Nightfall: The Repossession

The Repossession

A formerly conjoined twin discovers his brother is still pissed about having been the one who didn't get their shared heart when the twins were separated all those years ago and has plans to remedy the situation. It doesn't really go all that well for the living twin.

I think in retrospect the bit where the doctor basically says "and now to tamper in God's Domain!" may have been there to indicate that the doctor's judgment was not 100% reliable.

So, is ranting against nerd girls a thing now?

Tony Harris seems to think so.

The results of the medical standards the Republicans would like to see foisted on American women

The case of a woman denied an abortion at an Irish hospital who later died of blood poisoning must prompt the state to loosen its almost total ban on terminations, a member of one of the coalition parties in Dublin has said.

A CBC Poll

[Poll #1878829]

Huh

It looks as though [Terry] Pratchett has already planned to hand the series over to his daughter, author and game writer Rhianna Pratchett, saying in an interview with the New Statesmen that “the Discworld is safe in my daughter’s hands.”

Gated Community Fantasy

Any examples of books where the plots centre around keeping evil hordes out of the good lands through the use of a barrier?

(I have some already, I am just looking for more)

From a discussion involving my participation in a PR event (QWP):

"I disagree. I think the most positive outcome results in you getting maced and tasered, and the resulting YouTube video getting several million hits."

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The Nightfall Project

Not SFBC related

I am seriously considering a maximum number of rapes per chapter above which I will not review a book.

Not SFBC related

I am seriously considering a maximum number of rapes per chapter above which I will not review a book.

Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are comment(s); comment here or there.

Nightfall: The Stone Ship & Special Services

The Stone Ship

This is a nautical yarn by William Hope Hodgson, about a strange and ill-lit nighttime encounter at sea, and what the survivors make of it in the light of day.

You know, with a few tweaks this could have been a (rot13ed for spoiler) Fpbbol-Qbb: Zlfgrel Vap episode.


Special Services

And here's another story that involves driving from one place to another, something of a recurring theme, disturbing encounters out away from the city, also a recurring them and finally that doctors are on the whole an evil bunch*, which has also come up before.


* There no medical need to subject the victim to the exposition inflicted on them at the end save for malice.