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Yes, that is kind of weird ... what they show in the trailer actually looks more like an "inquel" about the Jihad. Apart from Duncan...

I think this really needs to be said.

Yes, the Duncan clones are actually pretty much the most prominent character(s) of the whole series (occasionally to a bleakly-ironic...

I can't quite say that I like God-Emperor of Dune (though I'm still not quite sure whether it's deeply homophobic or more kind of...

If they actually ever make the latter books, I will be shocked and impressed. Instant cult classics for the "go to the movies stoned"...

Well, at least he will live to a much greater age than his grandfather.

RE: Creating characters, there's also the question what you actually want to do. I prefer simply playing systems where I enjoy character...

Well, to look at the upside, that would be the day I could finally stop following new releases and just keep playing happily with my...

Nova has been sitting in my to-read for a while now. I really dug Babel-17, so I ought to get to it sooner rather than later.

Hmm. So many possibilities. Norstrilia, by Cordwainer Smith, for the beauty of the language and the deranged genius of its world...

Don't beat yourself up! It didn't connect with me the first time ... I've read it a total of four times, because I translated it into...

This is one of those books that I respect and want to like more than I actually do. Delaney's writing has never entirely done it for me...

Samuel R. Delany, Nova. It's fun, it's intellectually satisfying, it prefigures tons of core concepts of later science fiction, it is...

To get further sidetrecked: How do people feel about diegetic/extradiegetic metacurrency? Personally, I'm fine with metacurrency (though...

I found myself rotating back to the more "open" games I was used to in the nineties, the ones that didn't got totally overboard with the...