I know what it looks like, looks like it needs nuking from orbit.

WHY DID I CLICK THIS?

Epic, nay, megaepic kilotons of 'nope.'

This isn't new.

Exactly. They'll have to take into the account of relative dimensions as well as time and space. If only there was something that could help with that...

NO! BAD! STOP! WHY! Never bring that book series back to the forefront of my mind. Steven Gammell is a demon who ruined my innocence.

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury, while not particularly scary, is still bone chillingly terrifying in its own right.

Wait, someone else watched Reaper? I'M NOT ALONE!!!

Until he dies in a freak coffee pot accident back at headquarters. As Sean is wont to do.

That's why with CCGs you get the first hit for free. "Here, I have made you a crappy deck, but with some good cards you could be a master!"

One of my darling ferrets is made of the devil. Bowie figured out how to sneak out of the bedroom (took me the longest time to figure out how she was defeating the Plexiglas forcefield) when I was sleeping. Whenever she did, she would always beeline for the computer in my office and walk around on the keyboard. She…

I loves me some Miéville. The first book of his I read was The Scar and have had one of his books in my rotation ever since (current one is The City & The City). One I really enjoyed that wasn't on the list is Iron Council, which takes the New Weird into the Old West.

How to get into China Miéville. Over at Tor.com, there's an introduction to Miéville's strange and powerful books, including a rundown of which books to try first. Do you agree with their recommendations?

No mention of the Dune series at all? Just inside the series itself we go from compelling (opinion, obvs) personal story and moderately familiar, plausible universe to psychotic child murderer-saints and sandworm meta-humans to an entire book about superhuman sex cults and a race that decided it could justify…

Really surprised Frank Herbert didn't get a mention here! After the first 2-3 Dune books, stuff just starts getting really weird.

We need a leaf, stat!

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