Ender's Game is a fascinating look into the world of the military, despite being in the future. I've come across a few former officers who have confirmed that it's more or less an accurate depiction of the politics and backstabbing that goes on in the officer corps. I've always loved works of that scale, but when it starts getting into the million and billion-year timeframes, it starts to weird me out a little. That's why, as much as I love God Emperor of Dune, I'm not sure I can go further than that.

I've heard of them through Baen, as well as being pointed towards a now-infamous blog post about Ghost. Unfortunately, due to financial constraints, I've only just been able to start buying books again and Belisarius is on my to-do list along with some of Ringo's stuff.

A writer I've been following through the internet, Jack Murphy, offered up his book Reflexive Fire for free on Amazon awhile back so I took to reading that. Although not strictly sci-fi, it was good fun and basically an extended love letter to special operations guys and DARPA madness.

Do you do bulk orders? I'm in the market for at least five pallets of dihydrogen monoxide.

Why, thank you. Am I correct in assuming you have a talent for spotting exactly what people need?

Might as well introduce myself as well. I made a wikia account and have been following for a while.

I have, although my knowledge is not as in-depth as I would like (you'll hear me say this a lot!). I'm a closet Blakist at heart.

I do the kind of writing that never gets done because of my lack of motivation. Silliness aside, I write mostly short stories and one-shots, though I haven't been particularly prolific. My main weakness is extended stories because I tend to be good at thinking of how I want them to begin and how I want it to end, but filling in the middle part is tricky.

My main interests are in side stories in the same setting or marginally related to the main plot of the original but which do not generally intersect it. I'm fascinated by the implications of settings and like to explore them for better or worse, and once I get an idea for an OC in my head, I can't really rest easy until I've "exorcised" it somehow.

Ancient egyptian laser beams! I saw the film when I was a young lad and it was quite inspiring with its ancient egyptian fighter planes and all that.

“But I don’t want to go among mad people", Rabbit remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that", said the Cat, "We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?", said Alice.
"You must be", said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here."

I'm well-acquainted to English weather, as my alma mater was in London and I got a fair bit of the local culture on my shoe :p.

Personally I prefer pie, but if out of pie, then any sweet stuff is great. Cake is fine too. Why yes, I was a fan of Touhou a couple of years ago but I got out due to the influx of secondaries. I have no problem with people being fans in their own way but since they rubbed me the wrong way, so to speak, we parted ways amicably.