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I haven’t read The Book of the New Sun, so I was parsing the statement as given, and it does indeed sound like an ideal - of Severian...

Hope you like her work. I think I always have, coming back to her ever since we read a passage from Black Hearts in Battersea in class...

That’s true. But I also don’t think the statement is particularly true - people don’t believe what they’re forced to believe, and they...

Wolfe isn’t holding it up for unqualified admiration, either. But the language is so good. Sounds like I need to read some Aiken.

That’s really not an ideal I’d care to live by. Read Joan Aiken’s The Five Minute Marriage, which is like Jane Austen or Georgette...

Kang is generally said to be descended from Reed’s dad Nathaniel, but it’s also been implied he’s descended from Doom and from Kristoff...

Sadly Qui-Gon did not strike me as someone who reads his mission brief closely, but Obi-Wan probably did, so I’m just going with “there...

The River Has Roots is the first standalone book (novella) by Canadian author Amal El-Mohtar, previously known for This is How You Lose...

But Dooku did have control over the droid army, and would presumably be in on the plan, which is basically to remake the galaxy to their...

But he just had to get to the point where both armies were paid for (the end of Attack of the Clones), declare peace (to wild acclaim...

I'm not 100% sure about that - it looked to me more like: Anakin: Shall I cut his head off? Palpatine: Sure, go for it. It felt more...

Yes, I thought it quite possible that Obi-Wan, as a righteous knight who was effectively his grandson (grand-padawan), represented his...

I’ve only completed one Suikoden game - Suikoden Tierkreis on the 3DS - but even with the slightly janky early 3D graphics it was...

I'm tempted to do a legends game. Make it infinitely and Thrawns the big bad and its PCs who get to deal with him. Store here has some...