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Because it protects you from being detected.

No need to vote red though, not voting at all would be the way to go if you don’t care. As has been pointed out, its significance is...

And you don’t care about anyone else…

Sure, but that doesn't make it science, or more real than western magical beliefs. Read up on Doctor John Dee. He basically tried to...

That's not accurate. There were no "psychic beliefs" before the Victorians. It was all just "magic." Only Victorian pseudoscientism...

The mystic as a whole was rejected, the feedback system wasn't sophisticated enough to identify why. It might have fared better under...

I would like to see a science fiction CRPG that wasn't grimdark, nihilistic or depressing (or Star Wars).

This is an important point. It's not that humans are hard to hack, other humans do it all the time. There are whole industries built...

The Mysterious Island was a sequel, but I’m not aware of a third book.

Which undermines it’s claim to be a prequel to the novel, since it’s a plot point than no one, including the British, knows what the...

Wow, my friend and I are watching end to end, started a month ago. At the beginning of Season 3. Graphics out dated? Yeah, but...

It was for a time, mostly in the 60s and 70s, but not really in modern SF. The last time I saw it used was on Babylon 5 in the 90s, and...

And in fantasy fiction, magic is possible. There is no difference between reading minds and shooting fireballs out of your fingertips...

No it doesn’t. It’s just magic that a few people still believe in.

Fantastic cover, first one I remember back in the day on the shelves.