Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.

'Serenity'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


DavidS - Jun 10, 2008 8:56:20 am PDT #6086 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Raq, what Tomorrow Girl storyline are you referencing? I couldn't find it in Wikipedia.


Volans - Jun 10, 2008 2:05:34 pm PDT #6087 of 28370
move out and draw fire

Tomorrow Woman:

She was created jointly by Professor Ivo and Professor T. O. Morrow to destroy the newly formed JLA. She became a member based on her telekinetic abilities which she claimed were the result of a "mutant 4 lobed brain." In actual fact, she was a living bomb designed to go off at a specified moment and kill the entire JLA. Eventually though, she denied her purpose, discovering the concept of freedom that her creators had deliberately left out of her programming. She sacrificed herself in order to stop a futuristic war machine by triggering an EMP bomb located in her body, which was originally intended to wipe the brains of the League. It was revealed that Morrow had seen this coming and was thrilled by it. He and Ivo had frequently argued about who had done the better work on her. Ivo thought that the body he had made, which was realistic enough to fool even Superman's heightened senses and x-ray vision, was the true work of genius. Morrow proved him wrong however, as the brain he himself had created was sophisticated and "human" enough to discover free will, even though the concept had not been included in her original programming.

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As I recall, the cyborg chick in "Soon" was built by the mad scientist (albeit put together from parts), and was a bomb designed to take out the supers...


Consuela - Jun 10, 2008 8:30:51 pm PDT #6088 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Chapter 1 of the new Temeraire book, Victory of Eagles, has been posted: [link]


amych - Jun 11, 2008 4:33:52 am PDT #6089 of 28370
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

new Temeraire book

Mathy! Eeeeeee!!


Consuela - Jun 11, 2008 4:36:31 am PDT #6090 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I know, Amych!

I went, Temeraire's got a geeky girlfriend! ::flails:: so cute!

Also, check Naomi's LJ: she's going on a book tour! She's going to two stores in the Bay Area, in fact: Borderlands and Dark Carnival, in late July.


meara - Jun 11, 2008 7:32:01 am PDT #6091 of 28370

Heh. That was my reaction as well.

Well, that and, the other day when I saw it on Amazon "Dang it, in HARDBACK??"


sumi - Jun 11, 2008 7:46:17 am PDT #6092 of 28370
Art Crawl!!!

I'm behind!

Luckily the library has her last book so I can catch up.


Atropa - Jun 11, 2008 8:38:19 am PDT #6093 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Also, check Naomi's LJ: she's going on a book tour! She's going to two stores in the Bay Area, in fact: Borderlands and Dark Carnival, in late July.

She's coming to Seattle, wheee!


Atropa - Jun 11, 2008 2:06:36 pm PDT #6094 of 28370
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Speaking of author tours (NO, not one for me): who can I sweet-talk into going to the Pickerington OH B&N on the 28th of June? My favorite YA author, Ellen Schreiber is going to be there, and I want to get a signed book.


Steph L. - Jun 11, 2008 2:21:34 pm PDT #6095 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

who can I sweet-talk into going to the Pickerington OH B&N on the 28th of June?

Lovey, I'd drive up there for you, but we won't be back from vacation yet.