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lukeoneil47
08/04/09

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thoroughly enjoyed the post-apocalypse and zombie collections adams edited. almost all the stories in either, save a few, were very readable. some amazingly so.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
08/03/09

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I have this on reserve with my library. Can't wait to read it.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
08/31/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: And what a disappointment. All the stories from established authors were good (the Turtledove was delightful) and the new ones were just embarrassingly bad and sophomoric, save the wine one and the one that had "Jordan" in the title.

Worth it for the older work; not so much for the new stuff. Note that all the cover authors are reprints.
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LiC
08/03/09

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I like Alan Dean Foster's stuff. I started picking up some of his novels after I read Splinter of the Mind's Eye a couple years back.

What was the text of Orson Scott Card's sermon, er, short story, er, plot?
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08/03/09

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Alexis
07/10/09

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Here I am, bitching that I wanted to find some great steampunk novels to get cozy with, and there you are, givin' me what I want.

I need a cigarette.
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Islandkiwi
04/13/09

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Pushing Daisies resurectee Chuck is not the most permanently resurrected character on the show...that award goes to his dog.
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TrueCrime
04/12/09

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I wonder where Takeshi Kovacs, or Julius from "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," might fit into all this. It seems like casual resurrection and post-death societies have become a fascination in recent sci-fi.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/12/09

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Big points for mentioning "Armageddon Rag" though. Amazing book. Read it if you haven't, reread it if you have.

We'll give you Aslan just b/c it's Easter, but any other day, we'd demand his replacement by Spock. Who was searched for by a lot of people, not just one kid.
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ursulahitler
04/12/09

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Like a lot of people, I was surprised by the really obvious ones who didn't make the cut, namely Spock and Starbuck. If you're talking sci-fi resurrections, those are the two that first leap to mind. Also, John Locke...
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/12/09

@ursulahitler: Locke! D'oh! That was just this month.

Maybe other people on LOST as well.
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collex
04/12/09

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And this is why I'm pretty happy that Captain America is STILL dead. When Secret Invasion began, I was worried the dead Cap would be revealed to be a Skrull and the "real" one would come back. Fortunately, it did not happen. And I'm glad. I just hope he won't resurect too quickly. Give me a five or ten years, Marvel, please!
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Purple Dave
04/13/09

@collex:
But he certainly _will_ come back at some point. With Jason Todd being brought back (when DC promised they'd never do that back when the held the vote for his fate). The only three characters who stay dead in regular continuity are Bruce's parents and Peter's uncle (those three being key to the inception of the two most popular comic book characters ever created). Everyone else just needs to put in their years in Comic Book Purgatory, and then they get to come back.
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icy_one
04/12/09

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John Sheridan in Babylon 5?
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Roklimber
04/12/09

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What??? You mentioned Kirk, you dropped Spock's name and you didn't mention Spock's own return from the beyond? Shameful, shameful I say.

Another back-from-the-dead sci-fi character not mentioned: Neo, from the Matrix.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/12/09

@Roklimber: I know! That was the entire plot for a whole movie!
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HalOfBorg
04/12/09

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Minor technicality (I like those).

Capt Jack most certainly CAN die - in fact he does it many times. He just does not STAY dead.

I imagine (or am I remembering?) Rose saying/thinking some thing like "No No...Jack just CAN'T be dead! He can't!". and Jack was no longer dead.

I also think he must win for the most times dead / reborn - when he was buried alive in the past buy his old lover. Dies, reborn, and instantly start suffocating on the dirt in his lungs. Dies, reborn....... (shudder)
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/12/09

@HalOfBorg: Yes, Jack's resurrected the most, over hundreds of years, presumably thousands... poor SOB. In "Torchwood", he's always getting shot, falling over, then big inhale, ouch, back to fighting evil rift beasties.
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DoctorZoidberg
04/12/09

@HalOfBorg:

So, here's another post-in-the-making... what are the MOST instances of a particular character alive at the same point-in-time? I imagine Bender would be the most in Bender's Big Score, but.... Captain Jack in 1940 has to be good too...

1) As a con man from the future (around the time of the gas-mask episode...

2) From Torchwood episode "Captain Jack Harkness"....

3) Jack waiting for the Doctor (as part of Torchwood)...

4) Jack frozen by Torchwood...

... am I forgetting any?

Just don't tell Jack... you WON'T want to know what he's thinking...
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Elizabeth Weinbloom
04/12/09

@DoctorZoidberg: Actually, I would like very much to know what he's thinking. Preferably with diagrams.
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octaslash
04/12/09

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Buffy's death was by far the best out of these, but I still think her resurrection was kind of lame. Sure, Willow killing a small innocent animal was cool, but it should have been even darker.
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chopstyx
04/12/09

What kind of Buffy fan is writing this article?

Everyone knows Buffy died TWICE, once at the end of season 1 and then again at the end of season 5.

Also, I'd say that Aslan isn't sci-fi in any definition, it's fantasy via a detour past religious nonsense.

Neo from the Matrix would be a good addition to the list tho. Can I also add Doc Brown's resurrection at the end of Back to the Future? Thanks kid.
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ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
04/12/09

@chopstyx: All I want to know is if the next extra slayer is of any use. First we had Kendra's wandering accent, then we followed it up with Faith the psycho. Who's next?
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vulcanized
04/12/09

@chopstyx: Seriously. It was put into song and everything.
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