(Part 2) Best products from r/AskScienceFiction

http://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395284252

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but this book was written already, it's pretty good.

The Tick was pretty darn good at using expies that are almost other things, but aren't :/.

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But, only pretty darn good apparently. So The Tick > Invincible -> Savage Dragon -> TMNT -> DC Universe via Injustice -> ... at that point it is just all hella sorts of broken with stuff like Batman vs the Predator. DC crossing over with Marvel who gets all of Capcom and Star Trek (TNG and X-men had a crossover) and Godzilla. It just cascades. Savage Dragon also goes into Spawn.

Others have already said it, but this is actually covered in the novel Death Star. Only specific portions of the station are habitable, it's otherwise a giant reactor hooked up to a laser gun.

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The book is neat. It details various kinds of people brought in to help build it, run it, and different walks of life that are involved in the station. Sort of like Pillars of the Earth, except they blow up the Cathedral at the end.

You've basically described Knightmare Chess which is an absolutely hilarious and awesome game.

As it happens there is a book about this very subject! I recommend looking into that for further detail. But right away we can rule out any man-eating or predatory beast, such things are never kosher. Things that crawl on their bellies like worms, bugs (with four specific exceptions which are generally understood to be crickets, two types of locust, and one type of grasshopper) and most reptiles are also not kosher.

So in short it'll be:

Land creatures that eat plants, chew their cud, and have split hooves-- a creature that has a mix of hooves and paws is a no-go.

Birds with a crop, a gizzard, and a vestigial finger and that are not birds of prey or scavengers.

Sea creatures with both fins and scales.

Interestingly, this means that there's one possibly unexpected kosher mythological animal: sea serpents, assuming they have fins of some kind, as most do.

It's been a while since I've read it, but I'm pretty sure this is discussed in the book Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul.

I don't remember what conclusion the authors came to. Now I have to look around for the book, if I still have it.

I actually grew up on golden and silver age superman (shameless plug for The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, though I'm sure its not in print anymore).

Had no idea about the kryptonite thing, though. That's really cool!

For more information, I highly recommend Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp. Gives lots of good insight into the game, as well as the history of flying.

This might be a little bit of shameless self promotion but I actually wrote a book called the Kaiju Survival Guide. Its pacific rim mixed with Godzilla, King Kong, world war Z, and the zombie survival guide. I took a good hard look at how someone could hope survive a Kaiju attack And what a world full of Kaiju might look like. I also have a chapter completely dedicated to Mechs.

The two brain theory is actually a common misconception. In the original Godzilla movies, they mentioned that Godzilla has two brains. They based this arguments off of a paleontologist who argued that dinosaurs have two brains due to their immense size. This theory has since proven to be false as with that logic, a blue whale should have two brains. I cover this and a whole lot more in the book if you’re interested.

The Kaiju Survival Guide

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I REALLY wish this was the highest comment, because everyone in this thread would love Empire of the Summer Moon. It reads a lot like science fiction. When the colt revolver emerges it feels like something Tony Stark invented.

It. Is. A. Must. Read.

There're several hypotheses as to this. One that I've seen explicitly noted is that it's not so much love of gold as much as a love of power. Gold is money is power.

The very same dragons, given access to modern human society, might buy up large chunks of stock, controlling interests in major companies, etc.

This series is pretty good.

12 bucks for the hardcover. I recommend it. Definitely worth the purchase.


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Depends on the vampire. If you're a vampire from the area of Fear Street, you only have a strong compulsion to count small objects like that.

> Do we know what version they were playing and what level they were?

We can guess that they were playing AD&D based on the DMG that Will put in the donations box.

EDIT: SOLVED - 1e Red Box, third level characters.

There was a great one-shot by Brian Azzarello about a schmuck hood who ends up running with the Joker and predictably ends up regretting it at several opportunities.

Check it out

In The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Lucas is quoted as describing Palpatine thusly:

"[H]e was a politician. Richard M. Nixon was his name. He subverted the senate and finally took over and became an imperial guy and he was really evil. But he pretended to be a really nice guy."

Ian McDiarmid also claimed in an interview with The Guardian that Lucas asked him at one point whether Palpatine's chair reminded him of the Oval Office. There's also a lot of Vietnam War-related subtext, throughout the whole trilogy, but especially in ROTJ with the technologically primitive, jungle-dwelling Ewoks defeating a global superpower through superior knowledge of the terrain.

There's a lot of other historical references associating Palpatine with Caesar, Hitler, Lenin, etc., but Nixon was the most direct inspiration and the most relevant at the time the movies were made.

Best fictional gunslinger - Johnny Ringo

http://www.amazon.com/John-Ringo-The-Gunfighter-Never/dp/0816516480

I recommend the book First Contract by Greg Costikyan. Earth quickly becomes a third-world manufacturer, and has to reinvent itself.

I just found out that Costikyan is also the co-creator of the RPG Toon.