Agree with others that the Zahn Thrawn books are where you start. Disagree strongly about Kevin J Anderson - his first few EU books are a lot of fun...

Which ones in F/SF are *married*? It's kind of sad I can't think of any examples, since SF/F *should* be providing us with imaginative possibilities that, sadly, aren't actually legal (at Fed level) in the US yet...

+1

Leaving out Vision and Scarlet Witch makes baby Jesus cry.

For me it added up to a slew of lazy stereotypes and thus I gave up halfway through...

I started the Brooks book and - just curious - am I the only one who thought it was a cute idea but that there was nothing special about it and that is was massively overrated?

"Marooned" starring Gene Hackman and Gregory Peck is pretty fucking intense.

Let me guess: Sinbad's going to be a white dude?

Mickey Rourke was born in '52. Fox was born in '86.

Eh, whatever. The toys were cool except for the stupid shields they all had, and the ads with doctor doom droppin' rhymes...

I love all the outrage here that the pitch is 'two-dimensional' and overly political. But a capitalist arms manufacturer who beats up commies, or a spoiled billionaire who dresses up like a bat and beats up two-bit street criminals - that's three-dimensional and apolitical, right? Jesus, learn your geek history, kids.…

Heh. You beat me to it!

"the film isn't a xenobiological Twilight, but rather — in the words of actress Dianna Agron — "kind of like Rebel Without A Cause...with aliens.""

The Lankhmar books are as good as heroic fantasy gets. Funny, fun, inventive, well-written — and inspiration for a lot that followed. Can't state that emphatically enough.

Jeez, if only we were wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on security theater, useless, criminal wars, and financial blowjobs for banksters - then we'd be able to cut those bullshit money drains and launch a dozen of these guys, repair the nation's crumbling infrastructure, and even drop $ on silly fluff like…

@ProudGeek: There's no such thing as 'going backwards' unless you have a magical belief in teleological progress. 'Islamism' (for lack of a better word) is a product of the late 20th c., not a return to the middle ages (whatever ultraconservative fucktards in both the West and the Arab world claim). It's also as…

@FrankN.Stein: Huh. It's weird b/c here the guy's name seems to read 'Sooferman,' with an 'f.'