Oh and the Pauline AI pops up in all of them - John Boone’s AI was also called Pauline.

I think they’re all in a pretty loosely linked universe - I get the impression that Robinson just evolves and alters parts of the universe as he sees fit to tell the story he wants. It’s been a while since I read 2312, but while there are things that separate it from the universe of the Mars trilogy, it retains…

The twist is that he does all that in the first five days and then dies on day six from an infected in-grown toenail.

Also how about the warlocks of Quarth and the House of the Undying?

I know it’s not genre, but I often return to just a single page of Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, where the English Patient is carrying the body of his dead lover into the desert:

Not if it was made of admantium.

Almost any Star Wars show.

Hah! Batman is clearly an S+M leather queen. "I am vengeance, I am the night, and now I'm going to flog you" seems totally in character.

To be honest this scene had me shouting 'We are the walking dead' at the screen.

They came back, but not as the villains they were supposed to be. Probably for the best.

I'm always a little uncomfortable with hard and fast rules that police genre - surely there is great sci fi that plays fast and loose with what is scientifically possible (Iain Banks for example) and great sci fi that is rigourously researched and as scientifically accurate as possible (Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars…

I think it's pretty easy to see how they can do Civil War in the MCU without having to deal with the whole heroes unmasked thing. Post Winter Soldier and the (I imagine) absolute Stark-inspired devastation of AoU that the powers that be - the US government, the UN, whatevs - demand that in the absence of SHIELD that…

Woot woot

I agree, though I think where the show has started to excel is how it lingers on the weirdness of the horror - rather than just exploding zombie heads, they've developed a real eye for the disturbing and the eerie - like the grandfather clock abandoned in the street in this episode, or the horrifying slow motion…

Take heed, content creators: If it's meant to be a shared universe, share it with everyone.

Yeah, one of the best things about Les Revenants is the amazing soundtrack by Mogwai, it's absolutely stunning.

If you look closely he plays a cop in the Avengers movie. The whedonverse strikes again.

There was a heart breakingly beautiful Australian TV miniseries in the 90s called 'The Leaving of Liverpool' about the Home Children. Well worth a watch if you've got a spare hour or two.

Ascension is Golgafrincham Ark Ship B and I claim my five dollars.

Yes, that struck me too. I suppose they have a space plastic surgeon too. A lot of those women seemed very . . . taut.