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Numamushi by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Jun. 6th, 2025 09:09 am
A foundling boy raised by a great snake becomes intrigued by a reclusive calligrapher living near the river snake and boy call home.
Numamushi by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
When a woman looked around her for her husband, who had been right behind her on the stairs but was now nowhere to be seen. I was very worried I was facing a repeat of the time not too long ago when I spent an hour looking for a missing patron.
The missing husband turned out not to have been behind his wife on the stairs after all, so mystery solved. The missing patron I spent that hour looking for was found once I thought about where she had to be to have not been found where we looked: row H or J, somewhere near seat 26.
The missing husband turned out not to have been behind his wife on the stairs after all, so mystery solved. The missing patron I spent that hour looking for was found once I thought about where she had to be to have not been found where we looked: row H or J, somewhere near seat 26.
An arduous journey in a prince's entourage offers a courier escape from immediate, judicial danger, at the cost of an entirely different assortment of dangers.
The Witch Roads (The Witch Roads, volume 1) by Kate Elliott
NDP display firm resolve
Jun. 5th, 2025 09:04 am Pursuing their vow to bring down the government, NDP ... do nothing of the sort.
I wonder if they got phone calls from voters expressing their displeasure at the prospect of an election so soon after the previous one?
I wonder if they got phone calls from voters expressing their displeasure at the prospect of an election so soon after the previous one?
Mission accomplished! Quest completed! Now what...?
Five Stories About What Happens After You’ve Defeated the Big Bad
Exuberant Youko and stoic Airi continue their tour through the remaining wonders of post-apocalyptic Japan. Carpe diem!
Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 4 by Sakae Saito
In an uncommon turn for famed author Card, he presents a very special boy in very difficult circumstances faced with great responsibility. What will the Young People make of it?
Young People Read Old Nebula Finalists: Mikal's Songbird by Orson Scott Card
Two Comments
Jun. 3rd, 2025 09:01 amThis sure is different from how RPGs were covered in the news in the 1980s.
It never occurred to me that people would be worried about playing wrong. Would-be gatekeepers complaining that people play wrong, sure. I am sure that started in 1974. But I didn't consider performance anxiety.
It never occurred to me that people would be worried about playing wrong. Would-be gatekeepers complaining that people play wrong, sure. I am sure that started in 1974. But I didn't consider performance anxiety.
Port Eternity by C J Cherryh
Jun. 3rd, 2025 08:50 am
Made-to-order slaves fear their eccentric owner will tire of and dispose of them... until a calamity renders the issue moot.
Port Eternity by C J Cherryh
That was fast
Jun. 2nd, 2025 05:40 pmblood work results in. I am immune to measles, mumps, and some other stuff I didn't not. Not Hep A or B, though.
Bundle of Holding: Pride Games
Jun. 2nd, 2025 02:05 pm
For Pride Month, an assortment of LGBTQ+-themed tabletop roleplaying games.
Bundle of Holding: Pride Games
It's not about winning, it's about doing your best! And also winning!
Five SFF Works About Contests and Competition
Clarke Award Finalists 1999
Jun. 2nd, 2025 10:59 am1999: Both the new Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales have their first meetings, the Millennium Dome (certainly not a name that will rapidly date) is completed, and hard-working programmers strive to limit the effects of the Millennium Bug, unaware success will be rewarded with mass amnesia.
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte
Poll #33190 Clarke Award Finalists 1999
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31
Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
View Answers
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
9 (29.0%)
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
3 (9.7%)
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
14 (45.2%)
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
24 (77.4%)
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
4 (12.9%)
Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte
0 (0.0%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 1999 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
Cavalcade by Alison Sinclair
Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs by Peter Delacorte
Stupid but true
Jun. 2nd, 2025 09:04 amI like to look at online real estate listings to see how people use interior spaces. I've come to the conclusions that:
A: Few people use more than 2000 square feet effectively. Above that, they seem to run out of ideas about how to use each room*.
B: Lots of houses have gratuitous features whose purpose seems to be to make them unusable to mobility impaired people.
C: (this is the stupid one) Townhouses are fine but I hate the idea of a duplex. For some reason, having to cooperate with 50 people bothers me more than having to get along with one specific person or family.
* More libraries is always the right answer.
There was a place for sale just up the road from me whose entire basement was given over to sturdy-looking bookcases.
A: Few people use more than 2000 square feet effectively. Above that, they seem to run out of ideas about how to use each room*.
B: Lots of houses have gratuitous features whose purpose seems to be to make them unusable to mobility impaired people.
C: (this is the stupid one) Townhouses are fine but I hate the idea of a duplex. For some reason, having to cooperate with 50 people bothers me more than having to get along with one specific person or family.
* More libraries is always the right answer.
There was a place for sale just up the road from me whose entire basement was given over to sturdy-looking bookcases.
Books Received, May 24 to May 30
Jun. 1st, 2025 09:32 am
Five books new to me: 4 novels, 1 collection, 3.5 fantasies, 1 horror, 0.5 science fiction (The collection has both fantasy and SF). 1 is explicitly part of a series, 3 are not, and that question seems inapplicable to the collection.
Books Received, May 24 to May 30
Poll #33185 Books Received, May 24 to May 30
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38
Which of these look interesting?
View Answers
Midnight on the Celestial by Julia Alexandra (March 2026)
12 (31.6%)
Fate’s Bane by C. L. Clark (September 2025)
9 (23.7%)
These Familiar Walls by C. J. Dotson (April 2026)
5 (13.2%)
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire (January 2026)
17 (44.7%)
Tailored Realities by Brandon Sanderson (December 2025)
3 (7.9%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
29 (76.3%)
The Long Loud Silence By Wilson Tucker
Jun. 1st, 2025 09:11 am
Corporal Russell Gary wakes to discover that he is one of a handful of survivors of a biological attack on eastern America... and that there is no place in western America for survivors like Gary.
The Long Loud Silence By Wilson Tucker
May 2025 in Review
May. 31st, 2025 10:33 am
22 works reviewed. 12 by women (55%), 9 by men (41%), 0 by non-binary authors (0%), 1 by authors whose gender is unknown (5%), and 9 by POC (41%)... and I really need to redo how I track incoming books.
More details here.
Books received will be tonight. Long shift I have to get to.
