Smudge Marks & Engel Werks Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsI’m not quite sure what I was expecting when I found out about this Vorkosigan novella, but it wouldn’t have been this. And I mean that in the best possible way. This is, if anything, a sequel to A Civil[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even for a Haruhi novel, this was a bit of a strange ride. First, it starts off wrapping up a loose end from The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, with another bout of time travel. What is done seems inconsequential, especially[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a part of Mark and I’s cycle of lighter game playing, we went back to GEV last November, and tried out the scenario “The Train”. I don’t think it held enough interest for me to try it back in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a large SF novel that uses the space to fit a lot of themes and ideas into it. First, we’ve got an inhabited asteroid belt. The date is kept purposefully vague, but its far enough in the future[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second half of Lisinthir’s Heirs is just that, the second half of the story begun in Dragon’s Fealty. It does have an interesting way to to begin, with two characters waking up and recovering from the trauma at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
About the time I finished reading Dreamhearth, I happened on a giveaway for a couple of Hogarth’s other books, and got them. It turned out that they’re very late on in things, and there is a warning up front about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little bit ago, I got onto the Space Empires Discord server. The main person behind it (d_demon) is definitely a fan, and I have no idea just how many games he’s been involved in over Discord. Shortly after my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a while since I read the initial Mindtouch/Mindline duology, but I had no problems getting back into this. I think the fact that it is a fairly unique story (on the dream-therapy end) well-done helped keep it fairly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark and I returned to GEV a little while ago, playing the second scenario from that set, “Raid”, which has always been one of the most interesting scenarios (along with “Breakthrough”) of the system. While it’s on the same basic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one… is a bit of an odd duck. It’s generally an alternate-history story featuring J. Robert Oppenheimer. At the same time, it’s more of a fictionalized biography of him, especially as the alternate part of history is largely minimized.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…