I agree Bannor! Verne and Wells wrote classics, and SF probably wouldn't exist without them! They seem to have forgotten about Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs too. I'm not sure where they should have ranked, but Tarzan and Conan have definitely been influential throughout the years. The S...

My first exposure to Donaldson was appropriately enough LFB. That was my junior year in high school and I was still developing my vocabulary. With the first read I noted SRD’s use of rather obscure adjectives, but I tended to unconsciously gloss over the “sticky words” mainly due to the fact that t...

Oops, that last one was from me. Didn't know I could do that :-$

I'm glad you guys liked COTM. I personally had a hard time with Card's solution to all of Ender's problems. Go outside the universe and make a wish? It just seemed too hokey. But other than that, it was pretty good. I really liked the charecters. Anyway, I haven't read the Bean stories yet, and will...

I say the Stonedowners. Who better to pound that rock?

Melenkurion Abatha! I do that all the time too!

dAN

Hey, he killed half the universe!!! Not good enough for you, pal??" Nope. In fact, I didn't feel a thing. Like a Monty Python character, "I got better". In the Marvel Universe, the 2 characters that stand out to me are the Green Goblin and the Abomination, because they both killed som...

"white gold--flawed alloy? Leprosy?" More like white gold--contradiction. leprosy is another kind of contradiction, I guess. To have it is to be part dead, though you still are alive; and alone and outcast, though you are surrounded with millions of other people. Another contradiction is t...

"as it applied to the Second Chronicles."

Second Chronicles? Look, I like the Covenant trilogy as much as the next guy, but I don't think we should be quoting scripture to support our views of what was happening in it. So get off my back, you Bible thumper, you!

"Of course at other times Foul debased TC with nicknames like “Groveler” and such." I disagree. It wasn't meant as merely debasement, it was meant to coax TC into a frame of mind. Foul wanted TC to use his ring as much as possible, and use it out of anger. Foul reasoned the power of the ri...

There's also the "dream" factor. The whole series is written from TC's point of view in order to make it possible that TC is just dreaming. In fact, the ability of TC to believe that his whole experience in the land is just a dream is part of his contradictory nature, which makes TC like w...

I see my name has been used in vain. I do not believe that my humble post did any damage to the other thread; in fact, I believe that the whole thread was going in that direction anyway. Anyway, my "Ultimate Crossover" would be to have the people who did the Matrix movies do the next Super...

….BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! A large form dropped into the midst of battle, sending Urvile, Haruchai, and Klingon alike sprawling in all directions. Like a green blur the manlike being swathed a path through the battling hordes, caring not whom he destroyed as he continued towards his ultimate goal. The Ur...

Modern technology is too mundane. If you really want to get creative, then I say get a Romulan Bird of Prey, Constellation class starship, or Star Destroyer. Then pick your preferred fantasy retirement spot, load photon torpedoes, and weed out the pesky lilttle bastich that is trying to lay waste to...

I'm really, really hoping that I'll get to see a Foundation movie before too long. IMO, it should be the next great trilogy tackled (even though there are about 7 Foundation books) now that LOTR is almost wrapped up. I'd also like to see the Covenant trilogy done, as well as "Enders Game",...

When it comes to pure evil, Thanos is a loser. Twice now he has gained "ultimate" power, yet both times he has failed to complete the destruction of the universe, which is what he set out to do. This tells me that in the deepest recesses of his subconsciousness, Thanos lacks true evil. Yes...

"I felt sorry for him - like when he found out that Morn was cheating on him all the time. He never got a chance to prove or to _try_ proving that with Morn it could have been different......Morn punishing Nick because of Angus" I really don't think that Morn and Nick ever had anything clo...