Thinking of such things, I am reminded of walking past the Necco Wafer factory in Cambridge on a winter day when they are making the mint wafers...
This is actually a carefully crafted plan to burn out the brains of knee-jerk anti-intellectuals as they rant in circles about protecting children while fighting terrorism. I patiently await seeing Glenn Beck self destruct on TV like the androids sabotaged by Spock on Star Trek.
Something that doesn't seem to be mentioned much in the 'something borrowed' department is the deathworld concept. Pandora was already dangerous and then became an adversary once the planetary consciousness decided to fight back. For me this elevated the story to more than Pocahontas-in-space since the indigenous people's wholistic view on the world wasn't just philosophy, it was real.
P.S. The 'anti-technology POV' complaints are completely off base. Recall that the scientists are allowed to stay.
There's no reason to hate to say it. Apple did accessibility very very well. We bought a 27" iMac for my Grandma with glaucoma and switched it to 800x600. The mac scales it all quite well to fill the giant screen.
Then when it's time for maintenance, I switch it to full resolution for me and then back to low resolution for her.
Kinda how video games work.
I wonder if credulous people exhibit a stronger placebo effect. I worry that the increase in the placebo effect is a measure of more credulous population.
How can you have spoilers for a Wheel of Time book? What with all the hair/skirt/whatever fiddling, height comparisons, and other stock text larding up the books plus the lack of plot, how could you not know what is going to happen?
Somewhere out there is a darwin award for species behavior. Our award might be for inventing our own successor.
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein