I guess there is a limit to just how evil Mad Science is allowed to get on a government grant. :)

That's because they've already done a post about great opening sentences from science fiction novels. Read the introduction to this post to find the link.

Remind me to never let a physicist into my kitchen. :)
Anyone who knows cooking knows that there is boiling over low heat (slow boiling or simmering) or boiling over high heat (fast boiling). From a physics point of view, perhaps only the high-heat boiling is boiling per definition (100°C), but in a practical,…

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Interesting, I'll check it out!

I think the factory workers (and if not, the sewing machine operators) might possibly start dying long before the garments reached the consumers. Not that *that* makes it less terrible, but it would still be a rather ineffective method for striking at consumers.

Wait. Wasn't it 2001 that invented the iPad?

They did forewarn us about it, and also did make a post about watching it live. :)

Well, it didn't actually say that the statement was brilliant, just that Ellen Datlow is. Now, Ellen Datlow may be brilliant, for all I know. But I agree that her explanation was pretty simple and self-evident, and didn't contain any clear signs of her supposed brilliance.

It's fantasy that masquerades as science fiction — just like Star Wars. Interestingly, we don't get much science fiction masquerading as fantasy.

Also, I totally do not feel touched! I'm cool and tough! See, I can watch super cute animals and then talk about eating them! Yeah, that's who I am, bitches.

Really? You know one woman who goes against this trend? Damn. You have completely overthrown this research. *slow applause*

And whose "natural inclinations" is it you are talking about, pray?

I've scrolled down from the top and I've already encountered several, unfortunately.

Reading that made me feel a bit sick.

But do they have... goats?

Also, makes you sound really EDGY and stuff.

It really gets its comeuppance in the beginning of the 19th century, though.

Yes, all those things really annoyed me. If they didn't want people who look like they are living off the land in a very low-tech, down-to-earth way, why set in in a world where people live off the land in a very low-tech, down-to-earth way? And no way you'd go into the woods hunting with your long hair flowing loose…

The Silurian was a Terran geological era, so even though the Silurians look alien to us, they are not supposed to be extra-terrestrial. The Silurian era was way before dinosaurs evolved, though, or even archosaurs.