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Traveller is Firefly. In fact, Firefly was based on a Traveller game.

You guys are like actual aliens!

Chinese takeaway? Wow! I can't think of anything less Christmassy! You say that's traditional? Sometimes I think I know Americans, and then sometimes I discover I have the most enormous gaps in my knowledge about their culture.

I'm not sure "RPGish" is a draw for me for anything other than an RPG. I like playing RPGs. I like eating cake, but I don't watch the Great British Bake Off. I think I look for something different in my sci-fi watching than in my gaming. :)

GIven that you all have Christmas dinner on Thanksgiving, what do you have for dinner on Christmas day, if not Christmas dinner? I can't imagine Christmas day without the full turkey and all trimmings. It just wouldn't be Christmas!

I think if I were interested I would have watched something by now. The weird thing is I don't know why I'm not interested. I like sci-fi, after all--more than I like fantasy! I watch Star Trek, Doctor Who, Foundation, Alien: Earth, Star Wars, the lot. But weirdly, Stargate has just been a big...

This is definitely the wrong sentence in which to put the word “writing” in scare quotes.

I may be unique in that I have never seen any Stargate in any form ever.

What does he do all month? Force the local kids to trick or treat him every day? Hold Halloween costume parties nightly? How does one celebrate Halloween for a month?

You can celebrate things outside your own birthday. Hope that helps.

No, of course not. It’s not a thing (except it’s a day when all my American co-workers suddenly vanish without warning). I get up and work just like any other day. Turkey is for Xmas day, anyway. Just ask Charles Dickens.

That first edition of Warhammer—is that this one? Which I have on my shelf right here.

I see the confusion. That's just a picture. The actual desk is not actually 3-inches tall. :)

If you have a spare £50-£80,000 lying around, you might be able to pick up JRR Tolkien's writing desk in an auction at Christie's. The desk is a late 19th Century Merton College desk, and is part of Christie's upcoming Groundbreakers: Icons of Our Time auction which celebrates groundbreaking...

I can't remember the show well enough to comment on s3 specifically, but my general memory is that it started off well, dipped in the middle, and got better towards the end. But honestly, that's just a vague impression--it was ages ago!

The book was fine, but not as good as The Martian. I expect the same to hold true for the movie.

Exactly. You’ll likely, like the rest of us, have the exact opposite problem—getting people to even acknowledge the existence of your work. Focus on that. If you’re lucky enough that it’s so popular that people are trying to steal it (which they won’t) then you’ve won.