Thank you.

Thanks.

When terraforming could not be enacted,
The pioneers reformed themselves instead:
A splice of genes: voila! Semi-arachnid—
Quite different, true, but better far than dead.
And colonizing worlds goes faster far
When reproduction's at a spider's pace;
And so, one hundred circuits round the star
Have passed without a humanoid…

Fascinating! I'm not a coder, so that wouldn't have occurred to me, but it's a really neat trick. Thanks for sharing.

Nice. Is this a formatting trick—just font sizes and whatnot? Very clever!

Never plot to kill a telepath.

Battle Ducky, you're the one
You make wartime so much fun
Battle Ducky, you bring my enemies doom
Boom-boom-de-boom

Battle Ducky, joy of joys
You're the greatest of all war toys
Battle Ducky, you wipe out the foes I choose
Non-Red, White and Blues

Every day when I
Fire away with my missiles
I turn the enemies there to
Blobs of…

There's nothing fundamentally flawed with the premise, except this: it shouldn't be a movie. LSH, with its young, good-looking teens who have more heartaches than an entire cardiac care unit, is meant to be a live-action TV show. It could be done relatively inexpensively, and in the same universe as Arrow and…

Sorry, I meant to post this as a response to the main article, not to someone else's response.

The Night's Plutonian Shore:

The Night's Plutonian Shore:
(A Tribute to the E. A. Poe's "The Raven" for its 170th birthday)

In the forest, dark and twisted, as the gnarled old trunks lay misted
And the sun cast deepening shadows on the root-entangled floor,
Two young maidens gathered, dancing; filled with youth and life, their prancing,
All alone…

Or maybe I read it as omitting a word like "find" before "here" since it was a link, I'm not sure.

Yes, that's true. In another post (which hasn't been approved yet), I mention that I was so disturbed by "affect/effect" that I didn't read the rest of the sentence.

I was so thrown by "affect" that I confess I didn't read the rest of the final sentence.

No. I'm an English teacher, so I'm used to it by this point in the year. I think of it as Seasonal Effective Disorder.

"...it has an affect on the sound..." This should be "effect." I'm only being picky because this is a cool article that's likely to be picked up elsewhere, so you probably want to get that right.

They did that. But the spacecraft was a sentient whale in "Hitchhiker's Guide."

Last paragraph is a wonderful piece of prose. Nicely done.

To me, a hero in any story has to seize the sword her/him-self. Luke Skywalker has to blow up the Death Star. The hero's actions must ultimately resolve the problem. To clarify, I think that Ariel is almost groundbreaking as feminist icon—a female character who actively seeks fulfillment of her own dreams on her…

Again, the key for me is not that she tried and failed throughout the story, but that she didn't try at the climax of the story. Ultimately, I think @RitaFires got it right when she said it's a story flaw, not a character flaw.

OK, I'll buy that. You win.