In the aftermath of taking on "Genesis"...

http://bboard.scifi.com/bboard/browse.cgi/1/5/545/4067480

...it seems only fair to counter its mind-numbing effects by promoting some literacy. Read: you're all getting books.

• dellyone wins "You Can't HANDLE The Burden of Truth: The O.J. Simpson Interviews!"
• Recall317 wins "Angela's Ashes!"
• Slider_Quinn21 wins "Me... The Slider_Quinn21 Story!"
• Callie21V wins an encyclopedia of biblical proportions!
• ThomasMalthus wins "The Larnani, or To the Twelveworld and Back Again!"
• sliderules wins Abbie the Insult Comic Counterculture Figure's "Steal This Book... For Me To POOP ON!"
• The_Seer wins historian of pharmacy William H. Helfand's "Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera, and Books!"

And this week's GOLD STAR OF POETICALITUDINOSITY recipient: dellyone!

-- "PROPHETS AND LOSS" --

BLINKER: Well, I learned that fundamentalist Christianity is a bad, bad, BAD sociopolitical entity. Apparently Mr. Dial thought he'd top the oft-mocked allegations of a "homosexual agenda" by suggesting a family values "final solution" of lobotomies and gas chambers.

MEDIOCRE FOURTH SEASON WRITER BILL DIAL: They were OVENS, okay? And you people should be grateful. If not for my efforts to expose the truth, Billy Graham might've gotten away with his crusade to outlaw science by now.

BLINKER: Sigh... Couldn't you at least have laid off the Nazi allusions for ONE FRICKIN' WEEK?!

SYNTHIA: If you two are done?

MEDIOCRE FOURTH SEASON WRITER BILL DIAL: Yeah... knock yourself out.

SYNTHIA: This episode proved once and for all that the slide windows really are determined by plot contrivance. I mean, first we've got the only six-week slide in the show's history exactly matching the span of Arturo's election campaign (to the last minute!) Then we've got the only ten-second slide in the show's history coinciding with its most lethal arrival site ("The Fire Within.") NOW we've got the first of two instant layover slides where the Sliders get to spend 30 seconds sorting out the fates of their passengers before immediately opening the vortex (see also "California Reich.") Not to m--

BLINKER: And *that's* the way we saw the worlds this week. So, what did YOU learn?

- Blinker 7:-/
http://slidersweb.net/blinker

SLIDER_QUINN21: What's the point of presenting me with my own autobiography?

BLINKER: It was that or *Katharine Hepburn's* "Me." And that isn't a book.