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Just finished Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth - was hooked immediately, then paused for a week or two, then re-upped and found...

I used to teach at a private high school in which, as a private school, most of the kids came from wealthy families. To such folk, there...

It's hard to get excited about something marketed as "Our surveys said you wanted more of the same, and we gave it to you!" :)

To be honest, sort of surprised at how meh the forum is in total. As of this writing, the average rating is 2.6, which is pretty much...

I voted 3. I'm semi-retired from playing, but still curious about the new edition, but not chomping at the bit to have it on the day it...

I am very excited. My friend took mine to Gary Con and got Diesel and Erol Otus autographs for me. I have a lot of childhood Memories...

I'm now 4+ years out from my last tabletop gaming experience and occasionally consider selling off most of my remaining collection...

I'm sort of meh on it. I like it, but the bar for premium series is so high now, that it doesn't really stand out to me. Not sure...

A few scattered thoughts: For Robert Charles Wilson, try the Spn trilogy, Darwinia, and Burning Paradise. I think his stuff hangs...

I read it back in the 90s, I think, and liked it, but don't remember it very much except that it involved a lot of traveling. But I...

I read Spin shortly after it came out and really liked it, but never got to the 2nd and 3rd books. I'd re-read it and the next two if I...

I wouldn't discount the effect of Actual Plays on the hobby. Podcasts had been doing APs since sometime in the late 00's (Acquisitions...

Exactly. I think it's mostly a pride thing that gamers cannot accept that Stranger Things and Critical Role brought about the resurgence...

Really? You could be right, and I could be misunderstanding the trend line, or at least how much of it was a post-2016 spike. But this...

And yes, I said just that. Just as I said that ST wasn't the only factor, just possibly the largest single, identifiable one. But I...