tie-in books)...

No, I'm just a New Yorker-subscribing snob who happens to actually know something about the publishing business, and who lives on planet Earth.

How can you say they did a piss-poor job of promoting the books? They promoted at the largest cons (what's larger than SDCC and Dragon*Con?), and in the few likely magazines that are left. Do you think they ought to have been buying ad space in The New Yorker, or Rolling Stone? How could they...

Having worked in book publishing some years ago, for a large house (larger than Del Rey), and specifically in the department that tracked sales figures in order to advise other departments about how many books should be printed and how many books of a certain title should be 'scrapped,' I can...

It's not necessarily that there are truly that few posters in the UK; it's that those are the only folks from the mod who e-mailed me and asked to be included on the UK map. What happens is that the only people on the maps are the people who happen to be doing a lot of posting and reading at...

Dave, I agree with you. To me, the Delenn sleeve issue is just a continuity gaffe (and those are also fun to track, as are bloopers).

I assumed Galahad was talking about two speaking parts. The "thug" from "Avalon" presumably being the fellow who says, "I got friends!" And in an episode like "Necessary" that was loaded with dockworkers, I can't imagine he just picked one at random out of the background; he has to mean one of...

Thanks, Londos6 (love the name, by the way :) ).