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Desperate to pay her brother Jasper's way out of Muhlenberg County, Opal accepts a job at an infamously cursed mansion.
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
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Desperate to pay her brother Jasper's way out of Muhlenberg County, Opal accepts a job at an infamously cursed mansion.
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
2025-07-09 17:15dewline
dewline1. Meet some more people who believe that, in religion, there must always be compulsion.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-you-should-be-worried-about-a-new-trump-appointed-commission-you-probably-haven-t-heard-of-opinion/ar-AA1IfTTD
2. A science fair about things that won't be learned.
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/science-fair-congress-canceled-grant-funding
3. Not only are we dealing with wildfires up here at home at the insistence of the fossil fuel industry, certain members of the US Congress are bashing us while Trump's making annexationist noises...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738
4. Coal Taurozzi, the last of the Parliament Hill Cats, is no more. :-(
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/last-parliament-hill-cat-dies-1.7580650
5. Our chartered banks can be mean at times. One of the latest cases in point:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rbc-bank-investigator-scam-1.7577770
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-you-should-be-worried-about-a-new-trump-appointed-commission-you-probably-haven-t-heard-of-opinion/ar-AA1IfTTD
2. A science fair about things that won't be learned.
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/science-fair-congress-canceled-grant-funding
3. Not only are we dealing with wildfires up here at home at the insistence of the fossil fuel industry, certain members of the US Congress are bashing us while Trump's making annexationist noises...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738
4. Coal Taurozzi, the last of the Parliament Hill Cats, is no more. :-(
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/last-parliament-hill-cat-dies-1.7580650
5. Our chartered banks can be mean at times. One of the latest cases in point:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rbc-bank-investigator-scam-1.7577770
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2025-07-09 15:46james_davis_nicoll
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The latter half of Pyramid's ten-year run, the issues published from November 2013 to December 2018, sixty-two issues in all.
Bundle of Holding: Pyramid 2
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2025-07-09 10:01james_davis_nicoll
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Yelling "Get off my lawn!" on an interplanetary scale...
Five Books About Aliens Who Are Fed Up With Humans
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2025-07-09 08:55james_davis_nicoll
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In a city with over a million people per square kilometre, real estate firms will never lack for clients. Good news for the employees of the Wong Loi Realty Company!
Kowloon Generic Romance, volume 1 by Jun Mayuzuki (Translated by Amanda Haley)
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2025-07-08 09:00james_davis_nicoll
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Arrogant traffic analyst Boyd Hakluyt is just a pawn in the struggle for Ciudad de Vados' future.
The Squares of the City by John Brunner
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2025-07-07 14:37james_davis_nicoll
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Everything you need for your own GURPS 4E tabletop roleplaying campaign.
Bundle of Holding: GURPS 4E Essentials (from 2022)
Volume 3 (Nov 2008 - Dec 2018) of Pyramid, the Steve Jackson Games magazine for tabletop roleplaying gamers. Sixty issues and more!
Bundle of Holding: Pyramid 1
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2025-07-07 12:15james_davis_nicoll
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Why wait around for the throne or the cash when murder can deliver it immediately?
Five Dangerously Impatient Heirs and Successors
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2025-07-07 10:12james_davis_nicoll
james_davis_nicoll2004: Labour spares no effort to liberate Britons from human rights, UKIP's electoral successes surely do not reflect fundamental flaws in the British psyche, and London voters are heartbroken to discover the Livingstone who was just elected mayor isn’t the Livingstone who co-wrote the Fighting Fantasy books.
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2004 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Maul by Tricia Sullivan
Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Poll #33332 Clarke Award Finalists 2004
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41
Which 2004 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
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Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
20 (48.8%)
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
5 (12.2%)
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
15 (36.6%)
Maul by Tricia Sullivan
5 (12.2%)
Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
2 (4.9%)
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
19 (46.3%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2004 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
Maul by Tricia Sullivan
Midnight Lamp by Gwyneth Jones
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
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2025-07-06 09:00james_davis_nicoll
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Can the American King's uncanny military genius best an enemy so cunning the enemy loses every battle?
The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun by Christopher Anvil
2025-07-05 09:01james_davis_nicoll
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Four works new to me. One is SF, two fantasy, and the magazine (which I have not yet looked inside) likely both. Two of the novels are series novels, one does not seem to me.
Books Received, June 28 — July 4
Poll #33326 Books Received, June 28 — July 4
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36
Which of these look interesting?
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FIYAH No. 35: Black Isekai published by FIYAH Literary Magazine (July 2025)
18 (50.0%)
Aces Full edited by George R. R. Martin (November 2025)
3 (8.3%)
Only Spell Deep by Ava Morgyn (March 2026)
6 (16.7%)
The Damned by Harper L. Woods (October 2025)
3 (8.3%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
29 (80.6%)
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2025-07-04 08:58james_davis_nicoll
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Ninety years after her grandmother's family was stalked by a witch, international student Minerva Contrera's studies land her in a similar position.
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2025-07-03 22:34james_davis_nicoll
james_davis_nicollI embrace new tools. In Fabula Ultima, for example, the order in which characters go in combat varies. I found it hard to keep track of who'd gone, so I went out and got poker chips and little round labels. Now, I can just toss the chips representing characters into a bowl once they've gone. Order!
OK, except it turns out I can't tell blue from green under the ceiling light in the room where I DM and the names on the labels need to be bigger.
OK, except it turns out I can't tell blue from green under the ceiling light in the room where I DM and the names on the labels need to be bigger.
2025-07-03 08:56james_davis_nicoll
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Director of the nation formerly known as Canada Quinn Atherton is determined to deliver much mass murder as it takes to achieve peace, order, good government. Why do so many ingrates object?
Blight(Sleep of Reason, volume 2) by Rachel A. Rosen
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2025-07-02 23:51james_davis_nicoll
james_davis_nicollThe inspiration being the 1999 Mummy movie is not without problematic elements.
Imagine an Egyptian film company wanting to make a movie about idiots waking a horror in Canada that only the Egyptian lead can resolve.
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Imagine an Egyptian film company wanting to make a movie about idiots waking a horror in Canada that only the Egyptian lead can resolve.
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2025-07-02 14:46james_davis_nicoll
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The June 2023 Dark Eye Megabundle featuring the English-language edition from Ulisses Spiele of the leading German tabletop roleplaying game of heroic fantasy, The Dark Eye.
Bundle of Holding: The Dark Eye MEGA (from 2023)
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2025-07-02 08:52james_davis_nicoll
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Youko and Airi meet a new friend and encounter Chekov's Volcano.
Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 5 by Sakae Saito
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