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You are in for a treat, as long as the book isn't King Rat, because Perdido Street Station and The Scar are amazing. Some of the best fantasy I've ever read, and I can't believe I forgot to mention him when I wrote my list. And speaking of said list . . .

"Good" is subjective, as anyone who has read my Terry Goodkind/Robert Jordan/Anne Rice rants. The most important aspect of any story for me is character. If the character is fascinating and real, if I can believe in that character as a person, then I will tolerate the dullest of plots...

I have to agree with Leto on this one. The Euro Tradition is very, very done, but it's often done poorly. For some reason, fantasy people living in medieval conditions seem awfully healthy. Bad teeth, disease, shortened life span, and the back breaking day to day labor of the serfs is rarely...

I've heard that middles are the hardest part of a book to write. The best advice I've ever received to help me get through writer's block is to write. Even if the prose is crap, you will still be making progress. This will give you a little spark of motivation. You can always fix crap prose...

Hello again. I received tons of help on my last thread asking for science and physics answers. Thank you so much! Now I am falling on your mercy for help with this new puzzler. (I should just take a class and be done with it, I know.) Here we go. Gymillrion has two fixed (non-orbiting)...

Okay, thank you, everyone. I know how I am going to handle these two situations now. The moons are fixed and rotate, creating a whirlpool chaos of water below, but only at the poles. There are no tides on the planet, and the waves are driven by wind. When I need my characters to time...

Believe it or not, the vast majority of this story is fantasy, but I wanted to work around the ideas for what I needed to do with some physics. So of the races are somewhat alien, while some are very familiar. There's more variation on human life there, are almost all the races are Deity...

Okay, Lucy's brain is bleeding here. So in other words, harkening back to the concept of the story, one of the Dragon's forms could be as a shield, or could generate a shield. That could be very cool. A shield that powerful could probably protect from attacks by the Goddess, and if they...

Would the waves move in the direction of the fixed moon's rotation or in the direction of the moon, parting at the equator? Would the moons even rotate at all? It might make life a lot simpler if they exerted enough force on one another to keep each other still. Of course, that might make the...

Right, but due to the gravitational force they exert upon one another, the moons are fixed. There is no following of the gravitational/electromagnetic field. Do this mean that the oceans are static and waves are based on the motion of the wind? I know that this system won't persist; the...

So if the tides move from north to south at the north pole, and south to north at the south pole, what happens to the water along the equator? Will this also effect the flow of rivers and such? And Foxbat, that means if Dark Matter is just theorectical at this point, I might be able to...

Oh, it would be too delicious to teach de Sade in high school. "Look kids! You have options!" The philosophy part is wonderful too. He was a brilliant man. Did you see "Quills"? I think the title of the novel you mention is "Justine". I hvaen't read that one yet. The closest I've...

Yes, although I forgot about that instant annihilation factor. Damn! Here's the deal. Two characters needs to go back in time. One of the characters is Noctarial the Dragon. He is an immortal who can turn himself into various manifestations of Malfaine, the sleeping Dragon Deity. One...

Help me! A few world building questions here. I want my world to have the poles in a permanant state of darkness, but each has a fixed moon. Now, if there is a moon at each pole (and they are perfectly balanced by gravity) and the planet and moon revolve around the sun (which lights up a...

I think I win. Harry Potter slash fan fiction. The more NC-17 the better. I've also read a little Lord of the Rings slash fan fic, but as far as ships go, I'm only into Merry and Pippen (though I did read - and enjoy - a very bizarre but beautifully writtern piece about Legolas and Gimli...

Angel Sanctuary 4, the infamous manga. It's sad the OVA ended with the third book, but things get far too complicated after that. Glad to see Kato is back, though Kira is my favorite. The art in this series just gets better and better; Kaori Yuri is the queen of long, floaty hair. I am also...

"Lucifer, you ignorant slut!" Did he have a ponytail as Dracula? Maybe I just missed out on a whole Dracula fashion trend. Forget it. Let's just embrace Nosferatu as the OTD (One True Dracula [TM]) and be done with it. Ratty-toothed baldy, but hey - he was scary. Lucifer. I am pissy...

(Lucifer is dumbfounded) Oh ho? Shows how much attention I paid to the film. I guess that all I noticed was that it was slicky at the front and droppy down the back. My bad . . . Except . . . what the hell is Dracula doing with a ponytail? Dracula doesn't wear a ponytail! What's...

I'm used to elves being shiny, pretty, nature-attuned, pointy ear pacifists - a little dull, to be honest. Magic is usually vague, though normally nature oriented. (Making the horse run faster, a la Arwen, or making things grow as fairies and the like are wont to do.) Elves, unless highly...

The picture is of the actor Oded Fehr, who played the crazy mystic turban'ed tattooed guy in "The Mummy" movies. His job in the filsm is to deliver information at random when needed, always survive, glower mysteriously, and provide eye candy for the so-inclined among us. As for Dracula . ...