You can build a castle of logic, but if it's based on a completely untenable premise, it'll collapse into the swamp. All such Medieval arguments for "god" as "the greatest thing imaginable" are instantly rendered invalid by virtue of being patently ridiculous.

I'd love to see a movie of this type, as well. Unreliable narrators are awesome!

Oh, I have nothing to say about her personally—I'm sure she's a perfectly nice lady, and no doubt I'd get along with her famously! My opinions of her writing have nothing to do with her personally. Her writing just doesn't do it for me one bit, and I find it very difficult to account for why she consistently wins so…

Though this sounds...interesting, in and of itself, it's VERY VERY VERY abundantly, and unequivocally, clear from Ms. Shelley's novels that Victor never had a twin, and he learned everything he knew about alchemy from reading of it first in his father's library at home and then at the University of Ingolstadt.

Ah, shitballs. I was expecting the perfectly humanoid, breedable-with-humans "aliens" to turn out to be humans from a parallel timeline—maybe a timeline where they hit the Capital-S Singularity in the 1940s. But nooooooo, can't do anything THAT logical! (And that's not very logical at all.)

I cannot wait for this reissue. I adored Anno Dracula when I first read it, and it's finally being released with a cover and design appropriate to its subject matter. This is glorious!

Oh, wow. Connie Willis wins again? What. A. Shock. It's very clear to me that the Nebula Committee must be paid off somehow to keep giving her awards. Her prose is childish at best, and the staggering unoriginality of everything she writes is stupefying.

Eh. It's biting off more than it can chew: an environmental apocalypse is one thing, but throwing in a bioneered plague is just overkill. I'd much rather see the Wicca virus released into contemporary world society and watch things disintegrate.

Concept art from Michael Bay's remake of The Giant Claw?

My big issue with the film is simple: NOTHING in it is developed. Not the vampires, not the history of the world, the cities, the Church, the origins of the Priests—nothing. Literally NOTHING. I'm fine with films that don't develop story, character, or concepts if they are, at least, visually intriguing—which Priest…

I *love* this film. It's the only Alien Abduction film I've ever seen that scared the bejayzus out of me. The scenes aboard the aliens' decrepit, bric-a-brac-filled ship are just horrifying.

Sure. Why not? Seriously, who cares WHO publishes a work as long as it's good?

You know...I'm gonna step to this one and give it a shot. But there ain't gonna be no redemption or shit: Some hot chick is gonna fall for the Evil Overlord because he's just so bad-assed and eventually becomes the Evil Queen and exterminates all the other women who tried to compete with her.

Must. Own. NOW.

Plot: irrelevant. The plot of The Cell was...interesting, I guess—at least it espoused a certain level of originality—but Singh's a *visual* genius. Plot is extraneous to his films. I can watch The Cell over and over and over again and just revel in the incredible imagery. Plus, it's really cool when Vince Vaughn is…

Mieville's problem—and, indeed, it *is* a problem—is that his prose is generally too choppy and he relies a *lot* on obfuscation. I tend to like indirection in prose, but that's probably because I'm really used to it. That said, even I think that Mieville relies a little too heavily on it; I often have to re-read…

I do not in any way insist on Meaning in fantasy. I like brain candy just as much as any Harlequin Romance reader. But for the sake of the Other Gods, give me CREATIVE brain candy, not Yet Another Quest To Destroy The Ancient Evil Before It Consumes the Modern Feudal World.

I have no problem with fantasy—when done right, fantasy can be *amazing.* But most fantasy is just derivative drivel. Kings fighting over a throne. Evil wizards or monsters from the Dark Past coming back to fuck everything up. Sword-and-sorcery bullshit. I cannot *stand* most of the crap that passes itself off as…

Look—ze pain is so intense he must vomit!

Wow. This looks AWESOME! Except...the aliens' targeting systems sure do suck. For creatures that can cross interstellar space, you'd think they'd have more accurate weaponry.