Serendipitously, I just finished reading Brian Aldiss' "Helliconia Spring" (still tracking down the other two books).

I'd call for Robotech more than Macross; Robotech included THREE wars (four if you include the novel-only Sentinels Saga), including the pyrrhic victory of the Second War (we won, but Earth was left defenseless with a broken, utterly corrupt government), the insurgency campaign of the Third War (a nomadic group of…

Fonzalien needs to become a meme.

Objection: in the Post-Crisis/Man of Steel continuity, Kal-El was carried to Earth "in vitro" (Jor-El & Lara mixed their genetic material in an artificial womb, designed to deliver the infant only upon landing), meaning that that version of Superman WAS technically born on American soil.

In fearful day, in raging night,

"Ray, the [cucumbers] migrated about a foot and a half."

If you wish to have boobies and ice cream, you must first invent the universe.

I love how everybody talks about "the dark and gritty Star Wars" like it's new.

And by the time they did, it was no longer purring.

Wait, he offered a convict a pardon from execution, kitted him out in a flamboyant costume, and sent him on a mission?

Some of the best lines too.