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As immortality is the ultimate longevity, and as both threads assume not a god like immortality but a life that can still be cut short by accident or disease, I think you'll find they cover a lot of the same ground.

TJ, Romance. Classify and sub-classify, name all things. Taxonomy will out. Takes the romance out of romance. And this is just from Wikipedia. Genre readers will no doubt be as aware of the cross overs and sub-sub-genres as we are in SFF. 3.1 Contemporary romance 3.2 Historical romance...

In the Valley of Elah. Tommy Lee Jones ex-soldier hunts for the truth about the murder of his son who is just back from Iraq. Charlize Theron helps. War takes away moral compass and brutalizes. Not a new thought, well acted, but slow and depressing as a dark day in hell. Very heavy handed and...

Just finished Velocity by Dean Koontz; psycho torments innocent man in snappy page turner. Pretty good idea, could have slowed down a little. Read a little like a film script. Worth it. I think there is a clone army of Dean Koontz; no one could produce so many decent to very good novels on his...

There are a couple of old immortality threads already floating around... I'll pop off and fetch them and edit them in to this post. Here's the most recent from Anthony Williams: http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/524806-on-immortality.html ...and an older one from when I was a much...

Glad you like Ignatius. I'm a big fan of McCarthy and King, so googling The Passage.

Tried three times with different parts of the text, got three different writers. So unless we're all unstable variant writers, I'd say there's something wrong with the software... or it's a scam to suck out our brains to create the complete novel. I assign an equal probability to each. And...

Agree with Rand. He made Pug too strong. "...And with a wave of his arm Pug turned the Emerald Queen's fleet into sardines." Short book. So you have to contrive a reason why the obvious "and god said" route isn't used. Eddings fell foul of the same problem when Sparhawk had the Bhelliom...

Some mild spoilers relating to the previous episode Book 2 in the series. Werthead, Thanks for this. I've read the other two and found them somewhat difficult, mainly because of the quasi-fantasy, 'can orphan Eddy clean up crime in Makkathran', frankly I found it hard to give a damn...

Ocean's 12 dreadful tosh; proves that a bunch of big stars need to more than just turn up and see what happens.

Gollum, I'm trying to alternate, modern genre fiction and older classics I haven't yet read; I take it you're doing something similar. Any recommendations?

Just finished A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, a entertaining one off about a great galumphing over-educated misfit in 1960s New Orleans. Worth it, though hardwork at times. Also finished the bite size Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher. I'm a big Asher fan; this is Agent...

A little self-knowledge can be a dangerous thing for a newly self-aware AI that also happens to be a bomb... (From Darkstar) Doolittle: Hello, Bomb? Are you with me? Bomb #20: Of course. Doolittle: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts? Bomb #20: I am always receptive to...

"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" (^1 up) Sorry I had to... or did I (confused with the Free Will thread).

It's going to be directed by Paul WS Anderson (Alien V Predator). Foxbat, I understand the script needs retooling, I think you've got the tone dead on. Very funny. "DON'T PUSH ME" The Master said. Interference, They're going to get Vin to stand in a hole for the love scenes. ...and...

This is what I've heard on IMDB. Vin Diesel as the Doctor Sylvester Stallone as the Master Bruce Willis as the head of UNIT Tom Cruise as Captain Jack Harkness Megan Fox as a Harvard professor of astrophysics sidekick The whole thing will be rebased in America. Can't wait; should be smoking.

I get it. The book reviews are often very good. I enjoy the slightly old fashioned lay out. They have some excellent writers and storys. Main gripe; too many of the stories are (for me), ennui laden, sad or indeterminate. But well worth the price (especially if you subscribe for a couple of...

I loved this book when I was a about 12 or 13. The imagery of the cyrstals trying but failing to repair a dying alien world stuck with me. I read a number of Fisk books, all SF for YA. I thought them very good, though I don't know how they would read today. They were a progression from the...

Angels and Demons. It was ok, but there was no reason given for the actions of the main bad guy. Still, Rome looked nice. Freelancer, The kids in War of the Worlds, I so wanted them to get fried, especially the obnoxious teenage boy. Though screamer girl was a close second. Some great...

Great series, best thing Rohan ever did. Always odd to me that it's not more popular. It is, I guess pretty grim, but very atmospheric.