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I gathered that the sound was like when you get zapped by a buildup of static electricity. Maybe the "tzit" was the sound of the charge buildup that caused the explosion...

Good to see a classic scifi writer getting the recognition he deserves.

I'm currently reading <I>The Initiate Brother</I> by Sean Russell. Very reminiscent of <I>Shogun</I> by James Clavell, only with more of a mystical element to it.

I can see it from two different perspectives... 1) The comic He should stay. He adds discord and interest. As someone earlier said, he manages to push everyone's buttons- characters and readers alike. He makes us face our own reactions to prejudice, ignorance, misogyny, and shallowness. He prompted ...

Actually, Brainio reminded me more of <B>IT</B> from Madelein L'Engle's <I>A Wrinkle in Time</I>...

*pops back into obscurity*

At this point, people have pretty much stated in one form or another all of my arguments, but just to have it on record:<P>1) Branching out is a good idea.<P>2) I, for one, would really like a printed FANS!: either a compilation of all the stories to date, or a serial comic. I know Tom mentioned tha...

Brian first mentioned the connection between Tolkien and Lewis. They were friends and each had an influence on the other's writing to some degree. If I recall correctly, the link to a Salon article posted by Brian a little ways back goes into more detail on the connection between the two authors and...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Judy: <B> IIRC (and it's been a couple of years now) we're given no indication that Eowyn has any serious group combat experience, so her hubris is unjustified. If your skills are more suited to guerilla fighting ...

***Warning! Possible spoilers!***<P>I tried reading "the Hobbit" when I was about 12 years old. This is supposed to be the ideal age to read it but for whatever reason I just couldn't get into it. So, I set it aside and added it to my list of "those classics I ought to get around to reading someday ...

I was a little puzzled by that- why would Rumy call Shanna "Ms Cochran"? They're on a first name basis by now I should think. Was Rumy teasing her because she was so stylishly dressed?

You're not alone, Isobel. I was president of my college's sci-fi club for a year yet there were times when I felt the least fannish out of the bunch. (In retrospect I see that the group instinctively tends to elect people with the best organizational skills for that post and not necessarily the ones...

Disclaimer: sorry if I repeat some points that were already brought up, but the astounding length of some of the posts and time constraints meant that I had to skim a bit.<P>For starters, I am yet another scifi/fantasy fan who is just now reading LotR for the first time. While I've gotten far enough...

I was shocked to read this knowing it was coming from Card. I didn't realize he was such a war-monger.. <P>I agree with him that simply hunting down and imprisoning or executing those responsible for this attack will not be effective in the long-term. Even if we finally did manage to get bin Laden (...

Great work, Wish! I like the juxtaposition of the fantasy/dreamlike background and what looks like a technical scan, as if it's being viewed through those fancy binoculars Luke Skywalker had in "Star Wars". I'm also intrigued by the pseudo-language reminiscent of a futuristic computer readout.<P>Um,...

Ah. Ok. Athene cleared it up for me over IM; I had missed a panel over at CRFH. Thanks, Tusc.

Did I miss something? How did Alisin go from receiving a karate chop to the back, to having Margaret wrapped up in the chain? Or was that deliberately not shown for humorous effect?

<QUOTE>Originally posted by Czhorat: <B>In all fairness, Nireena, we've seen bizarre things in the Faans-verse before. There have already been vampires, computer mind-control programs, Hyperman, aliens, a magic "wishing" stone (the 23-sider of power), etc. The Roomies aren't THAT weird. </B> </QUOTE...

*donning asbestos suit...*<P>Ok, folks. Everyone else seems to be enjoying the CRFH crossover but I'm going to throw my $.02 in.<P>I don't like it.<P>Maybe I'm just getting crotchety at the ripe old age of 22, but I don't want to have to learn a whole new cast of characters and plot. I come here to ...

Well, it's even further off the topic, but this site also does some incredible stuff with Flash: <A HREF="http://www.vectorpark.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.vectorpark.com/</A> <P>The demo at the bottom is a fun piece of fluff, "Levers" is a maddening (and possibly unwinable?) game, and "Park" is ...

<QUOTE>Originally posted by Muttley: <B> Nireena: You thought that the villain in "Wrinkle" was I.T.??? As IT professionals, we both know that that is both funny and slightly scary . . . </B> </QUOTE><P>Well, no. I just thought that the letters I, T were an acronym for something instead of simply th...

The overall flavor of it reminded me a lot of "Understanding Comics": taking something with a fairly complicated history and breaking it down to explain it without condescension. Since this segment focused more on history than on speculation, it almost had the feel of a documentary to it- but that's...