That’s a widespread myth, but exists neither in the California DMV Handbook nor in the actual law (even though even some police officers believe this myth). The only “3 second” rule that exists in the Handbook is the following distance.

First gear: I hate this story. So many are gloating about Elon being no longer the world’s richest man. He’s lost a ton of money from Telsa’s stock collapse. Haha!

To me, it’s frustrating...

Yeah. I’d bite. And smile happily with the car bites back every few months with some glitch. 

Re: Amazon’s cancellation of all things Culture, the linked article says that they had little choice in the matter since Iain M. Banks’ estate were the ones who pulled the plug, saying that “the timing wasn’t right” for proceeding with the project.

A Pern series would address the main problem with GOT and HOTD, namely that while they do both include lots of sex and dragons, they don’t have nearly enough sex involving dragons.

Please, oh please make the Commonwealth Saga books by Peter F Hamilton into a TV series!

Seeing its kind of cringey cameo (twice!) in the Three Body Problem series reminded me that the ultimate unfilmable scifi novel has to be Dhalgren. Not just unfilmable, pretty much unclassifiable. It gets shelved with science fiction, but really?

I’m mildly interested to see how they fuck up the Neuromancer adaptation.

An AV Club piece about multiple things that isn’t a slideshow? What miracle is this?

The Deft Hand of Darkness?

The Baroque Cycle books would make a great TV series, too.

Anathem would a great miniseries but might have to be a longer one (or 2 seasons, I guess).

The Naked Sun would be a perfect choice right now, with its culture of telecommunicating agoraphobes. The central whodunnit would need to be reworked though, since it’s awfully obvious.

I’d say “Dhalgren” by Samuel Delaney. 

I’ve never understood the weird thing people seem to have against Consider Phlebas; I loved that book, snatching it off the shelves when it first came out, totally excited that this cool new author everyone was talking about had revealed himself as being into science fiction. For years, I thought it would be a great…

I’d just start with Consider Phlebas. It’s basically a series of gigantic action set-pieces strung together.

I’m not sure it’s so much that we have “amnesia” about Wahlberg’s crimes, as that we’re not sure what consequences you think he should suffer for them now.

And I seem to have completely forgotten about Children in my initial comment.

Looks like a safe “greatest hits” version of the two Alien movies everybody likes. I just wish more people appreciated Prometheus/Covenant for at least attempting something different.