I love how the Gorn survived having a half-ton boulder dropped on it from 100 feet, but was sent reeling in pain by an ear box.

Giving this honorable mention because it’s one of the most hilarious fight scenes you probably never saw. From the 2001 pilot of the Electra-Woman & Dyna-Girl reboot:

Or maybe....?

Found this in the sci-fi section of my school library when I was 12:

Jordan Gavaris as The Master.

Zero-g (or micro-G) isn’t necessary. All that’s required is for the concept artists keep in mind that on a spaceship “down” is whatever direction the thrusters are pointing.

Agreed. Those spaceships are “space buses” and that toroidal space station has absolutely nothing to do with Newtonian physics. I know it’s a standardized convention of TV/cinema space opera to orient the gravity this way, but I just keep hoping maybe, some day, a show will get it right without copping out to…

Suzanne: It’s worth reading and definitely a classic. The world building is second to none and the characters are amazingly drawn. I might actually suggest skipping Lord Foul’s Bane and jumping right into the Illearth War. Give it a chapter or two and see if it hooks you.

You know what the ultimate action movie would be? One in which the characters are all sentient, talking explosions.

Same here. Picked up Lord Foul’s Bane when I was 12, got to the rape scene, put it down, and didn’t pick it up again for another 23 years.

The whole Thomas Covenant series is a study on how to demolish every known High Fantasy cliche, but this book in particular is the ultimate “fuck you” to Joseph Campbell. No spoilers but, damn does this Heroic Quest go seriously sideways.

Reading this as a kid, when I got to the end I was convinced I had been given a defective or mis-printed copy of the book. Because the story just couldn’t end like that, could it? So I went to the school library and checked out their copy. Same goddam (non)ending. No fair, White, no fair!

Take out the duck tits, and the duck condom, and the interspecies sex, and that genuinely piss-your-pants terrifying Lovecraftian monster at the end, and, maybe, just maybe...

Jared Leto’s casting pretty much confirms my theory that the Joker we saw in Dark Knight was actually the blond guy from Fight Club, 9 years later...

A Philip K. Dick cosplayer? Right on!!!

Even worse, I think it has The Avengers (1998 version with Uma Thurman) written all over it.

I voted Man From UNCLE because 60’s spy reboots usually flop. It’s going to aim for Mission: Impossible and land somewhere between The Avengers (1998) and Get Smart (2008).

Neuromancer. For such a grungy and nihilistic tale, my soul still aches with strange magic every time I read it.

Same for Elric/Stormbringer. At least we got to see some kick-ass Erol Otus & Jeff Dee artwork before those books disappeared.

I also liked how she had a state-of-the-art TARDIS. The Doctor's, we are often reminded, is an antique clunker he stole from a museum.