Tying into a thread elsewhere, Moorcock it the person who invented the term "swords and sorcery" possibly to distinguish his work from Tolkien's "Epic Fantasy" and connect it more… (View Post)

Moorcock is of the 1960s Mutually Assured Destruction generation. What he resents is that whist Tolkien portays war as awful, he doesn't portay it as meaningless and futile. It's an issue Tolkien him… (View Post)

When the UK government changes the civil servants do not. The same civil servants are expected to be willing implement right wing policies one week, and left wing policies the next. Thus they are req… (View Post)

No, the royal family would have no official role. Indeed, thier survival would be an irrelevancy. In a crisis civil service is set up to run the country in a purely mechanistic fashion. The "suc… (View Post)

Given that IWD2 failed to make a profit first time around, it seems unlikely that an EE would do any better, even if all the resources where available. The original still runs anyway. It's not that o… (View Post)