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When Chocolate Goes Scary: <em>Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory</em> "it's like Arkham Asylum except with songs and chocolate Now I want Rocksteady Studios to do a Willy..." on When Chocolate Goes Scary: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory at Thu Mar 28, 2013 17:50pm
Something Else Like... Heinlein "WRT the Jupiter books, I think James P. Hogan's Outward Bound was also part of that line; it certainly..." on Something Else Like... Heinlein at Mon Oct 29, 2012 15:16pm
Get These Space Operas for $2.99! "If only this sale were after the DRM-free shift...." on Get These Space Operas for $2.99! at Wed Apr 25, 2012 23:51pm
A Finite Future: Vernor Vinge’s <em>A Deepness in the Sky</em> "The idea of Zone manipulation and similar "cheats" dimming a star goes back to "The Blabber", so it's..." on A Finite Future: Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky at Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:51pm
<em>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em> Rewatch: “11001001” "Christopher (#5): try hexadecimal, instead; that translates it to C9, for only two syllables. (Too bad..." on Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “11001001” at Thu Jul 07, 2011 16:45pm
"This is also one of my favorite comfort re-reads. Tocohl has several of the signs of a Mary Sue (and..." on Alien Proxemics: Janet Kagan’s Hellspark at Thu Oct 28, 2010 15:25pm
"I'm young enough to have never lived at a time when men hadn't walked on the moon...and old enough that..." on Tor.com Anniversary Giveaway #8: From the Earth to the Moon and a Lunar Lander model kit at Mon Jul 20, 2009 16:59pm
"Neil in Chicago (#7): Poul Anderson's "Snowball" (1955) takes on that question, and was a likely inspiration..." on The worst book I love: Robert Heinlein’s Friday at Sun Jun 14, 2009 18:27pm
"Jo, I have a hard time believing that you weren't online before May 1994; I certainly thought you predated..." on The Net of a Million Lies: Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep at Sun Jun 14, 2009 18:20pm
"I too recently moved from Palm OS to the iPod touch. Of course, one of my major applications is eReader...and..." on Foundation and the iPhone at Sat Jan 10, 2009 16:48pm
"pablodefendini (#7): I've downloaded the currently-free Air Sharing, which seems similar to Mobile Finder...." on Free e-books from Will Shetterly and Emma Bull at Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:44pm
"Has there been any thought to making these available in eReader format as well? The official Mobi reader..." on Free e-books from Will Shetterly and Emma Bull at Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:01am
"My feeling is that themed anthologies should be comprised of reprints, while non-themed anthologies should..." on Poll: Standalone Anthologies or Anthology Series at Mon Sep 15, 2008 20:47pm
"JamesDavisNicoll (#18): in defense of Voyage from Yesteryear, it's among Hogan's pre-Brain Eater books...." on A Libertarian Reading List at Sat Sep 13, 2008 23:05pm
"The manhunt extended across more than one hundred light years and eight centuries. A Deepness in the..." on A Chance to Show Off: the first line game at Sat Sep 13, 2008 13:43pm
"Like Caiphana (#40), I was punished as a child by having my reading material taken away. (When this happened..." on Reading Location at Tue Sep 02, 2008 20:48pm
"yendi mentioned the Mac version of Stanza, which reads Mobi format; there's also a free iPhone version..." on Market Acceptance at Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:37am
"I'm a big EFR fan (what with finding a name for my sadly neglected blog in Wasp and all); naturally,..." on Individual and Irreverent: Eric Frank Russell at Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:32am
"A Linux computer, certainly. After all, Free Traders would clearly use Free Software." on Total Immersion: Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy at Sun Jul 27, 2008 18:09pm
The Singularity Problem and Non-Problem "AlisonScott: I think the problem I always have with the Singularity is that it's founded on a premise..." on The Singularity Problem and Non-Problem at Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:28am
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