In the UK we have just finished the full run of the 1st series (13 episodes), it gets better and better. Starbuck... a woman, you get used to it, she is an excellent actress. As the series progresses the mythology factor increases, portents, visions, the search for god in man and in machine, the fus...

It was on the end of Kevin's arm. (groan)

How do they tell time in the land? Mini-arm-type-watch-style sundial thingies?

The GAP books sadistic...not really sci-fi... 8O Shocking. Is life sadistic, is nature sadistic, the eating of flesh sadistic, life is brutal, life is sometimes revolting, sometimes unfair. The GAP books are not fantasy, not the world of ‘comfort zone’ pixies and elves where all our human emotions a...

But space is so big that enforcing a border that precisely would be impossible Yes, in our universe this true. In the GAP universe though, one with the GAP drive, well, all bets are off, it breaks all known laws of physics, in this universe anyway. But space is so big that enforcing a border that p...

Not a speck of hope is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of the land glowing? Is the wind of death blowing? Yes! The danger must be growing For the portents keep on showing And they're certainly not slowing Any signs that they are knowing? (Lord foul screams. Chaos .) THOMAS: Oh, m...

Hale Hearty fellow, Insanity falls, nice name. Ahh England insperation for the Shire, source of eldritch dreams and forgotten realms, home to avalon and Lyonnesse. Where King Arthur lies buried, waiting on our darkest hour to come and save us (about now would be a good time). This sceptered isle, th...

WOw, again. I have never read such a big list of authors and books without ever having read any of them before. I have read a lot, lot of books just in case you ask. For balance, is there a 'man' enist website for man type fantasy/fiction? Than you 8O . p.s this may have been a slightly tongue in ch...

Catch it myself, I will!

That white stripes cover sounds... delicious. What crazy kids those two are. I must hear it NOW. Great drumming with that band. Bootle, nice, being brought up there is 'the school of hard knocks'. Ask your Dad has he eaten any scouse lately. you broke my heart in 17 places including bootle LP by Tra...

I feel like rambling... hear me, listen to what I like... currently watching the DVD of series 1 of Star Trek (yes watched them all before, but oh man it's so crispy clean and those primary colours and hey no two plot stories, just one main narrative and...and.. double plus good) currently reading.....

Thoughts? (I moved this from another section) All this talk about the land and equating it with a Nirvana type afterlife. We could be wrong, it's all a matter of perspective, it could be hell. Not a higher plane of reality at all, but a lower one. A land where your senses get overstretched, like sta...

Noted.. I shall place it another section..

thanks

I will have to go into my memory editing suite to get rid of that image I have to say (and I am not joking in any way) that I saw far more chemistry between Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom than I did between Mortensen and Liv Tyler . Time heals all things. The race of the hetrosexual man is dimini...

I dread to think of watching the whole lot in one session, must be a 12 hour marathon. Will save that for my own 3rd age... When my elves have left...

That Liv tyler and aragorn sure did make a cute couple though.

Hey, hold on. I don't know much but I know what love is... No No No, that's a song being played on the radio at the moment. Hold on again. All this talk about the land and equating it with a Nirvana type afterlife. We could be wrong, it's all a matter of perspective, it could be hell. Not a higher p...

I take on board your comments, Sir Matrixman(a worthy fellow indeed) Overthinking is one of my big failings. I enjoyed your rambling..SRD probably would give us a hearty guffaw and tell us to take it easy on the coffee... Now I shall think about the nature of the Universe some more, think about how ...

The land...a higher plane of reality, a different dimension. But is it a better one than ours? You know the Karma thing, you come back as a higher animal, start off as a slug and end up a man, after a long spiritual evolution and many births. Well The Universe that the Land occupies, what is the out...

Nice to be made welcome. My ego tells me to say more about my reading habits. Loved the Nights Dawn trilogy by Peter Hamilton, like the culture novels of Banks, always in awe of the rings, but after the 4 hour bum numbing session of the return of the king, I am now bored of the rings. Loving the run...

New to this forum. Read the Chronicles when they 1st came out in the UK. Hardback, from the local public library back in the eighties. What can I say, took them everywhere, read them on the bus going to college, read them eating dinner in college, read them at night, stayed in some nights instead of...