Just agreeing with what several others have said here: basically Economics as a field of study is a fancy way of putting a scientific face on something that is totally political, and specifically conservative. It's not surprising to learn how many of these guys are goons.

Yeah, I was always intrigued by that connection. Doesn't William S. Burroughs have some link to the title also?

Look no further than "Blade Runner." Although the film has all kinds of problems itself, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" always felt like a very weak novel to me. It has just had the good luck of having been made into an interesting and influential film.

I agree with some other commenters here; ST:TMP remains my favorite Trek movie. The pacing never bothered me even a little, and Shatner, Nimoy, and Kelley are extremely good, IMHO. The one problem I have with the film, and I feel like I see it in other Wise films as well, is a certain visual stiffness, especially in…

Wow. I don't usually get emotionally caught up by animal videos, but that just had me laughing with delight.

Thanks for the details; it's been a while. It may well be the creature's creation I'm recalling.

If memory serves, Shelley's descriptions of the monster were kind of spare and oblique. You got the impression of a large and powerful man — like in the image above — but it was just that, an impression. Kind of a shadowy half-glimpse, like our first glimpses of Gollum in Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring.

Ooo, that last quote on realism is very nice.

In a metaphorical way, yes it does. That's its point.

I agree with much of what the article says. Indeed, I don't see much that's controversial in it, from a common-sense point of view. The negative responses here are interesting, since they seem to take somewhat opposed positions but all disagree with the article, which seems logically impossible. I think it's…

Disagree. Whole films have centered on evoking that response from viewers. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is a good example. Practically every shot of that movie is meant to be "received" by the viewer as an FX stunt involving live action / animation interaction.

Michael Moorcock's recurring character Una Persson, who shows up in various incarnations all over the Moorcock multiverse, is mysterious, ultra-intelligent, omni-competent, and badass. And beautiful and bisexual.

J.G. Ballard certainly caught my attention with this character introduction:

"Beatrice Dahl lay back on one of the deck-chairs, her long oiled body gleaming in the shadows like a sleeping python."

Speaking as a Buffalo resident, I can confirm that yes, that sharp line of delineation between the lake effect snow band and "everywhere else" is definitely something we see here regularly. The center of Buffalo proper (where I live, thank God), rarely gets severe snowfall, whereas the region just south of Buffalo…

I get a sense that with the passing of the years, Heinlein becomes more and more unreadable. His preoccupations (okay, obsessions; okay, he was a crank) were so specific to his cultural-historical moment that they just don't translate now.

"I'd never heard of it before I started hanging out here" = NO ONE ELSE EVER HEARD OF THE BOOK EVER.

"It's not on NPR's / Sci Fi's / Pringle's list" = NO OTHER LISTS EXIST ANYWHERE.

I've lived in the central region of this city for the last ten years, and I have a running gag with my father (who lives elsewhere) that the whole idea of "Buffalo buried in snow" is a big fib — because in my entire time here, I've never actually experienced it. Whenever you see news about Buffalo being creamed by…

Slave women. Great. Juuust great.

Well, I am certainly smitten.

You sound like your own worst enemy.