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I'm really none too good at face-to-face conversation, I stumble quite frequently and have an annoying tendency not to finish my sentences. I'm generally far more eloquent in the written word than in open speech, so in many ways I prefer fora as they allow me to present myself as I wish to...

Orson Welles, standing in a shadow, only to be suddenly illuminated by light cast through an opened window in The Third Man is a cinematographic masterpiece.

There are a couple of counterfactual history collections actually written by historians, some quite big names (in certain circles), that are well worth a look. I think they're just called 'What if?' 1 and 2

'Nightclub' by Graeme Norgate from the Timesplitters 2 soundtrack. Stylish, upbeat, pacy swing - The perfect accompaniment to running around, twin tommy guns in hand, a-blasting away at friend and foe alike.

I've quite happily assumed the geek stigma, as I would far rather engage in those activities that I deem worthwhile with acquaintances whose company I genuinely enjoy than go out every night for the express purpose of wasting vast sums of money and becoming hopelessly inebriated in a...

I sometimes try to read two books at once, particularly if the book I'm reading is very heavy going, I might reach for a lighter work of fiction to provide me with some respite from all those thoughts being provoked. However, when I do try to juggle multiple works I end up devoting all my time...

Ah, twas but in jest. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Ape and Essence by Auldous Huxley At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft There are many more, but those immediately spring to mind.

Ah, I believe you mistyped 'quite similar to Garth Nix's work, though obviously far superior as Pullman is actually a thoroughly intelligent man and a far superior writer, not to mention that Nix seems to have missed somewhere amidst his bandwagon-jumping that it is the philosophical and...

Be honest; would you call Rowling or Salvatore SF writers? One produces children's escapism, the latter is the very definition of high-fantasy (D&D universe, isn't it?)

I remind myself that I can probably find them cheaper online, and then STILL end up coming out with at least two books.

SpaceShipOne may be a start, yes, not to forget the new Ansari-X-prize-but-more-stringent-and-US-only-for-bureaucratic-reasons, whose name I have forgotten, but with the Shuttle fleet to be spacebound once again this summer and NASA pledged to have developed the shuttle's successor, with the...

It was written about 25 years before 1984, by a Russian, and is worth reading simply because it is so eerily prescient; it describes the Stalinist USSR with unnerving accuracy before Lenin had even died.

Well, naturally Watchmen comes before V; it's read and re-read several times, though, so fresh material is required! Yes, Orbiter is based on a NASA shuttle, but the setting is essentially an irrelevance; it is more concerned with humanity in any form getting out into space because, as Ellis...

Surely pronunciation issues are purely academic when your message is to be conveyed in a textual, and not an oral, format?

Feyd-Rautha was worse than the Baron; the Baron was more simply disgusting, certainly, but Feyd had the utter egoism and disregard for all others except himself far more refined, his scheming more Machiavellian and his subterfuges more dastardly. Then he goes and gets himself deaded.

I'm after Transmetropolitan as well, but Alan Moore's V for Vendetta comes first.

Well, for Christmas this year, in typically festive mode, my parents bought me... Nazi propaganda! Yes, that's right, Leni Riefenstahl's documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally was underneath the tree, and it really is quite impressive. The cinematography (one of the opening scenes features a...

Warren Ellis' latest production, and there is little better way to describe it than the blurb's own hyperbole; "both a psychological mystery and a sweeping science fiction story." Brilliant, though it feels perhaps a little rushed towards the end. Anyone else read it?

Rakka from Haibane Renmei, looking her usual beautiful self. http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/w/rwa118/haibane/wallpaper/rakka_800.png