Jackie Chan's Early Fighting Days

This is one of the best fight scenes I have seen. Chan's opponent in the scene was a 6 time world kickboxing champion and is quite good.

H/T Impact Lab

Top Science Fiction Lists

Science fiction remains one of my favourite genres of fiction, to read. It also remains my favourite genre for writing. Here is an ongoing list of my favourites in SF over the years. I will add more as they come to mind.

1. Dune
2. Childhood's End
3. Ender's Shadow
4. Foundation (1-3)
5. Neuromancer
6. Ringworld
7. Fahrenheit 451
8. Hyperion Cantos
9. A Canticle for Leibowitz
10. The Demolished Man
11. Starship Troopers
12. The Space Merchants
13. Blood Music
14. Flowers for Algernon
15. Camp Concentration
16. The Genocides
17. Shockwave Rider
18. The High Crusade
19. Tuf Voyaging
20. A Fire Upon the Deep
21. Replay
22. Jumper
23. Cryptonomicon
24. Player of Games
25. Glory Season
26. A Deepness in the Sky
27. To Your Shattered Bodies Go
28. The Forever War
29. Midshipman's Hope
30. Cities in Flight
31. Rites of Passage
32. No Blade of Grass
33. The Martian Chronicles
34. Engine Summer
35. The Genesis Machine
36. Earth Abides
37. Citizen of the Galaxy
38. The Peace War
39. Gateway
40. Slan
41. Eon
42. Solaris
43. Rendezvous with Rama
44. The Humanoids
45. Pavane
46. Old Man's War
47. The Stainless Steel Rat
48. Puppet Masters
49. Doomsday Book
50. A Boy and His Dog
51. Davy
52. Alas Babylon
53. City
54. Void Captain's Tale

Here are some top SF lists from various sources:

Peter Sykes top 100 SF

Phobos top 100 SF

Top Ranked SF by James Wallace Harris

Top 100 SF by vote of 3316 internet respondents

Top 100 SF by David Pringle

Top 1000 SF and Fantasy by vote

James Wallace Harris classics of SF novels, short stories, anthologies etc

Warm Tropical Air Flows South From Melting Icecaps

Just as Nobel Prize winner Al Gore and the IPCC predicted, warm tropical air is rushing south from melting icecaps, threatening to envelop the entire northern hemisphere. Saskatoon has been particularly affected by the heat, but Winnipeg is also suffering from the unseasonable heat wave.

To paraphrase the right Reverend Wright, "god-damn those deniers." When the warming cataclysm is right in front of their eyes, they try to ruin it for the rest of us--who were foresightful enough to get in on the carbon trade enterprise on the ground floor.