Regarding Stapledon, I confess that I read and enjoyed “Odd John” and “Sirius,” but never got around to “Last and First Men” and “Starmaker.”

I loved that movie as a kid!

And guest-starring Batman (aka Adam West) no less!

Hmm. I would’ve assumed the female lead in a Doctor Strange movie would be Clea, his long-time lover from the comics. Or am I showing my age there?

FYI: Both Daimon and Satana popped up recently in the new AGENTS OF SHIELD comic book, based on the TV show.

Let us not forget Umar the Unmentionable, who was eventually revealed to be the (evil) mother of Doctor Strange’s main squeeze and apprentice, Clea. I guess the fact that she didn’t make the list proves that she really is unmentionable . ...

You beat me to the punch. See also his sister Satanna.

Speaking of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, I can’t resist pointing out that the original novel is also still available:

To be fair, it can hard to find the sweet spot for when exactly to exit the stage. Either a show gets cut down too early (Hello, STAR TREK, FARSCAPE, etc.) or it stays too long and wears out its welcome. “That show is still on?”

Few shows end at just the right moment. (Trying to think of an example and failing.)

Haven’t checked out HUMANS yet, but I’m enjoying Killjoys (ironically enough).

Oh, to address your original question, Farmer’s pioneering works date back to the early fifties, predating the New Wave of the sixties. So he was ahead of the curve there . ...

I confess: I never finished “The Lord of the Rings,” but I devoured Leiber’s fantasy stories back in the day.

Yep. That’s me. Glad you liked the Khan books. Honestly, of all my Trek books, those are the ones people seem to remember the most.

And bringing this back on On-Topic, I was kinda inspired by the way Tim Powers reveals the “secret history” behind actual historical events in his novels.

Philip Jose Farmer and Theodore Sturgeon are typically credited for introducing an adult approach to sexuality to science fiction.

Plus, I think they really, really want that PG-13 rating.

The original movie would probably be rated R if they tried putting it out today, what with all the nudity and the orgy scene.

LOGAN’S RUN is an ideal candidate for a remake. It’s fondly remembered by fans of a certain age, and has some memorable moments, but it hasn’t aged particularly well and is hardly an untouchable masterpiece. You’re not trampling on sacred ground here.

Me, I’d go back to the original novel, where the cut-off age was 21,…

At the risk of playing amateur proofreader, “soldier” is spelled “solider” in both the headline AND the first paragraph.

I’m fond of PSYCHO II, which came out 23 years after the original movie, with most of the surviving cast.

My favorite bad review story: I once thanked my parents in the acknowledgments of a book for letting me borrow their computer. (I’d had to get some writing done while visiting them one summer.) Imagine my reaction when a snarky reviewer cited this as evidence that I was obviously a basement-dwelling loser who still…

I love that Neil Gaiman quote, which is dead-on. Meanwhile . . . .

1) Rule One: Don’t get defensive. If your knee-jerk response is “No, that story is perfect. You just don’t get it!”—well, you’re never going to learn anything. And just because you did something on purpose doesn’t mean it worked the way you hoped it…

Glad to hear you remember all those old novels fondly. The deadlines were often tight, but I enjoyed writing them—and they led directly to me doing movie novelizations later on. (I got the DAREDEVIL gig, which was my first novelization, because an editor on those Marvel books recommended me for the job.) There was a…