Same here. Love the Farseer, Liveship traders, and Tawny Man trilogies, but the Soldier Son left me cold. Haven't read Rain Wilds Chronicles. Should I? But another series focussing on Fitz. Count me in.

Let's see. What series had a great concept, but crappy execution? Great concept, great characters, good scripts, good scares, but really bad special effects, hammy acting, silly dialogue... I suspect that Blake's 7 would really work well nowadays. In the hands of a good producers/directors/writers, with some serious…

I was afraid that this article would only got the comic book route, but The Stainless Steel Rat and a few other space heroes mentioned above are in my opinion much better source material than Legion of Superheroes or Starjammers or even remakes of pulpy heroes like Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon. I would go full into…

Three Guesses. From which movie comes the quote: "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"?

Why settle for a space ship when you can have a space time ship? And remember it is bigger on the inside than on the outside. Is it also greater on the inside?

1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, all obvious. I'll add V for Vendetta for good measure. Perfect vision of a dystopian future based on 1980s angst about the consequences of the hard line Thatcher took. No, it is not realistic as a vision of the future from the current perspective, but still...

I'm not a big horror fan, thus I never read anything by Koontz. However, for some reason, I started reading Odd Thomas. And guess what? I loved it. It's not horror per se. It is just a supernatural supence thriller. And it doesn't have anything I hadn't read or seen a thousand times before. But Thomas is a likeable…

My 7 year old daughter has this set and I think it is quite a good representation of a (generic) school. It has two classrooms (one science and one arts), a hallway/cafeteria, some lockers, a basketball hoop. It is not a true high school, but it isn't too bad either. You're nitpicking here.

What you state here is just an opion. There is no consensus about taste and what some people find disgusting, others love. I love my crispy skinned, soft centred starch sticks with mayonaise. You prefer your potatoes in a different manner. I'm willing to take your word for it and try your recipe. Are you willing to…

Yes, I know. I thought you were talking about the Chipotle restaurants, but I know what chipotles are. However, they are hard to come by over here. We have food from all over the world in our supermarkets, but Mexican (and all South American) food gets the short thrift here. There is some prepackaged Tex-Mex stuff,…

I don't know chipotle mayo. Chipotle is not a brand that has reached our shores yet. I occasionally spice it up with wassabi paste. Just for that extra bite. And if I can afford it, truffle shavings. Man, truffel mayo. That's pure heaven.

You know what is even better than mixing ketchup and mayo? Take a load of fries, squirt equal amounts of mayo and curry ketchup on them, sprinkle them with finely chopped onions. Patatje Speciaal (Special Fries), delicious. Another version is the so called Patatje Oorlog (War Fries) which is mayo with peanut sauce…

I am Dutch, so I cannot speak for you Americans, but mayonaise is my favourite condiment by far. And as you probably know since Pulp Fiction, we eat it on our fries instead of ketchup or malt vineagar. And I can honestly say: it is the best combination ever!!! I eat it with almost all fried or baked potato varieties.…

You might be right. I haven't kept up with him and his work. I used to think his It gets better project was wonderful and listened to his podcast for a while. It wasn't for me in the end. He had sensible advice, but I'm not that adventurous sexually and while his advice might be considered risqué in the U.S, it is…

It is ironic that most U.S. school boards will be more offended by the various naked body parts (mostly penisses and boobs) and the political undertone (not to mention Alan Moore's paganism), than by all the violence and rape. But as Dan savage likes to remind us, that's what you get when your country is founded by…

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Anyone who uses scientific logic or a technical approach in this argument is looking at it from the wrong angle. Because at its core Star Wars is not Science Fiction but Fantasy, midichlorians notwithstanding.

No one mentioned the Jungfroaujoch?

I put forth Doctor Doom's scheme to rule the world as a despot through using the Purple Man trapped in some device, thus making the whole world obedient to him. World peace, no more famine, universal healthcare, just for sacrificing free will? Really, would that be a bad world to live in? Yes, Doom is a scary guy and…

Sun became sentient. We all died.