Bundle of Horror: Raven
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Raven: A Gothic Horror RPG – the core rulebook, scenarios, & GM Screen in both English and Spanish versions!
Bundle of Horror: Raven
james_davis_nicollRaven: A Gothic Horror RPG – the core rulebook, scenarios, & GM Screen in both English and Spanish versions!
Bundle of Horror: Raven
Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
Jun. 18th, 2025 10:16 amjames_davis_nicoll
So many different ways of measuring history and the passage of time...
Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
Magus of the Library, volume 8 by Mitsu Izumi
Jun. 18th, 2025 09:04 amjames_davis_nicoll
For what purpose has someone summoned a ten-story-tall mountain spirit to Aftzaak, City of Books?
Magus of the Library, volume 8 by Mitsu Izumi
Disgraced Return of The Kap’s Needle by Renan Bernardo
Jun. 17th, 2025 08:54 amjames_davis_nicoll
When the target world proves too inhospitable for colonization, colonists make a desperate bid to return to Earth on a failing starship.
Disgraced Return of The Kap’s Needle by Renan Bernardo
Bundle of Holding: Troika Warehouse
Jun. 16th, 2025 02:27 pmjames_davis_nicoll
Many supplements and adventures for Troika!, the acid-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game from Melsonian Arts Council.
Bundle of Holding: Troika Warehouse
Clarke Award Finalists 2001
Jun. 16th, 2025 09:48 amjames_davis_nicoll2001: Labour narrowly wins a second overwhelming victory, Simon Darcount finds his calling, and Jeffrey Archer distracts people from that time he was accused of stealing three suits.
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2001 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Salt by Adam Roberts
Poll #33257 Clarke Award Finalists 2001
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 61
Which 2001 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
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Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
41 (67.2%)
Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
26 (42.6%)
Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
18 (29.5%)
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
28 (45.9%)
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
20 (32.8%)
Salt by Adam Roberts
5 (8.2%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2001 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Salt by Adam Roberts
Books Received, June 7 to June 13
Jun. 14th, 2025 09:03 amjames_davis_nicoll
Ten books new to me: 4.5 fantasy, 1 horror, 1 mystery, 3.5 science fiction, of which only two are identified as series.
Books Received, June 7 to June 13
Poll #33251 Books Received, June 7 to June 13
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 53
Which of these look interesting?
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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews (March 2026)
20 (37.7%)
The Swan’s Daughter: A Possibly Doomed Love Story by Roshani Chokshi (January 2026)
13 (24.5%)
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology edited by Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney (June 2025)
27 (50.9%)
The Storm by Rachel Hawkins (January2026)
4 (7.5%)
What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (September 2025)
30 (56.6%)
Red Empire by Jonathan Maberry (March 2026)
3 (5.7%)
The Two Lies of Faven Sythe by Megan E. O’Keefe (June 2025)
14 (26.4%)
The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts by Vanessa Ricci-Thode (April 2024)
14 (26.4%)
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao (January 2026)
6 (11.3%)
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (June 2025)
25 (47.2%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
34 (64.2%)
A Rebel’s History of Mars by Nadia Afifi
Jun. 13th, 2025 09:04 amjames_davis_nicoll
The embittered Martian aerialist and the nonconformist live a thousand-plus years apart, in different solar systems. What, then, connects them?
A Rebel’s History of Mars by Nadia Afifi
Bundle of Holding: Coriolis Mercy of the Icons T
Jun. 12th, 2025 10:41 amjames_davis_nicoll
The corebook + the ICONS adventure trilogy from Free League.
Bundle of Holding: Coriolis Mercy of the Icons
So, there's an employee I dread managing
Jun. 12th, 2025 09:35 amjames_davis_nicollVery nice and punctual but they've basically learned nothing in the year they've worked at the theatre. Not where to stand, not which row is which, or the general location of a given seat. The last two really matter during reserved seating shows. Whatever side that usher is on is going to have lines, and people may end up in the wrong seats.
So I was discussing the situation with my boss and I said my current approach was that each shift would be to pick one thing that usher does not know, and do my best to ensure they know it by the end of the shift. Last shift was "where to stand", for example. My reward is, I think, that usher is now _my_ special project who I will be working with whenever I HM.
I did assure my boss I do remember a previous HM who grilled ushers on seat location and would ding them a quarter hour for minor uniform infractions and that I wasn't going to use them as a model. Well, I do, but only in the sense of asking myself if the way I want to handle something is how that person would, and if it is, I do something else.
So I was discussing the situation with my boss and I said my current approach was that each shift would be to pick one thing that usher does not know, and do my best to ensure they know it by the end of the shift. Last shift was "where to stand", for example. My reward is, I think, that usher is now _my_ special project who I will be working with whenever I HM.
I did assure my boss I do remember a previous HM who grilled ushers on seat location and would ding them a quarter hour for minor uniform infractions and that I wasn't going to use them as a model. Well, I do, but only in the sense of asking myself if the way I want to handle something is how that person would, and if it is, I do something else.
The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc
Jun. 12th, 2025 08:59 amjames_davis_nicoll
An artisanal cheesemaker's attempt to save her precious cheese cave lands her in the middle of an interplanetary crisis.
The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc
Five SFF Books About Oddballs Resisting Conformity
Jun. 11th, 2025 10:08 amjames_davis_nicoll
Tales of dissidents, dissenters, and iconoclasts taking on the status quo...
Five SFF Books About Oddballs Resisting Conformity
From This Day Forward by John Brunner
Jun. 10th, 2025 09:00 amjames_davis_nicoll
The sudden, shocking, return of Shockwave Reader. Will the living envy the dead?
From This Day Forward by John Brunner
Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale
Jun. 9th, 2025 12:40 pmjames_davis_nicoll
No rules, no bureaucracy, just some randos messing around with the past, present, and future.
Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale
Clarke Award Finalists 2000
Jun. 9th, 2025 10:21 amjames_davis_nicoll2000: The theft of an Enigma Machine comes too late to play a significant role in World War Two, Sellafield highlight British dedication to nuclear saafety, and the Conservatives, informed polling has them 2% ahead of Labour, discover that they are actually trailing by 13%.
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2000 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Distraction by Bruce Sterling
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Time by Stephen Baxter
Poll #33234 Clarke Award Finalists 2000
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 54
Which 2000 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
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Distraction by Bruce Sterling
11 (20.4%)
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
40 (74.1%)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
42 (77.8%)
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
8 (14.8%)
The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
4 (7.4%)
Time by Stephen Baxter
11 (20.4%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2000 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Distraction by Bruce Sterling
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Silver Screen by Justina Robson
The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Time by Stephen Baxter
Timing
Jun. 8th, 2025 07:06 pmjames_davis_nicollI swung by Old Goat Books to pick up a book I ordered, which meant I was in the right place at the right time hear the confused customer next to me ask "What's speculative fiction?" Which, after I explained what it meant, was followed by the question. "Do you know anything about Andre Norton?"
It was only with great effort that I resisted shouting "BEHOLD! I AM Marshall McLuhan" before helping.
It was only with great effort that I resisted shouting "BEHOLD! I AM Marshall McLuhan" before helping.