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We should do our own. The Book Forum Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy List.

I clicked on this thread by accident but this is just about the funniest thing I've read all week. Go Packers! Its a shame they're not playing this year due to the lock out.

I am sure it does in some form or another. I have small children and Scholastic bugs the life out of us every month to buy more, more I tell you! Sorry, I hate telemarketers.

Its probably similar to the difference between married men and single men. The former knows for certain what the latter thinks it knows--by experience not rumor and postulation. Simply put. You've published. You've written and had it fulfilled. The rest of us are chumps pounding away at...

She needs a good reading lamp or one of those cozy thermal blankets for her lap while she's reading. Or a hot chocolate mug--that'd do the trick.

eh? I don't know when we make peanut brittle its pretty good. :p My stack of returns is a lot taller than my stack of published. And please I'm not trying to be offensive I'm just trying to contribute to the discussion.

Well there'd be lots of room for cameos. And as for repeat characters all you'd have to worry about are Bilbo, Gollum, Gandalf, Elrond and Gloin. Maybe the Sackville Bagginses. Hmm...Maybe Legolas too since he comes from Mirkwood. The Great Eagles? The Trolls. Did I miss any? And it'd...

OK. I like Saving Private Ryan and I'll probably watch it again with my kids someday. Its a reasonably accurate representation of some of the things that happened during WWII. Same movies like Schindlers List and (debatably) Pearl Harbor and even The Sands of Iwo Jima or whatever. After...

Beg pardon, please, I dropped a hyperbole--with regards to prostitute. But here's the voice of reason saying compromise. Its true. You do have to compromise day to day. And thats what a writer can't stomach. Perhaps its the artists temperment or just bullheadedness but something causes...

Poor you, thought I, then asked: And not JUST to you, to anyone. I mean who doesn't prostitute themselves just a little to get where they want to go? Thats the Q, not aimed at you...Silly Wabbit! Tricks are for MORE than just kids! :D

Actually, having read Beowulf and Footfall is what made me pick it up in the first place.

Well either way its not nice to use the word WHORE in a writers forum because anyone who has ever tried to publish anything probably feels like they got screwed. Especially after they've had to change the thing a jillion times and been berated and browbeaten for weeks or months over comma usage...

Bombadil wasn't a bard, far from it, but he did sing a lot.

Why not? Notice: This pointless and unnecessary note was added to bump the number of characters above the minimum number of ten. ;)

Anything Heinlein, though I'd start with The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Hmm...James P. Hogan--The Giants series is good too. Try This Immortal by Roger Zelazny. You can't go wrong with Orion by Ben Bova. Asimov's Foundation is a good one and Ursula K. LeGuinn's--the one where the guy dreams...

Baby Its Cold Outside I have a great jazz version thats really good. I love Oh Come Emmanuel too.

Any smallish, skinny grade-school kid can explain the need for war. Bullies will push you and beat you and steal your lunch money until you break their nose. Period. If you say, "I'd rather not fight you," other usually decent kids will begin to pick on you too. Soon you're everyones...

Come on gang there's not a writer--an aspiring writer anyway--that doesn't lust after that letter with a check in it. Its recognition, its acceptance, its a fulfillment of that desire to know that all your scratchings mean something to someone besides yourself. Even if it is an editor with a...

Mote's a good one. Gave me the creeping ebeejeebies though. If you like Pournelle and Niven try Footfall or The Legend of Heroet(sp)? Something like that. THOSE two are GOOD.

Yeah the heads did me in too.