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"I haven't read The End of Eternity in years! Now I'm wondering whether John Crowley ever read it -- in..." on Time Control: Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity at Fri Jul 09, 2010 01:44am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Two Towers</em> movie re-watch "It's true that most of the problems in the movie are when Jackson chose to deviate from Tolkien. It's..." on LotR re-read: Two Towers movie re-watch at Wed Jan 27, 2010 01:56am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Two Towers</em> III.11, “The Palantír” "I wouldn't assume Gandalf was lying when he said he didn't know what the palantir was, but... Remember..." on LotR re-read: Two Towers III.11, “The Palantír” at Mon Sep 14, 2009 02:01am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Two Towers</em> III.10, “The Voice of Saruman” "It's not just that. Partly it's that the values he claims to represent seem distinctly modern to me,..." on LotR re-read: Two Towers III.10, “The Voice of Saruman” at Wed Sep 09, 2009 00:33am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Two Towers</em> III.10, “The Voice of Saruman” "I've always thought that Saruman's arguments sounded not just like a politician, but like a distinctly..." on LotR re-read: Two Towers III.10, “The Voice of Saruman” at Mon Sep 07, 2009 13:25pm
"I don't agree with rickg@141: you can't always make a clean separation between the author and the work...." on Outrage and Art at Sun Aug 16, 2009 16:37pm
"Complimentary, or complementary?" on Tor.com Anniversary Giveaway #8: From the Earth to the Moon and a Lunar Lander model kit at Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:48pm
"Me, me, me! Does this have the first edition text of the riddle scene?" on Tor.com Anniversary Giveaway #19: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of The Hobbit at Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:42pm
"Great prize! I love looking at the stars when I go backpacking, and I've always felt vaguely guilty I..." on Tor.com Anniversary Giveaway #23: Star Maps (Past and Present) at Mon Jul 20, 2009 23:38pm
"Feature request! I'd like a better way to browse through authors. Once I go to the first letter of the..." on Announcing the Tor.com Store! at Thu Jun 18, 2009 03:30am
"The mystery might not be the real point, but one of the things I liked a lot about this book was that..." on Clocks and stars and magic: Melissa Scott and Lisa A, Barnett’s Point of Hopes at Thu Jun 18, 2009 03:23am
"Inversions is pretty explicitly a Culture book. Well, maybe explicitly is the wrong word, but unambiguously...." on Review: Iain M. Banks’ Matter at Sat May 09, 2009 01:34am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Fellowship</em> II.3, “The Ring Goes South” "Combining the thread about logistics that don't quite make sense with the thread about Aragorn's character......" on LotR re-read: Fellowship II.3, “The Ring Goes South” at Sat Apr 04, 2009 02:09am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Fellowship</em> II.1, “Many Meetings” "I would have said that the palantir is a symptom of Denethor's real problem: unhealthy pride. He kept..." on LotR re-read: Fellowship II.1, “Many Meetings” at Tue Mar 24, 2009 01:51am
<em>LotR</em> re-read: <em>Fellowship</em> I.3, “Three Is Company” "My three year old daughter does the same. Last week at the playground, for example, she remarked on a..." on LotR re-read: Fellowship I.3, “Three Is Company” at Tue Dec 23, 2008 00:22am
Who Killed Ariane Emory? C.J. Cherryh’s Cyteen "There are hints that both the Chanur and the Morgaine books are part of the Union/Alliance series, aren't..." on Who Killed Ariane Emory? C.J. Cherryh’s Cyteen at Wed Nov 19, 2008 00:33am
"I'm a little surprised you haven't commented on one of the other important differences between this book..." on Flawed but magnificent: Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman’s The Fall of the Kings at Thu Nov 13, 2008 01:21am
"I was trying to figure out why that equation looked so weird, and then I realized: ?, instead of ?. That's..." on Coming Soon at Sat Sep 20, 2008 01:52am
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