She's left Jesus behind & moved on to werewolves. [www.annerice.com]

I keep hoping the people who make films & miniseries look to Fevre Dream as another work from a "hot" writer....

Yes, what's the big problem if the woman comes first? She can stay with the guy until he gets his—& maybe get more for herself. If a guy comes first, it's finished for both partners. Unless he switches to alternate methods—instead of falling asleep immediately....

I'd also read that BC talked to DT about going out for The Doctor but didn't want to deal with the extracurricular duties. He didn't say so, but he already had a very busy acting career. The Making of Sherlock featurette says the Moffats saw him on Atonement & realized he'd be a good Sherlock; Mark Gatiss had worked…

Thank you! I came here to mention that story by The Great Fritz Leiber....

Most celebrities who get "their own" perfumes are not supermodels. They first became famous as actors, musicians, etc. Then a fragrance house works with them & creates a perfume; the celebrity might have input about choosing among several fragrance options—& maybe naming the fragrance. Then they shoot the ads, so…

The centennial of WWI will be here in a few years; expect it to show up on your TV. Especially from the British networks; since the effects were more dire there (& in Europe) than in the US.

Enniscorthy Sweeny lives in a utopian world in which the World Wars were never fought, no one cares about the butterfat content of ice cream, and the Dodgers play baseball in Brooklyn [as God intended]. Sweeny writes a trilogy of "comic" fantasy operas about a series of World-Wide Wars that devastate the globe. It…

I got into dinos with Roy Chapman Andrews' "All About Dinosaurs." And pictures in Life Magazine from the Peabody Museum of Natural History. It's been fascinating to watch how our concept of dinos has changed over the decades. This article shows bits from that famous mural plus updated versions. Some with feathers! …

Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson is a truly excellent novel about time-travelers from the moons of Jupiter & Galileo. I'd love to expound on it fully here but neglected to finish it; things were getting rather grim & I got distracted. (Were the travelers trying to change history to get him executed? Or was…

Hmmm. "Peer Pressure to Smoke Pot" versus "Nazi Authorities Demanding Membership in Hitler Youth."

Pedophilia is a crime. The only way to get criminals off the street is to file charges with the secular authorities. The Church's handling of these crimes was wrong but the parents who wouldn't support their children by calling the cops were also wrong.

The Church has no power to arrest pedophiles. It was horrid that children may have been betrayed by a few priests but also bad that parents were reluctant to file charges with the secular authorities. The Church hasn't had dungeons in centuries. Oh, but the parents were too ashamed & wanted things hushed up....

Al Gore is the Pope? Really, Tolkien & Lewis & those other chaps would be ashamed you've stolen the name of their club.

S M Stirling's "Lords of Creation" is a 2-book series set in an alternate solar system, in which the planets resemble the exotic worlds the pulpsters & other early SF writers gave us—far more interesting than the hostile rocks we know. The countries of Earth put their money into space travel, with The Cold War taking…

They'll probably cancel Warehouse 13 once the actors' contracts come up for renegotiation. Working on a successful show, they might ask for more money. (How dare they!)

To me, the rule of thumb about spoilers is generally to mention only episodes that have been shown in the USA—this being a US based board. Nowadays, the lag time between UK & US showings is very short. This site features Spoiler articles about what's to come—or what seems to be coming; easy enough to avoid if you…

Aztec civilization was certainly problematic. Their culture was admirable in many ways but their excessive human sacrifice had alienated many of the other indigenous groups—who then allied with Cortez.

Neither Tolkien nor his publishers were expecting any great success. JRRT's deal didn't include any advance or any royalties until the book had broken even. But, in the event there were any profits, his share would be higher than normal; some reports say 50%.

Most writers are "polished" because they have good editors. I once read that PKD only had a real editor for two of his novels: The Man In The High Castle and another whose title I've forgotten.