Seriously, Doctor Who vs Star Wars was surprisingly tough to call. I grew up watching both, so they hold equal places in my nerd-heart.

A bus using a Whale Way line?

YAAAAAAAY, CJA Game of Thrones articles! These are my faves. I'm looking forward to the recaps almost as much as I am the season premiere.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

The controversial Doctor Who. Dang time traveler interfering with our experiments.

Informed consent is not perfect. Lawyers have told me that obtaining informed consent does not really protect physicians in any substantial way, but if they don't have it they are screwed.

Very much so

Sorry, yeah. I'm one, actually.
Not speaking specifically about Pullman but there are plenty of good reasons someone may not have read a particular body of work - simply haven't gotten to it, interest level in that brand of genre fiction, something personal about the author that put them off...
That aside, my point was…

I imagine that this particular head-to-head is simply down to the numbers.
There's a good chance that even the most dedicated fantasy/sci-fier hasn't been exposed to the Discworld series. But Tolkien? I'd give even odds that the recent past has seen LotR branded Happy Meals. The films really cemented his work in the…

I know. I mean, I've read Tolkien, and saw the films (even all three of the animated ones), I loved it and I agree, LOTR is the definitive fantasy work, and will continue to be the most influential, the mark by which all others will forever be measured.

You mean this?

I have never been more saddened by anything than how badly LotR is kicking Discworld's ass right now. I know Tolkien has to win, but man, that is a drubbing right there.

Man, that looks seriously creepy...

those are two pocket watches, it's just Beaver being stylish as F*ck

I wish these animals were real. They're so cute and grumpy looking.

This is a dead ringer for the Egyptian mastigure, or uromastyx lizard.

Albrecht Dürer's Rhinoceros from 1515, based on a description and a drawing. The real rhinoceros was being sent as a gift from the king of Portugal to Pope Leo X in Rome, but it drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy.