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Well, keeping in mind that their "callsigns" were their actual names as well, we had: Greenbean Jolly Sheeba Bojay Jusst going from memory. I'd have to go and check the mini again, but I'm pretty sure the leader of the flight of Vipers from Galactica we see getting disabled and destroyed by...

I just thought I'd mention that #'s 1,3,4 and 5 are all things I've had HR types and experienced job-finders (as opposed to perpetual job seekers...) specifically tell to do at one point or another when trying to get a job. #1: Any number of companies told me not to bother putting anything...

I imagine that will be much smaller when it gets into book form. For one thing, I bet it's double spaced to allow for writing corrections and things.

If I ever get the chance to make a parody movie, I will include a scene where the protagonists are running from an explosion, one trips over his shoelace and falls. The explosion will stop in place while the protagonist gets up, ties his shoelace and starts running again. Then the explosion...

Do you perhaps mean "Age of Treason"? That's a Roman movie with an investigator named "Falco" as a main character. I very seriously doubt you will see a sequel. This movie was a horribly done adaptation of a mystery novel even by Hollywood standards. The author was most distressed and the...

Well, ideally I'd want to have someone besides Lucas make them but I do want to see more Star Wars. Besides, its about the only way you get space stuff anymore since Hollywood can't seem to bring itself to take a chance on anything that isn't already an established property. Master and...

I _think_ this is partially what HBO's Rome series is going to be like. I think it's going to follow some soldiers in Caesar's army during the Gallic campaigns. I would love to see a Buckaroo Banzai sequel, but can it really be as good without all those 80s fashions? I also want to see...

I once read a book that poked some fun at this. I can't remember the title or even many of the details and the book is in storage, but the basic plot was more or less the usual farmboy makes good story with some twists but it had an undercurrent of mocking that tendency in Arthurian romance...

Actually, the page just says "around 1450 and didn't make any mention of England. You could surmise that from the use of "d." as currency, but other places had money derived from Roman coinage and it could have been "converted" for the price list. Those prices could technically be for...

I suspect the problem is the price list. There is a list of sources at the end, but we don't know which book the prices in question came from and where that book got it's data. They could have been gathered independantly from different countries with differing economic conditions. It could be...

I've read that one, too. It was pretty good.

I'll have to check these out. I've read The King's Peace and it was pretty good but I've not read the others. The thing is that for the last four or so years, I've been on a "Greco-Roman" kick and have been immersing myself in various books set in the Roman period with a number of side-trips...

SPQR is a series of mystery novels set in 1st century BC Rome. They follow Decius Caecillius Metellus, a Roman Senator from a prominent family, as he solves various crimes at home and abroad and interacts with various famous people like Caesar and Pompey. They're written by John Maddox...

This sounds a lot like Harry Turtledove's Thessalonica, who wrote this one? The only Constantinople I can think of was written by Lawhead but it followed a monk on various adventures in Constantinople and other places.

Oh, no, I didn't make myself clear. I liked Cornwell, but I just got finished reading his Arthurian and medieval stuff (the book you mentioned being an exception since it will not be published here for a couple of months, IIRC) and I'm looking for something else. My list wasn't stuff I didn't...

He has some Byzantine books, but I don't recall seeing any fall of Rome books. About the closest I can think of would be Thessalonica, which is set in a fantasy version of earth with various critters from Greek myth and is during the fall of Rome period. Did you have the misplaced legion books...

I'm looking for fiction set during the Dark Ages, Early Medieval or whatever the period between the fall of Rome and the 2nd millenium is called these days. I've read a number of adaptations of the Arthurian Legend (Mary Stewart, Bernard Cornwell, Jack Whyte, etc) and I'm a bit burned out on...

I think the psychic thought she would die in the crash. It was his last resort in the face of her insistence on putting the baby up for adoption. I don't think he necessarily saw her get killed, but saw the crash and assumed she would not survive. I also think he's not a real psychic. I...

Same here.

What about archery? One of the things that really turned me off about EQ1 (in addition to the lack of support for soloing) was that you couldn't fight effectively with bows. That was when I played in 99 -- I've heard they made minor improvements since. It was virtually impossible to kill...