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The Old English name was "nyrdwirkan". And its practitioners were "nyrdingas".* *Not really.

A couple of my favourites: "Iron Eyes and the Watered-Down World" and "The Faithful Soldier, Prompted", both by Saladin Ahmed and...

Another recommendation: Sharp Ends, a collection of short stories by Joe Abercrombie that are connected to his First Law series.

GRRM and Gardner Dozois have compiled a bunch of anthologies of some top-notch short fiction, using themes such as Rogues, Dark Sorcery...

Figured this deserved it's own thread

Early Will & Grace from the late-1990s, with a fax and "camera phones" and so on, compared with late Will & Grace from 2020.

Or running head first into a brick wall, I think the books suggest.

There was the recent Shardlake miniseries, based on Dissolution by CJ Sansom.

Oh boy I always wondered if that was worth watching, I guess I'll skip it!

How about "The Medici"? S1 was pretty solid, with Dustin Hoffman and Richard Madden. Not as good as "The Borgias", but compelling and...

I dunno. Back in my office employment days, 19 years there and 19 years back was about average for a daily commute.

The Charlie Sheen years of "Two and a Half Men" might serve as a pretty close approximation.* * Suggestion intended for comedic...

Or we're not advanced enough to be interesting to anyone with the capacity to contact us. For a civilisation that advanced, we're...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o "Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another...

You know, this is perfect. The problem with the films and definitely with the video games is that they MISS what Tolkien's Lord of the...