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Poul Anderson’s Polsotechnic League stories aren’t particularly nuanced space adventures.

Some of those I can get requiring more effort to get right--Le Guin requires considerable nuance for example--but Norton's output was...

It's also worth noting that a lot of "fans" of a given property don't actually like any specific version, but a Platonic Ideal of it...

Hey, you might be right. We won't know until the book happens. But I personally think there's no way in hell that our vocal DS fans...

Finished reading this one yesterday. On the whole, it's a pretty good product. The art is excellent (especially the big vistas...

Still in use, the Thames has several. Islands in the River Thames - Wikipedia

I don’t feel like that many people actually cared in a negative way about the Purple Dragon Knights getting Dragon mounts

I'm not familiar with the cost to play golf courses. I grew up near (and still own a house near) Royal Lytham & St Annes, and got up to...

As pointed out, the movie was mostly influenced by Conan. However, REH was influenced by Burroughs (and visa versa possibly, he was...

There is a lot of great SF (Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, non-Earthsea Le Guin, etc), and great fiction generally, that has never been...

Generally, Works Christmas parties are compulsory, regardless of religion. And Fezziwig's party is itself notably secular in nature...

I didn’t say I agreed with her interpretation, and I think it’s largely based on his occupation as money lender and drawing parallels...

It's my experience that every keyword in D&D is only a "best fit" placeholder. As you say, a rage is anger only some of the time. Damage...

My Eng Lit major partner considers a Christmas Carol to be anti-Semitic. The reason Scrooge doesn’t celebrate Christmas (and remember he...

“Hey kids, do you want to watch four ghosts brutally traumatise a rich guy into sharing? Also, the question that you always wanted...