This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again. If a dinosau….

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together..

Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me..

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels..

I can't help but notice that everytime I fly somewhere, other people's planes fall out of the sky..

I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people..

Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts.

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars..

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilomete….

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story..

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth..

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn….

I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing y….

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?.

Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you like to squeeze ….

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for lo….

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene..

Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments..

Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes..

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s..

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling..