This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike out the ones you hated, italicize those you loved, and put an asterisk* beside the ones you started but never finished.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Foundation ( Read more... )

Forty years ago tonight one of the great pop-culture icons of the 20th century made its debut on American television. Kirk, Spock and the other members of the crew of the Enterprise made their way through space on Star Trek's first aired episode. (Read the newswire story hereI was only four and a half months old when the show started. I'm sure that ( Read more... )

Gakked from auntiemisha:

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Went to see "Aeon Flux" this evening. I'd seen the cartoon original when it played originally on MTV years ago. I didn't watch it regularly, just on and off, mostly when surfing channels and finding nothing else that interested me more ( Read more... )

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It's been a while since I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy -- I don't read anywhere near as much as I used to years ago . . . plus a lot of the books referenced I haven't read in at least a decade -- and usually more like two or three!

Interested Reader
You have a Geek Lore rating of 65% Your knowledge of the speculative fiction ( Read more... )

Gakked from thatgothgrrl:

Supply three of the weirdest web links you can. They can be anything as long as they lead to somewhere WEIRD/BIZARRE/SICK/FUNNY/GROSS...and please no child porn or links to rotten dot com.

Here are the ones I chose:

Peter Pan's webpage

Very STRANGE Sims (I don't have Sims2, but some of the objects here are way cool, like the stuff ( Read more... )

I liked it very much -- very much indeed.

Not just because Tom Cruise is eyecandy, mind -- although I do happen to think he is as near to perfectly gorgeous as a man can be and still be human. (I had a major case of the hots when he took off his shirt near the beginning of the movie -- ye gods and little fishes but he's built!! ( Read more... )

By now, those who've wanted to see Revenge of the Sith will have done so, so I don't think I'll be spoiling anyone's fun who reads this.

After having watched Revenge of the Sith, I thought a lot about why Anakin went to the Dark Side -- and it wasn't because they had cookies, either ( Read more... )