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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I'm the evil version of me... more »
    KathrynKadaver: Oh my god, Congo was one of my favorite movies as a kid! more »
    drmaybe: Oh, yeah... whenever the subject turns to great bad movies, I always bring up Congo as the sine qua non... This flick has everything you want in a gre... more »
    TemporalOutLaw: I always remember the guy who worked with Dylan Walsh's charater,saying when getting detained and interrogated: "This is pure Kafka,man." Then the sol... more »
    Liz Weinbloom: I am in the UK right now, and at a supermarket today, by the checkout line with the gum and the tabloids, was a K-9 air freshener. A K-9 air freshener... more »
    Dany_J: I started with Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Damn you Vermicious Knids! more »
    vfxjokir: I actually worked on 'Congo' - it was my first feature film...and I can tell you - it was just as fun MAKING it as it is to watch it. (Oh, and spiritk... more »
    BullfightsOnAcid: The part where I burst out laughing because it was so ridiculous is when the white gorillas are about to attack, Amy emerges from a cave and with her ... more »
    LyleAcheron: I stopped reading SF for a long time, too - not a PhD but an English Major but mainly I stopped because browsing through the SciFi section at Barnes a... more »
    jamesryan: Funny you should mention SF while pursuing an English degree, because of of my first electives as an undergrad was an SF survey course. On the one han... more »
    Pegritz: That novel was one of the first to introduce me to the concept of the TechnoSingularity. My Singularity boner has grown exponentially ever since. It w... more »
    corpore-metal: I went through a similar period for about 15 years myself actually but for different reasons. Basically from high school onwards I began to demand mor... more »
    Meirelle: Mmmm... fanfiction: everything you need to know about alternate realities. Let's face it-- somewhere, in some strange, horrible universe, all of your ... more »
    cletar: "Mirror, Mirror" was always one of my favorite episodes. The mirror episodes of "Enterprise" were the best part of that whole show. The catsuits were ... more »
    jfpierce: It's great that you love this book, but it might be helpful to readers if you gave some reasons as to why. more »
    Mathmos: I generally enjoy MacLeod, though Learning the World struck me as rather pedestrian. His earlier works seem to me more fun and idea rich than his most... more »
    Purple Dave: Macleod has an interesting way of producing characters that are very interesting, but not at all endearing. Particularly in Newton's Wake, there does ... more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Bruce had a very funny quote when talking to a crowd of fans about how it's tougher to make movies than you think. This is from and article on him. "'... more »
    Astfgl: Gotta say I was psyched when Neal Stephenson's Anathem turned into a parallel-Earth tale (only took about 4 hundred pages!) and he really does the tro... more »
    Rasselas: "STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!" more »
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    All of Mes Love The Multiverse

    Maybe it's because I'm indecisive and greedy. Maybe it's because I like seeing evil versions of my heroes with goatees and grimaces. Whatever the reason, I can't deny it: I love parallel earths. More »
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    Congo, I Love You

    On this Valentines Day, it's time for me to give some love and tenderness to the overlooked but essential part of my world, terrible d-grade movies. More importantly, Congo Happy Valentine's Day, sweetie. More »
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    Falling In Love Again With Science Fiction Novels

    Ken MacLeod's writing taught me to love science fiction again. I had pushed the genre out of my reading life for many years, but I could not ignore his novel Newton's Wake. More »
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    Doctor Who, I Love You!

    I fell in love with the time-traveling double-hearted weirdo from space long ago. Luckily, he feels the same way about me. More »