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No real spoilers here, but I am going to wax hypothetical about what I think might happen as the show winds up; and since I am a genius at this stuff (former brilliant predictions of mine include: “Idris Elba’s character on The Office is secretly gay,” “CSS are going to be the next U2,” “N.E.R.D. are going to be the next U2,” and “Dumbledore dies”), you might want to click away. I’ll put everything below the fold, and to give people looking at this in their RSS readers a little space to hit the “next post” button, here is a bit from my latest Blogging the Hugos post at io9, on Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle:

His writing always seems solid but gentle and a bit heartsick to me — not tentative, but as if he was aware of what a tenuous thing life is and needed to break it to his readers both totally honestly and with great care. For as upsetting as his stories can be, I never get the sense that Dick delighted in upsetting his readers (or in putting his characters in upsetting situations), but rather that he was moved by an enormous compassion to do it.

(I think those are some of the better sentences I’ve written in this series. As it stands, I think the Hugos project has been a good learning experience for me, but in spite of the very nice feedback I’ve received from a lot of readers, I’m not sure I’ve said much yet. Still, there are almost fifty books left, so I have time to improve! And how nice it is to get paid to do it!)

OK, on to the Lost stuff:

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You might have forgotten that Gasoline Alley is now available IN GRAPHIC NOVEL FORM. Need I add that Rex Morgan, M.D., is not? And need I add to that that that is a pile of BS? There’s a pizza delivery/PCP story line from the late ’80s I would like to revisit. No, really.

There’s nothing quite like spending most of a day arguing with people on the Internet, only to have the soft, fine-smelling individual who lives with you—and who knows much more about what you were so heatedly arguing about than you do—return home and gently explain that you don’t know what the hell you are talking about.

So, a note to anyone who read anything I wrote today about Amazon and Macmillan and electronic book selling: Whatever I said is probably mostly right, but almost completely wrong in some parts. Sorry! Sigh.

If anyone’s interested and hasn’t read it yet, John Scalzi (whose blog is one of the handful truly worth subscribing to; he’s loud and smart and fun to read, and posts one to three times a day, which is about perfect) has explained how hard Amazon sucked eggs this weekend here.