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As a former pizza driver, I have a spot in my heart for overcooked pepperoni pizza. Just out of the oven after the 'Ooops!' moment, you have to let it cool some because it's even more molten than a freshly-baked pie normally is; you don't eat the crust, just pull the toppings off with your teeth...

Pravda, perhaps? 'All the news that's fit to print' can be a slippery concept when the powerfully offended are known to hire arsonists

If the position of power is obtained by assassinating all other contenders, either personally or by hiring the most/best assassins, there may be both zero competence & strong incentive not to speak up against the idiot in charge. In a democracy, the ability to raise money & successfully run for...

Sounds like a good circus act or something the Japanese would go for... just need to make the roof a Plexiglass & steel hemisphere, but if you want combat a passenger (in a sidecar?) would be needed, the biker is actively using both hands

I watched Captain Kangaroo, and cartoons were a Saturday thing The cars I learned to drive with were 4-on-the-stick & had no power steering Debit cards were a brand new thing; cell phones were big bricks & rare (I didn't have one until after I graduated highschool)

Perhaps your protagonist isn't unique -- a patch of forest here, a chunk of river there -- enough to ensure terrestrial biology predominates especially at the low end, not enough high end predators in any sample to allow reproduction

Shone not shined; English is irregular

Knelt not kneeled Woven not weaved You kill enemies with ordnance not ordinance(s)

The Long Walk, Bachman (Stephan King)

Wild -- I don't recognize 10 of those & have only tangential knowledge of others. The magic would change every time you crossed a border(!!)

Dark blue, all over; then I could dye myself with woad and go Pict.

What cause of death? Sued into oblivion, drowned in red ink, or just abandoned to sounds of crickets?

I'm homeless. I read where I can get Wi-Fi -- City Brew, college library, Master Lube. I spend a lot of time online...

If using a main character feels too much like a straitjacket, consider the 'week after' -- the BBEG has been defeated at his or her lair. What happens to the rest of the minions? Are they regrouping in another city on the other side of the continent, where they were already getting entrenched...

Let's blur the lines a little -- rabbits are sentient, dolphins & gorillas are sapient. Therianthropes are humanoid bipeds with some animalistic traits. I would not want to be a short-lived rabbit at the bottom of the food chain; a lagomorph therianthrope? Maybe, if lifespan & intelligence are...

I use a tablet. I comment about homonyms & misspelling (because works on the Web can be perfected!); sometimes it's ideas (a spinnaker on a tall ship on a broad reach would be impressive & efficient in all weather, but they weren't invented until the 1860s; no reason an isikai couldn't use them!)

Asimov, Hal Clement, Larry Niven, C.J. Cherryh -- read the good stuff first. Then if you write SF here I will read it.

I am reminded of Gomez Addams of the Addams Family: Enchanted by his wife Morticia, knows it -- doesn't give a rat's ass, because he's having Fun!

He ran as fast as he could, but the ghouls were faster.

Lois McMaster Bujold, the Miles Vorkosigan series: Humor, excitement, military, espionage, wild escapades, some serious thoughts about biotechnology's consequences -- multiple Hugos multiple Nebulas. More recently the Curse of Chalion series, for fantasy. Ringo yes, David Drake, David Weber for...