His short story "The Big Flash" gives me chills just thinking about it…

His short story "The Big Flash" gives me chills just thinking about it…

The secret behind Deathwalker's immortality serum reminds me of a great novel by Norman Spinrad, "Bug Jack Barron." It combines two great satirical takes on modern Western narcissism by a) having a high-stakes conspiracy surrounding a possible medical treatment for immortality, and b) making the protagonist a…

The secret behind Deathwalker's immortality serum reminds me of a great novel by Norman Spinrad, "Bug Jack Barron." It combines two great satirical takes on modern Western narcissism by a) having a high-stakes conspiracy surrounding a possible medical treatment for immortality, and b) making the protagonist a…

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Speaking as an American who has not yet fulfilled his long-standing desire to travel in the UK, the view behind Mr. Wood in the photograph above looks like a slice of heaven on earth to me. Hope your tiny city near the open fields is the same!

Speaking as an American who has not yet fulfilled his long-standing desire to travel in the UK, the view behind Mr. Wood in the photograph above looks like a slice of heaven on earth to me. Hope your tiny city near the open fields is the same!

Yeah, I don't really want to see a movie that plays out what would happen to me if I was married to a woman like Michelle Williams. If she started out with Kirby's character because that's the kind of shallow, abusive hunk that beautiful women usually marry, then discovered true romance with Rogen over shared love of…

Yeah, I don't really want to see a movie that plays out what would happen to me if I was married to a woman like Michelle Williams. If she started out with Kirby's character because that's the kind of shallow, abusive hunk that beautiful women usually marry, then discovered true romance with Rogen over shared love of…

@avclub-23dc117ef9479407fb6c6a666005af40:disqus I think, re: rent, that it was more a matter of budgetary necessity than available space. They had to monetize their resources to keep the place solvent. Especially in light of post-S1 events.

@avclub-23dc117ef9479407fb6c6a666005af40:disqus I think, re: rent, that it was more a matter of budgetary necessity than available space. They had to monetize their resources to keep the place solvent. Especially in light of post-S1 events.

I hear you, but ultimately all fiction of this type creates its aliens (or orcs and elves) as tools for reflecting and exploring our humanity. As it should, for the farther down a "realistic multiculture" road such fiction tried to go, the more preachy and aridly sociological it would become. And as it must, because…

I hear you, but ultimately all fiction of this type creates its aliens (or orcs and elves) as tools for reflecting and exploring our humanity. As it should, for the farther down a "realistic multiculture" road such fiction tried to go, the more preachy and aridly sociological it would become. And as it must, because…

I picture the author typing this in their furry costume, having "evolved" into the anthropomorphic basset hound that always lay hidden inside them.

I picture the author typing this in their furry costume, having "evolved" into the anthropomorphic basset hound that always lay hidden inside them.

Sure, and I take your point about story pacing—it would have been good to have another step in there, like asking him to feed them some  information. I guess it's too much like a gang initiation to really fit with high-level professionals playing for big stakes.

Sure, and I take your point about story pacing—it would have been good to have another step in there, like asking him to feed them some  information. I guess it's too much like a gang initiation to really fit with high-level professionals playing for big stakes.

@avclub-05504937cdc07f36babc5831fbf2e119:disqus Yes, it's easy to forget the true scale of things. The B5 Tech manual says that the station has a diameter of 840 meters. Say that the diameter of the hollow space is 600 meters, moving the inhabited structures far enough out from the axis of rotation that meaningful…

@avclub-05504937cdc07f36babc5831fbf2e119:disqus Yes, it's easy to forget the true scale of things. The B5 Tech manual says that the station has a diameter of 840 meters. Say that the diameter of the hollow space is 600 meters, moving the inhabited structures far enough out from the axis of rotation that meaningful…