I am not okay with you being okay with him going crazy

With science fiction and fantasy it's a little bit different.  Setting and worldbuilding are key elements of those genres, so describing what the world looks like is a key element of telling the story. It's like that famous sentence from Robert Heinlein, "The door dilated."  If you were writing a contemporary…

The AV Club seems to be determined to make me feel old today.  So in return, here's a cool old man story.  I had a ticket to see the 'Mats during the Pleased to Meet Me tour, but had eye surgery (it's just as much fun as you'd think!) the same day, so was too doped up to make my way out. I'll always regret not being…

I've been sitting here in Governor Jerry Brown's office for almost an hour, and they still haven't brought the menus.  Zero Stars.

There are still record companies?

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I don't think it's poor writing at all, I just think that she is someone who, though she may not be as evil as Walt, is just as filled with rage as he is about the direction her life has gone, which is evident from the beginning of the series. She is as much of a control freak as Walt is, in a lot of ways. But since…

Did you bring your own keg?  If not, what department were you in?

Not all gang members are Democrats.

It's the Stringer Bell of gangsta conversations.

Also, here's a pretty damning critique of Ender's Game:http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tensh…

Though now that you mention it, George Bush as the leader of a redneck mob would make a great science fiction novel.

I appreciate that, but I am an impatient reader, and have a pile of books at home that are being held up by this doorstop.  I don't find reading it to be a chore at all, I am just getting old, and my list of books to be read is getting longer.  I should have approached this the way I did when I decided to read Proust,…

I am still reading War and Peace, which I've been doing for the past 2 months.  I'm usually a pretty fast reader (not always to my benefit), but this is taking forever.  It's a really great read, but I'm really looking forward to getting it done and moving on to something stupider that isn't so hard to carry around.

That one I could really see going either way.  The guy lived much of his life cranking out text for Scientology, so I could see him writing a bunch of crappy SF novels in his free time.  Still, the fact that all of those Mission Earth books came out after he died is pretty hard to believe.  If L. Ron had written them,…

Unfortunately, all it does in real life is drop into your soup.  Science is sad.

With just a schtickle of methlamine.

Your Face Tomorrow is incredible.  I'm looking forward to reading more of his stuff.

And after that, he wakes up again in a chair in his dentist office and says, "Oy, I should have laid off the knishes last night!"

I think that's exactly it.  The stuff that they've done that's 'Pythonesque' outside of Monty Python, save for a couple of bits of Terry Gilliam movies, tends not to be very good.