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I'd almost sworn off anime but just a couple of weeks ago Adult Swim here in the US started rerunning Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent. A very enigmatic short series that is about the strangest thing I've seen in anime or all of film for that matter. It's ostensibly about facing up to whatever...

And springing right up several hours after that is Roger Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT but maybe not, as it's really Science Fantasy

There's at least one, me. It was terribly funny, but a bit dark and gruesome. It killed off a heartbreakingly beautiful girl I would have really liked to seen more of much too quickly but they all do that. I wish they'd show it again.

Very well written, I find the word "swap" in line 8 to be a bit jarring given the context and I agree with Bren G on "oh" instead of "your". The rhythm and rhyme are both excellent. This would make a good intro as it says a lot in few words, which is a major function of poetry

The first thing that springs to my mind is Asimov's FOUNDATION series. The story is unusual in hard SF in that the story hinges on a social science, being mainly about competing theories of analytic historiography so that would get the politics/intrigue junkies and the big canvas people all...

Is this the one where these dishes like "pheasants in wine stuffed with Dormice" on these huge platters are brought in on the backs of sweating slaves and the Emperor shakes a hanky whereupon they are hauled off? One ot the better scenes of wretched excess I remember.

Is there some sort of Hercules only channel where you live? I think we have something similar, only it's for Everybody Loves Raymond

Exactly so, Dick is one of the only SF writers, in fact one of the only writers of any kind I know of, who had a clear, central and overarching theme to just about everything he ever wrote and this was it; "What is Reality?" If you view the novel in regard to this theme it's fairly well...

Am I the only one who wonders if Danerys is really dead? I mean, it's not like we haven't seen a few characters resurrected in this story, including the man who killed her Discuss (Please)

I just mean that I think it may be revealed they're all descended from colonists from Earth, several millenia in the future; or not, I can't see how it's important anyway

At least in the tv stories there is some implication that the present Westerosi came from somewhere else. Maybe somewhere else on the planet or somewhere else in the cosmos and they fought with the White Walkers for domination and then placed them beyond the Wall. Or not, I hope they go...

I think the White Walkers take over and kill all the humans. It was their planet to begin with.

I liked the phrase of " the type of place that might have been witness to a lifetime of afternoon naps" at the beginning, and the description of the teeth marks in the staff at the end. That one reminded me of Heinlein's "the door dilated" as making the setting clear in just a few words...

Pretty in parts, I couldn't really tease out a whole lot of meaning but some passages were really lyrical. I especially liked the paragraph that began with "It is nothing sire..." For some reason I'd like to see that expanded into a story

OIC, OK, very helpful, I tend be overly concerned about that as I often read something that inspires me to write something similar

I was a little confused by the children being blown about and the skirt over the waistline seemed indecent exposure at first. I also didn't know how the statue got in her hand at all until I had read it a few times. OTOH I have dealt with dogs that do exactly what she said, and she captured...

IMO this is very well written and the subject is intriguing, good work. I will note that we go all the way through this and have no idea what Doctor York looks like, is she old or young big or small etc. I bring this up because I've always noted that females at archaeology sites in the...

Can anyone tell me how the "Millenium" series has avoided being sued for plagiarism by Astrid Lindgen? The late Stieg Larsson has come right out and said that he derived the character of Lisbeth Salander from Lindgren's "Pippi Longstocking, which makes it a 'derivative work" and thus illegal...

Jack London said that 4000 was what he thought a full time writer should do. That's one way but I want to know how many are equivalent on an ongoing basis. Are 10,000 words revised seen as being the same as 3000 written, or what? I realize it will vary but I want to know what is the...

Say I want to write 3000 words a day. But some days I want to revise. How many words must I revise to be equivalent to 3000? This is important to me so I don't make excuses as to word count and so lose momentum