Recent content by Zmar

Two words: Kill Team

You're not alone @Night Herald :) I've written some bad 40k and 30k fanfiction myself in the past. (Even dabbled with a touch of 'geneseed' slash fiction. The less said about that, the better.) Personally I think that reading the entire HH series should be mandatory for anyone desiring to use...

Yes, I think that science and faith are completely compatible (and equally insufficient) when it comes to the big questions of the nature of being, the purpose (or lack of) of the universe or creation. Both the theologian and the scientist can try to push back the membrane of ignorance...

@Louanne Learning One of them must have learned it once. :) Here is one of my bird friends (this on is Warning, who is a bit more cautious). She's recently started the habit of pecking on my balcony window when she wants cheese. I've seen this before in other gulls, but she is a new convert...

This guy is a keeper.

Good call - definitely a better starting point than something like 'Crash'. It's one of his earliest, and though it's quite different in external milieu to his later works, it definitely sets the tempo for his inner landscapes. If you ever do fancy a further foray, 'High Rise' is a delight (I...

I write almost exclusively on my phone. Above all else, I hate switching devices. My phone enables the toilet, the bus, the park bench, the sofa, and the bed to each be a consistent writing location. I'll occasionally use a laptop, but I mostly reserve that for doing study/academic stuff.

Too much Gemini action going on here. I'm another one. I can't post while drunk these days, as it's been eight and a half years since I stopped. (Christmas Day 2016, the day George Michael passed) But as I write right now there is a hen party howling and oozing its way down the street below my...

Wells himself gives me a couple of ideas - not to attempt to write anything thematically or stylistically in his vein, but just from geography. I haven't been back in over a decade, but I spent the first 30 years of my life in 'war of the worlds' country. Right in the middle of a cluster of...

Thanks for the heads up, I've just started re-reading The Invisible Man as of yesterday, so that's good timing. I might give it a go.

I'm still torn up about Argel Tal and Raum! And I'm still waiting for a Decimus book! 1. Michael Moorcock 2. J G Ballard. 3. Julian May 4. Richard Adams - specifically Watership Down (book and movie, both) 5. Poul Anderson

It's truly exciting. The simple fact that I can say, without appearing wholly deranged, that it is possible that I will be able to have an actual verbal conversation with a non-human animal in the near future. Many of us have obviously got complex communications and relationships with...

There is only one. But, like Tanelorn, it takes different forms and can be found in many places.

I chose it a while back; a random short word as my username. I think it actual might have some Czech or Polish eschatological connections, but I am unsure. I may decide to use Zachary Marshall as a pen name one day. The icon is a lamb that said hello to me last week.

I was far from an old timer on the previous site. I had been a member for a couple of months. I'd heard chatter over on the 'other place', and saw that a few people who seemed to have their wits about them were active on dot org. (@Naomasa298 @Louanne Learning and @Set2Stun , if memory...