"Ta-Nehisi Coates" is one of the coolest names I've ever seen!

These things have been a staple of near-future sci-fi since, like, the late '90s. And guess what? They're here! We're literally living in a world of near-future sci-fi.

I learned that might makes right...but there are many, many forms of "might" that are far more effective than physical prowess or violence. Never underestimate the power of intimidation and threat. Usually just pulling a gun out of your pocket is all that needs to be done to defend yourself against the aggression of…

Science has given you a mandate: unstable conditions produce the greatest technological breakthroughs and drive human evolution. We don't need stability—we need MORE war! MORE chaos! MORE climate change! The only thing that forces humans to advance is clear and present threats.

Kinda/sorta vaguely reminds me of Beyond The Black Rainbow—probably THE best completely out-there mindfuck movie I've seen in a while! EXCELLENT music in it.

I live south of Pittsburgh. There's an entire mountain range between me and the Atlantic ocean. You coastal-living suckers better Dutch-up on your dike-building skillz, though.

I *always* play Neutral characters—usually lawful, sometimes Chaotic. Chaotic Neutral characters are the most fun to play, hands down!

I think I've already covered *most* of these in my Post-Human Universe, but I need to work on Numbers 5 and 10. There most definitely are Giant Objects, though!

Don't worry—I'll keep on dumpin' on awful fanfic "writers" so you don't have to!

Uncle Sava's finally loose again?! Shit, I need to get a plane ticket now—you haven't partied until you've spent a weekend with Sava Sonofabitch. Jesus. He hasn't been "trapped" for the last hundred years—that's just how long he's needed to deal with the hangover from his *last* binge! I ain't missing this for all the…

Will it be as dull and tedious as the novel? Perhaps not, as it's only going to be a six-episode series...when it very easily could've been a 20-episode series.

Ummm...let's see—in the last *one hundred years* (1912-2012) we have seen human technology and civilization advance more than it ever has in the ENTIRE rest of human history combined. Sure, the vast majority of people aren't early-adopters, and it takes a while for technological advances that really change the world…

I will gladly test-pilot one of the betas!

I am a militant atheist, a card-carrying, lifelong enemy of religious/anti-rational* thinking...but, that said, being smug about ANYTHING just makes you an asshole. In fact, smugness makes an atheist no better than the god-botherers he/she is denigrating.

Well on our way to the dawn of networked intelligence! I'll be meme-spanning any network that'll let me log on as an autonomous node.

It was a shoggoth rolling over in its sleep which caused the icequake!

Ugh. What a load of garbage this month....But The Fractal Prince and The Colony are Absolute Musts! The Fractal Prince was so weird it literally made my brain hurt, and The Colony...well, killer mutant ants? Nuff sed.

Looks cool...but if you want to read the novelization *right now*, check out Jeff Carlson's The Frozen Sky.

Gotta prepare early for beta-testing Human 1.x and up!