Might be nice of them to call it All You Need is Kill.

Ah! I just rewatched it yesterday. And I was thinking yesterday that while I don’t see how you could make a sequel, it is the rare movie I would like a prequel for. I wanna see the story of Rita Vratasky in full - what kind of person was she before she got the power? How did she get the power? How did she deal with…

Or, their beloved family “pet”...?

“I hate every ape I see, from chimpanclay to chimpanzee...”

Consider Phlebas, by Ian Banks. I hadn’t read any of his work, and I figured it was high time I corrected that oversight

Why is it upside down?

You mean...a novel with both Hugo and Nebula nominations?

Hmmm...

Over and over, beaming a massage from China to any intelligence out there:

Fixed it.

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God, I hope this is accurate... it seems that way to my general knowledge.

Lol! The British call girls birds at times. And yeah, had a cow is similar. I’ve also heard “Mom had kittens” in a similar vein.

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I just want to go sit in the barycentre between Pluto and Charon now

Yeah, that’s reasonable. I think I did not really discover it until 1980 or so, and it was not until 1981 that I probably had enough allowance money to get a subscription. I had a subscription until around 1986 or so, I think. But the only reason was that it let me know what genre movies were around the corner.…

Ahh, Omni... you got me into so much trouble. When I was in USAF basic training at Lackland AFB, I had bought a copy and kept it in my locker, during an inspection the sergeant saw it, found some article in it about Renaissance paintings, saw the boobs, declared it pornography, and I lost my weekend pass and a chance…