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Sadly, I was not a blank sheet when I went to the cinema - I already knew that navigators needed spice to avoid losing their way in folded space, and that spice had no synthetic alternative, so civilization would collapse without it. I did catch a glimpse of the likely appearance of a...

As many of you might already know, part 2 is out there in cinemas by now. :) I watched them "almost together" (with a delay of 1 month). I had not read the books, but I did feel the need to read the Wikipedia article about "Dune" before going to see the movie. Spoiler rating of my post...

Hello, nice to see you. :) Thanks for the idea, I'll check out what local libraries have and can. :) I know of a library that started lending tools and instruments, but their multimedia departments are unexplored ground to me. One friend visits libraries to study, but I visit them to configure...

P.S. Interesting - after a while has passed, it's no longer possible to edit an old post, is is supposed to be like that? Also, I educated myself about forum software - apparently you managed to migrate the database to a different forum engine, congratulations! :)

Thank you for the reviews, folks. It's nice to know that there is something new out there to be found and seen. I know I won't find time to watch it anytime soon. In fact, I don't have a TV these days, preferring to read news and consuming little entertainment. My laptop no longer has a DVD...

So after all these years, the forum engine is still maintained and published by someone? Wow. I knew that free software lives forever (but gradually degrades towards unmaintained), but for a piece of commercial software to outlast such a period is a miracle. :)

I wouldn't think anyone can be born with a taste for some form of art... at most a slight predisposition, maybe... ...I guess that much depends on what a person finds. If they read or watch poorly done sci-fi, or go looking for something entirely different, it may disappoint them and they'll...

Sad to hear. As much as I could deciper from what I saw and read, Mira changed things for the better - both around her, and further away in the world. I appreciated and continue to appreciate her contribution. For me, her performance in Babylon 5 (and also her songs and some interviews) were a...

Well, everything is physical.. including stuff we don't know about. :) And these critters sure seem to be at the far end of physical... ...especially when angered. That's the point where I recall the assassination of the second Vorlon ambassador by B5 staff, at the point when open war with...

Re: How does one poison a being capable of passing through material obstacles, or leaving part of themselves, capable in some way of functioning, into another creature's mind? Well, maybe the answer is: "how does one shatter vapour with a hammer"? Maybe by waiting until it turns to water and...

Not only positions, mind you. :) He bothered to build an almost usable Elvish language (and broad swathes of history to accompany it)... just to support the books, and then used only tiny bits. :D Must have been quite a pass-time. I guess he needed a distraction and found a good one in this...

Apparently, I'm going around in circles. But this time I took a detour and went off the previous track. I'd tried reading the Lord of the Rings a while back, and it never clicked... as for the Hobbit, it's a children's book and it never clicked already way back in Soviet times (in primary...

Sad to hear. :( And even more so, because it probably could have been avoided (somehow). But statistics tends to be so that avoidable things also happen eventually... :(

There was a fanfiction story I once read that simply presumed that those critters knew how to safey evacuate a consciousness from its physical medium, and would have likely offered such insurance to a productive and esteemed employee, in case they got beheaded by barbarians, or met other...

...compared to other communicatons channels, I rather like forums, but yes, this forum is next to abandoned, and forums are (relatively) high-maintenance because somebody has to keep the software up-to-date and keep an eye on how successful spambots are at registering... ...so of course I...

Sad to hear... and not much useful to say. I wonder though, why do I expect there to be something *useful* to say... can't be. :(

That's precisely how I would explain it. Sure enough, if your jump engines work (I'm not sure if Cortez had them functional or not) you can pop out into normal space... and go home by the long route, which probably takes about 300 years. :p Attempting to go home by the short route would...

That however, might be impossible in settings where causality has a stronger presence. And even if causality were discounted, the "Excession" thingy from the Culture stories would have a few reservations, since being a conduit of travel between universes and/or times, it seemed to have quite...

Another fictional world to get interesting combinations with, might be that of the Culture (by Iain M. Banks) Unlike the civilizations depicted in Babylon 5, which are fairly homogenous in the capabilities of their member creatures, the Culture would add a player of great variability into the...

Indeed, Excalibur and Victory destroyed a Drakh-made version of the Shadow planetkiller - more specifically its command center, while the rest of the planetkiller self-destructed. (The assembly by the Drakh of another similar weapon was thwarted by technomage sabotage, in an off-screen side...