In the latest episode of The Flash, All Doll'd Up, we see Ralph aka Elongated Man swinging over buildings, throwing arms around like Spider Man does his web, while carrying Iris on his back. Just before that, he said he saw this in a comic book. It sounded to me like a tribute to Stan Lee. Am I r...
BattleTech actually has a dedicated option: there is an online BattleTech fiction site at BattleCorps.
This site was originally set up to do short fiction by the regular BattleTech authors. The site team have since begun moving the original BattleTech novels to ebook; you can buy these directl...
I am reading through a pile of Battletech novels and I can't seem to figure out what happened to the Black Thorns mercenary company.
Did they just get retconned out of existence or did a writer do an oopsie and accidentally kill them off?
How can we hear Tyrion's pee when he is pissing off the Wall?
It is way, way down and there is no way we could hear this. What is the explanation?
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Since Asimov's robots are already shown as not possessing "human common sense" when applying the laws to their actions, law 1 pretty much forces robots to lock up humans in matrix-style cont...
We have at least a couple users who post regularly and never register accounts. Each time the cookies on their computer get cleared, they lose their old unregistered account and are given a new one. If we know of users like this, do we need to do anything about it?
Possibly the best well-known ...
Star Trek focuses on large, slow (in local space, anyway) ships which behave like battleships.
As a counter-example, Battlestar Galactica was in an "aircraft carrier universe", where the big ships don't fight as much directly, but instead send out squadrons of fighter craft.
Aircraft carriers i...
I know in the movie that he was stabbed then he fell of his tower onto a water wheel. But my friend says that didn't happen in the books please let me know so I can confirm this
I just finished reading Orconomics, first book of The Dark Profit Saga. It's a satire on corporate economics with adventurers and their loot acting as a sort of investment fund where kingdoms and other investors pay into the supply of heroes with an expected return on the items brought back, and ...
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Given that the novel by Macey was written four years prior to the first broadcast of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and subsequent novelization, is there any evidence to suggest that Douglas Adams was aware of / referencing the Macey book, Stationary Orbit?
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I have a movie that is stuck in my head but I don't know what it is called. It isn't high production, I can't find it on websites for finding a moive and it isn't in any list anywhere.
I remember one scene specifically. The hero man is at the jail in a sherriff's office and the robot attacks...
